Sally Gardner Books In Order

The Invisible Boy

When his parents are lost in space, Sam is left, heartbroken, in the care of the horrible Hilda Hardbottom. Then he finds a tiny spaceship in the cabbage patch and meets a little alien called Splodge. How Splodge makes him invisible, and how Sam uses his new talent in his darkest hour, makes a touching and extremely funny story with lovely memorable characters.

The Smallest Girl Ever

Ruby Genie is an orphan. Everyone expects her to have the same fantastic magical powers as her famous parents did, but Ruby can’t do any magic at all or so she thinks. and feels a complete failure. Then she begins to get smaller…
and smaller…
and smaller. With a cast of unforgettable characters such as the self important magician the Great Alfonso, and Aunt Hat the kindly lady conjuror who is hopeless at doing tricks, this wonderful story is full of adventure and shows how a little girl who is so tiny that she fits into a handbag can still be clever and brave and find people to love and value her.

The Boy Who Could Fly

One day the Fat Fairy turns up at Thomas Top’s house to grant him a birthday wish. Thomas can’t think what to ask for, so he wishes he could fly. That’s how Thomas goes from being just an ordinary boy whom no one notices to being the most popular boy in the school. But it makes him sad that grown ups can’t see the wonderful things he can do. His flying gets him suspended from school, and that makes life at home much worse, because his dad gets so cross and it makes his mum miserable. But then the Fat Fairy turns up again, and with help from her and Thomas’s new friend Mr Vinnie, a retired painter and decorator who has been flying since he was Thomas’s age, everything changes. This is an enchanting story in which an unconfident child discovers a special gift that brings him joy and heartache. The magic of the words, the humour and poignancy of the story and the wonderful characters, are all enhanced by the author’s own delightful drawings.

The Boy with the Magic Numbers

When Billy Pickles’ dad leaves home to live in New York, he gives Billy a moneybox. Billy’s not sure where to put in the money, and not sure why his dad has left. Then Billy goes to New York to visit his father and his Italian grandmother, and discovers the secret of his magic moneybox. In a wonderful adventure, he takes Mighty Mamma on a helicopter ride, cracks open a safe, solves a kidnap mystery and gets to know his dad again.

Boy With The Lightning Feet

Timmy Twinkle is chubby. That means he gets bullied at school and hasn’t any friends. He longs to play football, but he’s hopeless at games. He’s miserable. And it doesn’t help when Gramps tells him about Great Uncle Vernon, a chubby boy who grew up to be a famous footballer. Then his gran’s friend May comes to stay. May is a fitness fanatic who knocks Timmy and Gramps into shape in no time, and Timmy discovers there’s magic in his toes he can kick a ball just like Great Uncle Vernon. And when Timmy performs on the football field, everyone wants to be friends with him. A lovely story of a child whose unhappiness is dispelled by the discovery of a magical gift.

Boolar’s Big Day Out

Boolar decides he’s going to join the puppet theatre and he secures himself the leading role of Tom Thumb. When he also falls head over heels in love with the smallest fairy in the cast, things look great in Boolar’s life. But the fairy comes with strings attached and theatre life is not nearly as glamorous as it looks. Fortunately for Boolar his toy family is there for him in this reassuring story of discovery and growing up.

The Countess’s Calamity

This is the story of five little dolls that are left in a box, in a park, under a chair. Nobody knows why they were left here, but one day, a couple of retired mice discover them, the box is blocking their doorway. Soon, the dolls and the mice become friends…
except for the Countess, who’s a little too hoity toity to befriend any mice. But she doesn’t have any choice and soon the dolls learn to stay away from the ‘legs’ humans, forage for food, and have a great deal of fun with the mice. The Countess’s Calamity is the first in a series of four books about these lost dolls called Tales from the Box.

The Red Necklace

Clever and head turningly attractive, fourteen yearold Yann is an orphan who has been raised in Paris by T tu, a dwarf with secrets he has yet to reveal to the gypsy boy. It’s the winter of 1789, and the duo have been working for a vain magician named Topolain. On the night when Topolain’s vanity brings his own death, Yann’s life truly begins. That’s the night he meets shy Sido, an heiress with an ice cold father, a young girl who has only known loneliness until now. Though they have the shortest of conversations, an attachment is born that will influence both their paths.

And what paths those will be! Revolution is afoot in France, and Sido is being used as a pawn. Only Yann will dare to rescue her, and he’ll be up against a fearful villain who goes by the name Count Kalliovski, but who has often been called the devil. It’ll take all of Yann’s newly discovered talent to unravel the mysteries of his past and Sido’s and to fight the devilish count.

