Berlie Doherty

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1985
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • The Making of Fingers Finnigan

  • Children of Winter

    Catherine and her family are out for a walk when a sudden storm blows up, and they are forced to take shelter in a deserted barn which they have never seen before but which seems strangely familiar. The children find that they have slipped back to th...

  • How Green You Are!

    Each chapter is a story in itself, but they all feature a lively collection of children living in the same street. Berlie Doherty is the author of "Granny Was a Buffer Girl" and "Dear Nobody", both of which won the Carnegie Medal....

  • Paddiwak and Cozy

  • Tilly Mint and the Dodo

    When the magical Mrs Hardcastle reappears, Tilly Mint knows she's going to have an adventure. And when the last dodo hatches out of the strange egg in Mrs Hardcastle's basket, Tilly finds herself going back in time and dodging the hunters and pirates...

  • White Peak Farm

    Living on an isolated Derbyshire sheep farm, Jeannie is faced with grief over her grandmother's death, her sister's marriage, her brother's leaving, and a choice between a college education and the boy she loves...

  • Dear Nobody

    Eighteen-year-old Chris and his girlfriend Helen struggle to cope with two shocks that change their relationship and their plans for the future; the discovery that Helen is pregnant and the reappearance of Chris's mother who left the family when he w...

  • Snowy

    Rachel lives on a barge. When her teacher asks the class to bring pets to school, Rachel's parents forbid her to take Snowy, because he's a working horse, but then a school outing to the barge is arranged, so everyone can meet him. Berlie Doherty has...

  • The Magic Bicycle

    A boy discovers just how much persistence, hard work, and self-confidence it takes to learn how to ride a bicycle, but luckily he gets a little magical assistance from his shiny new three-speed itself...



  • The Magical Bicycle

    When a young boy is given a new bike, he is delighted. But every time he tries to ride he gets thrown off. He imagines it must have something to do with magic. Then one day the magic becomes real and riding becomes easy....

  • Our Field

    A retelling of the original story by Juliana Horatia Ewing. When Sandy finds Peirrot, the dog, the children promise they will find the money to pay for his license. However, when the children find their own secret field, they forget about everything ...

  • The Vinegar Jar

    After a brief affair with a charming young tap dancer, Rose Doran is left with a baby who isn't her own and a hunger for real love that her husband cannot satisfy. Isolated and vulnerable, she begins to tune in to the mysterious, inviting noises comi...

  • Tales of Wonder and Magic

    Compelling full-color illustrations highlight a compilation of ten magical folktales from countries all over the world, including stories from Africa, Canada, the British Isles, the United States, and Australia....

  • The Midnight Man

  • Jack the Giant Killer

    Jill finds herself in a story-world of magicians and dragons and floating castles and the most gruesome giant of all time. She finds good Jack, bad Jack and good-for-nothing Jack but not the one she is looking for....

  • Fairy Tales

    Authentic retellings of twelve familiar and well-loved fairy tales, gorgeously illustrated.

    With a poet's ear and deep respect for the magic at the heart of our most resonant fairy tales, acclaimed author Berlie Doherty casts a sumptuous spell...

  • Famous Adventures of Jack

    It all starts when the storyteller tells Jill that it's high time she met Jack. The question is: Which Jack? "They're all called Jack around here," Mother Greenwood tells her. There's Great- grandfather Jack, Uncle Jack, Daft Jack, Jack the Giant ...

  • Tilly Mint Tales

    When Tilly's mum goes out to work, Mrs Hardcastle from up the street pops in to look after her. There are two special things about Mrs Hardcastle. The first thing is that she's always dropping off to sleep (she snores too, sometimes). The second spec...

  • Coconut Comes to School

    Coconut comes to school every day. HEE-HAW! Coconut canters across the school meadow. Her hooves go TRIT TROT! Her ears go FLIP FLOP, FLIP FLOP! Her tail goes SWISH as she flicks at the flies. "Coconut's here!" the children laugh. The children love C...



  • The Nutcracker

    A gift-book to treasure for all fans of this wonderful old story and ballet. It is Christmas Eve and Clara is overjoyed when Godfather Drosselmeyer gives her a nutcracker in the shape of a wooden soldier. But it is at night that the magic really begi...

  • Jinnie Ghost

    Jinnie Ghost is as thin as the wind, with hair as white as the feathers of owls and eyes like water. Jinnie whispers dreams to children as they sleep: she brings Charlotte's dolls to life, makes Amy's carpet bubble with frogs and toads, and conjur...

  • Abela: The Girl Who Saw Lions

    Abela lives in Tanzania. Her mother and sisters are dying of AIDs. Rosa lives in Sheffield with her mother -- and she is devastated for another reason. Her mother announces that she wants to adopt a little girl from Tanzania, the country that Rosaâ...

  • The Windspinner

    First the fairies took Tam's little sister, Blue. Then they took his Great-Grandpa Toby. Now Tam has to keep a great secret - not only is Great-Grandpa still in Faery as King, but the old King of the fairies, Oban, is now in Tam's world disguised as ...

  • The Girl Who Saw Lions

    Abela has lost everything, and now she must leave her home in Tanzania and flee to Britain. Rosa's struggling to cope with her mother's wish to adopt a child. When they are brought together, will Abela and Rosa ever be able to love one another lik...

