The Gift

The Gift is a beautiful children’s book filled with wonder and excitement. A story to captivate the heart of any child and fuel their imagination. Join Esther on her surreal but exciting adventure, as she discovers a very special gift and learns the true meaning of hope, friendship and kindness in a world that can often be so bleak.

The Gift is filled with beautifully illustrated colour pictures and is the first in a series of Lizzie Jayne‘s books.

The Forest - Part 2 A Friend in Need

As Thomas and Pricilla practice their dance routine for the upcoming Village Talent Competition in the forest while the four large singing oak trees sing for them, they bump into Becky and Cap running around the forest playing soldiers. As the two parties get to know one another and become great friends Thomas is confronted with a big problem with only two weeks left to go till the talent competition.

You see, Pricilla is Thomas’ imaginary friend and Cap, like Pricilla, is Becky’s imaginary friend too.

Only children with imaginary friends can see other children’s imaginary friends and of course the oak trees and animal too.

How will Thomas be able to compete in the competition with Pricilla when no one will be able to see her?

What will he do, and will Becky and Cap be able to help?

The Fish with a Wish

William is sad to see his friends in trouble, caused by the amount of plastic being thrown into our seas and oceans. With the help of Angel Fish, he is given the strength and courage to be able to swim through the ocean to save some of his friends. It doesn't take long before they come across Tommy, Walter and Salty who are all in need of William's help. With a 'splish and a splosh and a splosh and a splish', William becomes the 'fish with a wish'. With all of his might, he manages to save them all so that they are free from the plastic that is making them feel so sad. William would like us all to think about how we can stop plastic being thrown into the sea. Let us all help William and encourage our parents, friends and family to think about how much plastic we buy and how we can recycle it.

The First Tangle Fairy

Have you ever had a knot or a tangle in your hair? Do you wonder how it got there? Rachel wonders that too. She is a little girl who lives across the street from a park where Tanya and other fairies secretly live. The fairy community has put in new rules to keep everyone safe from people. Tanya is a young fairy who has difficulty with the fairy world’s new restrictions. Her love of dancing and a curious nature send Tanya on an adventure where her life and Rachel’s life become tangled together. Look inside this book and discover how that happens. 

The Ellette Saga

No matter who we are or what age we are, we all like a fantasy world we can escape to, even when we find out that this magical land is actually within our own world. The more magical and unusual the experiences and creatures in this land are, the more these experiences can be enjoyed. Our imagination can open up visions of worlds that only exist within our own mind. Open your mind to the possibility that what you think could be real, actually is real. Like Ellette, as young people grow, they find that they are not who they think they are, and who or what they meet can take them in a new direction. Follow Ellette as she grows from a young girl into the most powerful and magical person in the world.

The Elemental Emblems

The Elemental Emblems recounts and reflects on the author’s adventurous experience from Middleton Dome High School’s learning-activities, trips and family holidays, interaction, fascinations, and inspirations drawn from the five elemental symbols of nature: namely, fire, water, air, earth, and spirit. This is a growing child’s own account of how home and school acts as agent of early education and socialisation. From Michael being woken up to preparing for school, the shower clogged, dog bites, breakfast and food spilling, meeting, and making friends with Fizz who rode him to school, and camping; all these unpack the relations between children, adults, and society.He further goes on to reveal and share the kind of interactive learning activities revolving around the elemental symbols of nature such as science and history. He goes on to capture teachers’ roles (Monica) and portray learners’ individual differences, inclusiveness and characters found in school such as the bullies, rich and smart students. For example, Ed was judged to be the smartest kid in school. All the characters in this book have one thing in common. They are friends, lovers of nature, and of the same school, united, agreeing and disagreeing in camping adventure while leaving their home and school comfort zones to the woods where they face challenges and threats to life from universe’s most powerful villain, Diabolico.

The Dwaynedeer

Tortoises normally sleep in the wintertime but this year will be different for Dwayne. Dwayne is a tortoise who has never experienced Christmas. He has never seen a Christmas tree or received presents from Santa. He decides to make plans with the cats to stay awake and experience the fun and laughter that Christmas brings. Dwayne dresses up in some reindeer antlers to change into…The Dwaynedeer!

The Dreamling – A Friend in Need

The story of Peter and his adventures continues with even more exciting places to visit in his attempt to help his friend.The adventures should keep the reader engaged and should be a fun book to read.The hope is that reading the book will entice the reader to think about how they do things, in their life, which affect the planet and animals that live on it.We can all have an impact on the planet and hopefully you will be encouraged to do more after reading this book.

The Doggy Dog Stories

The Glen of Imaal terrier are an endangered breed of dog. Stephen and George had owned four of these beautiful dogs and had the idea of writing children's books based on these dogs. After a chance meeting in a London pub, Raymond and Stephen met and two years later, Raymond has written a series of books about these lovable creatures, after extricating their personalities and ideas from Stephen and putting pen to paper.

The Dog Who Arrived In A Box

A true, short story about the life of a very special dog.

Through his remarkable nature, amusing antics, total love and loyalty he brought fun, joy and happiness into the lives of those who knew him.

His absence during the Covid-19 Pandemic and period of lockdowns was keenly felt.

Kai’s story will resonate with all those who have lost and missed a much-loved pet during this time.

The Digger That Did

The Suez Canal is blocked! World shipping is blocked! A huge ship is stuck across the canal into the left bank!

First on the scene: Digger!

Tiny against the HUGE ship, he tries his best. While Presidents, Prime Ministers and CEOs fuss and fume across the world, Digger digs patiently away on his side of Suez. The world watches as the shipping jam grows longer, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Big Wigs grow more frantic, messages fizz across the world. Powerful tugboats arrive one by one, to heave from the other side of the ship. Digger digs steadily on, the sand pile behind him growing higher and higher. Just when it seems that nothing can budge the ship, a full moon shines down, a spring tide rises, Digger gives one last push, and...

The Day the Moon Fell Out of the Sky

Jimmy and Billy are excited! It’s the first day of the school summer holidays tomorrow. Billy has invited the new girl in the village out on their play day. Jimmy isn’t so keen but soon forgets she’s a girl when their day starts to fill with mystery and adventure. What was going on? It must be important, otherwise Mr Johns, the village teacher, wouldn’t have asked for their help.