Meet Posy Bates

Posy Bates #1

by Helen Cresswell

Posy Bates wants to see some changes in her life. So, she sets about achieving them changes, but her encounters with a mysterious bag lady make her plans develop in unexpected ways. The author also wrote Moondial, The Secret World of Polly Flint and Lizzie Dripping.

96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 17, 1991

About the author

Helen Cresswell (1934–2005) was an English television scriptwriter and author of more than 100 children's books, best known for comedy and supernatural fiction. Her most popular book series, Lizzie Dripping and The Bagthorpe Saga, were also the basis for television series.

Reviews

[Gracie]

Not the one that I was looking for. Not good don't read.

[Susan]

Posy is an imaginative little girl who wants a pet more than anything. But there's always a reason her mother says no. In addition to her own talents, Posy believes in magic, and decides that the local homeless woman is really a magical creature.

[Catherine Mustread]

Posy meets the bag lady, invent sa bottle sockle and organizes a pet fair. Grades 3+