  • Daughter of the Sea

    The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman’s daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet. Now, the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted pare...

  • Abela

    "Be strong, my Abela." These are the last words of Abela's mother in their HIV/Aids stricken African village, where it seems that to live or to die, to be sick or to be healthy, is just a matter of chance. It takes all Abela's strength to survive her...

  • The Goblin Baby

    The fairies have stolen Tam’s baby sister -- and he has to get her back!

    Tam wakes up in the middle of the night to the sound of laughing . . . and howling. He runs to his baby sister Blue’s room, but she’s gone and there’s a goblin ba...

  • Classic Fairy Tales

    Welcome two new Candlewick Illustrated Classics!
    These collectible editions bring treasured stories to life with lavish full-color interior illustrations and elegant French flaps. (Age 10 and up)

    Berlie Doherty’s inspired retellings of so...

  • Holly Starcross

    Holly’s world came apart when she was six, when her mother took her and ran away from her father and his farm. From that day on she has had no contact with him, and can barely remember him. But eight years later, with a new family around her, she f...



  • Rumpelstiltskin

    Available for the first time as a paperback picture book, this exquisitely illustrated re-telling of "Rumpelstiltskin" is a must for any child's library. "Rumpelstiltskin" is one of the best-loved fairy tales of all time. Retold by Berlie Doherty, th...

  • The Three Princes

    The Three Princes are all desperate to win the love of Princess Halima, and a challenge is set by her father to find the most beautiful, magical gift they can find. But when disaster strikes, will they be magical enough? Full of rich, bold illustr...

  • Haunted

  • The Snow Queen

    The mischievous imps' magic mirror has frozen Kay's heart, turning him into a miserable prisoner of the Snow Queen. His best friend, Gerda, is racing barefoot across Lapland to save him - together they must find the secret of the universe and sing th...

  • Treason

    Adventure, friendship, treason, and betrayal -- a rich and exciting historical novel of the Tudor period Will Montague is a page to Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII. As the King's favorite, Will gains many enemi...

  • The Starburster Stories

    Follow Tam on three exciting adventures to the land of Faery - where he'll battle castle nightmares, evil creatures and mischievous fairies! THE STARBURSTER At first, Tam isn't at all keen on his baby sister, Blue. But with a little inventive per...

  • The Snake-Stone

    James is adopted. He knows that to work out his future he has to make sense of his past. He embarks on a journey to find his birth-mother who tells her own story in this moving and powerful novel.

    James’s adoptive parents are proud of his ...

  • Walking on Air

    A sparkling collection of poems from Twice-Carnegie Award winning author Berlie Doherty. These poems will make you laugh and make you cry. They tell you what it is to be you. They look into your secrets. They look into your dreams! Enter a world wher...

  • Requiem

    The first part of Requiem is set in Ireland, and beautifully derscribes Cecilia's growing up in a small close-knit family and community.She attends a Catholic convent school and struggles to fit in. Her passion is music. The second part of Requiem...

  • Far From Home

    The sisters of STREET CHILD tell their story… A companion novel to bestselling story of Victorian orphan Jim Jarvis based on the founding of Dr Barnardo’s homes for children. When Jim Jarvis is separated from his sisters, Lizzie and Emily, he...



  • The Company of Ghosts

    It was a seascape, moody with rocks and cliffs and wild showers of spray. Ellie's own reflection was drawn into it, like a ghost image among the lights and shadows. That's our island ,' Morag said. It looks mysterious.' It is. That's where we...

  • Joe and the Dragonosaurus

  • Blue John

    A spell-binding tale of magic and mysticism for young readers that explores the wonder of nature, from award-winning Berlie Doherty.The Queen of Darkness lives in the shadow of the mountain Mam Tor. And with her is her child, Blue John a creature th...

  • Bella's Den

    Bella, has a secret - one that she''s very good at keeping. That secret is a den hidden on a little muddy hill, wild amid the trees. One night when camping the girls see a beautiful fox and her cubs trying to stay hidden like them. But when the secre...

  • Deep Secret

  • The Starburster

  • The Haunted Hills

  • The Humming Machine

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    Great-grandpa Toby is making so much NOISE! And if Tam can hear the clamour coming from his humming machine, the fairies will too. And soon enough, on the night of a blue moon, Great-grandpa Toby vanishes without a trace. While battling nightmarish f...

  • Jeannie of White Peak Farm

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  • Spellhorn

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    A blind girl and a unicorn in a world where magic and reality merge together. Can Laura save the Wild Ones and take them to the safety of the Bright Wilderness? Laura is blind, but though she cannot see, she is an acutely perceptive child. As soon as...



  • Street Child

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    The unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children’s homes.When his mother dies, Jim Jarvis is left all alone in London. He is sent to the workhouse but quickly e...

Award-Winning Books by Berlie Doherty

Dear Nobody
1991 Carnegie Medal -- Children's
Granny Was a Buffer Girl
1986 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Berlie Doherty has published 50 books.

Berlie Doherty does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Haunted Hills, was published in October 2022.

The first book by Berlie Doherty, The Making of Fingers Finnigan, was published in May 1985.

No. Berlie Doherty does not write books in series.
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