Shelagh McNicholas

Mandy and James are helping prepare for the school play--but behind the scenes a family of squirrels is causing trouble.

Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...

While searching for a sleek, fast, and spirited pony to own, a young girl comes to realize that the "perfect" pony is actually very different.

Mandy, the daughter of two veterinarians, introduces her sad friend John to the happy and uplifting world of rabbits.

When Mandy meets stuck-up Susan Collins she quickly decides that the only good thing about her is her pony Prince. But then Mandy realizes that Susan's determination to win at show-jumping threatens the life of the beautiful pony. Can she convince Susan before it's too late?

Rhyming text counts Soo's boo boos from one to ten and back again when Mommy fixes each one.

Tilly, who loves ballet, plays the part of a cat in her class's dance recital.

A film crew arrives in town, and Mandy gets the chance to look after some of the animal stars. But the most important animal, Charley the Labrador, suddenly disappears. Can Mandy and her friend James find the dog before something terrible happens?

Looking after Gussie the goose should be easy for Mandy. But when Mandy and James go to pick up the pet goose, she has vanished.

It's Christmas at Animal Ark. This year the village of Welford is planning a special event to raise money to send sick little Alex Hastings to a hospital in America.