It was while she was ill and in bed for several weeks that Marianne found the pencil. It looked quite ordinary, but it wasn't. The things she drew with it - a house, a landscape, the face watching at the window - came alive in her dreams. Sometimes what she drew was good and friendly; sometimes bad and frightening. Once, without quite meaning to, she put herself and the boy in her dreams into a very real danger, from which the only possible escape needed more courage than Marianne thought she could possibly find...

 

There are 192 pages in this book. This book was published 1989 by James Clarke & Co Ltd .

Catherine Storr was born in London in 1913. She practised medicine for fifteen years, but never forgot her ambition to be a writer. She wrote her first children's books for her three daughters and many became classics. Marianne Dreams was also made into a film, The Paper House, in 1990. She died in 2001. Marjorie-Ann Watts has written - and also illustrated - many children's books. She has been a teacher and has worked in publishing. She has contributed to various programmes for radio and television. She is married with two sons, and lives in London.

This book has the following chapters: 1. Marianne's Birthday 2. The First Dream 3. The Person in the House 4. Miss Chesterfield 5. Inside 6. The Row 7. Mark 8. Mark in Danger 9. Marianne and Mark 10. The Pencil 11. Them 12. The Tower 13. The Light 14. The Bicycle 15. The Voices 16. The Escape 17. The End of the Road 18. In the Tower 19. The Empty Tower