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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1992
  • Latest Book:
    October 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Good Times Travel Agency

Adventures in the Middle Ages (Sep-2000)
Adventures with the Vikings (Sep-2001)
Adventures in Ancient Greece (Aug-2002)
Adventures in Ancient China (Aug-2003)
Adventures in the Ice Age (Aug-2004)

Stanley

Stanley's Party (Mar-2003)
Stanley's Wild Ride (Mar-2006)
Stanley at Sea (Mar-2008)
Stanley's Beauty Contest (Mar-2009)

A Stevie Diamnd Mystery

1 - How Come The Best Clues Are Always In The Garbage? (1992)
2 - How Can I Be a Detective If I Have to Baby-Sit? (Jun-1994)
3 - Who's Got Gertie? And How Can We Get Her Back? (Oct-1994)
4 - How Can a Frozen Detective Stay Hot on the Trail? (Aug-1996)
5 - What's a Daring Detective Like Me Doing in the Doghouse? (Aug-1997)
6 - How Can a Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark? (Aug-1999)
7 - What's a Serious Detective Like Me Doing in Such a Silly Movie? (Sep-2002)

Book List in Order: 43 titles



  • NO MYSTERY TOO TOUGH... Someone has stolen nearly a thousand dollars from the Garbage Busters, an environmental group that employs Stevie's mother. Worst of all, they've stolen it right from her house! The Diamond & Kulniki Detective Agency must get ...



  • Stevie Diamond. Age 12. Female. Private Detective. She and her partner, Jesse, have already cracked their first case. Now the pair is visiting Stevie's father at his tree-planting camp in the Rocky Mountains -- but how can they have a fabulous wilder...



  • This Stevie Diamond Mystery is a compelling and fast-paced adventure to keep readers guessing until the very end. Stevie and Jesse are in the thick of things once again. While they're helping Gertie, their 72-year-old neighbor, prepare for her big mo...



  • Petula Priscilla McGill refuses to take a bath, and when vegetables start growing from her ears, her toes, and her hair, she thinks its funny, until the neighbors see her and become greedy for the vegetables...



  • In this Stevie Diamond Mystery, Stevie and Jesse, her partner in solving crime, are hot on the trail again. This time they're in Winnipeg, Manitoba -- in the dead of winter -- to clear Jesse's teenage uncle, who has been accused of stealing valuable ...




  • The fifth book in the best-selling Stevie Diamond Mystery series, What's a Daring Detective Like Me Doing in the Doghouse? stars a pair of true-to-life kids who solve mysteries on their own. Stevie and Jessie find a lost dog in Vancouver and accident...




  • Even an experienced detective like Stevie Diamond can miss clues. All her life, a gigantic mystery was right there in her own family and she'd missed it, until now! How Can a Brilliant Detective Shine in the Dark? is a page-turning mix of mystery and...









  • Join the Binkertons -- twins Josh and Emma and their pesky little sister Libby -- as they visit the Good Times Travel Agency for a trip unlike any other -- to medieval times. The trio quickly discover that medieval life isn't all knights in shining a...



  • The Binkerton twins, Josh and Emma, and their little sister, Libby, unwittingly stumble into the Good Times Travel Agency and are carried off on a trip they'll never forget. First, the kids are stowaways on a Viking longship. Then, the Berserker, the...



  • Join the Binkertons -- twins Josh and Emma and their little sister Libby -- as they head to the Good Times Travel Agency hoping to visit the next Olympic Games, but end up in Ancient Greece instead! Adventures in Ancient Greece is an exciting mix of ...



  • In this Stevie Diamond Mystery, when the 13-year-old detective is given the opportunity to be an extra in a local film, she jumps at the chance. On set, Stevie and her detecting partner, Jesse, discover that a rash of accidents has the cast and crew ...



  • The uproarious story of a good dog who unleashes his inner party animal when his folks go away....



  • Join the Binkertons -- twins Josh and Emma and their little sister Libby -- as they return to the Good Times Travel Agency and end up knee-deep in an ancient Chinese rice paddy! Adventures in Ancient China is an engaging mix of adventure and historic...



  • All Lizzy wants is to be the best figure skater in the whole wide world. When she begins taking lessons, Lizzy discovers that ice-skating is a lot harder than it looks. Even so, she is determined to learn. And when her teacher announces that the clas...



  • Join the Binkertons -- twins Josh and Emma and their little sister Libby -- as they return to the Good Times Travel Agency only to find themselves deep-frozen in the Ice Age! First they get lost -- there are no road signs in the Ice Age (no roads, ei...






  • Our favorite party animal Stanley, the star of The Adventures of Stanley series, is back. This time, once he discovers a way out of the yard, he’s in for an exciting late-night ride with his friends!...



  • For fifty years the animals on Stolski's farm have played their hearts out for the Stolski Cup -- the dream of every hockey team all over the northland. And every year the Farm Team has lost to the nastiest, smelliest, snarlingest bunch of varmints e...



