Amy Sparkes
Author
Series
House at the Edge of Magic volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adventurous, magical and brilliantly funny sequel to The House at the Edge of Magic. Nine and her friends have broken the curse on their marvellous, magical House, and are free to travel the worlds once more! Their first stop: The Wizarding Hopscotch Championships. There's only one problem: the House is nervous about travelling - and gets the hiccups! Bouncing from world to world with every "HIC!", they finally land at the championships, only for...
Author
Publisher
Red Fox
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
What would you do if you received an invitation to run a zoo full of huge, scary monsters? The brave little boy in this story leaps at the chance, and although the monsters seem scary at first, he soon has them eating out of the palm of his hand. This is an exciting, imaginative, hilarious adventure that encourages little readers to have confidence and stand up for themselves.
Author
Series
House at the Edge of Magic volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it." Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman?s purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters, including Flabberghast - a young wizard who?s particularly...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After visiting Earth one Christmas Day, an alien decides to recreate the festivities on his home planet ... but he soon gets everything completely mixed up. Cue socks and pants stuffed with holly, a donkey in a fairy costume, and a bemused Santa in pursuit of his missing reindeer!
6) Robo-snot
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Little Robot has an itchy nose. 'AAAACHOOOO!' Out shoots some sticky, stretchy, gooey green stuff, the like of which has never been seen by robot-kind before. Soon Little Robot's snot makes him famous. He doesn't want to share it with anyone, but, just as he realises there is such a thing as too much snot, the other robots start sneezing too!