Margery Sharp is, of course, best known for her books for children–the popular Rescuers series. These are quality productions, with beautiful cover art, a very readable font, and best of all? Ten of Margery’s novels can be in your hands almost instantly now! (see * below)Įach of the novels is also discussed on this website, and can be found by clicking Bibliography on the menu.

Click here for a listing from their website as to the ten novels now available. Now, as of April 12, 2016, I can make the happy announcement that ten of these novels are available in ebook format! Margery’s novels will live on in a new, exciting way for a new batch of readers, thanks to Open Road Media. This blog was created for the purpose of acquainting a wider audience, perhaps a fresh crop of readers, with the delightful novels of Margery Sharp. Her taste is excellent she is an excellent storyteller.” - Elizabeth Bowen Margery Sharp’s classic tale of pluck, luck, and derring-do is amply and beautifully illustrated by the great Garth Williams.“Her dialogue is brilliant, uncannily true. It will take everything they’ve got and a good deal more to escape with their own lives, not to mention the poet. There Miss Bianca will be able to enlist one Nils, known to be the bravest mouse in the land, in a desperate and daring endeavor that will take them, along with their trusty companion Bernard, across turbulent seas and over the paws and under the maws of cats into one of the darkest places known to man or mouse. Miss Bianca, after all, is a poet too, and in any case she is due to travel any day now by diplomatic pouch to Norway. However, it is precisely Miss Bianca that the Prisoners’ Aid Society picks for the job of rescuing a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the legendarily dreadful Black Castle (we all know, don’t we, that mice are the friends of prisoners, tending to their needs in dungeons and oubliettes everywhere). Miss Bianca would seem to be a pampered creature, and not, you would suppose, the mouse to dispatch on an especially challenging and extraordinarily perilous mission. Miss Bianca is a white mouse of great beauty and supreme self-confidence, who, courtesy of her excellent young friend, the ambassador’s son, resides luxuriously in a porcelain pagoda painted with violets, primroses, and lilies of the valley.

The Rescuers by Margery Sharp