Margaret Mahy

A lift-the-flap book depicting Baby eating his breakfast--and the cow, hen, bee, and baker who made his milk, eggs, honey, and bread.

Jack does not understand that friendship must be a two-way street until he meets Richard.

Relates the tangled events that lead the students of the Unexpected School on Hurricane Peak to foil the wicked Sir Quincey and his accomplices and to solve several mysteries.

Forced from home, twelve-year old Heriot's unwilling steps lead him to Diamond, first city of the Hoadara. Forced to serve as the King's magician, Heriot is isolated within the walls of Diamond, until he finds Cayley, a wild, ambiguous rat-of-the-city. Two lonely souls forge an unlikely friendship in the shadows of the city both are forced to call home. But when children become adults, childish games become deadly serious and when incipient madness erupts in chilling violence, Heriot is forced to explore the very heart of his magic. Suggested level: secondary.

A mix of fiction and nonfiction articles, stories, poetry and plays presented in a magazine-like format.

Mrs Merryandrew is worried about Monty believing in ghosts and sends him off to the Brinsley Codd School for sensible thought. As soon as Monty arrives at the school he realises it's haunted - by Brinsley Codd himself - founder of the school and the most sensible person in history.

On the way in his little red car to share a big pot of stew with his friend, Mr. Winkle is unaware of the long procession forming behind him.

When twins Harry and Miranda bring their buttoned-down father to the playground, he discovers that he does not want to stop sliding down the dragon's-tongue slide.

Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities