Reg Down

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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2004
  • Latest Book:
    March 2018
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Book List in Order: 22 titles

  • The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly

    Tiptoes Lightly lives in an acorn high up in the branches of a Great Oak Tree. One morning she finds a note lying on her floor. It says: "Please help! Bee has lost his buzz!" She and her friend, Jeremy Mouse, set off down Running River to help the ha...

  • The Festival of Stones

    Tiptoes Lightly lives in an acorn high up in the branches of a great oak tree. The Festival of Stones follows her adventures, and those of her friends, through the festivals of Michaelmas, Halloween, Martinmas, Advent and Christmas. At Michaelmas ...

  • Big-Stamp Two-Toes the Barefoot Giant

    Tiptoes Lightly is a fairy who lives in an acorn high in the branches of a Great Oak Tree. Big-Stamp Two-Toes the Barefoot Giant follows her adventures, and those of her friends, through springtime at Farmer John's. On the way Ompliant the Elephan...

  • The Magic Knot and Other Tangles!

    Tiptoes Lightly lives in an acorn high in the branches of a Great Oak Tree. Her tiny house has no furniture-except for two downy feathers Lucy the Goose gave her to sleep on. Her friends, Pine Cone and Pepper Pot the gnomes, decide to make her a b...

  • The Lost Lagoon

    It is spring and Running River is in full flood. Tiptoes Lightly and Jeremy Mouse visit Greenleaf the Sailor and they venture forth in Greenleaf's newly made boat. Soon they are joined by Pine Cone and Pepper Pot the Gnomes and together they search f...

  • The Bee Who Lost His Buzz

    The Bee who Lost his Buzz is the illustrated first adventure of The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly. It follows Tiptoes and Jeremy Mouse as they help Bee whose buzz has been snagged by grumpy Mr. Cactus. After an adventure with Pine Cone and Pepper Pot t...

  • The Cricket and the Shepherd Boy

    A young shepherd hears a cricket singing at his feet. The cricket speaks to him and foretells that the coming winter will be both special and especially cold. Then he disappears back into the grass. The winter is indeed especially harsh, but on a sta...

  • The Starry Bird

    One morning an egg appears in the meadow below the Great Oak Tree. Neither Jeremy Mouse nor the fairy Tiptoes Lightly have ever seen such a huge egg â€" over a foot tall! They go to Farmer John’s in search of an answer, but without any luck, and...

  • The Fetching of Spring

    The Golden Bird has been stolen (apparently) and Tik-Tak is sent to fetch it. The naive and dreamy youth rides southwards (it's warmer in that direction), gets kicked out of two kingdoms, meets Erce-Ma, loses his hopeless steed, gains a (much) better...



  • Eggs for the Hunting

    Spring is full of life and life is full of eggs, all sorts of eggs: great cosmic eggs and tiny butterfly eggs, salmon eggs and bird eggs, rabbit eggs and special eggs being gilded and painted by two gnomes called Pine Cone and Pepper Pot. They hav...

  • Sir Gillygad and the Gruesome Egg

    Sir Gillygad is a knight, a doughty knight who rides about on his trusty frog called Gorf. They sally forth on adventures bold and exciting: to the Twinkle, to Holey Hill, to the Plain of Dreams -- even as far as World’s End. Then rumors are hea...

  • A Tangle of Tales

    From the author of The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly and sixteen other children’s books comes a collection of stories for children. Inside this updated and expanded edition you’ll find 52 nature stories, riddle tales, fables, fairy tales, poems, an...

  • The Darkling Beasts

    Alf’s parents loose their home in the great financial downturn of the early twenty-first century. They take Alf and his friend, Siggy, to a visiting carnival to have a bit of fun. Alf and Siggy get stuck in a dilapidated Hall of Mirrors and end ...

  • The Midsummer Mouse

    The sun is rising higher into the sky every day. Summer has come and Farmer John builds a great pile of wood for the Midsummer's Eve festival taking place on his land. Tom Nutcracker and June Berry's whole school is coming to celebrate. June Berry...

  • The Treasure Cave

    Tiptoes Lightly loves the sea, and when Farmer John and his children, Tom Nutcracker and June Berry, drive to the seaside for Thanksgiving she goes along with them. Tom and June discover a freshly uncovered cave in the bluffs that run along the sh...

  • Adam's Alphabet

    Adam and Sophia are twins. Sophia has wings and Adam doesn’t. One day their parents leave. “Don’t go into the forest,” they said, but Adam did. Adam gave his word, and broke it. Now he is lost and alone, and his voice is gone. Sophia flies...

  • The Adventures of Jayne: The Cat Who Was a Dog

    Jayne is a cat, raised as a dog. Found as a new-born she is brought up with a litter of puppies. And Jayne does not turn out to be just any kind of dog, she is the top dog, the main-man dog, the king-of-the-castle dog. She holds her tail up straig...

  • The Nine Lives of Pinrut the Turnip Boy

    One summer’s evening a turnip up and left. He’d had enough of being just another turnip in just another row of turnips in just another field of turnips. He pulled himself from the ground, turned upside down, and took off on his leafy stalks.

  • King Red and the White Snow

    King Red is a red king, everything is red, his cape, his crown, even his little finger. One winter’s day it snows. The snow is the whitest King Red has ever seen and he just has to go a-walking. So begins the first of six tales centered on the w...



  • The Alphabet

    Summer is almost over and Tom Nutcracker is soon to go to school. But deep in the forest on his father’s farm two gnomes called Pine Cone and Pepper Pot are worried. What if the school does not teach Tom his letters properly? What if the teacher...

  • The Seven Saws of Speedy Weedy and Mosey Dawdle

    A collection of 26 stories from the author of The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly and numerous books for children. Inside you'll find nature stories, fables, mystery tales, wonder tales, fairy tales, fabulous tales and of course the seven saws of Speedy...

  • Kimber's Pig

    Kimber had a pig. Yes, she did -- a real pig! It was foisted on her by her mother, the one who brooks no nonsense or takes no for an answer. The pig, a mere piglet at first, grows. And grows. And grows. Meanwhile, it has to be fed, groomed, petted...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Reg Down has published 22 books.

Reg Down does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Kimber's Pig, was published in March 2018.

The first book by Reg Down, The Tales of Tiptoes Lightly, was published in December 2004.

No. Reg Down does not write books in series.
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