" You ask me what is the most precious thing in life ?
I tell you, it is people - it is people - it is people. "
'He's around here somewhere.'
'What did he do?'
'He jumped a prison-guard and scarpered.'
They were searching from one end of the train to the other. Carey knew he had to get out...
Twelve-year old Carey Marshall is unhappy at home and at school. Deeply affected by the death of his mother and the departure of his father to a distant city to look for work, he decides to run away from his uncaring aunt and uncle to rejoin his father.
This decision leads to an unusual journey and a dramatic sequence of events. He travels most of the length of New Zealand, encounters a mysterious stranger, is pursued by angry men, and develops, a binding friendship with a fugitive.
Set during the Depression of the 1930s, against a harsh background of mass unemployment, food queues, and desperate street rioting, THE DREAM MONGER is a powerful story of the strength of human relationships-a warm and often humorous story, filled with optimism and courage.
Jacket illustrations and design by Steve Dickinson
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
ISBN 0 340 379235
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There is in the City a Park. And in that Park a statue. A very special
statue. Her name is Estralita..."
Estralita is made of stone but once a month at the full moon, she comes
to life and dances... She captures the heart of the world-weary Poet just
as surely as she will enchant the reader with the magic of her presence.
Beautifully illustrated, ESTRALITA is a poetic legend for child
and adult alike. It creates a wondrous world of its own and has that timeless
quality found in the great traditional children's tales.
Illustrations by Terry
Fitzgibbon
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
ISBN 0 340 358033
Design taken from the arched window of the room in which
Baha'u'llah was born. Illustration
by Pamela Matthews
...On
the outskirts of the town of Tehran the nightingale felt a strange stirring.
It was like a butterfly testing its wings in his heart.
While others burrowed deeply into nests to protect themselves from the
wind, the nightingale flew from twig to leaf, seeking those berries which
would help prepare his voice.
"Get inside," warned the squirrel, "the day is too cold."
"Return to your nest," advised the field-mouse, "there's
a frost."
"What are you doing?" the mother of the nightingale asked. "Preparing
to sing," he replied.
For days the nightingale had felt this call. It was an inner command he
could not resist.
"Well, sing and be done with it," begged his mother. She looked
across at her neighbour's home. "Her son is a fine nest-builder,
I had to give birth to a poet."
But the nigthingale paid no heed to the warnings or cold and made his
preparations carefully.
Illustrations by Pamela Matthews
1992 NIGHTINGALE PRESS
ISBN 0 95 98038 0 7
Heart
to Heart,
A handbook on teaching dedicated to the memory of Martha Root by Jenny
and Grant Hindin Miller
THY HEART IS MY HOME..."
says Baha'u'llah.
If your heart is "pure, kindly and radiant", if it is full of
the love of God, you will be a wonderful Baha'i teacher. After all, "it
is not preaching and rules the world wants, but Love and action."
(Shoghi Effendi)
It was these qualities that characterised Martha Root's life. A friend
recalls Martha's address to a group of university women: She "gave
such a simple talk - always her talks were very simple...
I would think, 'Here is an intellectual group ...why oesn't Martha ...
do something that s a little more scholarly? When we teach, we express
our love for humanity.
1989 NIGHTINGALE PRESS (cover design by Pamela Matthews)
