Digital Dreamtime Books

Fantasy and Fairy Tales

Once upon a Crime, there was no ‘happily ever after’ in Nursery Land.

Meet the Hairy Fairies

In the picture above, from left to right: Romeo, Cruz, Richard, Buzz, Zen, Murphy and Pixel.

Seven unemployed dwarves, one wobbly four-storey tree house and the only food in the larder was ‘B’ grade porridge bought from a suspect travelling oatmeal vendor and … oh yeah: the rent was due.

They were starting to wonder if opening a new business: ‘The 7 Dwarves Detective Agency’ was a credible idea.

Until there was a knock at the door.

The worst thing they ever did … was open it.

No story your Grandmother ever read to you as a child was quite like this.

Cover of Follow the Yellow Brick Clues, Book One: inside an ornate tooled-leather border, a band of detectives crouch on a yellow brick road studying a map and notebook beside a fallen house with striped stockings and ruby slippers poking out. A scarecrow, a tin man and a lion look on, a tornado swirls behind, and a winged monkey perches on the title banner.

The Hairy Fairies · Book One

Follow the Yellow Brick Clues

A farmhouse drops out of the sky and lands on a witch in ruby red shoes. Accident, or murder? There’s only one way to find out: follow the yellow brick road, all the way to Oz, with a slight diversion through Alice’s Wonderland and stopping in for afternoon tea with a crazy Mad Hatter.

Coming soon

Cover of Nevermore, Book Two: a giant purple-black raven with a glowing eye looms over a moonlit village of crooked towers, while the band of detectives crouch on the cobblestones studying a map and notebook.

The Hairy Fairies · Book Two

Nevermore

Ravens, riddles and creatures of the night. Someone has been reading Edgar Allan Poe, and the dwarves are about to learn that some stories bite back.

Coming soon

Cover of By Hook or by Crook, Book Three: on the deck of a pirate ship, a detective in a velvet jacket crosses swords with a red-coated pirate captain with a hook for a hand, while a green-skinned goblin conjures fire and the rest of the band gather below. A golden crocodile crowns the title banner.

The Hairy Fairies · Book Three

By Hook or by Crook

Captain Hook can’t get a date, and Rumpelstiltskin is flat broke. Their answer? Kidnap Romeo for his charm and Murphy for his accountancy skills.

The Dwarves are furious and determined to get them back ‘by hook or by crook’.

Coming soon