A new case for private snoop Jacky Marrone

Baron Hugo of Flimflam has a very vivid imagination! To the great enjoyment of others, he relishes telling stories about his "almost" personal adventures. However, although he likes for the high point of his narrative to include a blast of ...

Nothing functions without Fletcher

Fletcher, the coolest skunk in town, got distracted for only just a moment while saying goodbye to Theo, and now he finds himself traveling as a stowaway on the luxury steamer that Theo and Bode are taking to snowy Scandinavia.

However, ...

Always follow your lucky star! This is the time-honoured story of the Three Wise Men Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, who are looking for the Saviour. What's new is that the journey of these Three Kings takes us through our modern, illuminated pre-Christmas world, and what with everything ...

A pug miracle

Emil's family has been turned upside down since Grandpa's death. And so Emil decides that the only thing that will help them is a big, beautiful, friendly dog. Luckily Christmas is right around the corner, and Emil is a math ace. According to his calculations, the ...

The ruffles are coming!

Excitement in the Forest of Night Shadows: The ruffles are coming! No one has ever seen one, but their bad reputation precedes them.

This suddenly changes, at least for Holly, when her friend Isa secretly takes one of the small, stray ruffles under her wing.

Any child knows that the lead up to Christmas is full of secrets and surprises. But no one could have possibly imagined the mysterious goings-on that the inhabitants of Numberville have to contend with: the judges have to calculate how many dominoes the defendant devoured, a special ...

Help! Our school bus is taking off - quite literally

Will can't believe his eyes when caretaker Freddie ploughs into the schoolyard with a bright yellow and very battered old schoolbus. Exhaust fumes mingle with the smell of adventure and so Will hops on the bus with a few more ...

Lisa, stranded in the madhouse

Life has turned into a total disaster!!! Thanks to her mother's sudden flash of romantic insanity, Lisa, (13), a formerly happy only child, has moved to a backwater town out in the country. And her family has expanded with the addition of a rosily ...

Suddenly, elves!

Before now, eleven-year-old Lia didn't know that elves actually existed. But now, as the result of a failed magical spell, she is stuck in the body of the air princess Asalia and is forced to search for the location of Spring Water, the famous elf boarding school.

Six Feet Under meets Adams Family

Ruby wants only two things: to be normal and inconspicuous, and to find friends. This isn't all that easy considering her eccentric family and their home on the edge of a cemetery, which happens to be where her entire family works.

Here comes Paula Prima, third grader and budding detective

Along with her friends Sissi, Kim and Oleg, Paula goes to calss 3a in the best school in the world. And they have the sweetest teacher ever. Ms. Plum is so nice, and she often writes encouraging notes on homework sheets ...

All your girlfriends are away on holiday, you're fed up to the back teeth with the local swimming pool or the weather's more like November? This book is a ready remedy!

For every day of the summer holidays there's two pages for you to jot down your observations about the weather, ...