Tim Wynne Jones Books in Order

Madeline's imaginary friend can be anything she needs him to be, which makes everyday life bigger and stranger. This early picture book turns friendship and make-believe into a gentle story about a child sharing her private world.

Mary and Malcolm return to their secluded Nova Scotia home to find a lavish dinner laid out by an unseen guest. What starts as an eerie surprise turns into a tense psychological game with a man who wants the house for himself.

This adult novel leans into intimate tension as people bound by love and history find their relationships pulling painfully tight. Wynne Jones treats the knot as both emotional bind and quiet mystery, building toward an unsettling payoff.

Cat Zoom finds Uncle Roy's map in the attic and follows it into Maria's strange, sea-filled house. The trip feels half dream, half quest as he goes searching for the shore and for the uncle who is always just out of reach.

This picture book stays close to a child's sense that the grown-up world can suddenly feel huge and threatening. Wynne Jones turns neighborhood-scale worries into something funny, strange, and just a little scary.

While other cats chase butterflies, Zoom knits for cold weather and heads north with Maria to look for Captain Roy. Their journey to the Pole mixes cozy fantasy, polar danger, and the thrill of slipping into a hidden world.

David receives a message that the moon is falling apart and needs his help. His nighttime repair job turns into a small, luminous fantasy about responsibility, imagination, and fixing what seems impossibly far away.

David gets a call for help from the moon and sets out to mend what is breaking above the world. The result is a quiet, imaginative picture book about craft, wonder, and answering an impossible request.

An eerie adult novel in which buried histories and present-day anxieties start echoing across generations. As the past presses into the present, the story becomes a study of memory, inheritance, and the voices people cannot shut out.

This playful verse collection heads into a world where childhood irritations and wild fantasy spill into each other. Poems about family, frustration, and everyday absurdity build a place that feels mischievous in the best way.

A little girl hears a frog raiding the kitchen in the middle of the night and decides to face it herself. The story turns ordinary house sounds into a small, funny test of courage.

An eerie adult novel in which buried histories and present-day anxieties start echoing across generations. As the past presses into the present, the story becomes a study of memory, inheritance, and the voices people cannot shut out.

When Maria vanishes from the garden, Zoom follows muddy footprints behind a bookcase and into an Egyptian dreamscape. Mummies, cat statues, and another trail to Uncle Roy send the pair onward in search of the Nile.

A small mouse finds himself drawn into the Christmas stable just as a remarkable child is born. Told close to the ground, this gentle holiday picture book makes the nativity feel immediate, warm, and quietly wondrous.

After smashing Olivia's puzzle, stubborn Owen is pulled into a wild fantasy involving Heartbeat Pond, a green snake, and a riddle. His bad mood opens into a strange adventure that slowly loops back to the real world.

Set around the theatre, this lively story follows a young girl's view of the excitement, confusion, and teamwork behind a production. It is a loving look at rehearsal rooms, costumes, nerves, and the magic that happens just offstage.

This collection gathers nine stories about unusual kids trying to find their place in the world. Funny, strange, and quietly touching, the stories turn everyday moments into discoveries.

A collection of short stories about kids and families on the edge of small but lasting shifts. Wynne Jones mixes humor, awkwardness, and moments of clarity as ordinary lives suddenly tilt in a new direction.

Burl Crow has spent years ducking his father's anger, but one desperate flight changes everything. Far from home, he meets a strange musical genius and begins to see that survival might lead to something more.

Fourteen-year-old Burl Crow runs from an abusive home and ends up at the remote cabin of Nathaniel Orlando Gow, a brilliant recluse. Their uneasy friendship becomes a turning point as Burl begins to imagine a life bigger than survival.

Fourteen-year-old Burl Crow flees his violent father and finds shelter with a famous, eccentric musician in the north. What begins as escape becomes a bruising, hopeful coming-of-age story about trust, art, and choosing a different life.

