Outstanding Children's Books from Children's Story Publishers

Synopsis   Murphy is a Leprechaun who chooses to live peacefully on his own away from the other Leprechauns. He lives in a big oak tree at the bottom of an overgrown garden, where no one had previously bothered him. That is, until a family named Chandler, who have three young children, move into the house.   Murphy makes the Barbie swing his own. Once the children discover Murphy it doesn't take them long to steal their way into his heart. Murphy is only nine inches tall, so has great fun using the children's toys for his own use.   Every full moon Murphy has three wishes which he very rarely uses, until he makes the sad mistake of telling the children about them. Every third full moon is called a "Hoonraki Moon" when all the Leprechauns gather in a secret place in Rakidom to hear three clues from the Riddle Tree, which, if solved, will lead the Leprechauns to the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.   The story tells how the children coerce Murphy into taking them with him to Rakidom. Besides the special feather in his hat Murphy has several different coloured magical powders, one to shrink the children to his size, another to enlarge them again and others which he uses throughout the stories.   Book one tells how they solve the three riddles and the adventures they have on the way. The children meet Murphy's friend, Moragan the witch, who features throughout the stories.   Murphy also has three arch enemies who are always trying to thwart his attempts to reach the end of the rainbow first. fortunately for Murphy, they tend to be a bit dim, so never succeed.   In book one, Murphy fails to reach the rainbow, yet again, book one ends with the youngest child slipping an egg under his pillow which he had brought back from Rakidom. Murphy had warned the children about not taking or bringing anything back from that magical place, but being young and inquisitive the child ignored his warning.

Steven sees Murphy's garden for the first time	Steven finds soldiers in the attic	Special moon tinged with green	Murphy steals a soldiers clothes
Inside Murphy's inter-dimensional treehouse	Riddle Tree gives forth his three riddles to solve	Turtle turned into stepping stones by the Dark Wizard	Inside Moragan the witches cave
Dumas shakes in his web	Leads to burnt out valley of Gruinfire	Ramagor defeats Murphy's enemies	Ramagor shrunken by Moragan's magic potion
Murphy meets the Pure -of-Heart Gruins	Calador in the Whispering Forest	Childrens story illustrator Maciej Zajac at work adding the final touches to the front cover for book one