Phoebe Gilman

All five best-selling Jillian Jiggs books, now in one oversized treasury, perfect for gift-giving!

"Jillian, Jillian, Jillian Jiggs, it looks like your room has been lived in by pigs!" Every Canadian kid knows Jillian Jiggs, as well as its sequels: The Wonderful Pigs of Jillian Jiggs, Jillian Jiggs to the Rescue, Jillian Jiggs and the Secret Surpris …

No one can keep up with Jillian Jiggs. With boundless energy and imagination, Jillian rushes from game to game. One minute she's a robot, the next minute she's a tree. How can she take time to clean up her room when there are so many wonderful things to make and do? No one knows what Jillian will think of next- especially not her mother!

Jillian wakes up to a wonderful snowy day. Eagerly she puts on her sweater and snow pants, but uhoh . . . her hat's missing! Jillian's creativity saves the day. Soon she is off to play, wearing an amazing Martian hat. Jillian and her friends have a great time, creating an elaborate Martian landscape in the snow, building snow creatures and riding c …

Jillian doesn't have any money to buy her little sister Rebecca a birthday present. Her best friends Peter and Rachel remind Jillian that the best presents are theones that you make. Suddenly, Jillian has an idea. They'll put on a show! The trio create a story and make a set and costumes. As they rehearse, the guests arrive and want to be part of t …

Jillian is on a mission... to catch a monster! Jillian Jiggs wakes up one night to find her little sister Rebecca crying because she is afraid of monsters.With their usual creativity, Jillian and her friends use their problem-solving skills to help Rebecca deal with her fears: they decide to make a monster machine and set off on a monster hunt!

Il y a bien longtemps, au fin fond de l'égypte, un hippopotame bleu épris d'une charmante princesse fait appel à un sorcier pour que ce dernier le transforme en quelque chose que la princesse pourrait aimer.

A Phoebe Gilman classic, reissued in a larger format for the first time! Little Blue Ben and his brother Blue Cat are sick and tired of eating the blue eggs their mother boils, bakes, toasts and fries for them. So they decide to play hide and seek - whoever loses has to eat all the other's blue eggs. Fans young and old will love searching for Blue …

When pirates discover that a treasure chest is actually a cradle holding a baby, they decide to raise the child as their own. Pearl is a great pirate but she has the bad habit of giving treasure away. When Prince Basil shows up one day, he recognizes Pirate Pearl as Princess Pearl, the long lost heir to the throne.

Throw it out! Cries Joseph's mother. So Joseph runs to his grandfather with his favourite blanket. Grandpa can fix anything. From the tattered blanket, Grandpa makes a handsome jacket. With a few passes of his needle, a vest becomes a Sabbath tie. And snip! Snip! A ragged handkerchief turns into a brand-new button. But when the button is lost, what …

Princess Leora is left behind at the castle with the nasty Archduke. The king has told her to signal with balloons if something goes wrong - but then the Archduke outlaws balloons. What will happen?

No one can keep up with Jillian Jiggs. With boundless energy and imagination, Jillian rushes from game to game. One minute she's a robot, the next minute she's a tree. How can she take time to clean up her room when there are so many wonderful things to make and do?No one knows what Jillian will think of next- especially not her mother!

No one can keep up with Jillian Jiggs. With boundless energy and imagination, Jillian rushes from game to game. One minute she's a robot, the next minute she's a tree. How can she take time to clean up her room when there are so many wonderful things to make and do?

Wonderful, marvelous Jillian Jiggs is back again! Her sister Rebecca's scared of a monster - but with Jillian on the case, that means old monster had better watch out!

Jillian is on a mission... to catch a monster! Jillian Jiggs wakes up one night to find her little sister Rebecca crying because she is afraid of monsters.With their usual creativity, Jillian and her friends use their problem-solving skills to help Rebecca deal with her fears: they decide to make a monster machine and set off on a monster hunt!

Throw it out! Cries Joseph's mother. So Joseph runs to his grandfather with his favourite blanket. Grandpa can fix anything. From the tattered blanket, Grandpa makes a handsome jacket. With a few passes of his needle, a vest becomes a Sabbath tie. And snip! Snip! A ragged handkerchief turns into a brand-new button. But when the button is lost, what …

Balloons! They are the favourite playthings of Princess Leora. When her father, the king, goes to a neighbouring kingdom to participate in a tournament, he tells Leora to signal him with balloons if anything goes wrong. But the archduke, planning to take over the kingdom, promptly locks the princess in her room and orders all the balloons in the ki …

She's back - that wonderful, marvelous Jillian Jiggs. And this time her room really is full of pigs

After cleaning up her room, Jillian Jiggs sees a jar full of buttons that gives her the idea to make stuffed pigs with buttons as noses. Pretty soon her room is full of pigs - will Jillian ever be able to part with them?

Balloons! They are the favourite playthings of Princess Leora. When her father, the king, goes to a neighbouring kingdom to participate in a tournament, he tells Leora to signal him with balloons if anything goes wrong. But the archduke, planning to take over the kingdom, promptly locks the princess in her room and orders all the balloons in the ki …

A beautiful story about the transformative power of friendship and the love between a mother and child.

A young hippo falls madly in love with an Egyptian princess. Desperate to be with her, the hippo asks a magician to change him into "something she could love." The magician reveals that he's unable turn a hippo into a human, but can turn him into …

Jillian Jiggs has finally cleaned up her room! And after discovering that a jar of buttons she found during the cleanup look just like pigs' noses, Jillian Jiggs embarks on an extravagant pig-making enterprise. She makes pirate pigs, princess pigs, striped pigs and plaid pigs, and plans to sell them for ten cents each. But can Jillian part with her …

Lorsque Joseph était bébé, son grandpapa lui avait fabriqué une merveilleuse couverture pour le garder bien au chaud et chasser ses mauvais rêves. Au fil des jours, la couverture s'est usée, mais le grand-papa a toujours su trouver un nouvel usage aux bouts d'étoffe qui avaient résisté au temps. C'est ainsi que la couverture d'origine est …