Ellen Potter

Everyday, nine-year-old Otis Dooda confronts a series of zany changes when his father's new job prompts the family's move to a New York City apartment, where Otis is cursed by a guy in a potted plant in their apartment building lobby and has to team up with a new friend and a gassy miniature horse to break the curse.

Les enfants Cherchemidi sont trois : Otto, le plus vieux et le plus étrange ; Lucia, qui espère toujours que quelque chose d'intéressant se passe ; et Max, qui pense toujours tout savoir. C'est l'un des trois qui raconte l'histoire, mais vous n'avez qu'à deviner lequel. La mère d'Otto, Lucia et Max a disparu il y a quelques années, les rumeurs les plus folles courent à ce sujet dans le village. Depuis cette disparition, Otto n'a plus prononcé...

Hugo is a young Sasquatch. Boone is a young boy. After an unlikely encounter, they've become an even unlikelier pair of best friends. After saving up his Monster Card wrappers, Hugo sends away for a special prize in the mail-a Monster Detector! Using the watch like device, Hugo quickly spots a monster right in his own cavern. Spooked, but still excited about his prize, Hugo heads to school and finds yet another surprise-his friend Boone! Boone announces...

After surviving the crazy events of his first weeks in New York City, nine-year-old Otis Dooda is starting out at a brand-new school. He would love to make a good impression, but life in Tidwell Towers is never that easy. With his disgusting seatmate, the possible impending alien invasion, and the introduction of his new nemesis, Sid Frackas "The Greatest LEGO Genius Who Ever Lived" (a title Otis thought was his!), things are getting downright dangerous! Otis...

Everyone knows that being Pie Girl is the best role to have for the annual community dinner on the Sea Star that docks at Peek-a-Boo Island. This year, Piper's mom is making pecan pies, which means Piper won't have to be mashed potato girl" as in past years. Then Piper gets a mysterious rash -- will she lose her role as Pie Girl or can a gift from the fairy tree help save the day?

In this fourth chapter-book adventure, Piper Green's class is taking a pretend” school trip to China— on a pretend” airplane. When Piper pretends she's flown before and gets chosen to be a flight attendant, she once again turns to the Fairy Tree to help her out.

Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.

Prompted by a neverending stream of letters pleading for advice on how to be a better writer, successful children's authors Anne Mazer and Ellen Potter put their heads together to create this useful guide. With dozens of books and decades of experience between them, the authors brought their distinct personal styles to the advice they had to offer. Now they have done the same for this audio version, with each author narrating her own sections. Along...