Kim Gamble

Great Big Enormous Book of Tashi introduces us to a mesmerising character, Tashi, who comes from a place very far away. He bravely escaped from a warlord and made a daring journey to this country on the back of a swan. Tashi is renowned for his courage, cleverness, and for telling the best stories ever! Tashi is always prepared for...

HONOUR BOOK: CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 2003 No one, living or dead, was ever more polite than Horrendo. In all his eleven years, he'd never said a rude word to anyone. But was his mother proud of her charming son? Not at all! For Horrendo lived in a cruel world where kind words were as rare as...

“Well, it was like this. Come and I'll tell you about the time I tricked the last dragon of all.” So says the daring hero, Tashi, in his first book of adventures. Tashi comes from a place very far away. He escaped from a warlord and flew to this country on a swan. He's as brave as he's clever, and...

'Baba Yaga reached over and pinched his arm. You look a nice juicy boy.'A house on chicken legs? A witch who eats children? Jack's dad can't believe Tashi's wild stories, about Baba Yaga.and the wicked Baron, who traps him as a prisoner for the fearsome River Pirate.Tashi has more daredevil adventures to tell. Read all about him in the other...

'The crowd gasped in amazement. Look at those shoes! Look at him fly!'Jack's Uncle Joe loves to tell stories, and so does Tashi - like the one about the magic shoes and Uncle Tiki Pu's sneaky plan.and what Tashi did when the fortune teller, Luk Ahed, said that his tenth birthday would be his last.There's no stopping Tashi. Read all...

'We arrived at the tower at the top of the castle. The door was locked. We can't go into that room, said Ho Hum. Not ever.'Tashi tells Jack about his scariest adventure ever, when the mysterious stranger Bluebeard moved into the old castle. Nobody knew what a monster he was. Then the wicked Baron's prize peacock goes missing and his...

'The demon's dagger teeth glinted. I'm going to tie you up and tip these spiders over you.'Spiders and snakes and rats? The slippery demons are going to make Tashi talk.and there's more trouble for Tashi when the fierce River Pirate returns without a warning.Tashi's life is one big adventure. Read all about him in the other Tashi books.

'The flying carpet bucked like a wild horse - trying to throw me off.'Jack is bursting to hear Tashi's fantastic stories about the sly genie and his three wishes.and what Tashi does when he comes face to face with the ferocious war lord again.Tashi is always ready for anything. Follow his bold adventures in the other Tashi books.

'Chintu took one of his giant steps over to our village.and roared, Bring Tashi out to me!'Jack ran all the way to school. Today Tashi was coming to tell him more stories.about Chintu, the giant, who is as big as a mountain, and the robber bandits, who kidnap him to be their son.Only someone as clever as Tashi could find...

'Tashi could hardly breathe as more and more ghosts crowded around him.'No one in the village is as brave as Tashi.only he could scare the ghost monsters out of the forest, and only someone as bold as Tashi would go all the way along the dark underground passage to the Mountain of White Tigers.Tashi always has a cunning plan, and...

Tashi comes from a place very far away. He escaped from a war lord and flew to this country on the back of a swan. He's too cunning for the dragon and the wicked baron, and far too clever for giants, ghosts, witches and demons. And Tashi tells the best stories ever! When he comes face to face with sneaky...

'The giant just lifted the roof off, scooped up a pig and gobbled it down.'Chintu the giant's Only Brother will eat everything in the village unless Tashi can stop him and things go terribly wrong when a stranger appears with a magic flute.In the face of trouble Tashi acts fast. Read more about him in the other exciting Tashi books.

The sixteenth book of Tashi's adventures, in which Tashi and his friends use clay and magic to make a golem who will stand up to the bully boy, Bang Bang. But will their big Golem obey them? And can they rescue Ah Chu's baby sister from the River Pirate before the pirates sail away?

'Don't go near the ghost house. Who knows what is prowling around in there!'There's a light in the window of the haunted house, and Tashi is going in. He's brave, but is he fast enough to beat two mysterious strangers in a race around the village? And what will happen if he loses?No one has adventures like Tashi. And no...

Uncle Tiki Pu has put Tashi's family at risk by boasting to the Warlord that he has captured the most dazzling creature in the world. Now the Warlord wants to see it, or else. And Princess Sarashina has sent a letter to Tashi because her sister must marry the cruel and sneaky Khan. Can Tashi make the Emperor see what...

'Everything around me went still...the warrior's eyes were following me'Spooky things happen when an ancient burial site is discovered in the village and Tashi is nearly buried alive! Then the precious Book of Spells disappears and the villagers won't be safe until Tashi finds it.Where there's mystery and action, there's Tashi!

'I raced up and down the street looking in doorways and behind stalls. But there was no Grandma.'Tashi always has big adventures, like the time he's lost in the city and has to escape from a mean man with a glass eye and a silver dagger then, on the way home, Tashi and Grandma are kidnapped by brigands called Fearless...

'The demons are crazy for buses!' said Can-Du. 'And when I wouldn't hand this one over, they kidnapped my son.'What will Tashi do when the demons sneak onto the new bus going to market? How will he find Little Can-Du? And when things are mysteriously disappearing from the village, it's up to Tashi to catch a thief red-handed.See how scared...

'Run, children,' said Wise-as-an-Owl. 'No, hide!'Much-to-learn has got it wrong again - he's magicked up a hideous monster that's bursting out of the garden workshop. And it's coming Tashi's way! Then everyone believes that Tashi killed Soh Meen's golden carp. The only way Tashi can clear his name is to find the real culprit. But how?Sometimes you have to sound...