Toy inventor and designer Tom Karen recounts his colourful and creative life through the objects and mementos that have come to define it
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The scrap of paper taken from the dying conjuror's coat is one of them. Hold your breath, beacuse the little coachman with the razor sharp knife is coming. The Toymaker will touch your heart and haunt you forever.
The Toymaker gives immediate and absorbing pleasure, and has similarities to J M Coetzee’s Disgrace in terms of the main character’s wretched search for redemption, both for himself and for humanity.’ Books+Publishing Pieper's use of ...
A toymaker and his son are very happy making toys in their workshop until a jealous and ambitious apprentice seeks to gain control.
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Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, ...
Through a harrowing attempt to escape the impending destruction of the toy maker's house, Paul and Stacy become caught up in a case that reaches across Northeastern Arizona with death flaming up along their trail as they race to meet a most ...
As his grandfather is dying, Mathias takes a small scrap of paper from him that contains a clue to a dangerous secret.
Because Mary is too sick to play outside with her friends, her father makes her three dolls that look like those children, and they work their special magic for many years.
This is an Authors Guild/BIP title.