The Tales of Mr Mouse and Friends

Join Mr. Mouse as he tends to his award-winning garden, makes friendships, meets Hilda his future wife, all the while drinking lots of tea and eating lots of cake. Mr. Mouse is a popular character whose door is always open, who is on hand to help anyone who needs assistance, who will rally around a worthwhile cause and who is highly thought of throughout the woodland community. Each chapter is a short story of its own and set in a season, there are twelve chapters following Mr. Mouse over three years. Read about the woodlands during a harsh winter when the woodlands are covered in six-foot snow drifts, during spring when the season is changing from winter, summer when Mr. Mouse’s award-winning gardens are at their best and autumn when the trees and plants are losing their leaves.

Mr. Mouse with a house on the River Louse will become a favourite bedtime story for your children.

The Secret of SmithTopia

Who knew that running away from a test would put you into an even harder one?

When Jean and Ben decided to cheat the school rules and go somewhere they should not, they definitely did not expect bizarre events to follow, that could possibly change their lives for the worst…

Follow their adventures as they get dragged unexpectedly into a completely different world – The Secret of SmithTopia.

To their surprise, Jean and Ben find themselves in real danger. Will they survive and get out of the mysterious and strange world? And what challenges will they have to face?

Read to find out the facts and fantasies about The Secret of SmithTopia through Jean and Ben’s magical journey (but not the type of typical magic you would expect!)

The Gnomes Help To Catch The Burglar And Other Tales

This collection of stories includes several about the adventures of a trio of garden gnomes who come to life and help others. Also, some are about a young boy and his unusual and talented pets and their many escapades and there are some amazing creatures who all solve problems and live their lives outside of the gaze of humans. Mr Fox and his family, for example, get up to mischief while everyone else is asleep and Millie the cockatiel lives in a cage and longs to be free but when she gets the chance, she is not so sure. Underwater excitement comes with Tilly, the trout – who is too brave for her own good. A young Scottish boy called Andrew has the sort of adventures most children dream of with Angus, his pet Highland Bullock to ride on and Jessie, his sheepdog, also plays her part. Maybe you believe in fairies? Find out what happened to old Albert when he met one – or did he?

Children will soon pick their favourite characters and adults will be pleased to know that each story is a self-contained adventure, perfect for a short bedtime story.

The Fairy Dales of Alberton Forest

In the magical world of Fairy Dales, Pansydee has a loose tooth and is afraid that the others will fall out. Daisydimple receives a parcel containing her brand-new, big, round, yellow glasses and hides them away, and after Grandma Roseraine’s precious rose petals are stolen, the Dales fall into a deep sleep…

The fairies deal with challenges parallel to children in the real world, and with the help of each other, they can overcome anything!

The Adventures of Heidi-High-Hat and Bonnie-Blue-Shoes

Take a walk into the secret world of the pixie-folk of Bluebell Wood and meet two little pixie-sisters, Heidi-High-Hat and Bonnie-Blue-Shoes. Look through the tiny window of their toadstool home and see how they live, and if you’re quiet and keep very still, you will see them come out to play. Join them as they meet with their friends and have all kinds of exciting adventures. They will get up to mischief and get into all sorts of scrapes, and sometimes they’ll even need rescuing by their best friend Tommy-Tiddly-Winks, who’s never far away. Come and share their adventures and discover a magical world where the animals, birds and insects who share the wood with the pixies are all brought to life.

Tell Me A Story, Grandad

I wrote Tell me a Story, Grandad as a result of telling a few stories to my grandchildren. They liked them and I enjoyed telling them, so writing the stories down in book form was a natural development. I also knew a talented artist who was interested in being involved in the project.

Tell me a Story, Grandad is a book based in present-day London. There are ten interconnected stories and characters, like ‘Bob’s House in the Clouds’ and ‘My Friend with No Name.’ All invite you to join them in a place somewhere between reality and the world of the imagination. Each story is illustrated by a picture with a specific colour and, like the stories, they are interlinked.           

The book is for children aged between four and eight, yet it is also for readers who are much older than this. I hope the book will be read not just by children, but by parents or grandparents as bedtime stories for their children or grandchildren. Hopefully, mums, dads, nans and grandads will add their own imagination and details so that each story becomes theirs as much as mine.

I hope you and children everywhere enjoy the stories.

Tales from the Broom Cupboard

Joe and Alex have new adventures during lockdown when they discover a time machine under the stairs. With their newfound friends, Flash, a cheetah and Slither, a python, they travel all over the galaxy, past, present and future, meeting amazing people and having a great time as their pets develop magic powers. Meet Mr Leek and the Little People with the boys as they discover new worlds.

Sunflower Adventures 2

This collection of short stories features Sophie, a brave sunflower with a thirst for adventure. She helps the dinosaurs rescue baby dinosaur, stops Hurricane causing a disaster and there is a surprise for Sophie.

Seven Woodlands Magic Stories

A truly delightful children’s fiction book with beautifully illustrated drawings. These seven enchanting woodlands stories, which all took place a long time ago in the vast magical woodlands, far away on the north side of the Earth, will capture the imagination of the younger audience.

The adventures of these magical woodlands and their leading characters provide a charming atmosphere to capture those wildest of imaginations. A mystical animal that can cast precious stones out of thin air, an amazing bird that glows as bright as a flame or even an unusual magic flower that can grant your wishes.

Each story contains an underlying moral presence of what is good and bad to help teach the young reader. The best outcome of each of these wonderful and exciting adventures is capturing the creativity and involving the reader through an array of textual sound imitations to emphasise the impact of each meaning.

Follow the mysterious Silver Hoofed Goat through the woods, fly with the exotic Firebird and even swim with the Princes Swan in the lake. These short magic stories are only the beginning.

Ruby Raccoon: Collection of Short Stories

In a valley called Rhondda, a place in the yonder

Most beautiful part of the land

You’ll see birds and see bees, and rivers and trees

And forest creatures playing games in the sand

Meet the forest creatures of Rhondda valley. There’s Ruby Raccoon, with her mischievous brothers, Reggie and Raymond, and all of their forest friends. Together, they’ll go on wonderful and whimsical adventures, and you’re invited along!

Quirky Bird and Friends

"Model the muddle, be proud of the blooper, make a mistake and say ‘wow that was super!’

This darling catastrophe is a crazy delight, good golly, I’m glad that it didn’t go right.

It’s fantastically awful – an amazing disaster. 

Fetch her a sticker and maybe a plaster."

These wise words from Chomp Plodder have helped Quirky Bird and Friends be brave enough to share their stories.

Filled with colour and kindness, this collection of short stories is created to inspire children to be their most wonderful, brightest, creative selves.

Professor Bongo's Bedtime Nursery Rhymes and Tales of Nonsense - Book Two

Book Two is a collection of hilariously funny nursery rhymes to share with reader and listener alike, as well as a colouring book for quieter times. The book includes such characters as, a foolish king and a clever fool, a troll who is always burping and farting because he only has rubbish to eat. Sir Ponsalot who goes to slay a very argumentative dragon. There is also an alien who is lost and can’t find his way home, three mice who are the best cheese bandits in the world and a genie who is very forgetful.