His other books include TIME AT THE TOP and CASTAWAYS ON LONG AGO. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. sort by Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. In 1970, after 25 years in Berkeley, California, Edward and his wife, Joan, moved to upstate New York, where they live in a country home designed by Edward. Edward Ormondroyd, author of David and the Phoenix, on LibraryThing. Books by Edward Ormondroyd (Author of David and the Phoenix) Books by Edward Ormondroyd Edward Ormondroyd Average rating 4.14 1,699 ratings 261 reviews shelved 4,345 times Showing 11 distinct works. He served in WWII, participating in the invasions of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. EDWARD ORMONDROYD grew up in Pennsylvania and Michigan. A tale filled with high humor and deep humanity, this much beloved classic springs to new life in a full cast recording that features the author himself as narrator. Alas, the wonderful visits to gryffons, sea monsters, and banshees will come to a crashing halt if the scientist stalking the Phoenix is successful. Even if he had known, who could have guessed that a Phoenix would turn out to be so stuffy, so pompous-and so utterly endearing? (To say nothing of its fondness for Aunt Amy's sugar cookies!) When the Phoenix decides to take a hand in David's education the adventures-and the hilarity-really begin. The vanquished scoundrel returns, with sinister plans.When David finally has a chance to climb the mountain behind his new home he has no idea he is about to meet a fabulous mythical creature.

Domineering cousin Jane forbids more meetings. + Williams, Ursula Moray see Addendum Three trips in time and space. Their parents meet and don't fall in love. She and her new best friend Victoria Walker just know that when their parents meet it will be love at first sight, and the two families will become one.īut nothing happens the way it should.

Shaw thinks, until I can get her to a doctor. Two novels by Edward Ormondroyd, Time at the Top and its sequel All in Good Time. His daughter Susan must be madOnly a girl suffering from hallucinations would make a request like that, on top of a wild story about a good witch, an elevator that travels to 1881, a vanquished scoundrel, a dug-up treasure, and a distressed nineteenth-century family named Walker. From the author of David and the Phoenix. 'You want to take me back to the nineteenth century, to marry somebody there?'

Time at the Top by Edward Ormondroyd