Kes Gray Books in Order

Daisy refuses to eat her peas, no matter what extravagant rewards her mother offers. As the bribes grow from treats to impossible riches, Daisy looks for a way to turn the dinner-table argument back on the adult making the rules.

Left with a babysitter for the first time, Daisy invents her own version of the household rules. Claims about ice cream, baths, and late-night television test how much Angela will believe before Daisy's mother returns home.

A child watches the family prepare for a new baby over nine months. Funny observations about what is happening inside Mum and the changes at home turn the long wait into an introduction to pregnancy and becoming a sibling.

Billy insists on a bucket for his birthday and discovers an extraordinary underwater world inside it. His parents dismiss his stories about the creatures he sees, until borrowing the bucket brings unexpected consequences.

A flock of chickens fills its day with meals, exercise and visits as the clock moves towards night. Their routine takes a dangerous turn when a fox arrives, and the hens must defend their coop.

Charlie acquires a magical ball that bounces to extraordinary heights as long as it never touches the ground. Sending it into space attracts scientists' attention, turning his new toy into something other people are determined to investigate.

Twitchy wonders why his parents cannot hop like him and discovers that his mother is a cow and his father a horse. Troubled by their differences, the little rabbit struggles to understand what makes them a family.

Whenever her mother corrects a bad habit, observant Daisy remembers an occasion when Mum did exactly the same thing. Their exchanges about manners turn into a playful challenge over who should follow the household's rules of behavior.

When baby Susan comes home, her older sister finds that every tiny thing the baby does earns praise. Feeling overlooked, she tries increasingly outrageous ways to win back attention while adjusting to her new place in the family.

Daisy imagines taking charge at home, where she could eat sweets, drink lemonade and avoid tidying up. Her vision of family life replaces grown-up rules with the freedoms she thinks a child in charge ought to enjoy.

Daisy shares stories, jokes and inventions from her daily life, including ways to escape chores and reach a favourite biscuit. Her observations about animals, colours and grown-ups reveal the mischievous logic behind her everyday schemes.

Asked to be a bridesmaid at her aunt's wedding, Daisy objects to every dress she tries on. Determined to avoid looking conventionally pretty, she negotiates a chance to design an outfit that suits her own ideas instead.

A child considers what happens when Mum goes out to work and how her absence fits into family life. Their time together after work offers reassurance that being apart during the day does not mean being loved any less.

Twoo Twit looks like an owl and has all the equipment an owl should need. But he refuses to go to school, leaving him poorly prepared for situations where feathers and wings cannot replace a little knowledge.

Daisy adopts a secret-agent identity complete with disguise, gadgets, and a private code. Her mission falters because nobody understands her spy language, until a mysterious visitor with a colorful beard offers the possibility of a fellow agent.

Grounded and suffering stomach trouble after eating a sweet from the pavement, Daisy has plenty of time to reconsider her choices. Her reflections range from troublesome pets to playground problems as she waits to regain her freedom.

Flynn is worried about his first day at school. His parents try to reassure him with stories of other people making silly mistakes on their first days, helping him face the possibility of getting things wrong himself.

Daisy imagines being adopted by tigers and learning their ways in the jungle. Living in caves and sleeping in trees sounds exciting, but the greatest attraction may be escaping the ordinary rules that govern life at home.

A split-page format lets readers change Daisy's actions from helpful to mischievous. Combining everyday objects, treats, and pranks creates different scenes, inviting children to decide what she does next and whether the outcome is naughty or kind.

Daisy dreams of meeting a real giant and sharing enormous sweets and adventures. Convinced that magic beans are the answer, she sets out to find them, discovering that bringing a fairy-tale plan to life can cause considerable trouble.

A trip to the zoo becomes especially exciting when Daisy gets to help a keeper feed the penguins. Her enthusiasm goes beyond the planned visit when she decides that one of the birds should come home with her.

Daisy has been looking forward to Christmas for months, particularly the chance to take part in her school's nativity play. Her excitement leads to unexpected chaos when a problem with the baby doll disrupts the performance.

Daisy's first trip to Spain offers new foods, games, scenery, and friends. Meeting five appealing kittens creates a complication, however, when she decides that she would like to become their new mother during the family holiday.

A child struggles with the unhappiness of parents who are separating. This story explores the wish to put a family back together while offering reassurance that the adults’ separation is not the child’s fault.

Earth faces a collision with a planet made of peas, threatening to put Daisy's least favorite vegetable into every meal. Taking on a superhero identity, she sets out to save dinner times in an interactive adventure with tabs and flaps.

An outing with her uncle introduces Daisy to fishing and its unfamiliar rules. Her curiosity ranges from strange waterside stories to picnic supplies, but using the wriggling bait for another purpose threatens to turn the trip into trouble.

A boy feels miserable about the bully he faces each day and wants everyone to leave him alone. His animal friends refuse to abandon him, showing how standing together can give him the strength he lacks alone.

Nurse Nibbles tends an assortment of animal patients with unusual problems, from tangled whiskers to a broken crocodile tooth. Care and reassurance help the creatures recover in a picture book that invites children to practice looking after others.

