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An Ear-ring for Anna Beer

A book in the series Language in Action designed to develop listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. The story is about a 7-year old girl named Anna Beer who lives in a block of flats. She makes friends with a girl named Jean who lives on a barge on the canal.

The title was translated into Dutch and published in 1979 by Dijkstra, Zeist as Een oorring voor Carolien (ISBN 9026207409).


(Last updated on 30/11/2020)



●  First edition


Author: Jim Carr

Year: November 1976

Project Director: Joyce M. Morris

Artist: Trevor Ridley

Publisher: Macmillan Education Ltd

ISBN: 0 333 19954 5

Size: 215 x 195 mm

Pages: 24 pp

Binding: printed card covers

Price: not stated

Printed by: Ebenezer Baylis & Son Ltd, Leicester

Notes: There are copies in the National Libraries of Wales and Scotland and at Trinity College, Dublin.

An ISBN search shows this number as An Ear Ring for Anna Bees, written by Joyce M. Morris. A search on Amazon lists the correct title but names the author as Joyce M. Morris.

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Front cover