# 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
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4138-658-3
- Published: 2019-06-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

When Arabel's father drives his taxi home late one night he comes across 'a large black bird, with a hairy fringe around its beak.' He takes it home and, from that moment on, life is never the same again for the Jones family. Arabel's raven is called Mortimer - and he's one in a million. 'Nevermore!' he cries when astonished or upset, 'Down the hatch' he thinks before gobbling bowler hats, stairs, telephones. He dislikes flying except in emergencies, and with disaster-prone Mortimer around there are plenty of those. There are 6 funny stories in this classic collection by Joan Aiken and illustrator Quentin Blake: ARABEL'S RAVEN; THE ESCAPED BLACK MAMBA; THE BREAD BIN; MORTIMER'S TIE; MORTIMER & THE SWORD EXCALILBUR and THE SPIRAL STAIR.