Animal verses illustrated with silhouettes cover cats and dogs, a donkey, monkeys, swans, ducks, aardvark and even a unicorn. These poems play with rhyme and form.

The people in these twelve stories don't lead what you might call ordinary lives. Ingrid is Elevenish. What does that mean? Levi is not too sure what's going on when he gets the cryptic message that states, Mr Calidinori is an alian monster from Mars. This is so true. Pass it on. How would you feel if you found out, quite by accident, that you weren't exactly human? Jake has a journal and it's just as well. No one else would believe the weird things that happen. Paul and Marla are not too keen when Dad house-swaps them to an ancient inn. Red is on holiday at Seaharbour when she sees the ghostly ship. Evie and Dyl have problems when the aliens invade. Polly Fitzwater joined the Spacehawks for adventure. Dad has a habit of springing surprises on Nick and Jessy. The pirate ship Red Queen sails into the bay and the pirates are eager to hit the town. Jasper B Jarman has a double.

ZOOM-BAH! Wiley Tyler is waiting for his mum to take him to the skate park when a girl called Spanner offers him a speccy silver skateboard. This incredible gift comes with a catch: to own the board Wiley must commit to becoming Wiley Tyler: Monster Finder

This time round, I am a human girl and Harry is a dog. This is inconvenient, because my parents didn't really want a dog with a jutting eyebrow fringe and a shaggy, untrimmed beard. Nor did they want a dog that cost five hundred dollars. "A pedigreed Schnauzer!" I said in despair when I recognised him that morning at the agricultural show. "Why did you have to be a pedigreed Schnauzer, Harry? I mean - why did you have to be a dog?" Harry looked sheepish. His beady little eyes peered out from underneath that peculiar fringe. "Sorry, Aelfthryth..." A curse (or maybe a blessing?) sent Saxon girl Aelfthryth, and her boy husband, Hereweald, tumbling through time. They wake anew in each century, and live for a brief time under different identities. To occupy a tedious captivity in their current incarnation, Aelthryth tells her story to her fellow captive, the mysterious Saranna.

I was hanging out with Elizabeth when I saw the boy again. Not just a boy, but that boy, the one you sort-of notice, but only to think, hey, wasn't he here yesterday? He glided by Elizabeth's hedge on his bike once too often, giving that sliding sideways glance he hoped (I expect) looked casual, disinterested and, oh, there's that chick again, hanging out with her big sister...or is it her auntie? Too old to be a friend. Elizabeth is my great-great-great-great-great granny, for your information, Bike Boy, I thought-spoke to him on the fourth bypass of the week. He toed his pedal down and skimmed away before getting into some serious calf-work as he headed up the hill towards Caroline Court. Cat Mahal has an ordinary life in the suburbs. She is also an ethical witch

A collection of fantasy verse, illustrated by various artists, Myths of the Mind has taken a long time to bring to fruition.

Are you ready for awesomeness? You can write awesome stories. All you need is an idea, some characters, a setting, a plot and- Whoa there! This is starting to sound like hard work. And you know what? It is hard work, but it can still be fun. In this book you'll find out lots of ways to make those awesome stories even more awesome. You'll learn about *Ideas *Tools *Beginnings *Middles *Ends *Characters *Plots and paces *Settings and periods *Awesome words *Not-so-awesome words *Dialogue *Editing And lots and lots more.