Helen Cresswell

Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever since Uncle Parker won a luxury cruise in a competition, the family’s gone competition crazy. Only Jack and his trusty dog Zero are staying out of it. So just how does the mixed-up mutt become the most famous dog in Britain?

Helen Cresswell's re-telling of some classic fairy tales that will help to take you away into that far off world of magic, dreams and happily ever after.

The adventures of the eccentric Bagthorpe family as they go on holiday to a reputedly haunted house in Wales, with disastrous results.

On holiday in Wales Mr Bagthorpes' quest for ghosts leaves the family in despair and disarray.

Something foul has befallen the Bagthorpes! Their holy, healthy cousins are coming to stay. The Bagthorpe children can imagine nothing worse and vow to get rid of their unwanted guests no matter what it takes.

An economy drive makes the family miserable. This means no extravagant spending on luxury items, such as food. Beetroot and homegrown luttuce will be on the menu. Then fussy Great Aunt Lucy arrives - and things just get worse! 

Ned is sent away on holiday to the seaside, to stay with the Pickering family, who are shifty and unpleasant. Ned meets the charismatic Dallaker family on the beach and they become regular company for him. When Ned discovers that they are searching for their long-lost treasure, he wants to help.

Tom is determined to unravel the mystery of the magical old man feeding the birds.

When Dan and Mary went on an outing to the seaside, they bought their parents a present. It was an egg shaped stone mounted on cockle shells.They put it on the mantelpiece, where it grew warm. Then one day they heard a tapping sound, and a beautiful little grey creature stepped out of the shell onto the mantelpiece.

Minty is the kind of girl who notices things. Pockets of cold air on a stairway. Cries on the wind. Ghosts.

On night-time jaunts from the house where she's staying while her mother recovers from an accident, Minty stumbles upon a moondial which takes her back in time. She finds Tom, a sickly kitchen boy, and Sarah, a girl with a birthmark who is only allowed out at night because her family think she has the mark of the devil...

Gravella Roller came from a family of piemakers, a serious business, even her name was gravy prettied up! For the Danby Rollers success in the King's piemaking contest was important to the whole family.

Jessica lives alone in a huge Welsh castle, with only the gardener and housekeeper for company, but there are other mysterious presences in the gardens.

An entertaining and revealing biography of this famous Victorian heroine, Grace Darling, who risked her life to help her father rescue passengers and crew from a stricken ship, and captured the imagination of the whole country.