Young Charlie McGee is a very special girl. The result of scientific experimentation on her parents, she has the ability create fires wherever and whenever she chooses, by force of will alone. On the run from sinister government agents with her telekenetic father, she only wants to forget her monstrous abilities, and live a normal life. When the pair are captured, Charlie must decide between saving her father and using her fiery powers at the whim of a government only interested in using her...as a weapon!
Charlie has now won Willy Wonka's chocolate factory and with his parents and grandparents - and Mr Wonka - he's travelling by a strange new method of transport: a Great Glass Elevator! But suddenly things start to go wrong as the elevator zooms into the sky, finally going into orbit around the Earth. An exciting adventure ensues, in which Charlie and his companions defend themselves against a mob of vicious space monsters.
Lola and her ever-patient brother get clear on some concepts in a wryly instructive board book for the younger set.
Lola says, "I am absolutely not big. I am still really quite small." But what is the difference between Lola’s big brother, Charlie, and a small red ladybug, a full glass of strawberry milk -- and the same glass after a tiger gets its paws on it?
The Adventures of Charlie Mac to the Artic and Back
Brought to life by enchanting illustrations, The Adventures of Charlie Mac to the Arctic and Back, takes readers on a lyrical journey to parts of the world seldom seen by young eyes.
When Lucy Fellowes is offered a dream house in the country she leaps at it. For a widow with two small boys and an uncertain income, this sounds ideal. And this particular rural retreat will bring her closer to Charlie - the only man in four years to make her heart beat faster, and a married man.
