Books with author Valerie Walsh

This 60-page hardcover chapter book tells a story of friendship, loyalty and respect between an adventurous hedgehog and his human friend, 10-year old James. Set in Britain during the early 1900s the story follows Hedley, James and Grandfather on a journey from Wales to Somerset, England. During the journey, Hedley and a tiny stow-away named Marvin have many amusing misadventures and are helped out of their predicaments by other woodland creatures. When the travellers finally arrive at their new homes, a farmhouse and a hawthorn hedge, they settle down happily and wait for new adventures to begin. This gentle tale, and the 26 full colour illustrations, will delight children of all ages.

The story starts in the famous British Museum in London. A new shipment of valuable artefacts has just arrived from Egypt for a major exhibition. A small ghost called Ticklemus floats out from one of the crates and follows Nigel Nugget and his friend Fred, the two night watchmen. Later that night Ticklemus sneaks into Nigel's briefcase and goes home with him. The ghost finds this new world very exciting and follows his friends Fred and Nigel to a football match. The ghost is transparent in daylight so he manages to score goals so the men's team wins.Many strange things start to happen in Nigel's house and at the museum which makes the night watchmen suspect that they have a ghost causing the mischief.Ticklemus befriends Nigel's pet budgie called Boris and the museum cat called Napoleon. They overhear burglars planning to raid the museum and manage to alert the night watchmen to the robbery.The pets and the ghost join forces with Fred and Nigel and together they manage to capture the burglars and save the valuable artefacts.Fred and Nigel become the heroes of the museum and the pets and ghost become part of the museum's security team.

This is the exciting tale of Clive, the chameleon's journey to find his long lost family on the island of Madagascar with his two friends Flit, a humming bird and Barge, a rhinoceros beetle.The three companions encounter all sorts of situations and unsavoury characters on their adventure, including a nasty spider called Mildew, a rather confused giraffe called Netty, who believes she is a bird, some tourists, a gang of hungry hyenas, a short sighted pelican and a band of modern day pirates. Luckily, after a series of hair raising situations they finally get to their destination to find a pot of gold at the end.

This is the exciting tale of Clive, the chameleon's journey to find his long lost family on the island of Madagascar with his two friends Flit, a humming bird and Barge, a rhinoceros beetle.The three companions encounter all sorts of situations and unsavoury characters on their adventure, including a nasty spider called Mildew, a rather confused giraffe called Netty, who believes she is a bird, some tourists, a gang of hungry hyenas, a short sighted pelican and a band of modern day pirates. Luckily, after a series of hair raising situations they finally get to their destination to find a pot of gold at the end.

The story starts in the famous British Museum in London. A new shipment of valuable artefacts has just arrived from Egypt for a major exhibition. A small ghost called Ticklemus floats out from one of the crates and follows Nigel Nugget and his friend Fred, the two night watchmen. Later that night Ticklemus sneaks into Nigel's briefcase and goes home with him. The ghost finds this new world very exciting and follows his friends Fred and Nigel to a football match. The ghost is transparent in daylight so he manages to score goals so the men's team wins.Many strange things start to happen in Nigel's house and at the museum which makes the night watchmen suspect that they have a ghost causing the mischief.Ticklemus befriends Nigel's pet budgie called Boris and the museum cat called Napoleon. They overhear burglars planning to raid the museum and manage to alert the night watchmen to the robbery.The pets and the ghost join forces with Fred and Nigel and together they manage to capture the burglars and save the valuable artefacts.Fred and Nigel become the heroes of the museum and the pets and ghost become part of the museum's security team.