A middle-grade fantasy adventure · Ages 7–12
The Giddlywunkles and the Beast Beyond the Bog
Callie’s world flips on its head on the May Day she meets a Storyteller living in a magical hawthorn bush at the bottom of her garden. When the Storyteller’s bag of stories is stolen, Callie must lead the Giddlywunkles on an adventure that ends in an epic battle against the Beast Beyond the Bog.
Middle grade
For readers aged 7 to 12, and the grown-ups who read with them.
Fantasy portal
The Magic Tree House meets Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Magical realism
An everyday garden, a hocus pocus hole in the hedge and a dash of Celtic folklore.
The story
A hocus pocus hole in a magical hawthorn hedge
The Giddlywunkles
It is May Day when sister and brother, Callie and Buckle Drudge, find a girl about their age living in a hole in the hedge at the bottom of their garden.
It is not an ordinary hole in any hedge, though, but a hocus pocus hole in a magical hawthorn hedge and a gateway between their world and The Other World.
She is no ordinary girl either, but Shauna Kee, the Storyteller, who collects centuries of stories in her spangly bag and tells them they are Giddlywunkles just like her.
The Beast Beyond the Bog
This may be the greatest story of all as the Giddlywunkles go hunting for the Beast Beyond the Bog, but Shauna’s spangly bag is stolen from her.
To get it back, the Giddlywunkles have a treacherous journey ahead of them and a final epic battle.
Along the way, they meet weirdly wonderful new friends and discover that the Beast Beyond the Bog is nastier than the stories foretold.
Explore
Step into The Other World
Meet the characters, creatures and places of the Giddlywunkles.
Introducing The Giddlywunkles Podcast 1
Listen to the Giddlywunkles Podcast Welcome to the first in the series of stories on the Giddlywunkles Podcast. “Once upon a time, […]
But What Is A Giddlywunkle?
“Does your mummy know you’re living here,” asked Callie with a flush of red in her cheeks. “Of course, she does, Callie. […]
Meet the Giddlywunkles
Once upon a time, around half past cockadoodle-doo, a girl woke up in a hole in a hedge. Not just any hole […]
The Spangly Bag
The Giddlywunkles sped away as Shauna shouted after them “Wait! Wait for me until I stuff all of these words into my spangly […]
The Hocus Pocus hole in the Hedge
The Giddlywunkles’ new house may have been cramped and rickety, and in the middle of nowhere special but what they did not know then […]
The Drab Land of the Narkynoo
Instead of green grass and blue skies, the heavens were as grey as the fields. Grey clouds hung over grey trees and […]
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