Maxwell Grantly: 25 books

Abandoned by his parents and forced by fate to work on the streets of New Babbage shining shoes, Edward Croydon (also known as “Fingers”) has to pick the pockets of rich gentlemen in order to survive. However, his life takes an unexpected turn of events when he discovers a stray Boston terrier...

Have you seen a real live mouse circus? If you have, you’re very lucky indeed, as very few other people have ever seen one. Sometimes a mouse circus will travel around the country as part of a travelling fair. As part of the performance, the mice will climb upon tightropes, perform amazing acrobatics...

Sophie and her family, Mr. and Mrs. Goggles, lived in the town of Myopia. Everyone in Myopia was short-sighted and so it was no surprise that, when the time came, Sophie should fail her eye test too. Therefore, Mr. and Mrs. Goggles bought their daughter a small kitten, as a present, in order...

Do you believe in the tooth fairy? Not many children do. Even the thirty-two young boys and girls at the New Babbage orphanage knew that Mr. Bagshaw, the resident housemaster, really took their old teeth and left a silver sixpence under their pillows. Even still, a whole sixpence is such a lot of...

Isaac Little was a chimney sweep apprentice who worked for the cruel Mr. Grubber. It was a difficult and dangerous life sweeping chimneys, especially as Isaac was forced to crawl within the flues. It was his awful task to climb up the brickwork and loosen the soot with a brush by hand. Each...

Edward had a special playmate called Teddy, who owned a lot of different hats. Teddy had a smart bowler hat for listening to the BBC news on the radio, a baseball cap for riding his tricycle across the lawn and even a special shabby top hat for talking with Edward in the garden. You might...

Have you ever wandered down the street and seen a shining new penny laying in the gutter? I bet that you didn't pass it by. Very few children would! This is the story of two street urchins who found a whole new penny laying in the snow, one Christmas in New Babbage. As with all stories by Maxwell Grantly, things never go according to plan.  

Teddy was Edward’s favourite playmate. Being a stuffed toy, Teddy found it difficult to change his clothes. Therefore, when Teddy wanted to dress up, he simply swapped his hat. Teddy had such a large number of hats: hats for watching Edward go fishing, hats for exploring in the garden, hats...

  Friends knew Edward Croydon, the shoeshine boy, as ‘Fingers’  due to his pickpocketing skills. As an infant, Fingers had been abandoned by his parents in the town cemetery, to fend for himself on the streets of New Babbage. Thankfully, he was rescued by a ‘guardian angel’...

When Jack is given a baby kitten, his mother gives him just one rule, “Do not overfeed the cat.” It’s hard for a young child to care for a new pet, without worrying that it is not eating properly. Can Jack remember his mother’s rule, as he cares for his baby kitten? Read the...

This beautiful trilogy features three incredible stories from the life and times of a Victorian shoeshine boy, Edward Croydon. (Also known as Fingers the Pickpocket.) As an infant, Fingers was abandoned by his parents in the town cemetery, to fend for himself on the streets. Thankfully, he...

Who could ever think that a simple ten-minute stroll to the village grocery shop could be fraught with so much danger and excitement? Read this book and you'll be desperate to visit the village stores for your bag of sugar too. However, be careful! Watch out for the Sugar Monster. This story...

Maxwell and Skippy had been looking forward to the annual village fete all summer. They were among friends and they knew that no one would stare at them or poke fun at their pointed elven ears. They both were so excited at the thoughts of watching the Donkey Derby, guessing the weight of the cake,...

How did the two young elves, Maxwell and Skippy, discover their much loved cats and what was behind their strange sounding names: The Vampire King and the Vampire Queen? How did the rescue of two small kestrel eggs and the Wishing Tree become tangled into the cats' story? How did the Fairy King Emperor...