A Bill Martin instant reader

Will the opening of a hot bread shop nearby spell the end for Corinna Chapman's Earthly Delights Bakery? Our amateur sleuth and baker extraordinaire returns in another criminally entertaining and delicious adventure from the author of the bestselling Phryne Fisher series.Corinna Chapman, amateur sleuth, baker extraordinaire and proprietor of the Earthly Delights Bakery, returns for her fourth criminally entertaining and delicious adventure.When a cut-price franchise bakery opens its doors just down the street from Earthly Delights and crowds flock to purchase the bread, Corinna Chapman is understandably nervous. Meanwhile, the gorgeous Daniel's old friend Georgiana Hope has temporarily set up residence in his house, and it doesn't take Corinna long to work out that she's tall, blonde, gorgeous and up to something. Daniel is making excuses and Corinna is worried about his absences and also the strange outbreak of madness which seems to be centred on Lonsdale Street.Will Corinna win through a maze of health regulations, missing boyfriends, sinister strangers, fraudulent companies and back-alley ambushes? Or will this be the end for the Earthly Delights Bakery?

Silly Goose is always celebrating the wrong holiday.

Dozens of happy hippopotamuses have a fun-filled holiday at the beach.

Landscape paintings by contemporary artists illustrate the lines of a short poem.

On a dark and stormy night one object after another joins in making eerie noises in the old house.

Illustrations and brief rhymes for each day of the week.

Henry and his mother have quite a conversation when he arrives home from school.

A little boy imagines all the things he will have in the fantastic supermarket he plans to build.

Lists in verse the most obvious quality of any kind of weather or human condition: "When it's cold, it's cold./ ... When you're old, you're old."

In this version of the old rhyme, the fire turns out to be smoke from the candles of a birthday cake. Illustrations show the characters represented as mice.

A rhyming tale describes the adventures of a group of children as they wander around the city.

Old Mother Middle Muddle's decision to make a cup of tea sends a wave of anticipation through the barnyard.

When ten little squirrels spy a man with a gun, they wait to take action until one of them sneezes.

Young teen Able, previously transported to a magical world into the body of an adult hero, returns to Mythgarthr in possession of special powers that he has vowed he will not use in his service to the dragon king Anthor.

Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a spirit that lives in a bottle.

Cartoons and rhymed captions suggest appropriate reactions to unusual situations.

Ten spooky creatures come out of the flum and then return.

Describes in verse the activities of a Mexican boy.

In November of 1943, an elite team of Nazi paratroopers descends on British soil with a diabolical goal: to abduct Winston Churchill and cripple the Allied war effort. The mission, ordered by Hitler himself and planned by Heinrich Himmler, is led by ace agent Kurt Steiner and aided on the ground by IRA gunman Liam Devlin

Describes the characteristics of each month of the year in rhyming text and illustrations.

Pictures accompany a brief rhyming text describing the antics and sounds of a musician's recital.

Only one thing can induce Mary to whistle.