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Welcome to the March newsletter from Stella and Rose's Books. The aim of our newsletter is to keep you informed on a monthly basis of new information, articles and books available on our website. We hope you enjoy it.

Dorita Fairlie Bruce

This Month - Dorita Fairlie Bruce - contributed by Jo

I first remember seeing the name 'Dorita Fairlie Bruce' on a Dimsie title in my local library. At the time that I was devouring everything from Enid Blyton's Famous Five, Alfred Hitchcock's The Three Investigators to Elinor M. Brent-Dyer's Chalet School books. Now seeing the Dimsie titles on a fairly regular basis, I realized that I did not know anything about the author of the Dimsie books, so here is a little of the information that I discovered: ....Read the full article.

Featured Book - Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans - contributed by Lorna

We are lucky to have a mobile library service in our little village and recently one of the books on board was Ludwig Bemelmans's book Hotel Bemelmans. I recognised the author's name from the Madeline series of books which are to the left of the shop desk in Rose's Books. So having read about some of Ludwig Bemelmans's experiences in his early life I was intrigued to read a few of his Madeline series of children's books.

The first book in the series is, naturally enough, called Madeline. This was his wife's name, but....Read More.

Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans

A Sample of New Stock

Super What-a-Mess by Frank Muir The Queen's Clothes by Anne Edwards
Beryl Cook's New York by Beryl Cook Staffordshire (Buildings of England) by Nikolaus Pevsner
Super What-a-Mess by Frank Muir
The Queen's Clothes by Anne Edwards
Beryl Cook's New York By Beryl Cook
Staffordshire (Buildings of England) by Nikolaus Pevsner
Price: £30

Other Dogs (Childrens) books

Price: £14

More Royalty books

Price: £20

Other Art Books

Price: £28

More Buildings of England titles

Selection from our Special Book Room

The Marine Chronometer by Rupert T. Gould Chocolate Fusion by Frederic Bau The Dangerous Journey by Tove Jansson A Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marine Chronometer by Rupert T. Gould
Chocolate Fusion by Frederic Bau
The Dangerous Journey by Tove Jansson
The Wonder Book by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Its History and Development. Published by The Holland Press, 1976. The story of John Harrison's marine timekeepers, the inventions of some famous scientists and pioneers such as Christian Huyghens, Jeremy Thacker and Henry Sully.
Price: £245

For all you chocolate lovers out there. Discover about Chocolate in Cuisine. Contains many colour photos. Published by Montagud in 2006.
Price: £115

Published by Ernest Benn Limited. 1st ed thus.1978. English version of "Den Farliga Resan". Translated by Kingsley Hart. A further tale of The lovable Moomins.
Price: £150

Hodder & Stoughton. 1st ed. 1922. Contains 24 beautiful colour plates of which 16 are tipped in. This is the lovely Arthur Rackham Illustrated edition.
Price: £450

Recent additions:
Beautiful collections of Children's books including picture books; Biggles books; Ladybird Books; Enid Blyton's Famous Five. Pevsner's Buildings of England series and many more.

Coming Soon:
Collections of Chalet School & Welsh local history books waiting to be catalogued - so please check the website regularly.

Selected posts from our Blog:-

Alice in Wonderland

Classic School Stories on Radio 4

World Book Day

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