Vivian French

While visiting his grandfather, who has a wonderful garden, Oliver learns to eat vegetables other than potatoes.

The sorceress Lady Lamorna has her heart set on a very expensive new robe, and she will stop at nothing--including kidnapping and black magic--to get the money to pay for it.

When Magnifico Onion sets off to make his family's fortune, his brother Alfie tags along to carry Magnifico's luggage. But when it turns out Magnifico isn't half the hero he's cracked up to be, it falls to Alfie to save the day with a little help from his loyal dog, a talking horse, and a couple of meddling magpies.

A mother and child watch as tadpoles develop and grow into frogs.

One day, Anna's friend Zane sends her an invitation to come over to play, and inside the envelope is a map. But Anna is convinced the map can't be right--why has Zane put his house in the middle and hers on the edge? So Anna decides to draw a map of her own, and Dad joins in as well. With an inviting narrative, child-friendly illustrations, and running commentary about various aspects of maps, aspiring cartographers are introduced to everything from...

When Grandpa comes to stay for the weekend, the children tire him out with all their activities.

A retelling of the misadventures of Lazy Jack who can never do anything right, but people find his mishaps so funny that they employ him anyway.

Henny Penny and her barnyard friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox, but Henney Penny's quick thinking saves the day.

Princess Lindsey's guinea pig Monty goes missing.