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The Rug That Grew
48 pages, Hardcover
First published January 29, 1981
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Adèle Geras
190 books137 followersAdèle Geras FRSL (born 15 March 1944) is an English writer for young children, teens and adults. Her husband was the Marxist academic Norman Geras and their daughter Sophie Hannah is also a novelist and poet.
Geras was born in Jerusalem, British Mandatory Palestine. Her father was in the Colonial Service and she had a varied childhood, living in countries such as Nigeria, Cyprus, Tanzania, Gambia and British North Borneo in a short span of time. She attended Roedean School in Brighton and then graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford with a degree in Modern Languages. She was known for her stage and vocal talents, but decided instead to become a full-time writer.
Geras's first book was Tea at Mrs Manderby's, which was published in 1976. Her first full-length novel was The Girls in the Velvet Frame. She has written more than 95 books for children, young adults, and adults. Her best-known books are Troy (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal) Ithaka, Happy Ever After (previously published as the Egerton Hall Trilogy), Silent Snow, Secret Snow, and A Thousand Yards of Sea.
Her novels for adults include: Facing the Light, Hester's Story, Made in Heaven, and A Hidden Life.
Geras won two prizes in the United States, one the Sydney Taylor Book Award for the My Grandmother's Stories and the National Jewish Book Award for Golden Windows. She has also won prizes for her poetry and was a joint winner of the Smith Doorstop Poetry Pamphlet Award, offered by the publisher of that name.
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Geras was born in Jerusalem, British Mandatory Palestine. Her father was in the Colonial Service and she had a varied childhood, living in countries such as Nigeria, Cyprus, Tanzania, Gambia and British North Borneo in a short span of time. She attended Roedean School in Brighton and then graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford with a degree in Modern Languages. She was known for her stage and vocal talents, but decided instead to become a full-time writer.
Geras's first book was Tea at Mrs Manderby's, which was published in 1976. Her first full-length novel was The Girls in the Velvet Frame. She has written more than 95 books for children, young adults, and adults. Her best-known books are Troy (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and Highly Commended for the Carnegie Medal) Ithaka, Happy Ever After (previously published as the Egerton Hall Trilogy), Silent Snow, Secret Snow, and A Thousand Yards of Sea.
Her novels for adults include: Facing the Light, Hester's Story, Made in Heaven, and A Hidden Life.
Geras won two prizes in the United States, one the Sydney Taylor Book Award for the My Grandmother's Stories and the National Jewish Book Award for Golden Windows. She has also won prizes for her poetry and was a joint winner of the Smith Doorstop Poetry Pamphlet Award, offered by the publisher of that name.
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June 26, 2025"Charlie finds an old rug which, he swears, is a magic carpet. Then one night strange things begin to happen. 0241 10533 1 £1.80 Age 5-8" - Books for Keeps, 6 Jan 1981
"The Rug that Grew has the core of a good idea. Children rescue an old rug and clean it up to reveal an intricate pattern of plants and flowers which, after a little 'magic', grows into a garden. But somehow the fantasy does not really work. It's told in a chatty readable style, but is slow to get moving and lacks a strong, what next? pull — a big drawback for new readers — alone" - Books for Keeps, March 1981
"The story features a girl named Kate who discovers a rug in her attic that seems to grow bigger and bigger, leading to a series of magical and sometimes unsettling events." - Google's AI overview (26 June 2025) of this book.... hmm. Who do you trust? ;)
"The Rug that Grew has the core of a good idea. Children rescue an old rug and clean it up to reveal an intricate pattern of plants and flowers which, after a little 'magic', grows into a garden. But somehow the fantasy does not really work. It's told in a chatty readable style, but is slow to get moving and lacks a strong, what next? pull — a big drawback for new readers — alone" - Books for Keeps, March 1981
"The story features a girl named Kate who discovers a rug in her attic that seems to grow bigger and bigger, leading to a series of magical and sometimes unsettling events." - Google's AI overview (26 June 2025) of this book.... hmm. Who do you trust? ;)
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