Add a healthy scoop of whimsy and a generous sprinkling of magic to your holidays. "...and havoc ensues" could well be the theme of this collection of holiday stories!Includes stories by L.D.B. Taylor, Rebecca M. Senese, Adam Gaffen, Leigh Saunders, Meyari McFarland, Bonnie Elizabeth, Wendy Harrison, Claire A. Murray, R.S. Meier, and Sharon Hart Addy. Edited by Lyn Worthen.

Fairies, dragons, wizards, and more await Geronimo on every magical Kingdom of Fantasy adventure!I, Geronimo Stilton, was amazed to find myself called back to the Kingdom of Fantasy for another adventure. Blossom, Queen of the Fairies, needed my help -- time itself was under threat! Something evil was making the hands of the magical Tick Tock Timepiece spin faster and faster. It was causing Blossom to age at an alarming rate . . . and if she perished, so would the entire Kingdom of...

Sinister witches don’t take vacations.In the months since Krissa joined Clan Twilight to keep the world safe from magical threats, she hasn’t found time to visit her loved ones. But now, with the holidays quickly approaching, Krissa feels pressure from her family—and Owen—to return to Clearwater.But Krissa’s worst fears are realized when danger follows her home.The witches of Circle Nightshade want something Krissa possesses, and they’ll stop at not...

April Claus knows being married to the real Santa makes every day feel like Christmas. But when a different holiday arrives at the North Pole, so does murder . . .For the first time ever, Christmastown is celebrating a strange new tradition—Halloween. But not everyone is willing to watch their dependable winter wonderland get overrun by carved pumpkins and costume parties. As a series of scary happenings hit Santaland, each one more intense than the last, ...

An inventive and fantastical reimagining of Anne of Green Gables—with magic and witches!—that explores found family, loss, and the power of a girl's imagination, from the acclaimed author of The Language of Ghosts and The School Between Winter and Fairyland. Perfect for readers who loved The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Serafina and the Black Cloak."A magical, witchy, and thoroughly successful homage to a classic....

In the final installment of Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles, Nick and Laurie had thought they solved their giant problems when they drove all the giants into the sea. But now, the Grace kids have come back to tell them they may have more trouble coming their way!It turns out the giants control the population of Hydra, a dragon like creature that is creating sinkholes all over Florida. But with the mermaids refusing to return the giants to the shore, the nixie's still miss...

Praise for Jeffrey Ford:"Outstanding. . . . Ford uses . . . incongruously lyrical phrases to infuse the everyday with a nebulous magic."—Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the Year(Starred Review)"For lovers of the weird and fantastic and lovers of great writing, this is a treasure trove of disturbing visions, new worlds and fully realized craft."—Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)"Properly creepy, but from time to time deliciously funny and heart-brea...

Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is packed with all sorts of poems and rhymes including a sequence of number rhymes, action rhymes, noisy rhymes and more thoughtful pieces too.If tigerlilies and dandelions growled,And cowslips mooed, and dogroses howled,And snapdragons roared and catmint miaowed,My garden would be extremely loud.Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum is a fantastic collection of funny, silly and entertaining poems for the very young from a...

Laugh your way through every day of the year with Horrid Henry as he presents 365 hilarious jokes for every possible occasion ...But is the last laugh on Henry?

The first Weirdbook Annual -- The Witches MEGAPACK® -- presents a selection of all-new tales of witches! Included this time are:"Thou Shalt Not Suffer," by Matt Neil Hill"No Holds Bard," by Adrian Cole"Laying the Hairy Book," by Josh Reynolds"Here Is Where Your Proud Waves Halt," by Erica Ruppert"Vicious Circles," by Paul Dale Anderson"Assorted Shades of Red," by Franklyn Searight"Strange Days in Old Yandrissa," by John R. Fultz"Fert...

The holidays can be overwhelming for anyone, but Zoey is ready to explode when Maurice, her closet-monster roommate, takes celebrations to the extreme. When Zoey ducks out for a little fresh air, she finds a boy with a big problem -- a problem only a mythical creature can have and only Zoey can solve.This story also appears in the short story collection, Transmonstrified.Hidden Holidays takes place between Monster Haven book two, Pooka in My Pantry, and book three, Fairies ...

The first four books in the Creative Writing for Kids series are all together in this edition, packed full of story starters, tiny stories, mini-books, real-life descriptions, letters, comic strips and lots more. Winter Tales uses the themes of Winter, holidays and seasonal fun. Once Upon a Story zings with magical and fantastical ideas. All the books include longer projects for children to get stuck into their own creative worlds. Please note! The books in this set are also available as s...