Mad Grandad’s Wicked Pictures
Grandad and Lenny are trying to paint the living-room. But Grandad’s paint is very old and it’s gone quite strange. It has stripes and patterns in it….. At first it seems like fun to make pictures with this weird paint. Lenny calls his picture ‘Fang’ because it looks like a creature, and Grandad calls his…
Mad Grandad’s Flying Saucer
Lenny and his mad grandad buy a flying saucer and shoot into space together. But space is full of all sorts of creatures — some are friendly, some are not so friendly… Getting into space is easy. Getting home again — alive — is going to be a lot harder! This book by Oisín Mc Gann is aimed…
Mad Grandad and the Kleptoes
Have you ever wondered where the other sock goes, or those keys or your earring or pen? Grandad wonders that all the time. Things keep disappearing down the back of Grandad’s sofa — who, or what, has taken them? When Lenny and Grandad discover the Kleptoes and their hideout, things turn nasty. And Kleptoes can…
The Lough Neagh Monster
When NESSIE arrives from Scotland to visit her monster cousin NOBLETT there is bound to be trouble. Noblett loves his peaceful secret garden and has little time for his troublesome cousin from Loch Ness. This book by Sam Mc Bratney is aimed at younger pupils. This document for the teacher contains suggestions on how to use the book as…
The Leprechaun Who Wished He Wasn’t
Laurence is a leprechaun who has been small for 1100 years and is sick of it! He wants to be TALL. He wants to be cool. Then he meet Phoebe, a large girl who wants to be small. When she invites him to live in her house, Laurence is delighted. He starts wearing jeans and…
Jigsaw Stew
Jack MacAnoolie is stuck in a snow storm with his little sister. The freezing weather has left their family without food. Eating the furniture keeps them going. But when Jack’s mother makes a stew out of a jigsaw, strange things start to happen. Can Jack save the day? With the help of his trousers, a…
Going Potty
Ed Cooper’s a senior infant now and that means using the big boys’ toilet. Ed needs ‘to go’ but he just can’t. The big white toilet is very different to the junior infants’ loo– with no lock on the door and goodness knows what hiding ‘down there’! What can Ed do? He can’t hold on…
Ed’s Funny Feet

Ed Cooper has a problem with his big toes. The doctor says Ed needs ‘correction shoes’. Disaster! Everybody will laugh at him. Ed uses every trick he can think of
Ed’s Bed
Poor Ed Cooper seems to have one problem after another. From Going Potty to Ed’s Funny Feet, Ed’s life is never boring. This time around Ed is having problems in school, he just can’t get his head around his time-tables. At home things are bad too — Ed has started to wet his bed. What…
Don’t Open That Box
Two boxes — one large, one small — arrive for Granny Lambert. But wily Belzoni, her cat, sees the note printed on the small box that reads: Don’t Open that Box, Open this one first! Unfortunately Granny doesn’t notice the sign and opens the big box. Out jumps a crocodile, and snap, snap, snap, Granny…