Heidi's House and Other Rhymes

By Linda Talbot

A little girl is bewitched by the Fairy Queen - her eyes turn green, her face grows grey, her voice is stolen,"her long pigtails knotted and she'll have to eat toadstools until she turns spotted."
This is Heidi's fate in this collection for children: Heidi's House and Other Rhymes. Luckily her house is worried enough to grow feet and set out to find her!
Quirky events surface throughout this collection - from a fish called Fred who turns into a rainbow and a boy with luminous shoes, to Solomon Tucket who lives in a bucket and a teacher who turns into an apple.
Other poems are simple observations - of animals, insects and aspects of nature.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda Talbot
• Release date: Jul 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301598588

Linda Talbot

Linda Talbot has written fantasy for children and adults and for many years reviewed art, theatre and books in London. She now lives in Crete. She published "Fantasy Book of Food"; rhymes, stories and recipes for children and "Five Rides by a River" - about Suffolk, seen from a bicycle! She contributed a chapter to a book about Conroy Maddox, the British surrealist and features on art to "Topos" the German landscape magazine. She published short stories with the British Fantasy Society as well as stories and poetry in other magazines. And she launched "Wordweavers", an online supplement of poetry and fiction, published in conjunction with The Cretan International Community.

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HEIDI’S HOUSE

And Other Rhymes

by Linda Talbot

Illustrations by Linda Talbot

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Copyright Linda Talbot 2013

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Table of Contents and Illustrations

Heidi's House

Where's Fred?

[Fred the Fish]

Solomon Tucket

The Sorry Tale of Slurp, Burp and Slops

The Black Umbrella

Rollo the Rabbit

The Little People

The Luminous Shoes

[Timothy Wright]

An Apple for the Teacher

[Miss Henshaw]

Downstream

Grey-Faced Men

Two Heads

[Benjamin Biggins]

The Wind

The Camel

Small Secrets

Black Tom

Sailors' Socks

[Hickory Fish]

Change of Season

The Spider

Winter Sea

Rock Pools

The Story of Jeremy Pitts

Author's Note and Contact Blog

Here is the house where Heidi was born

with a patchwork roof and a bright blue lawn.

Where Heidi sits when the weather’s fair

or she climbs to the attic or slides on the stair.

Then one grey day Heidi is seen