A crazy architect designs a house with 4 staircases, a fireman's pole, and an indoor slide. 

White Boots

The story of a girl who insisted on getting white boots, with high heels, for Christmas, which wasn't a practical idea at all. Especially when these boots got dirty and wet, and stayed anything but white, no matter how much & how nicely she tried to clean them. The high heels were another problem, that ended up annoying her, especially a heel was caught in a grate, thus spraining her ankle. So, what was she going to do next, with these White Boots?

Ballet shoes

Two sisters search shoe shops that sell "ballet flats" shoes, to see if any are for wider feet, to help a friend whose Christmas wish is for ballet shoes.

The Rising Sun

A children's scientific picture book that describes why the sun rises and what happens in the world around us at dawn.

Taken By the Hand

Thing from The Addams Family goes on a (literally) single-handed kidnapping spree.

The Great Divorce

A fictional story from the perspective of one of the teenage children in a family going through a divorce.

The Elfin Knight

A Knight learns that his elf-like daintyness need not be a disadvantage. 

The Secret People 

Jillian has trouble keeping secrets, so her mother tells her that the Secret People live in their garden, under a rock, and their job is to listen to the secrets you want to tell someone. The Secret People are suddenly very busy, and they wonder if Jillian is more interested in keeping her friends secrets safely, or if she just wants to meet them.

King of the Wind

Elvis Presley is discovered to be alive and well and currently based in a secret sky lab from which he controls the weather.

[Funnily enough, I just recently read King of the Wind myself — the real book, that is, by Marguerite Henry — and would happily recommend it to anyone who loves horses or just a ripping good yarn.]

Seven Little Australians

For an Australia Day celebration, Seven little Australians were selected because their 10th birthdays were on that day in 2001, which marked the centenary of Australia's Federation as a nation. Each year for a decade, they revisited the organisers, to review how they fared, throughout the year's current events. When the project was finished, and their accounts published, it provided a snapshot of how these young Australians lived for that decade, and for the next two decades afterwards, until 2021.

Three Times a Countess

When Margaret wishes she was part of the nobility, her sister Eliza suggests she tries doing three noble deeds. Both are astounded when Margaret is granted the title of Countess.

A Cry of Players

How to solve the havoc caused by disagreements during family board game night?

Throne of Jade

The saga of the extravagant throne built for Empress Jade, the second-last ruler of Charn. One of her daughters, incidentally, was named after her with a slightly different ending, and boy did she have her eye on that throne...

Farmer Giles of Ham

Farmer Giles of Ham was famous as a notable & humane farmer, whose methods of breeding & training such wonderfully skilled porkers, that the use of pigs to herd sheep, cattle and the like, gave a whole new meaning to what is meant by pig farming.

All aboard for Freedom

Teenagers set off on a bus to spend their summer not at camp but raising money to help clear families in debt.

Whale Rider