The Mr. Men and Little Miss series introduces different title characters and their dominant character traits to convey a simple moral lesson. Together the characters experience adventures – e.g. in London, where they are on a busy tour through the city exploring its sights, including Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square and the Tower of London. 

Jonathan London’s Froggy Series follows Froggy the little frog, an eternal optimist with big plans – always ready to embark on a new adventure. In “Froggy Goes to School” the reader accompanies the main character on his first day in new surroundings.

A collection of Australia’s ancient aboriginal legends, myth and tales. This book offers ten authentic stories about how the rainbow serpent created and populated the world with plants and creatures, why frogs croak, why the kangaroo has a pouch, and how the crocodile got its scales. The beautiful illustrations that support the stories are drawn […]

A modernist short story adressing alienation, confrontation and illusion that follows Miss Brill, who works as an English teacher in France. Every Sunday she visits the public gardens to sit on a bench observing her surroundings. She imagines the whole scenery as a theatre play in which everybody – including herself – has a particular […]

A light-hearted short story about a ghost who hasn’t slept for 300 years and desperately fails to be scary at all. The US-American Otis family moves into Canterville Chase, a haunted house in England. Soon after their arrival, a ghost of an English nobleman named Sir Simon de Centerville reveals himself and tries his best […]

Peter Rabbit and his three siblings Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail discover their surroundings and experience adventures in nature. In “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” they are told by their mother not to enter the vegetable garden of Mr. McGregor. While his siblings listen to their mother, Peter – who is a far more adventurous and […]