Sally Gardner Books in Order

A young girl lovingly tends the little nut tree she receives for her birthday. When it bears extraordinary fruit, the news reaches far beyond her home, but the tree still holds a special surprise for its first keeper.

A tender illustrated picture book that enters a child’s imaginative royal world. With playful fairy-tale details and an affectionate tone, it celebrates the small dramas, costumes, wishes, and confidence of being a little princess.

Eight-year-old Josie Jenkins suddenly discovers she can lift cars, horses, and even buses. Fame follows fast, but so do adults eager to control her gift, and Josie must decide what being strong really means.

Presented like a magical mail-order catalogue, this picture book offers everything needed to build a fairy tale. Readers can browse wands, wings, magic beans, wicked stepmothers, fairy friends, and even invitations to storybook weddings.

This playful catalogue lets readers assemble their own fairy tale, choosing wands, wings, magical homes, pets, and royal romances. It is an illustrated browse-and-imagine book packed with fairy-tale objects, choices, and jokes.

After Rosie breaks Nana’s precious glass heart, Nana tells her a fairy tale about three princesses with hearts made of glass. It is a gentle story about breakage, courage, kindness, and what can be mended.

A young girl imagines every wild disaster that might happen when her mother goes out for the evening. Pirates, monsters, and other dangers fill her mind in this funny picture-book take on a familiar childhood worry.

A fairy grants Thomas Top’s birthday wish, and he can suddenly fly. Being the most noticed boy at school is exciting at first, but Thomas soon learns that a magical gift can cause trouble at home, too.

When Sam’s parents go missing in space, he is left with the dreadful Hilda Hardbottom. Then a tiny alien named Splodge lands in the cabbage patch and teaches Sam the useful, risky art of becoming invisible.

Ruby Genie comes from a family of famous magicians, but every attempt at magic makes her shrink. Orphaned and sent to a failing magic school, she must find the courage and power hidden inside her.

As winter nears, Boolar should be helping his mouse friends gather food. Instead, he joins a puppet troupe and falls for a leading lady, leaving him torn between a glamorous new life and the friends relying on him.

A walk down a magical shopping street reveals stores for wands, wings, cauldrons, dragon pets, dresses, wishes, and more. This detailed picture book invites readers to linger over its fairy customers and hidden surprises.

After Billy Pickles’ father moves to New York, Billy receives a puzzling moneybox. A visit to his father and Italian grandmother reveals its secret, drawing Billy into a safe-cracking, kidnapping-solving adventure with numbers at its heart.

A group of abandoned dolls wakes to find itself dependent on a kind mouse family. The demanding Countess dreams of a grander life, but the small community must work together if it is going to find safety.

In 1650s London, Coriander’s happy childhood collapses after her mother dies and her father leaves. Trapped by a cruel stepmother, she enters the fairy world and returns with a task that will change her life.

Timmy Twinkle is lonely, bullied, and hopeless at football until he discovers magic in his feet. With help from his family, he gets a chance to face the pitch, his fears, and the attention he has always wanted.

Lucy Willow lives on a train, keeps a snail called Ernest, and has remarkable green fingers. When a famous footballer needs wedding flowers, Lucy must outgrow the rival gardener determined to win the job.

Seven mixed-up buttons in a button box each have a story to tell. Their magical adventures include princesses, tigers, sailors, and mermaids, with jokes, puzzles, rhymes, and illustrations woven between the tales.

As France moves toward revolution, Yann Margoza is drawn into a dangerous web involving a theatre troupe, a neglected aristocrat’s daughter, and a ruthless count. Magic, secrets, and political violence push him back toward Paris.

During the Terror, Yann risks everything to smuggle people out of France and protect Sido. When she is taken, he must return to danger, confront old enemies, and uncover truths about his own past.

Cinderella endures life with her cruel stepfamily until magic gives her one chance to attend the royal ball. A lost slipper leaves the prince with a puzzle, and Cinderella with the possibility of a different life.

A princess is cursed at her christening and destined to fall into a deep sleep. As the years pass and thorns surround the palace, the promise of awakening waits at the center of this classic fairy tale.

A jealous queen cannot bear that Snow White is fairer than she is. Forced into the forest, Snow White finds refuge with seven dwarfs, but the queen’s poisoned apple brings danger right to her door.

