The book opens with the question: "How are you feeling today?" And this leads on to a spread by spread presentation of a wide range of feelings, including: *Happy * Sad * Excited * Bored * Interested * Angry * Upset * Calm * Silly * Lonely * Scared * Safe *Embarrassed * Shy * Confident * Worried *[...]

This book takes one element of The Great Big Book of Families - the arrival of new members into a family - and explores all the different ways a baby or child can become part of a family. The book includes natural birth within a nuclear family, adoption, fostering, same sex families and many other a[...]

Set in a parallel world, the narrative follows Lucien, a boy who in his own world is seriously ill with cancer, however is of full health in Bellezza, a city that looks oddly like Venice, yet couldn't be more different. Through an innocent gift of a Venetian notebook, Lucien becomes a member of [...]

Set in Classe (Ravenna in our world), the Stravagante is Isabel, a younger twin by a matter of minutes. Her talisman is a pouch of silver mosaic tiles and she stravagates to Classe, where she is met by Flavia, a successful female merchant who trades spices, silks, tapestries, and whose son is an out[...]

Sequel to City of Masks, the setting is again Talia, the parallel world very similar to 16th-century Italy, but the main character in this book is Georgia - who has a love of horses. She is desperate to buy a little, dusty winged horse that has appeared in a local antique shop. This tiny, winged hor[...]

Michelangelo's statue of David is renowned all over the world. Thousands flock to Florence to admire the artistry behind this Renaissance masterpiece, and to admire the beauty of the human form captured in the marble. But the identity of the model for this statue that has been so revered for over fi[...]

Georgia and Falco are back in a new addition to the Stravaganza series as Sky is suddenly transported from London to the land of Giglia that, although beautiful in appearance, can strike with deadly poisons for those who don't keep up their guard. Reprint.[...]

The second book of Hoffman's acclaimed Stravaganza series is now available inpaperback. The life of young Georgia takes a sudden turn when she buys a tinyfigurine of a winged horse and suddenly finds herself swept up into the worldof Stravaganza.[...]

Seventeen-year-old Matt, painfully dyslexic and insecure, discovers that he can travel between worlds after being transported to Talia, where he joins Luciano and other Stravaganti in trying to prevent the di Chimici family's breakthrough into our world.[...]

When a talisman transports her to the Talian city of Fortezza, Laura finds herself falling in love with a young Talian man named Ludo. But soon a rivalry erupts between two factions in Fortezza, and Laura and Ludo find themselves on opposite sides Secret meetings and divided loyalties drive the six[...]

A moving historical adventure set against the backdrop of the last great sea battle - the Battle of Lepanto - ever fought in the Mediterranean. It is 1571 and Venice's colonies in Cyprus are under threat. The forces of the Holy League sail to meet the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. On boar[...]