Mark Douglas Stafford

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2013
  • Latest Book:
    July 2015
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Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Elsie and the Money Tree

    A SHORT STORY ABOUT CHARITY. Elsie was the kind of tender-hearted girl who would give away her lunch money to someone more needy before she even got to school. Her parents had never understood her and were unable to make her understand that money sho...

  • Grandmother's Ashes

    A SHORT STORY ABOUT CONTENTMENT. Emma wanted her little brother’s birthday party to be so perfect that even her mum would be proud. But despite her best efforts, everything was going wrong. And soon twenty snotty-nosed four year olds and their pare...

  • The Grateful Girl

    A SHORT STORY ABOUT GRATITUDE. Lucy’s parents never said ‘no’, not once. They never asked her to work for anything, to do any chores, to care for anything. So she had grown up ungrateful, taking everything for granted. It wasn't that she was pa...

  • The Artist

    Little Apple had a dream his pragmatic brother couldn't understand. As German bombs rained down on London and shook the Earth to its mantle, he would dare to bring something new and wonderful into the world, even though it might cost him everything....

  • I Smell Smoke

    Lucy’s parents never said ‘no’, not once. They never asked her to work for anything, to do any chores, to care for anything. So she had grown up ungrateful, taking everything for granted. It wasn't that she was particularly selfish or unthinkin...

  • The Greater Burden of Sadness

    The once great human civilisation and its clever machines are no more. Even it couldn't survive a 10,000 year ice age. Now the ice is melting, surviving species are trying to make sense of the past and build new civilisations of their own. Among el...

  • My Daughter the Mind Reader

    I'd done my fair share of thieving, such as any honest businessman did to get along. But a bank robbery, that was a whole different level. My heart was pounding when I woke Cassandra at midnight and dressed her in black, because the plan hinged upon ...

  • Sabina Octavius and the Volcano

    'What would you take if Vesuvius erupted, what would you leave behind?' Sabina's teacher asked. It was an interesting question because it made her think about what was important. She asked the slaves of House Octavius. The answer surprised her, and t...

  • Blood Ties

    The girl guessed who cut me and was determined to stop it happening again. She stood between me and knife boy as she had stood between her fighting friends, as a reconciler, an ambassador of peace. Her feet were as unmovable as tap roots but I knew i...



  • The Interview

    'You really want to do this?' Tim asked his wife, Joanne. 'I mean, what’s wrong with doing it the old fashion way so it’s more of a surprise. People have been making babies without clicking and dragging for thousands of years.' What would you ask...

  • Dinosaurs Eat Paris: The World Fair, Paris, 1889

    Dinosaurs are the last thing on Dante’s mind as his governess, Maria Schiaparelli, tucks him in to bed with all the love and devotion of a mother. It's a warm night in Paris, the day before opening day. The day before Dante's papa, Professor August...

  • When the Weather Changed

    It seemed obvious to Ash that if you wanted to know the truth about something you should ask people who actually knew, rather than people with no relevant knowledge or experience. But grownups didn't always see the obvious, even when it was staring t...

  • A Better Way to Stop Pirates

    Headstrong Flossy Fairweather knows nothing of Port Isabel when she's captured by pirates in the middle of the night and carried off before she can even draw her sword. After years at sea exploring with her parents, imagine her surprise when she's re...

  • The Secret Invasion of Port Isabel

    It’s raining in Port Isabel and everyone’s indoors except Larry Monkey, a brilliant young chimp deeply troubled by the past. He wanders the winding laneways of the old stone town to be alone. And it’s a good thing, because trouble’s brewing a...

  • A Girl called Admiral Fairweather

    The fates of Harry Possum and the hundred soldier-sailors making up Port Isabel’s fledgling navy hang in the balance, it’s down to Flossy’s next decision. Every scenario has been considered, every contingency planned out to the nth degree, but ...

  • Robots and Moon Rockets

    While Reginald Elephant uses all his might to stop the pirates from escaping in Harry Possum’s stolen Baltimore Clipper, Larry Monkey dives after an ancient artefact called a robot in the dark waters of the Gulf. The pirates still have the upper ha...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mark Douglas Stafford has published 16 books.

Mark Douglas Stafford does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Robots and Moon Rockets, was published in July 2015.

The first book by Mark Douglas Stafford, The Grateful Girl, was published in September 2013.

No. Mark Douglas Stafford does not write books in series.
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