Sometimes Joan Aiken would write at the end of a story: “I know, because I was there.” Literary treasure for the young of all ages! > O <<<< Read more about this beautifully illustrated collection A Necklace of Raindrops Or find the audio version read by Joan Aiken’s daughter Lizza Aiken In classic fable format, the friends ask various animals and people they meet if they can offer them a bed for the night, but everyone turns them down… Finally they meet an old lady, who has a house like Baba Yaga’s – standing on its one chicken leg – which has just laid an egg! But this time the story ends happily, although not in the way we expect – the brothers hunt for the egg and bring it back, but by the time they do it has cracked – it’s hatching, into another one legged house, and so the old lady rather crossly gives it to them – because now she can’t boil it for her supper… So now they have a little chicken-leg house of their own! In this story – A Bed for the Night – four travelling musicians with wonderfully tongue in cheek names are wandering in search of a home: Joan Aiken’s Necklace of Raindrops stories famously illustrated by Jan Pienkowski have been bedtime reading favourites for years.
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