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When Cal the caveboy cannot reach the lowest branch of a nearby tree he comes up with the cunning plan of enlisting the help of a giant tortoise. However, once he is up the tree, the tortoise ambles off, leaving him stranded. His mother asks him to help his little sister, Aggy, to find her necklace. But a rattlesnake bares its fangs at him. What should he do? Will he survive?

When Luke, the shepherd boy, hears the angel declaring the birth of the Baby Jesus, he really wants to go and see the Baby, but his dad says he's too little. Can he persuade him to change his mind?

Dip the dinosaur, Yuni the unicorn and Knighty, a timid knight, set out to rescue a princess. When they reach the tower they find the princess is not in danger at all, but Dip eats bread and cheese, with embarrassing, smelly consequences. Will he be able to save face?

Set in the late nineteenth century, this is the story of a young boy who is found bedraggled and starving, having lost his memory. All he knows is his name, Jamie. When his mother is released from prison will she ever find him, and does he want to be found? He is taken in by the household of The Grange who soon come to love him as one of their own, especially the master David Dalton whose own son had been killed in an accident two years before. Some months later, Tillie Raven is released from prison where she had been sent for stealing a loaf after holing up in a barn to escape a fire. Now ...

The sleepy village of Lea Croft in Victorian Derbyshire is aroused when the body of the farmer's son, Herbert Grant, is found down a gully. Martha Holloway suspects Charlie, her husband, of killing him for assaulting her in the past. When Charlie goes missing in a landslide Martha has to find a job at the farm, where her younger sisters, Charlotte and Jessica, 15, pregnant by an unknown father, work as milkmaids. Herbert's brother, Ronald, fancies Charlotte, but will he pluck up the courage to tell her? He is arrested for Herbert's murder. But will he be found guilty, and what happens to ...

Written for teenagers but loved by adults, this is the story of Nancie Knight whose world falls apart when she goes into service as a scullery maid. Never in her wildest dreams would she have envisaged such hard work. The housekeeper of The Manor does not allow her any slack and the cook can never remember her name. Promises that she will soon be reunited with her mother and baby brother amount to nothing. When she hears strange noises from one of the attic rooms, she investigates. Disobeying an order not to go there again, she is sacked. Now what is she to do? How will she cope on her own?...

Having survived his final year at school, Jamie now needs to find something to occupy his time. Seeing a poster in the village, he considers joining a circus. However, when the family goes to a performance the Big Top collapses, Tillie loses David in the mayhem, and Jamie is kidnapped by an evil clown. Shipped off to stay with Sarah in Harrogate, he meets a rich society girl, Geraldine, who takes a shine to him. However, he still has feelings for his woodland girl, Beth, who seems to have moved away, and then there's Maisie, whom he feels obligated to take away from her life of drudgery as ...

In this third book of the Dip the Dinosaur series, Dip, Yuni, the unicorn, and Beatrice the butterfly try to help their friend Knighty the not-very-brave knight to conquer his fear of dragons. When they meet Princess Violet again, she offers to provide them with a picnic and in the woods they find a nest of baby dinosaurs. Also in the nest is an egg that cracks open to reveal a baby dragon. They disguise the dragon with leaves to make Knighty think it's a pokemon but it breathes fire just as Dip's bumberly tummy lets him down again.

Barney Braithwaite finds a magic whistle and tries it out on the animals at the zoo. The baby monkey screeches, but the larger ones don't seem to be affected... at first. Then he notices some of them are changing colour. Should he stop? And what will happen when an elephant charges towards him?

A naughty lamb is told off by her mum when she snags her wool on some wire. When she sees a beautiful butterfly, she wants to learn how to fly like it, so she asks her friend, Blakie the blackbird, to teach her. He tells her that lambs are not known to fly, but she does not expect his solution.

When Amelia unearths a perfume bottle in the overgrown garden of the Victorian house she has inherited she has no idea about the ancestor who dropped it. Who had it belonged to and how did it come to be buried there? Investigations lead to the discovery of a family tragedy linked to the mysterious bottle. ‘A sweetly written historical novel populated with a host of charming characters.’ The Wishing Shelf Book Awards.

In this action-packed sequel to Looking for Jamie David is involved in a serious accident, and then one of the twins goes missing. David insists that Jamie goes to boarding school, so Jamie and Tillie have to face their fears and deal with one tragedy after another, each coping in the best way they know how. Will the little girl be found safe and well, and will Jamie and Tillie succeed in persuading David to change his mind about sending Jamie away?

Jamie is excited about going to boarding school, but it does not match up to his expectations. He is bullied and when he falls out of a window, he will not tell anyone how it happened. Given the part of Feste, the jester, in the school play, he hopes to move up in their estimation. During the summer the family goes to Scarborough, but the holiday is cut short because Jamie has an accident. Will he ever do anything right?

In this third book of the Dip the Dinosaur series Dip is reunited with his friends, Yuni the Unicorn and Knighty the not-very-brave knight. They are joined by Beatrice a beautiful butterfly and also by Yuni's sister, Yuletta. Yuni is reluctant to allow her sister to go with them on another adventure, but gives in. Dip makes sure he does not eat any cheese but does eat some red leaves, with the usual effect. He does not expect the outcome though.

Can Florence Fisher accept Lord Head’s proposal of marriage to save her family from ruin? On a visit to Cockermouth her carriage is waylaid and it overturns, injuring her maid, Sybil, and they are forced to stay in the forest for two days with their abductor, Luke Lancaster. On her return home Florence vows to forget the way Luke’s advances have affected her. She accepts Lord Head, but at the engagement party, before the engagement is formally announced, Luke turns up and sends her emotions into turmoil. What will she do?

A delightful book of silly poems written for children of all ages

Jamie's fifth story set in Victorian England sees him maturing into a compassionate young man. When a train ride with his brother, Daniel, ends in disaster, Jamie finds himself in possession of a wad of money, presenting him with a dilemma - should he keep it or hand it in to the police? Then, with his intention to marry Maisie still at the forefront of his mind, Jamie's plans go awry when she tells him she fancies a stable hand, and further romantic complications arrive in the form of a new neighbour. Will he honour the promise he made to save his friend from a life of servitude, or will ...

Dotty the Dormouse and her friend Raggy the Rabbit are attacked by a kestrel when they stray from home. Trying to find their way home they are scared by Caro the Crow. Will they survive?

Amidst the poverty of nineteenth century London a stranger thrusts a baby into the arms of thirteen-year old Harriet and disappears. Who was she? And what will Harriet tell her Catholic parents when they return from Aldershot, where they have gone to see their soldier son who has been involved in an accident? Will Harriet's brother recover and how will she cope with the baby?

Clarice the chair (our cover model) enjoys her holiday in the English Lake District. Her search for the best spot in the garden, and attempts to take a break from her own job, have an unexpected result. Some poems are inspired by real things that happen to me, some were entered into competitions at Eastwood Writers' Group, one of which actually won! The “things” include stories, memoirs and Thoughts for the Day, so pull up a chair (if you can catch one) and dip in to my silliness.