Books published by publisher Jane Stephens

In a city known as Hawkston, there lives a little girl named Sally Smith. Sally looks like any other little girl out there, with a thick blonde hair and a crystal green pair of eyes. But Sally is rather mischievous, some would say the most mischievous little girl there ever was, Sally was always playing jokes with other people…Very smelly jokes!Sally is also different from other people. She can’t smell anything, even her own horrible farts but how she laughs at the noise! And because of that, she loves farting. Sally farts a lot.Of course, other people do not like Sally’s farts, because they smell horrid! But Sally loves farting because it seems funny to her. It makes people go away. It also gets Sally out of trouble. She farts so that he will not have to answer Mr. Greene’s Math question. She is afraid that Mr. Greene might fail her in class. So instead of answering the questions wrong, he would just fart.She farts so that she will not have to sing in Mrs. Merrick’s Music class. She hates the songs that they always sing in Music class. So instead of singing the song he hates, she just farts.She farts so that the line in the school canteen will be cleared. She does this so she can get ahead of these people.She farts whenever Mom makes her eat vegetables. Sally hates vegetables and she does not want to eat them. So she farts so she does not have to eat vegetables.She farts to make fun of other people.But what if Sally gets into serious trouble because of farting? What will she do? Will Sally fart forever? Will Sally’s farts save her or not?Find out what will happen to Sally! Follow Smelly Sally’s Adventures! This book is definitely suitable for kids ages 6 and up.Laugh and giggle your way through a rather terribly bad smelling adventure!Watch out (and hold your nose) for more smelly adventures of Sally Smith.

Clara and Carl are twins who live with their parents and younger sister in a small, South African town. The twins are fun-loving, mischievous, real, current and believable. The stories form part of a series, but can be read as one-off, stand-alone chapters. This makes the book highly readable for young readers of either sex, from around ages 9 to 13 years. While the stories are set in South Africa, children from around the world will enjoy and relate to them, while learning about different cultures in an entertaining way. Clara and Carl are inquisitive, adventure-seeking, likable, but sometimes naughty twins. They are not afraid to take chances and often land in trouble. In the first story the twins hide in their dad's truck and sneak onto his farm, without his knowing. There they stumble upon a fat hog, destined for the slaughter-house. The twins rescue the pig and take him home.In the second story the twins are expected to attend swimming lessons - something they're not keen to do. The story then describes all the exploits they get up to in an effort to avoid the lessons and how in the end Clara learns to swim, but not in the normal or expected way. The third story is about how Carl tries to manipulate the headmaster of his school into not carrying out the customary hair-cut check. He comes up with an imaginative and far-reaching scheme - which leads to trouble and a lesson learnt. Three more short stories follow - all amusing and engaging, while containing subtle messages about issues of importance to this age group. These stories are entertaining, appealing and novel in their approach. They are written with younger readers in mind. The author, who has a family of her own, is a writer and journalist, based in Zimbabwe.