The Birthday Burglar & A Very Wicked Headmistress
Margaret Mahy Audio Book

The Birthday Burglar is Bassington - surely the most fortunate boy in the world with his own island and no parents to spoil his fun. But Bassington is bored - until he realises that what he wants is a few birthdays!In the second story we meet Tatiana Taffeta, wicked headmistress of a select girls school, for whom things start to go wrong when see sets out to marry her neighbour, ex-farmer Fendalton Bassett