Ian Beck

Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.

A war is brewing in Lyra's world--a battle between those who would keep people in ignorance and those who are willing to fight for true freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle Asriel comes to Oxford, fomenting rebellion, and when her best friend, Roger, suddenly disappears. Lyra learns that Roger was kidnapped by a shadowy organization that steals children and, it is rumored, experiments on them. To find him, she will...

When young Tom Trueheart's seven older brothers all go missing during their adventures in the Land of Stories, he embarks on a perilous mission to save them and to capture the rogue story-writer who wants to do away with the heroes.

A little girl drops her teddy bear in the park, and he struggles to make it home to her before it gets dark.

With the help of other characters in this version of Little Miss Muffet, it is the spider that is frightened away.

A clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.

Winston loves to eat books because the words are so delicious, but when he gets trapped in the library by an angry librarian and her helpers, a little girl named Rosie helps him to escape and teaches him a new way to enjoy words.

A little angel and a young shepherd boy help each other reach Bethlehem to see the Christ Child.

Fourteen classic fairy tales, most of which are traditional.