Sarah Warburton

Max does magic tricks to delay bedtime as long as possible.

Twinkle and her classmates are planting a garden, but unlike everyone else's flowers, Twinkle's are not growing-- until she realizes her seeds require special encouragement.

"All day long the penguin colony plays and plays, and when the sun goes down and the night grows cold and dark, they squeeze and squish together ("penguin huddle!") to stay warm and snug. But one morning, after a freezing gale, the penguins find themselves stuck,frozen together like a giant penguin ice pop. When no one in the Antarctic can unstick them ("penguin muddle!"), Pipsqueak, the smallest penguin of all, leads his fellows out of their snowy...

Princess Eliza is lonely in her beautiful snow palace. Stuck inside all day with no one to play with, she figures out how to make almost anything with a few bits of wood and some string, including her own toys! Anything, that is, except the thing she wants most . . . a friend.

Twinkle's wish of having a pet comes true, but instead of something cute and fluffy, she gets a badly-behaved dragon.

"It's Twinkle's first day at The Fairy School of Magic and Music, and she can't wait to make spells like all the other fairies. But Twinkle keeps forgetting the magic words, and her spells go from bad to worse!" -- Publisher description.