Children's Stories
From Amsterdam to Zurich
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January Journeys
February Frights
March Mayhem
April Adventures
In From Amsterdam to Zurich, ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is finding it hard to differentiate between all of the places that her teacher wants her to learn about. Her father, Jonathan, decides to try to help her by making up bedtime stories for each of the locations, and so begins a journey across Europe in twenty-six stages, beginning with an angel in Amsterdam and ending with a zombie in Zurich, as Sadie encounters royal personages and legendary creatures along the way. At the beginning of the Around the World in 366 Tales series of books, Sadie is in bed on New Year’s Eve when she notices an unopened Christmas present amongst the pile beneath her window. She opens it but is disappointed to find it contains a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then falls asleep at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Wexford in the Republic of Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. Her January Journeys take her to south-western Europe, North Africa and the extreme north of the North American landmasses, while February Frights take Sadie to the USA as she works her way state-through-state across the country. In March Mayhem, she completes her travels across the states of the USA before moving on to Central America, while her April Adventures see Sadie visiting the islands off the American coast and commencing her travels into South America.
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May Madness
June Jaunts
July Jeopardy
August Anxiety
September Surprises
In May Madness, Sadie completes her exploration of the American continent before travelling eastwards to the cold of the Antarctic, then northwards to the continent of Africa, while her June Jaunts see her continuing her journeys across the continent of Africa. July Jeopardy sees Sadie completing her travels across Africa before crossing the Indian Ocean and entering Australia, while August Anxiety sees her leaving Oceania as her journeys take her to the islands of the Far East. In September Surprises, Sadie journeys across China and the Far East before entering the Indian subcontinent and travelling onwards to the Middle East.
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October Ordeals
November Nightmares
December Danger
Around the Worlds - Planetary Perils
Sadie's Universal Adventures
Sadie's October Ordeals sees her completing her travels across the Middle East before journeying into Eastern Europe, while her November Nightmares see her travelling across Europe from East to West. Finally, in December Danger, she completes her travels across Europe and returns to the United Kingdom. But will she be allowed to go home? Almost eight months after her adventures around the world had concluded, twelve-year-old Sadie has been celebrating her birthday at home when ‘The Book’ pays her another unwelcome visit. This time, it tells her that she will be taken to the various planets of the Solar System, one a year at the end of this and her next seven birthdays and Around the Worlds - Planetary Perils commences. When she awakes, she finds herself on the surface of the planet Mercury, where she is given a task to complete before she will be allowed to go home. Will she be able to fulfil her requirements, year-by-year, until she can finally go back for good? Sadie's Universal Adventures is an omnibus collection of all four hundred stories covered in the preceding fourteen books.