In 1937, Arnold Ruben builds a memory machine to shelter his daughter from a coming war. On her seventeenth birthday, Amaryllis wakes beyond the safety of Warlock Hall and finds that his plan has gone terribly wrong.

A princess makes a promise to a frog after he retrieves her lost golden ball. Keeping that promise proves harder than expected, especially when the frog’s true identity and an old enchantment come to light.

Sally Gardner retells the classic tale of a prince searching for a true princess. A stormy-night visitor, a hidden pea, and an impossible test decide whether the mysterious young woman is who she says she is.

This illustrated collection gathers Sally Gardner’s retellings of classic princess tales, including Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and The Frog Prince. It is a richly imagined trip through familiar stories, palaces, spells, and transformations.

In an alternate 1950s ruled by the brutal Motherland, Standish Treadwell’s best friend is taken away. With his grandfather and a small band of rebels, Standish begins to challenge a regime obsessed with winning the race to the moon.

Emily Vole inherits an old shop, golden keys, and a talking cat, only to discover they belong to a fairy detective agency. With Fidget and grumpy detective Buster, she must reopen Wings & Co and face the witch Harpella.

A giant has disappeared, his daughter is growing by the day, and a seaside visit brings a murder and a stolen diamond. Emily, Buster, and Fidget face their messiest Wings & Co case yet.

Wings & Co has waited months for a case when a landowner dies mysteriously and bad luck spreads through Podgy Bottom. Emily, Buster, and Fidget must discover who is stealing people’s luck before the magic gets worse.

Tired of war, young soldier Otto Hundebiss defies Death and receives magical shoes, dice, and a tinderbox. His path leads through wolves, witches, a captive princess, and a dark world where love and survival come at a cost.

Halloween brings havoc to Podgy Bottom, where cars are shrinking to matchbox size and a giant purple rabbit is on the loose. The Wings & Co detectives must work out what a troublesome broomstick has to do with it all.

After failing most of his exams, AJ Flynn finds work at a London law firm and discovers an old key marked with his name. It opens a route to 1830, where AJ and his friends uncover a crime with dangerous consequences.

Jazmin is shunned after her best friend Becky seemingly vanishes while jumping from a tall building. As she searches for answers, Jazmin is drawn toward the unsettling Icarus and the secrets surrounding Becky’s disappearance.

Flying carpets are causing chaos in Podgy Bottom, a leprechaun is lost, and Fidget has vanished on urgent business. Emily and Buster must keep the agency running while untangling one of their strangest cases.

Betsy K Glory meets mysterious Mr Tiger and his acrobatic troupe just as a moon needs turning blue. With magical berries, wish-making ice cream, and a spellbound toad, their quest becomes a lively fairy-tale adventure.

In an eighteenth-century estate, a gardener is ordered to grow prize pineapples for a duke. When a mysterious specialist succeeds where he fails, the gardener investigates, opening the door to a dark fairy-tale bargain.

On opening night in 1870, Celeste wakes in a theatre costume basket to find everyone thinks she is someone else. A falling crystal chandelier and a strange girl pull her into a dangerous game called the Reckoning.

A pirate captain has stolen a rare egg, and an angry sea dragon wants it returned. Betsy, Mr Tiger, and Betsy’s mermaid mother set out across sky and sea to stop the trouble.

A giant octopus steals a prized golden seahorse, sending Betsy and Mr Tiger beneath the waves in a submarine. Shipwrecks, treasure, and dark caves test Betsy’s courage when she has to continue without her friend.

The tiny Tindims turn human rubbish into treasure on their floating island home. When Ethel B Dina is blown out to sea, Skittle and the others launch a rescue while facing the growing problem of ocean waste.

In an isolated mountain village ruled by superstition, Edith is pressured to marry a butcher while waiting for the shepherd she loves. As snow seals the village away, she loses her voice, and that silence changes everything.

In Regency England, Neva Friezland can predict the weather, a gift that is both dangerous and valuable. Disguised as a man, she works from her clockmaker father’s automaton and risks everything when love enters the forecast.

In 1796, Duval Harlington returns from a French prison to inherit an estate, but only if he marries at once. Desperate, he enters a marriage of convenience with Edmée, whose hidden past soon threatens them both.