Books published by publisher Mercier P

Abbie Hartley can't wait to join her friend Perdita on the trip of a lifetime. Their destination? The Amazon jungle. Their mission? To find the lost wife of their friend Fernando. There's only one problem. Fernando and his wife are shrunken heads, and the Amazon jungle is huge. Oh, and another one. Grandma insists on coming, with her shopping bag on wheels and her pet wig.

When Squashy Grandma's teeth get stuck behind the radiator, Abbie calls the Very Odd Job Man. Matt Platt and his even odder daughter Perdita invite Abbie to the Hair Museum, where history has hairstyles and fish have beards. Drawn into a hair-raising hunt for Perdita's mom, Abbie befriends a cast of whacky characters. But waddling in the shadows is a fiendish foe: the white-suited, lemon-haired Dr. Hubris Klench. This quirky tale, full of screwballs and pitfalls, will tickle children, parents, and squashy grandmas alike.

In writing these fascinating stories, Edmund Leamy turned to the Gaelic past to give the Irish people something which would implant in them a love for the beauty and dignity of their country’s traditions. The charming and poetic tales in this book include 'Princess Finola and the Dwarf', 'The Fairy Tree of Dooros', 'The House in the Lake', 'The Little White Cat', 'The Golden Spears' and 'The Enchanted Cave'.