Pedro plans an impressive morning dive, but forgets that the water is still covered in ice. After his painful landing, Nurse Nibbles and the Get Well Friends offer help and comfort to the injured penguin.

Returning to babysit the Cowcumbers, Nelly discovers that Petal has a loose tooth. What might be an ordinary childhood milestone becomes a dangerous challenge when a troublesome tooth furry threatens to visit the monster household.

Nelly takes on the job of caring for baby monster Glug, whose extra eyes, tongues, and legs make ordinary routines complicated. Getting her unusual charge clean becomes a particular challenge when bath time requires far more coordination than expected.

Nelly expects a straightforward evening watching a monster egg, reassured that Pipplewak eggs never hatch early. Her babysitting skills face an unexpected test when that comforting assumption begins to look less reliable than the parents suggested.

Nelly babysits Slop, a young Squurm with multiple eyes, two brains, and a mass of feelers. His love of practical jokes, dislike of losing, and short attention span turn keeping him entertained into a demanding assignment.

An underwater penthouse sounds like an exciting place for Nelly's next monster-sitting job. The mischievous Water Greeps soon make it clear that looking after them will involve more than admiring their unusual home, and probably getting wet.

Zoe the zebra worries so much about large predators that she overlooks a tiny tortoise in her path. A fall interrupts an otherwise peaceful day, leaving Nurse Nibbles and her friends to help the anxious patient feel better.

Chesney trains relentlessly for an important cheetah race, running so quickly that his spots fall off. Nurse Nibbles and the other Get Well Friends step in to help the overenthusiastic competitor recover from his unusual sporting mishap.

Daisy heads to the funfair hoping for a good time and a prize from the coconut shy. Her attempts to win reveal why she thinks coconuts cause nothing but trouble, even when she insists the resulting mischief is not her fault.

Momo enjoys playing in the treetops and dropping mangoes onto the animals below. When someone decides to stop his teasing, the mischievous monkey falls, and Nurse Nibbles and her friends must help him recover from the consequences.

Nelly arrives to look after the children of an exceptionally tall reptilian monster family. The job becomes puzzling when the Altigator parents cannot stay away from their apartment for more than a few minutes, leaving her to discover what worries them.

Nelly spends Christmas with the Dendrilegs, a monster family whose purple tentacles promise an unusual celebration. Her holiday babysitting assignment takes a surprising turn when the visitor expected down the chimney is not Father Christmas.

Nelly encounters the smallest monsters she has ever cared for, but their tiny size does not make the job simple. With 123 Digdiggs to watch, keeping track of every charge becomes an enormous challenge for the experienced monster sitter.

Nelly invites the Huffaluks to celebrate her twelfth birthday with a barbecue. Having monsters as party guests should be exciting, but her sister Asti is unhappy about the arrangements and determined to cause trouble.

Monster-sitter Nelly discovers that getting the giant spider Muggots to sleep requires frightening them. When familiar scares stop working, she must invent a new way to spook her unusual charges without becoming terrified herself.

The Polabores want to do absolutely nothing, leaving Nelly expecting a dull evening of monster-sitting. Inviting her sister Asti to enliven the visit soon gives her reason to wish things had stayed quiet.

A monster-sitting job with the Rimes leaves Nelly unexpectedly lost for words. When baby Shimma needs saving, she must overcome that difficulty quickly and find a way to help her unusual charge.

Nelly takes a monster-sitting job during a heat wave, only to discover that Thermitts must remain at freezing temperatures or melt. Keeping the little monsters safe becomes an urgent and unusually chilly childcare challenge.

Nelly arrives at the Ultravores’ home for another monster-sitting assignment and learns that flies are on the dinner menu. As the evening gets increasingly sticky, she begins to suspect that she might be considered food as well.

Nelly expects another evening caring for unusual monster babies when she visits the Wattwatts. Instead, the arrangement turns upside down: the monsters must look after her, creating a shocking new challenge for the experienced sitter.

A series of burglaries prompts Daisy, Gabby, and Dylan to become detectives. Catching the culprit proves difficult when Daisy is forbidden to venture beyond the end of the road, leaving the young investigators with a very limited search area.

Ned decides he will never wear clothes again and takes his naked adventures out into the neighbourhood. As he races through gardens, streets and shops, the adults around him try to persuade him to get dressed.

Pepe wants everyone to see that he is becoming a big dog. His attempt to prove himself ends in a tumble, but Nurse Nibbles and the Get Well Friends are ready to provide the care and reassurance he needs.

The churchyard cats hold a meeting to work out how to catch the mice overrunning their territory. Their plans seem promising, but each attempt leaves them empty-pawed as the mice repeatedly frustrate their hunters.

Daisy and Gabby train hard for school sports day, convinced their preparation and chosen snacks will lead to victory. Daisy's determination to win meets a problem she has underestimated: everyone else in the race wants to finish first too.

Cat insists that every animal must sit somewhere that rhymes with its name, leaving Frog assigned to an uncomfortable log. Frog questions the rules and searches for an alternative, only to discover another arrangement he likes even less.

