Ian Beck

In 2050, while visiting Pastworld, a Victorian London theme park, teenaged Caleb meets seventeen-year-old Eve, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no knowledge of the modern world, and both become pawns in a murderer's diabolical plan that reveals disturbing truths about the teenagers' origins.

Pastworld

Tom's six older brothers take after their father. Tom does not. The brothers are adventurers who go on dangerous quests in the Land of Stories. Tom stays home with his mother. Tom's brothers are famous for the exciting endings they discover for the tales the Story Bureau assigns to them. Tom worries he will never have a story of his own. But when his brothers fail to return from their adventures in time to celebrate Tom's twelfth birthday, a letter from the Story Bureau arrives . . . addressed to Tom. It is up to him to find out why his brothers haven't completed their missions. Tom packs his bags and kisses his mother good-bye. It turns out that he has his own story after all—and you are about to read it.

The Secret History of Tom Trueheart

Sergej S. Prokofʹev

This is a new interpretation of Prokofiev's classic tale, retold and illustrated in color by Ian Beck. Available separately is a 35 minute cassette of Prokofiev's music with the story told over the music.

Peter & the Wolf

"Someone is stealing teddies. But who could it be? Who is the Teddy Robber? When Tom's own teddy is snatched in the dead of night, he is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery . . . A friendly, warmhearted and cheerful story that makes the perfect bedtime read for young children, teddies and Giants!"

The Teddy Robber

A mermaid longs for legs so she can be with the handsome prince with whom she has fallen in love.

The Little Mermaid

A Year of Lockdown Paintings

The Light in Suburbia

Edward Lear

A magical version of this classic, much-loved rhyme. Edward Lear's popular poem is accompanied by Ian Beck's gloriously atmospheric illustrations. Full of humour and tenderness, this is a thoroughly enchanting book.

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat

When a newly-qualified fairy loses the third wish of three she must deliver to a woodcutter, young Dickon finds it. There is no limit to the number of times a lost wish may be used, and soon there are sparkly cats and magic lemonade bottles all over the place Can fairy Cobweb find the wish and put a stop to Dickon's magic?

The First Third Wish

Rudyard Kipling

Jungle Books

In 2048, while visiting Pastworld, a Victorian London theme park, teenaged Caleb meets seventeen-year-old Eve, a Pastworld inhabitant who has no knowledge of the modern world, and both become pawns in a murderer's diabolical plan that reveals disturbing truths about the teenagers' origins.

What if Victorian London were an amusement park where the inhabitants were actors hired to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? Now imagine if Jack the Ripper was a planned attraction gone horribly wrong. Life inside the park, Pastworld, is all Eve has ever known. But then she meets a tourist in terrible trouble. Their adventure through this dark and dangerous theme park is sure to grab teens.

On a bitterly cold winter's night in 1900, a young boy disappears without trace from the forest near his home in the quiet village of Litton Cheney. He is never found, but the man he was with claims he was snatched by angels. Forty years later, Corporal Jack Carmody is sent to investigate strange reports of mysterious lights above Litton Cheney. The villagers suspect German bombers overhead, but Carmody knows there's something far more intriguing going on. And when a terrified boy appears in the graveyard, convinced it's the year 1900, it's up to Carmody and his boss - the charismatic Captain Holloway - to uncover the truth.

The Casebooks of Captain Holloway: The Disappearance of Tom Pile

Teddy falls off his place on the window ledge and has a snowy adventure until a kind man in a red suit helps him find his way home.

Teddy's Snowy Day

J. M. Barrie

Rose Impey

A charming retelling of this classic magical story, Peter Pan - the boy who never grew up.

Peter Pan and Wendy

Retells the story of the birth of Jesus in Nazareth.

The Christmas Story

La maison des Coeurvaillant est très animée pour le mariage des frères aînés de Tom, mais un invité inattendu arrive... Frère Omerstone est de retour pour se venger. Tom pourra-t-il libérer ses frères et leurs princesses, prisonniers du Pays des Contes Noirs ?

Au pays des contes noirs

Ian Beck's Home Before Dark

Tom finds a message in a bottle - from a girl explorer trapped on the Island of Monsters. He sets off to help, flying in a balloon through the moonlit skies to reach a volcanic island teeming with huge prehistoric creatures. By the author/illustrator of The Teddy Robber.

Ian Beck

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