Books with author Sian Bailey

A terrible serpent has stolen the mermaids' pearl of wisdom. Princess Melody and her friends, Meredith and Meriel, must find it soon or their kingdom will be changed forever! Journey with the three friends through a mesmerizing underwater world as they search their kingdom and find friends to help their quest. From the coral reef to the shoreline to the ocean depths each exquisite jigsaw depicts a different ocean environment in intricate detail. With breathtakingly beautiful artwork, an exciting adventure story and an illustrated quiz, this is a perfectly gorgeous book for little girls everywhere.

When a prairie cyclone carries Dorothy far away from her home and family, she finds herself lost and alone in a strange land. Hearing that the famous Wizard of Oz is the only one who can help her return home, Dorothy joins forces with some unusual travelling companions to journey to his Emerald City...With six 24-piece jigsaw puzzles and a retelling of the beloved story, this gorgeous book is full of the magic of Oz.

This book actually includes two stories: What a Mess! and The Little Elephant. In What a Mess!, Penny shows her parents how messy she could be when she spilled painting water, milk, and fell in the mud. However, Digger the dog was really messy after he played in the mud and jumped up on the family. In the Little Elephant, the family went to the zoo with a bag of nuts just to share with the elephants. Wait till you see how Jenny and the little elephant create the hilarious ending to this story! Young readers will delight reading the predictable text supported by colorful detailed illustrations. This book would be a wonderful addition to a school or home library.

The magical stories of five fairytale princesses, each with a jigsaw puzzle to enjoy again and againWith breathtakingly beautiful artwork and a charming retelling of each story, this gorgeous book captures all the sparkle and romance of five beloved fairy tales. Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White, The Princess and the Pea, and Thumbelina are given one-page retellings, each accompanied by a 24-piece jigsaw puzzle that becomes a delicate portrait of the princess. After completing the jigsaws, children are asked at the end of the book to search for items in the portraits, choose their favorite dress, and more.

Billy Mouse often feels like the odd one out. As a small, Tolkien-obsessed son of a coffin maker, he has never really fit in. Then, one September morning, the first day of a new school year, things seem even more bewildering. Overnight, his neighbour has managed to regrow her perm, the ‘Woodcock Drive’ sign has again been snapped off in an ‘amusing’ place and when he arrives at school his new form room is full of older pupils and his class are back where they were the year before. When his form tutor arrives with her dress tucked in her knickers… exactly as she did twelve months earlier, Billy knows something really weird is happening. A glance outside confirms that the new astroturf pitch has somehow no longer been built and then Jess Walker walks in. She was murdered last June...All cats are grey is a coming of age novel that will appeal to anyone who has ever felt like the underdog. Its central character Billy is immediately cast into the role of prospective hero and he realises that he has somehow been given a chance to solve the mystery of who killed Jess and to stop it happening again / at all. The problems are that a) he will have to get to know her properly to help her and he’s really really rubbish at talking to girls and that b) he will have to be strong and brave rather than an undersized and mostly anonymous lad who is more used to painting hobbit figurines.The novel tracks the path Billy takes, uncovering clue after clue whilst trying to deny to himself that he’s actually fallen for the enigmatic Jess. From the boy most likely to be completely forgotten by anyone he meets, he’s suddenly housebreaking, spying, truanting, attacking people with artificial legs and Hello Kitty penknives and getting involved in fights. Well, getting hit a lot...As he searches for answers, Billy works out that literally everybody is now a suspect. Even himself. (What if he is somehow enabling, somehow pushing things on rather than helping to stop them? It is far-fetched but... if the whole time-space continuum is distorted, could indeed anything this time impact upon last time or vice versa? Thinking about it too much makes his head hurt. Like watching Back to the Future 2.)..And meanwhile the clock is ticking and the past / future has a nasty habit of repeating itself...