Alexis Deacon

A girl's bedside toys go to great lengths to keep her safe at night while she is asleep.

This is a book about Henry Finch who strives for greatness, gets it all a bit wrong, then makes it right again in a very surprising way -- truly becoming great. --

"Ergo wakes up and sets off to explore the world. She discovers her toes, her wings, and her beak. Soon, she finds everything! Am I the world? she thinks. It's a big thought. Then something goes bump . . . Ergo begins to wonder, could there be more to her world?"--Book jacket flap.

Harry Black wakes in hospital to learn that his brother Ellis has almost certainly been killed by a V2 rocket falling during a German air raid on London. In a state of wounded delirium, Harry's mind begins to blur the distinctions between the reality of the war-torn city, the fiction of his unpublished sci-fi novel and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Driven by visions of Ellis still alive and a sense of poetic inevitability, Harry discharges himself...

Grandpa Boo-Dad not only believes that Bobo has seen a pink-skinned boy with orange fur on his head hiding under the bed, he knows exactly how a little monster can scare off such a horrible creature.