Books with author Shelagh McGee

Molly Carver, aged 7, has just moved to France. Whilst helping her mother clean out the kitchen of their new home she discovers a shoebox underneath one of the cupboards. Inside the shoebox there are nine beautiful beds with covers embroidered with the tiniest initials. The covers have been thrown back as if the occupants have just left. Against her mother’s wishes Molly leaves the box at the back of the cupboard. That evening Molly loses a tooth and leaves it under her pillow. The next morning the tooth has been replaced by the smallest of envelopes. With the help of her best friend Eloise, Molly reads the letter and discovers that it has been written by a little mouse: for it is a mouse, not a tooth fairy that takes away your teeth in France. Molly’s tooth-mouse is called Myrtille (Mer-tee which means Billberry). Myrtille thanks Molly for her tooth and for not throwing away her family's home. Molly writes back, and so begins a beautiful and magical relationship.

When Alice met Opy, a beautiful but neglected dappled grey pony, she promised him she would take care of him. But, after the closing of her local riding school, the divorce of her parents, and the move to a smaller house, Alice knew it wouldn’t be easy. But Alice didn’t believe in giving up, nor in breaking promises, so with single minded determination Alice set out to save Opy little knowing that her actions would affect the lives of so many others.