Short Fiction For Kids

This is a story about the modest wishes of a chicken called Cory. Cory is lonely, and his only wish is that his mother gives birth to a brother. Cory tries in every way to achieve his desire. He goes into deep woods at the fairy’s house, in Laponia, to see Santa Claus and eventually, he turns to God.

Welcome to the busy, industrial port city of Steamkettle Bay, the second-largest city in all of Industralia. It's filled with manufacturing factories, airship docks, inventors, artists, and lots and lots of streetwise, clever kids. It's a warm Saturday in the summer of 1872, and somewhere in Steamkettle Bay, bad things are happening. Can Paisley Pockets and Christopher Cogan stop a crime in progress? They may be just a couple of kids, but where there's a will, and some smarts, there just might be a way.