Denis Zilber – illustratör

Count down to Halloween with 13 sealed short stories!Bump in the Night features 13 chilling tales to tingle kids' spines without keeping them up all night. Perfect for reading in the lead-up to Halloween, each story features full-color artwork and is sealed with a sticker for kids to peel open and reveal the frights and delights within. Whether readers open one story per day, or tear into them all at once, this collection will set the stage for a very special spooky season.

In Book 6 of The Treasure Chest, Felix and Maisie take a trip to New York City to visit their father and meet his new girlfriend. While there, Maisie reveals to Felix that she has a jeweled crown she took from The Treasure Chest. The twins travel to Hawaii in the late 1800s, where they spend time with the royal family and continue to master the magic of time-travel. There, they meet a young girl named Lydia who will one day grow up to be Queen Liliuokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.

In Book 7 of The Treasure Chest, Maisie and Felix meet a young Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone) in Edinborough, Scotland, just as he leaves for a year with his grandfather, an elocutionist, in London. When the twins get separated from Alexander, they join the thousands of orphans in the streets of Victorian London. Maisie becomes an orange seller and Felix a chimney sweep as they search the foggy streets for Alexander...and each other. Back at home, they cope with the upcoming wedding of Great Uncle Thorne, who makes them leave Elm Medona and return to the upstairs servants quarters.Includes great non-fiction content with biographies of Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Dickens and Ann Hood''s Favorite Facts from her research!

Ann Hood’s “delightful” (NYT) historical series continues with one of America’s great female heroes! Great-Uncle Thorne sends Maisie, Felix, and the Ziff twins on a dangerous trip back in time through The Treasure Chest and into the Congo to find Amy Pickworth, Thorne’s missing aunt. When Maisie and Felix get separated from the twins, they use the magic of The Treasure Chest and find themselves in early twentieth-century Kansas with a young girl named Amelia Earhart.Every Treasure Chest book features a biography of the featured historical figure along with Ann’s Favorite Facts from her research!

Travel back in time to Renaissance Italy with the Robbins twins! In book nine of The Treasure Chest, Maisie and Felix continue to learn the magic of Elm Medona and the Pickworth family history. In the latest adventure, the twins travel to fifteenth- century Italy and meet a young Leonardo da Vinci.Every Treasure Chest book features a biography of the featured historical figure along with Ann’s Favorite Facts from her research!

Ann Hood’s historical fantasy series comes to a thrilling end with a trip to early 20th century Russia!In the final book of the Treasure Chest, Maisie and Felix find themselves in Russia with the Romanov family. This epic series is full of time travel and mystery that piques readers’ interests, delights teachers and librarians, and celebrates some of the great historical figures of the past.

Every Treasure Chest book features a biography of the featured historical figure along with Ann’s Favorite Facts from her research!

Return to The Treasure Chest with Felix and Maisie . . . When Felix Robbins gets a crush on Lily Goldstein, a classmate who is adopted from China, he decides to try to take her back in time so that she can see the country where she was born. Maisie discovers his plot, and foils it. But the twins end up in a small village on the Yangtze River, where they meet a girl named Pearl Buck in the days just before the Boxer Rebellion. With bandits chasing them, will they ever find safety . . . and return home?