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    The Dipsy Dream House and The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett
    The Dipsy Dream House and The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett
    The Dipsy Dream House and The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett
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    The Dipsy Dream House and The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett

    By Linda Talbot

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    Tired of repairing her old house, Bobette and her nephew Scrotty and Blimp, his ginger cat, go in search of a house that will look after itself. But in "The Dipsy Dream House" they are pitched by the estate agent into the past and instead of finding a house, are joined by three ghost children and their strange pets. On magically returning home, children and animals are restored to life and they all decide that living in the old house, is not such a bad idea after all.
    In "The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett" Benjie is brought up in the hills by the grey fairies. He flies away, becomes Clown Number One in a circus and has several misadventures before being promoted to Star Turn, as he flies round the Big Top. But when claimed by his fairy mother and Mrs Sprockett, he chooses his real mum and becomes an ordinary boy again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLinda Talbot
    Release dateOct 17, 2014
    ISBN9781311417718
    The Dipsy Dream House and The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett
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    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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      The Dipsy Dream House and The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett - Linda Talbot

      The Dipsy Dream House

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      The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett

      by Linda Talbot

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      Table of Contents

      The Dipsy Dream House

      Illustrations:

      Bobette, Scrotty and Blimp with The Dipsy Dream House

      Farzi with Abdul the Camel

      Ming with Xuan the phoenix

      The Fleeting Fame of Benjamin Sprockett

      Illustration:

      Benjie accidentally joins the circus

      Chapters:

      Benjie Tries on a Pair of Blue Shoes

      Benjie Becomes a Boy Again

      Thank you

      Author’s Note

      The Dipsy Dream House

      Bobette is looking for a house that, like her, can think, feel and keep itself clean. A house whose paint is always shiny, whose roof never loosens in a high wind and whose walls waltz with reflections.

      She has drawn many dream houses, designing rooms of every shape and size, with chairs and tables that at a flick of a switch were intended to rearrange themselves, and whirling, sucking machines that should have cleaned the carpets. But the chairs and

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