  • Poor pig number one may never get to sleep! In this swine-stuffed count-along bedtime book, one ham-bunctious pig after another comes crowding into her bedroom -- each with its own special way to keep the poor little pig awake. Pig number two turns o...



  • In the third hilarious installment of The Adventures of Stanley, our questing hero and his pals embark on an adventure that makes sea-dogs of them all....



  • Why are you untying my colt? he asked. They said, The Lord has need of him, and they took him away. In the days of old, a great man walked the eartha man who knew no sin. His purpose was great, greater than anyone could imagine. At the same time, a y...



  • Behind the Closet Door is an electrifying trip through the world of love, money, power and abuse. Shera, a beautiful small-town girl, suddenly finds herself in a world of unseen passions, exotic trips, and lavish gifts. Most of all, she meets a man w...



  • Stanley's people are so preoccupied with primping him for the dog show in the park that they forgot his breakfast. This makes Stanley very grumpy. At the park, Stanley meets up with his old friends Nutsy, Alice and Gassy Jack. Together the friends lo...



  • Stanley's home life goes awry when he suddenly finds himself with a new, feline "sister." Making friends with this perplexing creature is not easy. Stanley's big, friendly sniff is met with an abrupt THWACK! from the cat's paw. "ROWP!" yelps Stanley....



  • Mamma Toad does everything she can think of to save her unruly brood from Fox's frying pan, including offering up herself, and eventually persuades Fox to try her own secret recipe for Toad-in-a-Hole, a tasty treat that they all end up enjoying toget...



  • A tongue-in-cheek look at the practical uses of dinosaurs by a dynamic author/illustrator team.      If you happen to have a dinosaur, lying around your living room, and you don't know what to do with it ... why don't you use...






  • This original, fun picture book delightfully describes, in hilarious detail, a small child's idea of utopia. Every two-page spread offers something new about this fantasy life, including, "If kids ruled the world, every day would be your birthday! Bi...



  • Life isn't easy for 'terminally shy" Lewis Dearborn. His parents arc old and overbearing, his beloved Great-Granddad has just passed away and summer break is almost over. Soon he'll return to the one thing he can't bear to think about -- school. But ...



  • Santa's parents think their little one is absolutely wonderful, even though he has a booming voice instead of a baby's gurgle, loves to stand in front of the refrigerator, gives his birthday presents away, trains his hamsters to pull a matchbox slei...



  • Eddie, a passionate reader and a shiny green bug, saves the school library in this funny, heartwarming tale that fans of Flora & Ulysses and Charlotte’s Web will love. Eddie is a tiny green bug who loves to read and who lives behind the chalkboa...



  • From the author of If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur comes a funny and sweet cross-country roadtrip adventure with a sassy septuagenarian and her quirky canine.Feisty Annie Magruder and her dog, Carson, live in British Columbia, Canada, and ...



  • From the team who brought you If You Happen to Have a Dinosaur comes a laugh-out-loud early chapter book about befriending the monster under the bed.There's a monster under Leo's bed making a ruckus every night. When Leo needs to go to the bathroom, ...



  • The inspiring story of the girl behind one of the greatest novels -- and monsters -- ever, perfectly timed for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. For fans for picture book biographies such as I Dissent or She Persisted.How does...



  • Another high-speed adventure with those reluctant time travelers, the Binkertons! Once again, the Binkerton children try to get away before the owner of the creepy Good Times Travel Agency can send them back in time. But once again, they fail. This t...





  • Two popular storybook titans, princesses and dinosaurs, battle to determine who should star in this laugh-out-loud picture book for fans of Shark vs Train and The Book With No Pictures.This is a princess book!No, it's a dinosaur book!No, it's . . . a...






  • The adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary Sherlock Holmes, come to life in this inspiring picture book biography.What if you wrote a story about a detective, and he became the most famous detective ever? Wouldn’t that ...




  • Grandma's garden is buzzing...and it isn't just from her grandchildren. From morning to night, busy honeybees happily toil away to make honey for their hive. But their work doesn't stop there. Join the hustle and bustle of pollination and discover ho...



  • A single mitten is excluded by a matching pair in this endearing picture book about friendship, belonging and the pressure to "match." For fans of The Day the Crayons Quit.Dotty and Other Dotty are a matching set of mittens. When another mitten, Stri...


Award-Winning Books by Linda Bailey

Stanley's Party
2005 Georgia Children's Book Award -- Picture Storybook
Stanley's Wild Ride
2006 IndieFab Award -- Children's Picture
2009 California Young Reader Medal -- Primary


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Linda Bailey has published 43 books.

Linda Bailey does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Three Little Mittens, was published in October 2023.

The first book by Linda Bailey, How Come The Best Clues Are Always In The Garbage?, was published in January 1992.

Yes. Linda Bailey has 3 series.