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  • Bibliography:
    29 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1982
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 29 titles





  • Author Carol Dean relates an adventure that she experienced while growing up on her family's chicken farm in central Maine. The Henhouse is the charming, instructive tale of a young girl who one day begs her father to let her help him care for the ch...



  • The third book in the Charlie Dryden Series. Charlie, Keith and Alan are playing football in the quarry and Charlie trips and falls trying to score a goal. He finds a bone, then a tooth and then the adventure really begins....



  • A lovely book for younger readers telling two Dinosaur Stories.Spotty the Dinosaur helps his friend who isn’t very well.In the second story, Deano the T Rex wakes up to find he has lost his ROAR. His friends, Spike, the Triceratops, Herbie the Herb...



  • The second book in Carol Dean’s Charlie Dryden Series.Charlie Dryden decides it’s best to get out from under his Mam’s feet at home otherwise he might get jobs to do. Little did he know that while investigating the outside of the very large Wes...



  • The sixth book in the Charlie Dryden Series.Charlie Dryden and his friends and family love going to the local railway museum. But his convict friend Mr Lambert tries to warn Charlie off going as he knows there is something wrong at the museum. Undete...



  • PC Polly has been persuaded to assist the local outdoor museum with an event they are holding. Her role is to work and dress as an old style female Police Officer would have done.After talking to her Mam, who used to be an Officer in the old days, PC...



  • The seventh book in Carol Dean’s Charlie Dryden Series.It was bad enough that Charlie Dryden and his family had their day at the Roman museum spoilt because someone had decided to steal the Roman Standard of the Fourth Cohort, the Signum, found rec...



  • Freddie’s a new ghost. He’s just passed his haunting exams and his first job is in the railway museum.But Freddie is f-f-f-frightened.Find out what is so scary about the railway museum to make Freddie the Ghost so scared....






  • The fourth book in Carol Dean's Charlie Dryden Series. On a school trip, Charlie and Alan discover there's more to Charnwood Abbey than they thought. And it's not long until they meet the ghost that lives there........



  • The fifth book in Carol Dean's Charlie Dryden Series. Charlie, Keith and Alan find a fabulous place for a den. But so does the Guardian. Has Charlie made a new friend, or has he made an enemy? And the police are closing in.......



  • The first book in Carol Dean’s Charlie Dryden Series.Charlie Dryden loved playing cricket with his brother Keith and best friend Alan.Little did they know that a simple game of cricket in the park could lead to so much adventure....



  • The tenth book in Carol Dean’s Granny Ridley Series.Granny Ridley has lost her glasses, and Charlie her grandson is coming to visit. But an alien visits instead. An alien that has crash landed in her garden and loves flowers. Granny Ridley’s flow...



  • The sixth book in Carol Dean’s Granny Ridley Series.Granny Ridley and Brenda plan a nice coach trip.But they didn’t plan for mud slides, and a visit from a Pharaoh....




  • The seventh book in Carol Dean’s Granny Ridley Series.Granny Ridley, Brenda and Sylvia have been looking forward to their weekend away in a caravan in the countryside enjoying ‘Nature’ at its best.What they didn’t consider was the amount of â...




  • The eighth book in Carol Dean’s Granny Ridley Series.It’s Christmas Day. Whilst waiting for Granny Ridley to arrive, Jennifer her daughter, entertains the family with tales from Granny Ridley’s past.Who did throw that snowball at the Police?Who...







  • The fourth book in Carol Dean’s Granny Ridley Series.Granny Ridley has an appointment at hospital. Brenda and Sylvia, her best friends, go with her.But don’t worry, Granny Ridley knows the way.Or does she?...



  • The fifth book in Carol Dean’s Granny Ridley Series.Granny Ridley’s hero is on TV in her favourite film.Is this really a good time to be trying to knit Granny Ridley?...



  • This children's series is about a local female Police Officer who causes mayhem and chaos wherever she goes. Despite being clumsy and always getting it rather wrong, PC Polly always wins in the end. It's just that she looks like she has been through...



  • We all know the story of Cinderella.Or do we?The Real Cinderella Story tells what Cinderella was really like and what really happened at the ball.Cinderella’s Step-Mother tells the real fairy tale...



  • We’ve all heard the story of Goldilocks and the three bears but this is what really happened.The winter came early. The bears were cold and hungry. Now read on…………...



  • The ninth book in Carol Dean’s Granny Ridley Series.In the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood was lovely, and kind, and sweet.Then along came Granny Ridley dressed in red. That changed the big bad wolf’s mind.Just shows how wrong some fairy tales ...



  • PC Polly has a new role to play today with Deerham Constabulary. She is working with the Mini Police, a group of 9 year olds who help in the local community.But as usual things do not go as well as Sgt Blake thinks they will. Not with PC Polly in cha...




  • Webster is a spider. Lots of people don't like spiders. But Webster's not a scary one really. He lives with his Mam, sister and Granny Spinner but loves being where the humans live. And often goes there when he knows he shouldn't.But on this particul...



  • June 2021 became a very important month of the year for Mr. Edward Mortimer. It was the month that changed his little world forever and he soon saw his world turned upside down and his life change too. But for the better. All because he met some litt...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Carol Dean has published 29 books.

Carol Dean does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mr. Mortimer Meets the Aliens, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Carol Dean, One Last Kiss, was published in December 1982.

No. Carol Dean does not write books in series.