Sally Grindley

"There's a hurricane smashing, trashing, bashing through our house. CRASH! BANG! WALLOP!" The hurricane is Wills, Chris's thirteen-year-old brother. He has ADHD. Having a brother who causes so much chaos around the house is hard on eleven-year-old Chris. Sometimes Wills acts like he's six years younger, sometimes like he's only a toddler. He throws food on the floor, has tantrums, and teases Chris relentlessly. And when Chris and Wills's dad moves...

Queen Ella has cold feet and needs a "sheet"/"sheep" to keep them warm!

Even when Figgy Twosocks makes Jefferson Bear cross, they discover that "a friend is forever."

A baby elephant learns to feel secure with his grandmother, the head of the herd, until shots by poachers change his world.

A sorcerer's young apprentice attempts to practice magic in his master's absence, with disastrous results.

When William and his mother move, he is unhappy about having a new room, but he changes his mind after he gets dinosaur wallpaper and makes a new friend.