Jessica and the Golden Swan Feather

by David Osborn

📚 book 5 in The Jessica Books series

Using a medieval wishing charm to escape from a big city museum where she is mistakenly locked in for the night, Jessica, along with Annie-Mae, a homeless Rag Doll, ends up not at home but in OR, where the country’s evil Great Leader holds the charm hostage until brought a feather from a deified Golden Swan in Hoppitland, country of the Stick people. With a brief welcoming respite among friendly rats in their the canyon country of Rodentia, then a perilous trip across a great man-eating Vine Forest, Jessica brings a golden feather back to OR where, after Annie-Mae chooses to return to Rodentia, she uses the medieval charm, first in a heads-on defiant showdown with the all-powerful Great Leader of OR, then to wish herself safely back home.

Selected praise:

“Watch out Dorothy, here comes Jessica …”

—New South Wales Register

“Adventure enough to keep kids spellbound …”

—Yorkshire Post

Jessica and the Flying Unicorns

by David Osborn

📚 book 4 in The Jessica Books series

Love for a poor old plow horse sees Jessica on an exciting new adventure when pitted against malicious wheels-for-legs Wheelies, Mesozoic-era Pterodactyls, deadly stone Gargoyles, and enthroned as a Goddess Queen by fun-loving Pixies. Join her until, with Beak, a wise know-everything hummingbird, Junk Dog, an itinerant peddler, and Dinky, an exuberant little Unicorn, she wins ultimate victory over Esmeralda, the ageless evil-scientist leader of a band of mercilessly militant girls the same age as Jessica herself.

Selected praise:

“Watch out Dorothy, here comes Jessica …”

—New South Wales Register

“Adventure enough to keep kids spellbound …”

—Yorkshire Post

Jessica and the Witch’s Broom

by David Osborn

📚 book 3 in The Jessica Books series

On yet another exciting adventure in Fairyland, now to rescue little Prince Benjamin, heir to the throne of the land of No but held hostage by the evil sorceress Lady Citronella, Jessica teams up with old friends: Greta, the fairy princess often disguised as a witch, and Sir Percival, the doughty monocled Englishman who fantasizes hunting hares with his trusty gun. Flying them about is Greta’s irrepressible witch’s broom, Sweepy, who saves the day while all the time thinking he’s the old fashioned Wabash Cannonball train made famous in country-western music.

Selected praise:

“Watch out Dorothy, here comes Jessica …”

—New South Wales Register

“Adventure enough to keep kids spellbound …”

—Yorkshire Post

“Osborn manages to make you love a crocodile …”

—Warwickshire Dispatch

Jessica and Her Adventures in Fairyland

by David Osborn

📚 book 2 in The Jessica Books series

Fiery dragons, witches, goblins, and wizards don’t stop Jessica, a little girl who lives with her mother in the poorest part of a great city, from endless adventuring in the magic of Fairyland and other faraway places.

Join her and enchanting fairyland friends in five thrilling stories. In one she overcomes pirates and ogres to defeat an evil sorceress, and in another defies monster spirits and faces down a wicked witch to free a fairy princess from savage goblins.

Be with her in a lovely fairyland refuge saving long-forgotten toys from a terrible fate, and yet again when in a battle of wits, she defeats an all-powerful wizard to restore a lost dragon child to its mother. Don’t miss a final adventure in which, ever undaunted, she braves killer trees, bedouin robbers, and a fearful yeti tyrant to rescue old fairyland friends from imminent peril in the circus of a cruel and merciless clown.

Selected praise:

“Watch out Dorothy, here comes Jessica …”

—New South Wales Register

“adventure enough to keep kids spellbound …”

—Yorkshire Post

“Osborn manages to make you love a crocodile …”

—Warwickshire Dispatch