Marthe Jocelyn Books in Order

Billie longs for independence from her protective mother, then discovers a powder that makes her invisible. A day exploring Manhattan unseen gives her unusual freedom while revealing the practical and emotional difficulties of being unable to show herself.

Forbidden to keep a dog, Billie uses her scientist friend's invisibility powder to hide a new puppy. Harry Houdini remains noisy, smelly, and demanding despite being unseen, making secrecy in her family's small apartment increasingly difficult.

Hannah assigns each of her seven favorite dresses to a different weekday so she never has to choose. When her birthday arrives, she tries wearing every dress at once, creating a new problem during her celebration.

Josephine escapes an abusive boarding school and joins a nineteenth-century Coney Island curiosity show. Her tiny stature makes her a popular performer, but an enemy from her past threatens the friendships and freedom she has finally found.

Hannah gathers and sorts everything from hair barrettes to seashells, but choosing one collection to share at school seems impossible. Collage illustrations accompany her search for a way to present all the treasures she values.

Nellie's ordinary day unfolds through dressing, breakfast, imaginative play, a visit to the park, and bedtime. Bright collage pictures draw attention to familiar activities and the colors, shapes, and textures a toddler encounters while exploring her world.

Billie's school enemy Alyssa discovers the vanishing powder hidden in her backpack and becomes invisible. Billie must decide how to respond when the girl who has made her miserable now needs help with a problem only she understands.

In 1901, aspiring writer Mable accompanies her schoolteacher sister to a rural Ontario community. Friendship with an unconventional widow introduces her to women's activism, while letters, poems, and an invented serial record her growing confidence and curiosity.

With school finished, siblings travel to their cottage for summer vacation. Swimming, games, pine-scented surroundings, and a familiar rowboat called Mayfly fill this collage picture book about returning to a beloved place and savoring the season.

Simple text and Tom Slaughter's cut-paper illustrations introduce counting and relative quantities such as a few, some, and many. Familiar objects encourage young readers to compare groups while noticing shapes, colors, and the way numbers describe what they see.

This illustrated history examines London's Foundling Hospital, founded through Thomas Coram's campaign to shelter abandoned children. Archival material explores the mothers' circumstances, the children's daily lives, and the artists and patrons who supported the institution.

Rhyming words and colorful cut-paper pictures introduce opposites and spatial relationships, including above and below, inside and outside, and up and down. Animals, shapes, and everyday settings give young readers concrete examples of contrasting ideas.

Animals are paired with their foods in a concept book illustrated by Tom Slaughter's cut-paper art. Familiar and less familiar creatures invite young readers to explore relationships, identify shapes and colors, and notice what different living things eat.

Annie secretly collects local gossip for her mother's fraudulent spiritualist business while pretending to be incapable of understanding it. In Peach Hill, her wish for school, friends, and an ordinary life begins to disrupt the family's carefully maintained deception.

This autumn clothing primer uses textured collage pictures to introduce a wardrobe suited to changing weather. Garment names and visual details help toddlers connect dressing with the season while exploring the colors and patterns of familiar clothes.

Collage illustrations present clothes and getting dressed through the lens of spring. This seasonal board book introduces clothing vocabulary and invites toddlers to notice colors, textures, and patterns while thinking about what to wear as the weather changes.

A summer wardrobe becomes the subject of this board book about dressing for the season. Collage images encourage young readers to recognize garments and examine their colors, textures, and patterns as they develop vocabulary for everyday clothes.

Winter clothing and the everyday task of getting dressed introduce young children to garment names and seasonal choices. Textured collage illustrations invite close observation of familiar clothes, their patterns, and the colors associated with cold-weather wardrobes.

Natalie's carefree summer changes abruptly when her older sister Claire is struck by a car and falls into a coma. The family waits for answers, and a familiar game of hypothetical choices takes on painful new significance.

Different animals and objects are grouped by the qualities they share in this early concept book. Tom Slaughter's colorful cut-paper illustrations invite children to spot similarities across apparently unrelated things and develop language for describing those connections.

In Victorian London, young servant Mary Finn becomes involved with charming Caden Tucker, while six-year-old James Nelligan enters a foundling home. Their alternating stories explore how poverty, desire, and institutional life shape vulnerable people's choices and search for belonging.

Road signs, traffic lights, maps, and familiar sights introduce the choices involved in finding a route. Colorful illustrations by Tom Slaughter accompany questions about directions and travel, encouraging children to interpret the visual clues around them.

Familiar objects, from socks and kites to a nest with two birds, introduce counting, pairing, and sorting. Marthe and Nell Jocelyn's collage illustrations encourage toddlers to identify individual items and consider the relationships between ones and twos.

Eleven women's lives are explored through biographies and selections from their own writing. From a Japanese courtier to an Arctic survivor, the profiles examine how letters, journals, and other records preserve experiences across different places and historical periods.

This craft guide shows children how to make temporary artworks from everyday materials and place them where others can discover them. Projects include tiny boats, paper treats, and unexpected messages, combining construction instructions with ideas for playful public displays.

Collage illustrations explore words with more than one meaning, such as glasses, waves, and trunks. Marthe and Nell Jocelyn invite children to compare different contexts and discover how the same word can describe very different things.

At Toronto's comic convention, Addy Crowe and Wylder Wallace enter her uncle's steampunk comic. Their conflicting wishes collide with a gold-train adventure, forcing them to navigate the illustrated world while their actions threaten to alter its plot.

American newcomer Jenny invents a boyfriend to stand out at an English boarding school, but her classmates have secrets of their own. Interlinked stories, letters, and other narrative forms reveal the students' hidden identities and attempts to belong.

A string comes loose from a parcel and reappears within new scenes as a spiderweb, a hairstyle, and snow on a birdhouse. This wordless collage book invites children to trace the same line through imaginative visual transformations.

A red button drops from a coat and appears in unexpected roles, including an ice-cream topping, a vehicle wheel, and a ship's porthole. Wordless collage scenes invite children to find the recurring shape as its surroundings change.

Sam tries to tidy a heap of one hundred possessions by sorting them into groups. Objects keep fitting more than one category, turning his task into a picture-book exploration of counting, overlapping sets, and different ways to organize familiar things.

A denim patch leaves a pair of trousers and becomes part of new scenes, including a stained-glass window, an ice-cream truck, and a Ferris wheel. This wordless board book invites readers to follow its changing appearances through collage illustrations.

A yellow ribbon moves from a child's braid into a series of new roles, appearing as a lion's mane, farm crops, and a dancer's dress. Wordless collage pictures encourage children to locate the recurring ribbon and imagine its transformations.

Aggie Morton and Hector Perot spend Christmas at Owl Park, a country manor filled with visitors, actors, and a supposedly cursed emerald. The discovery of a dead body turns their holiday into another investigation amid secrets and disguises.

In coastal England in 1902, shy Aggie Morton befriends Belgian newcomer Hector Perot and discovers a body in a dance room. Together they investigate the growing list of suspects before Aggie's dance teacher is blamed for the killing.

Aggie and Hector accompany her mother to a Yorkshire spa, where rumors about one death are followed by another suspicious body. Their examination of hotel guests, staff, and the local undertaker turns a restorative visit into a dangerous inquiry.

Aggie and Hector visit a seaside camp to observe paleontologists excavating ancient remains. Tensions among the camp's occupants take on a more sinister meaning when the children discover a fresh body on the beach and begin investigating.