Books like Florabelle by Garry Smith

***Roald Dahl's first and most widely celebrated book for young people continues to thrill readers around the world.*** **When James accidentally drops some magic crystals by the old peach tree, strange things start to happen.** The peach at the top of the tree begins to grow, and before long it's as big as a house. When James discovers a secret entrance-way into the fruit and crawls inside, he meets wonderful new friends--the Old-Green-Grasshopper, the dainty Ladybug, and the Centipede of the multiple boots. ***After years of feeling like an outsider in his aunts' house, James finally found a place where he belongs. With a snip of the stem, the peach household starts rolling away--and the adventure begins!*** "This is a stunning book to be cherished for its story, a superb fantasy."***--Chicago Tribune*** "A beautifully written, fantastic book."***--Christian Science Monitor***

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

The first in a series of truly charming tales of life on the early American frontier, Little House in the Big Woods introduces us to Laura Ingalls, her Ma and Pa, big sister Mary and Baby Carrie. She lives in an isolated cabin in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and spends her days helping Ma with household chores, learning how to care for a house, farm and family. The descriptions of typical activities on a farm in that era will captivate the imaginations of young and old alike. This series also contains the titles Little House on the Prairie, On The Banks of Plum Creek, By the Shores of Silver Lake, The Long Winter, Farmer Boy, Little Town on the Prairie, These Happy Golden Years, and The First Four Years. They inspired the popular, 1970s television series Little House on the Prairie.

A well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.

A Book about 2 young children looking for wild adventures!

A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

The Petal Fairies have a very important job - together with their magic petals they help to make sure that flowers grow and bloom in the human world. But after Jack Frost sent his goblins to steal the magic petals in the hope they would help to grow flowers in his cold and dreary ice castle, the petals have ended up scattered in the human world. Rachel and Kirsty must help the Tia the Tulip Fairy, Pippa the Poppy Fairy, Louise the Lily Fairy, Charlotte the Sunflower Fairy, Olivia the Orchid Fairy, Danielle the Daisy Fairy and Ella the Rose Fairy to find their magic petals before the goblins get their hands on them. But this time Jack Frost has given the goblins a wand to help them - he's determined to get those petals before the fairies do, whatever it takes! Can Rachel and Kirsty help find the daisy petal for Danielle? ---------- **Books in this series** 1. [Tia the Tulip Fairy][1] 2. [Pippa the Poppy Fairy][2] 3. [Louise the Lily Fairy][3] 4. [Charlie the Sunflower Fairy][4] 5. [Olivia the Orchid Fairy][5] 6. Danielle the Daisy Fairy 7. [Ella the Rose Fairy][7] [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16821092W [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17401238W [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17410173W [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17518889W [5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15910219W [7]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17416907W

When a Sorcerer tells him that he has been transformed from another sort of being, the Bee-man sets out to discover what he was in his earlier incarnation. Story is accompanied by a DVD which provides a behind-the-scenes look at the illustrator at work.

Retells the tale of the teeny-tiny woman who finds a teeny-tiny bone in a churchyard and puts it away in her cupboard before she goes to sleep.

A pink sea shell leads two giants to a terrible argument which lasts for years, and is finally resolved when the giants realize they have mixed their socks.

Known as *Flora the Dress-Up Fairy* in the U.S.. ---------- Kirsty's cousin is holding a magnificent fancy dress ball, and Rachel and Kirsty can't wait. But Jack Frost and his goblins are planning their own party in the same place and are set to spoil everything! Can Flora and the girls save the ball and make sure fancy dress parties aren't ruined forever?

Although the witch says she turned him into a prince Jerome still looks like a frog--but he goes about doing princely deeds.