Sally Gardner

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  • Bibliography:
    50 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    July 2001
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Wings & Co.: The Fairy Detective Agency

1 - Operation Bunny (Feb-2014)
2 - Three Pickled Herrings (Sep-2014)
3 - The Vanishing of Billy Buckle (Jul-2015)

Yann Margoza

1 - The Red Necklace (May-2008)
2 - Silver Blade (Mar-2009)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

Snow White (Nov-2012)

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

I, Coriander (Sep-2005)

Book List in Order: 50 titles

  • The Fairy Tale Catalog

    From wands, wings and fairy things to beauty products, fairy food and dream houses, The Fairy Tale Catalog takes care of all your fairy needs. Create and customize your very own fairy tale, attend a glamorous fairy wedding, raise a magical fairy gard...

  • A Book of Princesses

    Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Frog Prince, and The Princess and the Pea are the five most beloved princess stories in all of children¹s literature. In these fresh retellings, just right for reading aloud, the magic of the tales combin...

  • Mama, Don't Go Out Tonight

    Mama, Mama, don't go out tonight! says one little girl as her mother gets ready for a fancy-dress ball. But Mama reassures her that nighttime is grown-up time and Daisy will be over to babysit. With ingenious design and illustrations that dance off t...

  • Countess's Calamity

    This is the story of five little dolls that are left in a box, in a park, under a chair. Nobodyknows why they were left here, but one day, a couple of retired mice discover them, the box is blocking their doorway. Soon, the dolls and the mice beco...

  • Boolar's Big Day Out

    Boolar's Big Day Out Boolar has his big chance of fame when he lands himself the plum role of Tom Thumb in the Puppet Theatre playing in the park. But Boolar's performance nerves get the better of him and an ill-fated romance mean that things don't t...

  • Mummy Don't Go Out Tonight

  • I, Coriander

    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan pre...

  • Magical Kids

    Josie Jenkins, aged eight and three-quarters, is good at tricks. She can balance a pencil on the end of her finger and pick her nose without anyone seeing. But she amazes everyone -- even herself -- with her best trick yet: Josie can lift a table, a ...

  • The Red Necklace

    Yann Margoza - 1

    A SUMPTUOUS, ROMANTIC ADVENTURE The winds of change are blowing through Paris in 1789, both for France and a mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking, and an uncanny ability to throw his vo...



  • The Revolution of Ramon de la Rose

    The story of a remarkable boy called Yann Margoza; Tetu the dwarf, his friend and mentor; Sido, unloved daughter of a foolish Marquis; and Count Kalliovski, Grand Master of a secret society, who has half the aristocracy in thrall to him, and wants...

  • Magical Kids II

    Sally Gardner expands her Magical Kids series with two more delightfully quirky chapter books, packaged together in this fun “flip” format for twice the magic! Fans of Judy Moody and My Weird School are sure to snatch this one...

  • Lucy Willow

    'There were three things that marked out Lucy Willow as different. The first was that she lived on a train. The second was that she had a snail called Ernest as a pet. And the third, the most important of all, was that she had green fingers.'It's Luc...

  • Silver Blade

    Yann Margoza - 2

    With his beloved Sido safely in England and the Reign of Terror at its height, mysterious Yann returns to revolutionary France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But while the two are apart, YannÕs Gypsy ori...

  • Cinderella

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    Forced into a life of drudgery and housework...

  • The Frog Prince

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    When she loses her beautiful golden ball at ...

  • A Palace Full of Princesses

    A gift book bind-up edition of four much-loved Early Reader Magical Princess stories: CINDERELLA, SNOW WHITE, SLEEPING BEAUTY and THE FROG PRINCE. These universally loved fairy tales are re-told with wit and charm in this beautiful book that makes th...

  • The Princess and the Pea

  • Snow White

    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White

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    With skin as white as snow, lips as red as r...

  • Maggot Moon

    In Sally Gardner’s stunning novel, set in a ruthless regime, an unlikely teenager risks all to expose the truth about a heralded moon landing. What if the football hadn’t gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret...



  • The Boy Who Could Fly

  • The Boy with the Lightning Feet

  • The Boy with the Magic Numbers

  • Magical Children

    From the Costa Children's Book Award winner and multi-million bestselling author Sally Gardner, comes a MAGICAL CHILDREN adventure about a boy who turns invisible. When his parents are lost in space, Sam is left, heartbroken, in the care of the ho...

  • The Smallest Girl Ever

  • The Strongest Girl in the World

  • Tinder

    Otto Hundebiss is tired of war, but when he defies Death he walks a dangerous path. A half beast half man gives him shoes and dice which will lead him deep into a web of dark magic and mystery. He meets the beautiful Safire - pure of heart and spi...