A worried girl retreats into an imaginary world that initially seems full of treats and comfort. When her fears follow her there and begin taking over, she needs help from the people who care about her.

Jack Beechwhistle considers himself a secret agent, defending the world with friends Colin and Harry from their garden-shed headquarters. His latest mission becomes especially urgent when giant slugs head toward his school during a mathematics lesson.

An expanding gathering of animals presents an increasingly tricky counting challenge. A polar bear, a buffalo and even a squid contribute different numbers of legs, inviting readers to keep track as more guests join the fun.

Zippo is tired of being an ordinary hippo and wants a remarkable superpower. Hoping to fly like his oxpecker friend Roxi, he faces the difficulty of getting a very large hippopotamus off the ground.

Daisy goes trick-or-treating for the first time on a dark, foggy Halloween night. Accompanied by a vampire and equipped with little more than a torch and silly string, she finds plenty of opportunities for spooky trouble.

Frog refuses to let a dog sit on him and decides to rewrite the rules about where animals belong. His new rhyming arrangements turn everyone’s seating upside down, but he still needs to choose a place for himself.

It is a freezing Christmas Eve, but Ned still refuses to wear clothes. As everyone else wraps up against the cold, he races about hoping to meet a very special visitor arriving by sleigh.

Mo heads out running through familiar places and increasingly adventurous situations. Rhymes invite children to follow his movements, warm up and try running themselves as his skills develop and his energetic outings grow more ambitious.

Daisy is entrusted with looking after the class hamsters during the Easter holidays. A planned visit to Chocolate Land makes the break even more exciting, but combining small animals with a chocolate-filled outing threatens to cause trouble.

Junior secret agent Jack Beechwhistle suspects that the local hairdresser is hiding an evil plan. With Colin and Harry, he investigates why Valentino collects every customer's cut hair, convinced that the bags must conceal something sinister.

Daisy joins her class on a visit to Bobbington Hall, where old toilets and suits of armor promise an unusual day out. The possibility of secret passages proves especially tempting, raising the question of what might happen if the children find them.

Mo and his friends discover that jogging backwards can take them much further than expected. Transported into a world of dinosaurs, they must put their running skills to work to escape the creatures chasing them.

Mo and his friends set off for a running adventure in the Rocky Mountains. Their expedition takes an unexpected turn when mysterious creatures appear, giving the runners a much more urgent reason to keep moving.

A trip to the seaside promises Mo and his friends fresh air, running and a picnic. But an encounter with a sea monster turns their outing into a race that calls for more than ordinary beach fitness.

On the day before Christmas Eve, Santa faces an enormous list of preparations. Presents need wrapping, reindeer need waking and the sleigh needs starting, but amid the mounting pressure he worries that something has been forgotten.

Unhappy creatures gather at the Ministry of Silly Animal Names hoping for a change. From an ice cream cone worm to a pink fairy armadillo, the visitors discover that each has an unusually awkward name to explain.

Nelly's monster-sitting work brings her to the Hottentops, whose games promise a particularly heated challenge. Swimming with a Water Greep adds another complication as she tries to keep her unusual charges entertained and under control.

Nelly babysits monsters whose parents struggle to find anyone willing to watch them. Playing hide-and-seek with an oozy Squurm and ice-skating with a baby Thermitt turn ordinary childcare into a series of unpredictable adventures.

Disappointed that the new school nature garden has so little wildlife, Daisy decides not to wait for animals to arrive. A camping trip with Gabby offers the chance to collect some herself, but nature proves difficult to manage.

Flinty Bo Diddle is composing a fiddle tune, but one stubborn diddle keeps sounding a dum instead. His efforts to make every note behave lead to a musical struggle over whether being different must be a problem.

With the presents finally delivered, Santa and his elves are ready for their own celebration. Their Boxing-night party fills the North Pole with gifts, crackers, dancing and lights as Christmas workers take their turn at festive fun.

Daisy is thrilled to be the guest of honor at Gabby's birthday party and even more impressed by two new toy unicorns. The sparkly creatures turn out to be talkative and magical, supplying ideas that promise plenty of trouble.

The Ice Age is approaching and the dinosaurs are getting cold. Woolly jumpers might save them from the dropping temperatures, but obtaining warm clothes presents a problem when none of the dinosaurs knows how to knit.

Nanny and Grampy take Daisy to London for a day of famous sights, including the Tower, Buckingham Palace, and Big Ben. Their sightseeing plans face an unexpected rival when Daisy becomes far more interested in finding Cooey the pigeon.

Pirate Jake keeps hearing people say ahoy, yet he has never seen a hoy. Worried that this makes him an inadequate pirate, he searches the dunes with his parrot until an unexpected discovery changes his understanding.

Santa’s sleigh breaks down high above the world, leaving him just three hours to deliver Christmas when repairs are finished. With time running out, an unlikely group of garden gnomes may offer the help he needs.

Humpty Dumpty wants to become a boiled egg when he grows up. His nursery-rhyme friends suggest more ambitious futures, challenging him to imagine possibilities beyond the modest plan he has made for himself.