Book description
Collins Modern Classics are relaunched with gorgeous new covers, bringing these timeless story to a new generation.
Deep in the enchanted forest Judy helps her granny run The Shop Under the Willow Tree. They sell all sorts of wonderful things, such as boxes of beautiful dreams carefully tied up…
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A character-driven story of good versus evil speaks as eloquently now as when it was first published in the 1940s. Wickedness comes in the form of a delinquent boy and a wicked witch in disguise. Together, this unscrupulous pair hatch a plan to lure the woodland creatures away from the much-loved shop under the willow tree when they launch a rival outlet.
Cleverly, the author gives the woodland animals recognizably human personalities, so they fall for a campaign of dirty tricks, empty promises, and misleading advertising, all designed to destroy the harmony of the wood.
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