List of Puddle Lane books

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The Puddle Lane children's books were published by Ladybird Books during the second half of the 1980s. The stories were followed by a TV programme of the same name. Sheila K McCullagh, who wrote the stories for the TV programme, also wrote the books.

The books are directed to children who are between the ages of 3.5 and 6.5. Five illustrators worked on the books. The first batch of 12 books was released on 12 September 1985. After the books went out of print, the publisher Mercury Junior and Sheila McCullagh came to an agreement in 2006 to have the publisher print more copies of the books. The publisher targeted parents who in their youth were viewers of the television programme Puddle Lane to purchase the books.

The books take place in Puddle Lane, a fictional place in Candletown. A magician lives in Puddle Lane as do cats who reside in his garden. There is the Griffle, an affable monster capable of partially disappearing. When he does this, viewers can see just his tail or his eyes and ears. The stories feature four kids: Sarah, Davy, Hari, and Gita. The Loughborough Echos Bridget Dakin called the book series "a colourful and imaginative newcomer to the shelves designed to make learning fun". The newspaper said Puddle Lane stories have a mystical setting guaranteed to capture infants' imagination and interest." In a positive review, Betty Root of the University of Reading's Reading and Language Information Centre wrote, "Teachers, parents and children will delight in these stories which create, so successfully, an imaginary world yet contain characters both animals and human to whom the young readers can relate. With the provision of context support in the early stages—adults read the long story and children the shorter version—the books will tolerate reading over and over again. Thus building the confidence of children first learning to read. In everyway Puddle Lane has changed the image of Ladybird readers."