Onion Custard Kids: 5 books

Flikity’s Red Box is the second in the series of beautifully illustrated books for 3 to 6 year old children. They are family oriented stories where the children have coloured boxes to play with. But, occasionally there is something inside a box which takes the child, and other family members, on...

Father Christmas is making his rounds, delivering presents on Christmas Eve. He arrives at one house and meets a cheeky mouse who tries to distract him so he can eat his mince pies. This charming story is based on an old poem The Christmas Mouse, and gives it a new twist with fantastic illustrations. A real treat for Christmas.

Adopting a child impacts on the whole family. This is the story of seven-year-old Oliver, a birth child, whose parents adopt a little baby called Max. For Oliver this initially seemed to be everything he always wanted, but he soon discovers not everything was as he first imagined! More often than...

Timothy has a magical object - a small, unremarkable-looking torch. It may look ordinary, but at night he uses it under the sheets to travel to wonderful places. Tonight he is mysteriously transported under the sea where he is trapped by an angry octopus. How will he escape - and can he return to...

A little red fox is stealing chickens from a nearby farm. The farmer and his wife hatch a plan to stop the fox from being so naughty, and find a way for them to live happily together. In her first children's book, E.H King tells the enchanting story of how foxgloves got their name. Beautifully...