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  • Bibliography:
    26 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1995
  • Latest Book:
    February 2014
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Full Series List in Order

Abby

Calamity and Chaos (Oct-2006)
Confusion and Catastrophe (Oct-2006)
Madness and Mayhem (Oct-2006)

Airy Fairy

1 - Magic Mischief! (Apr-2005)
Magic Mess! (Apr-2005)
Magic Mix-Up! (Apr-2005)
Magic Muddle! (Apr-2005)
Magic Mistakes! (Feb-2006)

Weird Street

1 - The Treasure of Mr Tipp (Jun-2012)
2 - The Riddle of Dr Sphinx (Jun-2012)
3 - The Mystery of Miss King (Jun-2012)
4 - The Curse of Captain Cross-eyed (Jun-2012)

Book List in Order: 26 titles



  • Puffling is an adventurous baby puffin, who leaves his burrow to go off and explore the exciting world outside. He has a wonderful time, until he tries to find his own burrow again, and finds instead rabbits and a fox and everyone's burrow, except hi...



  • Kate's never been a big sister before. And she's not sure she wants to start now. As Tom grows up, everybody thinks he is sweet - except Kate. Perhaps the family holiday is the time to put him in his place?...



  • What the Queen would like for her birthday is a new garden hat. The King telephones the royal hatters and they conjure up three fantastic creations. But the queen isn't at all pleased. But when she spies a very plain straw hat on the donkey's head, s...



  • Bully boy Banger McGrath's father is the owner of SOGGY, and Banger is the only student without a special talent. If Banger doesn't learn a special gift of his own, his dad might close the school down. Can Hover Boy and his best friends, Gnatalie (wh...



  • Oscar Smith is Hover Boy! He can hover three feet off the ground - even higher if he really puts his mind to it. Hovering is fun, but being different sometimes makes Oscar feel lonely. Until the day he's sent to the School Of Greatly Gifted Youth, wh...



  • Hover Boy's secret is out, but there's a new problem - Madame Estella's talking cat, Mystic Mog, is missing. Mog's last words were 'DANGER DANGER BUT NOT FROM A STRANGER' - could they have been a terrible warning? Then a ransom note appears on their ...



  • Kat McCrumble lives in a little village in the Highlands of Scotland, helping her father run the Crumbling Arms inn. But trouble is brewing -- the luxury hotel nearby is trying to force Kat and her dad out of business, and to make matters worse, bad...



  • Kat helps her dad run the Crumbling Arms Inn in the Scottish Highlands, but her real passion is animals. In their wildlife sanctuary at the back of the inn, she and her dad look after everything, from donkeys to tarantulas. Now they've given a home t...



  • Everybody knows that fairies are charming little creatures, dainty, pretty, and tidy. Airy Fairy is different. Young readers who make her acquaintance soon realize that she does have charm--but dainty? Tidy? Not Airy Fairy! Kids will laugh as they re...






  • Everybody knows that fairies are charming little creatures, dainty, pretty, and tidy. Airy Fairy is different. Young readers who make her acquaintance soon realize that she does have charm--but dainty? Tidy? Not Airy Fairy! Kids will laugh as they re...



  • Everybody knows that fairies are charming little creatures, dainty, pretty, and tidy. Airy Fairy is different. Young readers who make her acquaintance soon realize that she does have charm�but dainty? Tidy? Not Airy Fairy! Kids will laugh as the...



  • Everybody knows that fairies are charming little creatures, dainty, pretty, and tidy. Airy Fairy is different. Young readers who make her acquaintance soon realize that she does have charm�but dainty? Tidy? Not Airy Fairy! Kids will laugh as the...



  • A hilarious story about the escapades of Kat and her many animal friends. Kat's wild about animals. She and her dad run the Crumbling Arms Inn and animal sanctuary, deep in the Scottish Highlands. It's chaotic, but fun. Then one day a strange McCrumb...



  • It’s the start of the autumn school semester and the fairies are learning a new subject -- cooking! Who can make the best pudding? Airy Fairy is determined to do well in cooking class, but with Scary Fairy around to stir up trouble, things are boun...



  • Abby can't wait for the arrival of her wild Grandma Aphrodite from Oz -- and when they meet, she's not disappointed! In her sheepskin coat, crocodile boots, and 60s clothes, Aphrodite walks into Abby and her mum's life and turns it upside down. Soon...



  • Handsome Harris, Grandma Aphrodite's husband, is now living with Abby and her family, and the house is beginning to seem very small -- especially when he starts up an odd-job business in their backyard. Then a man with a big black beard and a baseba...



  • Nothing’s been the same since Grandma Aphrodite came to stay from Australia. For starters, Abby’s mum has finally found a boyfriend, and is acting like a teenager around him. And now Grandma's husband, Handsome Harris, has disappeared. Abby and h...



  • Officer Penny Penrose gets left behind when the police rush to look into a robbery at Doogood’s Furniture Store. But that won’t stop her dogs, Scratch and Sniff, from getting on the case. Apart from jelly donuts, there is nothing they like more t...



  • Presents six stories about Airy Fairy, a student at Fairy Gropplethorpe's Academy for Good Fairies who always gets everything wrong and keeps getting into trouble as she tries to best her enemy, Scary Fairy, and succeed at magic....






  • The paper boys on Weir Street don't normally stick around for long and he soon understands why ... It's definitely weirder than your average street. Who is the strange figure standing in the window of number 13? Is that a parrot on his should...



  • The paper boys
    on Weir Street don't normally stick around for long ... It's definitely
    weirder than your average street. After venturing past all the strange
    houses, number 57 looks suspiciously normal. The garden is neat and t...



  • Jonny Smith's paper round takes him along Weir Street. The paper boys
    don't normally stick around for long and he soon understands
    why ...



    It's definitely weirder than your average street. And this time



  • The paper boys
    on Weir Street don't normally stick around for long ... It's definitely
    weirder than your average street. Jonny has already encountered the
    pirate at number 13 but there are some even stranger people in Weird



  • A third title about the little dragon with the big ideas! Although he’s the littlest, he has the biggest and funniest ideas for getting his own way. Two more stories about the Littlest Dragon who is the tenth child in the Dragon family. With nin...



  • The youngest of ten dragon brothers, the Littlest Dragon always has the best and brightest ideas for getting his own way. First book about this successful character. A Collins Roaring Good Read for new readers. The Littlest Dragon is known as Numb...



  • The second book about the Littlest Dragon who has the biggest and best ideas. Familiar family stories for beginner readers. Two more stories about the Littlest Dragon who is the tenth child in the Dragon family. With nine older brothers, No 10 has...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Ryan has published 26 books.

Margaret Ryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Littlest Dragon Goes for Goal, was published in February 2014.

The first book by Margaret Ryan, Ready Steady Read Puffling In A Pickle, was published in October 1995.

Yes. Margaret Ryan has 3 series.