  • Operation Bunny

    Wings & Co.: The Fairy Detective Agency - 1

    When Emily Vole inherits an abandoned shop, she discovers a magical world she never knew existed. And a fairy-hating witch, a mischievous set of golden keys, and a train full of brightly colored bunnies are just a few of the surprises that come with ...

  • Three Pickled Herrings

    Wings & Co.: The Fairy Detective Agency - 2

    At the Wings & Co. Fairy Detective Agency, Emily Vole and her friends are beginning to worry. It's been five months since their official opening, and they haven't had a single case! Then local landowner Sir Walter Cross dies in sudden and mysterious ...

  • The Matchbox Mysteries

    It's Hallowe'en and Podgy Bottom is in trouble. All over town cars are being shrunk to the size of a matchbox in the blink of an eye; a giant purple bunny rabbit is running riot and a strange-looking broomstick is causing chaos and calamity... Sounds...



  • The Door That Led to Where

    In this fast-paced young adult mystery, Printz Honor winner Sally Gardner brings London to life as she explores crime, poverty, and ignorance over the span of almost two centuries, as a young man is given the opportunity to go back in time in order t...

  • The Little Nut Tree

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  • The Vanishing of Billy Buckle

    Wings & Co.: The Fairy Detective Agency - 3

    The famous fairy detective agency, Wings & Co., has a big problem. Well, quite a few of them actually. There's the missing giant, Billy Buckle, who has vanished without a trace, and left his giant daughter with the detectives. There's a surprise v...

  • The Fairy Detective Agency

  • The Rollercoaster Case

  • My Side of the Diamond

    An extraordinary tale about the search for love from the acclaimed Costa and Carnegie Award winning novelist Sally Gardner.Jazmin has been shunned ever since her best friend Becky disappeared. But Becky didn't just disappear - she jumped off a tall b...

  • Mr. Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon

    Award-winning author Sally Gardner delivers a whimsical tale about the daughter of a mermaid and an ice cream maker, a mysterious talking tiger, and a challenge as big as the moon.From a magical world of well-dressed animals, talking toads, and bossy...

  • Invisible in a Bright Light

    An imaginative novel [with] a suspenseful challenge and a vivid backstage world of intrigue and romance ... Original and rich' Sunday Times Book of the Week.

    From I, Coriander to Invisible in a Bright Light, Sally Gardner's ...

  • The Wind in the Wall

  • Mr. Tiger, Betsy and the Golden Seahorse

    Following the success of their first two adventures Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Blue Moon and Mr Tiger, Betsy and the Sea Dragon, the intrepid pair join Betsy's mum, Myrtle the mermaid, beneath the waves, from bestselling author Sally Gardner and illu...



  • The Tindims of Rubbish Island

  • The Snow Song

  • The Tindims and the Turtle Tangle

  • Mr. Tiger, Betsy and the Sea Dragon

    Award-winning author Sally Gardner delivers another whimsical tale about the daughter of a mermaid and an ice cream maker, a mysterious talking tiger, and a search for a sea dragon's magical underwater orchard in this second book in the Mr. Tiger ser...

  • The Tindims and the Ten Green Bottles

  • The Tindims and the Floating Moon

  • The Weather Woman

    LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN 2023

    Neva is born into a world of trickery and illusion, where fortunes are won and lost on the turn of a card. But she is also born with an extraordinary gift: she can predict the weather. In Regency Engl...

  • The Tindims and the Spooky Secret

    Halloween has nearly arrived, but a young witch is in a pickle. She has cast a spell and shrunk herself by mistake! When a gust of wind blows her out to sea, her best friend, a little ghost, goes with her.
    They find themselves landing on Rubbish...

  • The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Spooky Secret

  • The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Deep Sea Treasure

    Turning our everyday rubbish into treasure, the tiny Tindims dive deep for an underwater adventure.The Tindims all have diaries, but nothing exciting to write in them. Until the day that Pinch digs a very deep hole and finds something interesting. Ad...



  • Sleeping Beauty

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    Deep in a forest of thorns lies a beautiful ...

Award-Winning Books by Sally Gardner

Maggot Moon
2012 Costa Book Award -- Children's
2013 Carnegie Medal -- Children's


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sally Gardner has published 50 books.

Sally Gardner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Deep Sea Treasure, was published in April 2024.

The first book by Sally Gardner, The Fairy Tale Catalog, was published in July 2001.

Yes. Sally Gardner has 2 series.
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