by Joan Aiken · Barn Owl Books Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781903015155
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«Mortimer's Bread Bin» is Joan Aiken's children's novel, published by Barn Owl Books in paperback (80 pages, in English).
Mortimer, Arabel's raven, causes more chaos in Rumbury and insists on sleeping in Mrs Jones's bread bin, which she won't allow. When Arabel takes him skating with her cousins and ends up in hospital, Mortimer rescues her, though not all the patients come off so well.
Third title in the Arabel and Mortimer series, with illustrations by Quentin Blake. Originally published as «The Bread Bin» in the collection Tales of Arabel's Raven (1974).
Recommended for young readers aged 7 and up, and for those who enjoy the adventures of Arabel and her raven.
Joan Delano Aiken was an English writer specialising in supernatural fiction and children's alternative history novels. In 1999 she was awarded an MBE for her services to children's literature. For The Whispering Mountain, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, she won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children's writers, and she was a commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British writer. She won an Edgar Allan Poe Award (1972) for Night Fall.
