Mr. Gum lives in a great old disaster of a house in the village of Lamonic Bibber. A nasty, lazy old man with filthy habits, he hates housework, animals (other than insects) and most of the village people, except Billy William the Third, a butcher whose shop is as smelly and unpleasant as Mr. Gum’s [...]
Eleven year-old Princess Jill, sister to King Jack and daughter to Mother Goose, is spoilt and impulsive and prone to trying to sneak out of doing her chores, but she’s also brave and smart and determined, so, when she receives a message from someone known only as F.G., urgently asking for her help in the [...]
Princess Esmeralda is the despair of her mother. Lacking in the social graces, clumsy and bored by self-absorbed suitors, she prefers exploring the flora and fauna of the swamp and visiting her aunt Grassina, a witch, to attending formal balls. When she trips and frightens away some grasshoppers in the swamp one day, [...]
In this sequel to the wonderful Kaspar Snit, Eleanor and her brother Solly, a.k.a. Googoo Man, learn that their parents have decided to take a holiday and leave them at home with a nanny. Annoyed that she cannot go with her parents to Tuscany, Eleanor is certain that Mrs. Leer, the nanny, is going [...]
Toby Tucker has lived with foster parents Don and Evie Allen for three weeks and figures he may at last have found a family. Toby knows nothing about who he is and where he comes from. All he has to connect him to his past is an old chest full of torn pieces [...]
Cheyenne Shluffmuffin thinks her brother Wally is too pessimistic. She thinks he ought to focus on what is good in their lives. Wally thinks Cheyenne’s crazy. The two kids are on the run from giant ants bent on using them to take over the world, and their dad, who drowned in a [...]
Young Will Trenom is used to crazy. He lives with his rather less-than-normal parents in a bed and breakfast run by Mrs. D and her game-show addicted husband. But even Will cannot understand why someone would want to move into a run-down old cottage that stands in the middle of a cemetery, particularly [...]
“I’m never, ever, not in a million trillion gazillion years going to sleep,” Penelope announces when her father tucks her into bed. Penelope is afraid of monsters and her bedroom seems to be full of them! Gnomes in her dresser drawers, trolls in her closet, and giants under her bed. When her [...]
You love it; so do I. Robert Munsch’s The Paper Bag Princess is one of the great classics of Canadian children’s literature. This fairytale about Princess Elizabeth who sets off to find and rescue Prince Ronald, after a dragon destroys her castle and carries away the prince, has been read and enjoyed by [...]
9-year-old Jeremy really wants a pet, but his parents are concerned that he isn’t old enough to look after one properly. Jeremy decides to offer pet-sitting services, so that he can demonstrate just how responsible he can be.
Soon friends and neighbours are dropping off their animals, and Jeremy is learning that caring for pets, [...]
