Hetty Feather / Sapphire Battersea

 

TWO BOOK TRAILERS
Trailers for novels of the same name, written by the best selling children's author Jacqueline Wilson. They are the first two installments of a series of books.

1. Hetty Feather (2011)
Random House
Dir: Anna Lavelle
Prod: Venetia Hawkes & Emily Thomson

London, 1876 and Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital cares for abandoned children – but Hetty must first live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school. Life in the countryside is hard but with her ‘brothers’ Jem and Gideon, she helps in the fields and plays imaginary games. Together they sneak off to visit the travelling circus and Hetty is mesmerised by the show, especially Madame Adeline and her performing horses...

 

2. Sapphire Battersea (2011)
Random House
Dir: Anna Lavelle
Prod: Venetia Hawkes & Emily Thomson

Hetty Feather is a Foundling Hospital girl and was given her name when she was left there as a baby by her mother. But she always longed to be called Sapphire, after her sapphire-blue eyes. When she is reunited with her mother, she hopes her new name, Sapphire Battersea, will also mean a new life! But life doesn't always go as planned...