William Stockton

Tell Us a Story, Papa Chagall

By Laurence Anholt - Published 2014

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

This is the latest in Anhalt’s series on the lives of great artists. His subject is the Jewish Russian painter, Marc Chagall, ...Read Review

Victorian Tales: The Twisted Tunnels

By Terry Deary - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

London, March 1843. Jenny and her Granddad are toshers, that is, scavengers in the sewers, a dangerous and smelly job, but they like it. ...Read Review

Victorian Tales: The Sea Monsters

By Terry Deary - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical

1838. History is about to be made. Two steam ships will cross the Atlantic for the very first time. One is the Great Western, ...Read Review

A Roman Rescue

By Emma Dodd (illus.) - By K. A. Gerrard - Published 2012

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip

Ancient Rome. Young Charlie and his dog Bandit fall down a hole and find themselves in Rome during the reign of the emperor ...Read Review

Magic Tree House: Voyage of the Vikings

By Mary Pope Osborne - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

1st century AD, Ireland. Eight-year-old Jack and his seven-year-old sister, Annie, are off on their adventures again, this time to Ireland . They are ...Read Review

Magic Tree House: Olympic Challenge

By Mary Pope Osborne - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

4th century BC. Greece. In Jack and Annie’s new adventure, the Magic Tree House takes them to Olympus, where the Olympic games ...Read Review

The King and the Seed

By Eric Maddern - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In this imaginatively retold story from a traditional Chinese Mandarin fairy tale, King Karnak is old and childless and worried about an heir. ...Read Review