Books with author Harris Tobias

Two marvelous animal fables: How Birds Got Their Colors and The Argument, the third in the Little birdy books. In How Birds Got Their Colors you will learn why some birds have such colorful feathers and others are dull and plain. The story, The Argument, tells the story of how stubborn pride can lead to unhappy outcomes. Both tales are in the classic tradition of animal fables made famous by Aesop, Kipling and others.

14-year-old kleptomaniac, North, gets a chance to use his compulsion to steal to save the life of his sister, India, when a mysterious accident leaves her hospitalised in a coma. With the help of the eccentric, Dr. Tan, North is transported in and out of dark fairy tale worlds, through a portal in a magical amber room in a hospital. Guided by a feisty fairy, Rosie Boots, they journey through the sinister pages of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales - The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Little Red Riding Hood and Blue Beard. Inside these bleak, unforgiving, worlds, North must steal a series of amber treasures with ancient healing properties that can wake India from her coma. When India’s condition does not improve, North realises that all is not as it seems in the twisted reality of the Amber Room, but knows that he must unravel the dark secrets within its walls if he is to save his sister and escape with his life.