As in the award winning I, Coriander, Sally Gardner has masterfully combined the historical and the fantastical in this sumptuous, riveting adventure.

The Silver Blade

A stirring tale of magic and revolution fans of The Red Necklace won’t want to miss it. The year is 1794. With his beloved Sido safely in England and the Reign of Terror at its height, mysterious Yann returns to revolutionary France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But while the two are apart, Yann’s Gypsy origins prejudice Sido s guardian against their marriage, thwarting their longed for reunion. When Sido is kidnapped under strange circumstances, however, Yann must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil Count Kalliovski, rescue Sido, and help save all of France. As she did in The Red Necklace and the award winning I, Coriander, Sally Gardner spins an epic tale that combines a vivid sense of history, characters full of Dickensian drama and fascination, and a sizzling adventure with touches of magic and romance.

The Little Nut Tree

A child is given a birthday gift of a tree which bears most unusual fruit.

I, Coriander

Coriander Hobie, born in 1643, has a remarkable tale to tell the tale of a childhood touched by unexplained bits of wonder, but too soon marked by tragedy. After her beloved mother dies and her father is forced to flee London, Coriander is left at the mercy of a stepmother full of cruelty. In the very nick of time, Coriander finds that she has somehow managed to transport herself to a land of fairies, and there she discovers what she has always suspected: that her mother was from a more magical world than grimy old London. And that she herself has inherited some of her mother’s mysterious abilities abilities that she now has a desperate need to master. Be prepared to be swept away by atmospheric writing that casts a lasting spell. Sally Gardner s prose is exquisitely beautiful and her story and characters enthralling. She has written a rare and glorious book.

Lucy Willow

‘There were three things that marked out Lucy Willow as different. The first was that she lived on a train. The second was that she had a snail called Ernest as a pet. And the third, the most important of all, was that she had green fingers.’ It’s Lucy’s green fingers that save the day when Silverboots McCoy the famous footballer and his girlfriend Blossom B order flowers for their wedding for Ricky Sparks, who runs the rival garden centre, will stop at nothing to get the contract for himself. Longer and fuller than the Magical Children books, Lucy Willow has all Sally Gardner’s soaring imagination, enchanting humour and great heart, and is rich in scenes and characters that readers will adore and always remember.

The Fairy Tale Catalog

From wands, wings and fairy things to beauty products, fairy food and dream houses, The Fairy Tale Catalog takes care of all your fairy needs. Create and customize your very own fairy tale, attend a glamorous fairy wedding, raise a magical fairy garden, pick out fun fairy furniture even take a quiz to find out whether your frog is a prince…
or just a frog. The whimsical text paired with Sally Gardner’s charming illustrations makes this a magical guide to fairy living.

The Glass Heart

The story of three princesses with glass hearts is told by Sally Gardner in her own original and uniquely appealing way. With a glittering heart on the cover and stunning artwork, this truly exquisite picture book is set in the Venice of fairy tale.

Mama Don’t Go Out Tonight

‘Mama, Mama, don’t go out tonight!’ says one little girl as her mother gets ready for a fancy dress ball. But Mama reassures her that nighttime is grown up time and Daisy will be over to babysit. With ingenious design and illustrations that dance off the page, the reader watches Daisy and the little girl create their own fun with dress up clothes and books, while, at the same time, Mama steps and twirls in her fancy dress. A goodnight kiss when Mama returns home is the perfect ending to this sweet, reassuring story.

Fairy Shopping

Take a walk through streets lined with fairy shops and bustling with shoppers – among them giants and elves, dragons, frogs and princesses. The text points out such shops as Sparks & Twinkle wands and wings, Hubble Bubble ingredients for the cauldron, Twinkletoes dancing shoes, Hats for Cats, Whoopsadaisy the flower shop, Dragon Dreams, where pets can choose their owners, Blossom’s dress shop and Miss Prism’s, where you can buy your wishes gift-wrapped. There are tiny windows to peer into, shop names and advertiseme*nts to read, interiors to explore, cafes where Mr Wolf has his breakfast fry-up and the fairies meet for elevenses, a market with stalls selling magic lamps and fairy bric-a-brac. And as dusk falls, you can see all the fairies going home laden with their purchases. With exquisite drawings packed with detail and washed with ravishing translucent colours, Fairy Shopping has oodles of charm and the wit and originality that characterises all Sally Gardner’s work.