Mother Bear tries to persuade her young daughter Amy to stop dancing and go to bed with unexpected results.

Carly Simon follows the success of her first book for children, Amy the Dancing Bear, with an enchanting Christmas story. Writing for children has kept alive for her the magic years when her own children were younger, and she has dedicated this book to her son Ben. The Boy of the Bells is set in a small village in the north called Noel, the first stop on Santa's voyage at Christmas. Ben and his sister Miranda live with their grandfather, but for a year now Miranda has been unable to speak, and nobody knows why. Ben and Grandfather are in despair, and long to hear her voice again. On Christmas Eve, when Grandfather asks Ben to climb the squeaky stairs of the village bell tower to ring the bells to welcome in each hour of Christmas, Ben thinks of a plan to help his sister. At 11 o'clock, he rings the bells twelve times to summon Santa an hour early, hoping to speak to him. Will Santa come? Will he be able to help Miranda? Magical and inspiring, with a special message for children, Carly Simon's Christmas tale will delight young readers. Margot Datz perfectly captures the different moods of the tale with her vibrant illustrations. This colourful book will make an ideal gift at Christmas-time.

Good evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot-air balloons? Course you do. Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains, and horrifying old villains, and words like "wab ," "tungler," and "kelp?" COURSE you do Well, guess what, THE TRUTH IS A LEMON MERINGUE.

On the night of her parents' dancing party, Mabel listens to the music that floats up the stairs - one, two, three; one, two, three. The air is full of swirling and swooshing, as Mama, Papa and their guests dance the night away. And very soon, to everyone's surprise, Mabel is dancing too

Boris receives dancing lessons from his friend Max, a dancing bear with the Moscow Circus.

When a little bear becomes separated from its mother in New York, a sympathetic child explains the proper steps that must be taken to reunite them.