Michelle De Serres: 5 books

Summer has come to the garden, the flowers are blooming with pride and Harry, Melissa and Norman have work to do organising the Apple Cottage garden party. Melissa lines up all the little froglets in their pretty pink tutus for the Frog Ballet. But then disaster strikes. After falling from their lily...

It’s the height of summer and Harry’s feeling the heat. So he scurries off to the frog pond where he hops with Melissa the frog into the garden gnome’s little sailing boat. Hauling aboard a lily leaf for a sail, they set off on a voyage across the pond – but the wind catches their sail and...

Malcolm the Mole comes calling to ask Harry to come and watch young Denzil the Fly take his first flight and off they hurry to see the sight. But when they arrive Mrs Fly’s in tears – young Denzil can’t overcome his fears and simply cannot fly. As always, Harry comes to the rescue. He sits Denzil...

These are the heartwarming and humorous adventures of little Harry Hailstorm – whose mum Henrietta Woodmouse named him after the stormy, snowy weather the day he and his brothers and sisters were born. As Harry leaves the nest and roams the garden of Apple Tree Cottage he gets into all sort of scrapes...

It’s a frosty Christmas morning and Harry can’t wait to pick up his chums Norman the Newt and Malcolm the Mole and take them round for a slap up lunch at his mum’s. Excited they arrive at Mrs Woodmouse’s house licking their lips at the sight of the delicious Christmas pudding that’s cooling...