Catherine Storr

When they are left in the woods by their parents, two children find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

King Midas discovers that gold does not make him happy after all especially when he can't eat it or love it.

While England's Richard I fights in the crusades and his brother John consumes the riches at home, Matty, an accomplished falconer, seeks adventures with a group of friends, among them the future Robin Hood.

A shepherd boy leads the Israelites to victory by killing the giant leader of the opposing army.

A retelling of the consequences following the meeting of Androcles, the slave, with a wounded lion in the forest.

A simple retelling of the New Testament accounts of miracles performed by Jesus Christ.

Retells the life of Jesus Christ as he teaches, preaches, and performs miracles.

Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny begins to care for her as her own. When she reads the notebooks written by Lucy's father, she discovers that the adorable, lovely, magical Lucy is the result of an experiment. She is part human, part ape, a hybrid human being.

Relates the story of Abraham's fidelity to God and love for his son Isaac.

Grandpa's family arrives to celebrate his birthday with him.

An old family house has a mysterious effect on a group of teenagers staying there.

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service he pipes away their children as well.

A retelling of the Old Testament story of Joseph whose jealous brothers sold him as a slave into Egypt.

"Polly, je vais t'attraper et te manger!" grogne le loup. Et pour cela il est prêt à tout. Magie, vieux trucs de contes de fées, il ne va rien négliger. Mais Polly est une rusée. Elle connaît ces histoires par cœur et cet imbécile de loup ne lui fait pas peur. Ça non! [4e de couv.]

From annabookbel dot net: "Marianne is confined to bed with an illness that will take several months to recuperate from. She starts to draw to pass the time, using an old pencil she found in her Grannie’s workbox. She draws a house with a garden and a fence around it. That night, she dreams and she is at the house she drew – but she can’t get in – there’s no door handle. Meanwhile Marianne is getting a little better, and starts lessons with Miss Chesterfield who is also teaching a boy called Mark who has had polio. Marianne returns to her drawing, adds a door handle, and a boy at the upstairs window. She dreams again and the house appears, but there are no stairs in the house, so she can’t get up to the boy. Rectifying this she meets the boy in the upstairs room when she dreams. He’s ill and can’t use his legs properly. Things start to take on a creepy turn when the real-life Mark outdoes Marianne with a birthday present for their teacher. She imprisons him in her drawing and tries to scribble him out. But when she dreams she realises she has made a prison for them both – they will need to escape, but Mark can’t walk …"