# Arabel and Mortimer Stories

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- Book: [Arabel and Mortimer Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-aiken/arabel-and-mortimer-stories) ([Arabel and Mortimer Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-aiken/arabel-and-mortimer-stories.md))
- Authors: [Joan Aiken](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-aiken)
- Publisher: Puffin
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-657-6
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Rediscover the A Puffin Book series and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this treasured edition of Arabel and Mortimer Stories. Late one night, as Mr Jones drove his taxi home through a storm, he spotted a large black bird with a hairy fringe round its beak sprawled out in the road. Mr Jones decides to take the bird home to Number Six, Rainwater Crescent, London, NW 3 ½, to meet his daughter, Arabel, she'll know what to do - she loves animals! 'His name's Mortimer', she said. But it doesn't take long until the mischievous Mortimer causes chaos in the Jones household. . .