Fifteen-year-old Stephen is haunted by recurring dreams and the sense that his mother is hiding something important. As friendship, family tension, and buried memories converge, he is forced to question who he really is.

Wynne Jones retells Victor Hugo's classic for younger readers, keeping the heart of Quasimodo's loyalty and sorrow. Medieval Paris, Esmeralda's danger, and Frollo's cruelty drive this pared-down version of the story.

Two kids think the town bully nicknamed the Lord of the Fries is just good gossip, until they uncover a secret that changes the story. What begins as a funny scheme edges into a sharper lesson about cruelty and consequences.

Seven inventive stories mix humor, embarrassment, surprise, and moral tangles. The collection ranges from oddball comedy to sharper emotional turns, always keeping one eye on how kids see the world.

Two years after his father's disappearance, Jim Hawkins is barely holding himself together when Ruth Rose insists her stepfather is a killer. Chasing that claim pulls Jim into a dark mystery about fire, grief, and the truth adults hide.

Ned Mouse lands in jail after protesting an unfair government and spends years inventing escape plans. His stubborn fight for freedom turns into a sly, funny story about resistance, hope, and not accepting the cage.

Six years after his mother vanished, Dec is jolted by an intruder's death in the family home. The shock stirs visions, old fears, and questions about what really happened, turning memory itself into a kind of mystery.

In 1962 Ottawa, new kid Rex Norton-Norton bikes through Cold War fears, neighborhood rumors, and the mystery of a missing panther. Funny family chaos and real unease collide as he tries to make sense of a world that suddenly feels dangerous.

Ten authors build one story around George 'Gee' Keane, a globe-trotting photographer whose life touches people across time and place. Each chapter adds a new voice, slowly revealing the family secrets and surprising connections he leaves behind.

Sixth-grader Rex and his friends plot to get rid of a nightmare substitute teacher, but the joke spirals fast. At home and around town, puzzling clues about love, war, and the adults in his life push him toward harder questions.

When a new adopted little brother joins the family, an older boy retreats into boats, building, and grand private adventures. A storm and a strange boat in a tree finally push the brothers toward each other.

An old painter and his rabbit set out to enjoy the evening, only to find Tumbledown Hill overrun by twenty-six monsters. What follows is a clever counting rhyme where imagination turns fear into art.

When Rex's family moves across Ottawa in 1963, he secretly rides buses back to his old school to keep his old life going. Bullies, blackmail, and family trouble turn his scheme into a painful lesson about growing up.

After a disastrous year in New York, Mimi heads to her father's isolated cottage for a reset and finds a young musician already living there. Strange tokens, shifting suspicions, and an unseen intruder turn the retreat into something eerie.

Blink stumbles onto a fake kidnapping and grabs the dropped cell phone before he understands how deep the trouble goes. When runaway Caution crosses his path, the two street kids gamble on blackmail, trust, and a shot at escape.

Pounce, a devoted cat, looks after Mrs. Florida Brown and hears her longing for lost youth. His search through the garden for a kind of fountain of youth becomes a whimsical adventure with a tender heart.

After his father's sudden death, Evan finds a handmade book that leads him into the diary of a Japanese soldier stranded during World War II. Family secrets and wartime echoes collide as he tries to understand what his father left behind.

Sam turns a routine shoe-shopping trip with his mom into a full spy mission complete with code names and danger. The make-believe adventure is funny, brisk, and rooted in the small drama of being a kid.

Donovan wakes on a dark highway with almost no memory and a dead man's briefcase in his hands. As he runs, he has to piece together where Bee is, what he has done, and who is hunting him.

Still haunted by his friend's disappearance months earlier, Nate travels alone through winter backcountry to a remote family camp. Instead of answers, he finds escapees, a blizzard, and a secret that makes survival even harder.

This later short-story collection returns to young people caught in strange, funny, and quietly unsettling moments. The stories are compact, sharp-eyed, and interested in the ways ordinary life can tilt off balance.