Punchbowl Harvest
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Punchbowl Harvest is the fifth book in the Punchbowl Farm series of novels by Monica Edwards
, published in 1954 by Collins
. The book was illustrated by Joan Wanklyn. Punchbowl Harvest tells the story of a disastrously wet summer when the Thorntons attempt to harvest their first crop and also of Toddy the fox who was rescued by Dion in The Wanderer
and is accused, unjustly as it transpires, of raiding poultry in the Highnoons area.
Monica Edwards
Monica Edwards was an English children's writer of the mid-twentieth century best known for her Romney Marsh and Punchbowl Farm series of children's novels.-Early life:...
, published in 1954 by Collins
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. The book was illustrated by Joan Wanklyn. Punchbowl Harvest tells the story of a disastrously wet summer when the Thorntons attempt to harvest their first crop and also of Toddy the fox who was rescued by Dion in The Wanderer
The Wanderer (1953 novel)
The Wanderer is the fourth book in the Punchbowl Farm series of novels by Monica Edwards, published in 1953 by Collins. The book was illustrated by Joan Wanklyn. The Wanderer’s plot describes how the colt Chalice continually escapes from the farm taking with him the heifers Midnight and Whinberry...
and is accused, unjustly as it transpires, of raiding poultry in the Highnoons area.
Blurb from First Edition
In this story we are again at Punchbowl Farm with the Thornton family, sharing their anxieties over a harvest which seems fated from the beginning. Capricious and sometimes violent weather conditions strike down into the little valley, undoing the sweated toil of weeks. And, when the energies of the whole family are being thrown into this one great emergency, Dion's own pet fox Toddy causes fresh anxiety and action in the effort to divert from him the suspicions of local poultry-owners. This might have been enough for any ordinary family (and the charm of the Thorntons lies in their very ordinariness), but into the struggle of their star-crossed harvest comes accident, mystery, cross-suspicion and a strange female tramp, with ginger whiskers and newspaper clothing, who unwittingly provides the answers to many questions.
Subsequent editions
- Crown edition March - 1959
- Armada paperback - 1966
- New Portway (published Chivers) - 1974