Helen Plum Library

Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden

A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off of a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so

Invites the reader to see the sun, bright as a flower, a flower on a hill that looks like a lion, a lion that dreams of flowers as big as the sun, and more

When a puppy who is being trained as a police dog goes missing, third-grader Judy forms a detective agency to solve the mystery, imitating her literary heroine, Nancy Drew

Two unseen characters argue about whether the creature they are looking at is a rabbit or a duck

When Halloween comes around, pumpkins are turned into pumpkin heads of different kinds and greet trick-or-treaters

Lulu, dressed as Ladybug Girl, goes to the playground and makes new friends, including Bumblebee Boy

While playing hide-and-seek with Buzz, Fly Guy is taken away by a garbage man

A young boy builds a sand castle on the beach and a dragon moves in. The boy and the dragon spend the day at the shore flying a kite, braving the waves, defying bullies, and roasting marshmallows, while the boy's parents remain occupied nearby with their own pastimes. When no one believes the boy's story about the dragon, the creature launches into a mischievous mode and wreaks havoc on everything in its path-- or is it all in the boy's imagination?...

Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun