A picture book about a young girl named Marianne whose is prone to fantastic daydreams.
The Man in the Brown Suit
To the future, to the past - anywhere provided it's together.
Who was this "man in the brown suit", this literary reviewer asks in writing this book? Superman, Batman, someone from Star Trek or Star Wars? Or was it all of them, sharing the last dressing-room suit, which just happened to be brown? There has to be an answer to this mysterious happening, so read this book to get the answer.
The Vile Village
A serious spaggetti western about a group of Mexican marauders who made random raids on southern Texas towns, always leaving behind a clue about were they were from. 12 of the most daring Texan sheriffs end up on wild goose-chases around Mexico, never finding the culprits. The story ends with the discovery that the marauders arn't from any one place. The Vile Village is a fiction.
Random Harvest
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not because I can see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis
The life story of a 17th Century British buccaneer, whose achievements in life could very well be called a very Random Harvest, when he was also connected with the need to measure longitude accurately.
Gulliver's Travels
The story of an anonymous crested gecko lizard whose life time goal is to meet the greatest lizards in the world. After finally quitting the dull work of a typist for a local newspaper, Gulliver pack's his small carpet bag, and he's off. But along his journeys, which take him every which way, by rail, air, sea, and even, motorcar, rather than discovering how great the great lizards are, he realizes that it doesn't take fame or wealth to make a great lizard - in fact, sometimes those temporal things get in the way. Finally, Gulliver decides to leave the world of fame and go somewhere quiet and "out-of-the-way" to "start over" and write. He ends up in a small town, and realizes it's his old home, changed by a changing world, but more dear than anything else - and still small. He takes the job of editor-and-chief for his old newspaper, and lives happily ever after.
When Calls the Heart
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not because I can see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis
A romantic & tragic tear-jerker, telling a classical tale of blighted love, involving the family of a very famous navigator who died on his third circumnavigation of the world, on 14th February, in 1779, leaving behind a devastated widow, and their three sons who outlived him.
For whom the bell tolls.
A landlord converts an old house with an old fashioned bell into apartments, then designs a complicated bell system so that residents will only go to the front door if their own designated bell pattern is heard. Unfortunately the patterns are too complex, often leaving the residents wondering who it is in fact tolling for.
Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
A short story about the disagreement between two respectably gentlemen at a dinner party. Doctor Jekyll said yes, and Mr Hyde said no. The question was are red roses the prettiest roses. At the finish of the short story, while the two gentlemen cannot find it in themselves the agree, the reader is left to understand, through the words of a young fellow currently wooing a fair maiden, who is questioned on the subject, that such a question is not properly answered with a simple answer - in fact, some questions have no exact answer at all. You've simply got to try.
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen: not because I can see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis
A heartwarming reminiscence of Grandpa Pepper's upbringing with his four siblings, nicknamed Peppa, Pippa, Belle and Pipsqueak, when they lived on the smell of an oily rag, in the dustbowls of Oklahoma during the Great Depression, when they struggled through kilometres of snowdrift to get some sort of education, in chilly climes, when they lived on rations in wartime UK, when his Dad went into the Army, and when from there, after the end of WW2 they finally migrated to Oz to start afresh as £10 (10 pound) Poms, when Australia was riding high on the sheep's back, to make woolly jumpers for all the world, to keep everyone warm and cosy in winter.
Seven little Australians.
Essentially the same story as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but set Down Under, with the seven little Aussie dwarfs' names being Bonza, Dinkum, True Blue, Bazza, Shazza, Sheila and Matilda.
A Town Like Alice
"Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed."
(Prince Caspian)
A confused young girl moves to a new town and finds it full of Alice In Wonderland style characters, such as mad hatters and hares, quarrelling queens, a sprinting white rabbit, and several playing cards.
At the Back of the North Wind
There, shining in the sunrise, larger than they had seen him before, shaking his mane (for it had apparently grown again) stood Aslan himself.
"...when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
The title of a weather forecaster & meteorologist's memoirs, who despaired of ever getting a 100% accurate weather report, for more than a few days consecutively, when at the back of the North Wind, is a Southerly Buster waiting to turn the world upside down.
Watership Down