Books with author C Taylor

"When the lights are off And the stars are out, Only shadows move about" When Nicky goes to bed, the familiar objects in his room start to take on scary new shapes. Is that a creepy, crawly snake at the end of the bed? Is there a tall, dark stranger standing by door? Don't worry! The snake is only Nicky's sock and the menacing figure is just his robe hanging on the back of the bedroom door. If you have ever thought there might be someone hiding in your closet or peculiar things underneath the bed, this gentle little book will comfort you and take away all those night-time fears. "But do not fear For they'll be gone, When the switch is turned And the lights are on"

Jeremy is back home after a holiday in Toronto with his dad and his dad's new wife, and he's also back on his incredible travels into the past. All he has to do is pick up his grandfather's old magnifying glass, look at a stamp with a ship on it-and instantly he's on board! And he's got lots of reasons for wanting to escape. Since he went on his holiday, Jeremy's mom has a new boyfriend, Ike. It's her first boyfriend since she divorced Jeremy's father. Jeremy doesn't like Ike very much, but he could turn out to be Jeremy's new dad. In search of escape, Jeremy plunges into new shipboard adventures. He nearly drowns on a racing yacht in the famous Australian Sydney to Hobart race in 1998, during which five boats sink and six people die. Of the 115 boats that start the race, only 44 make it to Hobart. He almost gets caught on board Samuel de Champlain's ship, during its 1606 trip up the St. Lawrence River. And he witnesses Jacques Cartier's turbulent encounters in 1535 with Canada's original First Nations inhabitants. Jeremy also runs into his own grandfather (as a young boy) and his own grandson, both travellers from their own times, and they help each other out of dangerous situations.

Eleven-year-old Jeremy's got good reason to get out of the house and get out of the present - demanding letters from a father he hasn't seen since he was four have got his mother really upset. He turns again to his grandfather's stamp album and the magical magnifying glass that took him on adventures to the past After a brief, frightening trip to a storm-tossed Bluenose, Jeremy picks up the stamp depicting the Matthew, the small ship that John Cabot sailed in to discover eastern Canada. Not only does Jeremy witness the answer to several questions that have puzzled historians about Cabot, but he bumps into a very surprising visitor on the Matthew. This exciting adventure story is fit for those with an interest in sailing ships, important moments in Canadian history, or just in a great fantasy yarn by a master Canadian storyteller.

Young Meg is staying at her granmother's house while recovering from rheumatic fever. Her grandmother gives her an old doll, and whenever Meg falls asleep with the doll, she is transported back in time, to a covered wagon traveling west, and she is part of another family in this time period. When she falls asleep with the doll, she is back to present time. Meg learns that the doll is giving her a choice whenther about whether to stay in the historic time in order to change a family's history, or to stay in the present time.