Books with title Tales from Fern Hollow

Nora is a seemingly normal kid. Her school days are filled with shared lunches, passing notes in class, and planning the weekends with her friends, but Nora has a secret even her friends can’t see. Like all the women in her family before her, she can see and talk to ghosts.As Nora’s abilities strengthen, she struggles to keep her secret safe and her friendships intact. And when she tragically loses her best friend Kitty in a car accident, Nora is shocked to find Kitty patiently waiting for her at home after the funeral. With her secret finally out, and once Kitty learns to accept her fate, the two friends set out to find a way to lift the anchors keeping Kitty stuck in her ghostly limbo. As Nora learns exactly how to help her friend, she also learns the power of accepting who she is, spirits and all.

‘Book One’ of Tales from Hallowed Hollow brings three delightful individual stories to life. These stories will offer children of all ages, and many adults, enjoyable reading as they join the many cute and cuddly creatures in Hallowed Hollow and Saxby Wood.They all live different lives in different ways but are all content in this peaceful place of love.Marg Watt invites you to enjoy her charming tales of …..‘Follow Your Dreams’ – Is a hilarious tale of an adopted youngster named Dagnell, who having been raised believing he’s a badger discovers he is in fact an Australian hairy nosed wombat.A magpie named Erp befriends him. The two friends set out on a journey together to reach Hallowed Hollow. Along the way they find themselves breaking into a zoo to steal, a pretty young female hairy nosed wombat named, Arnica.Dagnell long desired to find true love and a lifetime mate. As they travel along they find unusual ways of overcoming all the obstacles between them and their final destination.This tale will have you crying with laughter as their silly antics unfold. You will find yourself cheering them on to succeed in their self appointed tasks.‘The Competition’ – Sees Percival Downtwistle, the wise barn owl, helping out the royal red deer family of Quarendale Hill resolve dire problems of state.The two eldest sons of the Herd Master, and King of the Hill, create serious unrest within their kingdom, as they continually battle with each other for the right to be proclaimed the next King after their aging father retires.Percival devises a plan to settle the question of which of them is most suitable to reign.Much to the relief of all concerned, he teaches the old king the true meaning of respect and wisdom, which is as equally important to any ruler as physical strength.As Percival helps to solve the problem, he shows all the creatures there is always more than one way to resolve differences.‘The Odd Couple’ – About a beautiful longhaired fawn coloured Persian cat, who teams up with a tubby little jet black, smooth haired guinea pig when they escape from a Veterinary clinic and find their way into Hallowed Hollow.Here they make a new life for themselves. This is a tale of deep and lasting friendship bought about by personal needs.It tells of the ways, and the things they did to overcome their worst handicaps. It shows, that if those suffering any hardship join together and help each other to fix the difficult problems, the most unlikely combinations can work together successfully.

‘Book Two’ of Tales from Hallowed Hollow brings three more delightful individual stories to life. Once again, these stories will offer children of all ages, and many adults, enjoyable reading as they join the many cute and cuddly creatures in Hallowed Hollow and Saxby Wood.Where they all live different lives in different ways, but are all content in this peaceful place of love.Marg Watt invites you to enjoy her charming tales of …..The Greatest Gift of All - tells of when one of the most unlikely ever of friendships is formed between a young badger, and an aging fox which it runs up against the strong disapproval of the other badgers in the area of Hallowed Hollow and Saxby Wood.However, it later sees the fox becoming the hero of the hour, and shows those that disapprove that you should never judghe a book by its cover, or in this instance, a fox by its birthright.This tale delivers a powerful message to people of all ages that none of us should turn away from others just because they fail to meet with our own, sometimes foolish pre-concieved expectations of how they should look and act.Karma - Teaches the reader that the well known, age old saying, 'What comes around, goes around'is true.This happens through the actions of many of the creatures living in, and around Hallowed Hollow and Saxby Wood.Throughout the wonderful tale this story teaches everyone that what they do to others, and the way they act toward them has a habit of coming back to them in some way or another, no matter if good, or bad.It encourages people of any age to take care when dealing with their fellow humans, and animals alike as no-one ever knows what is awaiting them in their own future when they may well need assistance is some form or another.Never Say Never - Through two of this book's main characters, Marko and Jessie, two Australian Rock wallabies, this superb tale teaches us all that we should never say we can't do something, because if we only choose to apply ourselves to any task we believe we can't do; we will soon happily discover that in fact we could do it all along.After escaping from a zoo these two charming creatures team up with our old friend Erp, the magpie and lead a small group of other zoo escapees into Hallowed Hollow, and a happy carefree future for all.This tale will have you laughing and cheering them all along on their sometimes hazardous journey.