Kid’s Storytime
Kid’s Storytime · Book 1

The House With
Too Many Doors

Mary wants an adventure. Bob would prefer toast. Neither of them expected to find a giant, cuddly alien in the library.

Read the storyMeet Bob, Mary and Floof
Welcome to a most unusual house

Some doors are better left uncounted

Bob and Mary live with Mum and Dad in an enormous, slightly crooked old house. It has three floors, two staircases and rather more doors than anyone can agree on.

One night, Dad tells them the house looks after everyone who lives there. A strange noise sends Mary into the corridor, with a reluctant Bob close behind.

Mary has a plan: go from room to room and count every door they pass. That is the start of the problems.

Mary leads worried Bob along a corridor towards a purple star-covered door
Book 1 · An illustrated adventure in eight chapters

The House With Too Many Doors

Floof is big, cuddly and a different colour whenever she feels something new. After falling through a black hole, she is stranded in a house that keeps rearranging itself. Can an adventurous girl, a cautious boy and a rather opinionated house help her get home?

01

The House That Looked After You

At bedtime, Dad says the old house looks after everyone who lives there. Then Bob and Mary hear a very strange noise.

02

Door Number Thirteen

Mary starts counting doors. Bob starts worrying. A sneezing broom and a purple door do nothing to reassure him.

03

The Thing in the Library

The library is in the wrong place. And something enormous, orange and very sneezy is curled up on its carpet.

04

Floof

Meet Floof, a colour-changing alien with comfortable travelling socks and an unfortunate sandwich-button problem.

05

The Door Problem

The door behind them disappears. A new one arrives. Counting the way home suddenly seems less sensible.

06

The Corridor That Wasn't There

A forest, a pantry and the same bathroom twice. The house bends, but will it reveal Floof’s way home?

07

The House Has Other Ideas

A staircase leads to a door with a question. Can the children convince the house to help their new friend?

08

Goodbye Floof

A warm furry hug, a silver handle and a doorway filled with stars. Surely that is the end of the adventure?

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An unlikely team of explorers

Meet the characters

Mary

Adventurous, quick-thinking and always first to reach for a mysterious door handle.

Bob

Sensible, loyal and convinced things will go wrong. He comes along to stop Mary doing anything ridiculous.

Floof

A giant cuddly alien from Bloopa. Her fur changes colour with her feelings, and her sneezes are impossible to miss.

The House

Old, protective and full of surprises. New doors appear whenever they please, and rooms rarely stay where they belong.

Step through the unexpected

Inside the house

A library on the wrong floor. A corridor that goes on far too long. A door that has something to say. In this house, the next room is anyone’s guess.

Floof tells the children about her spacecraft and the black hole
Floof has an unusual explanation for everything.
The three friends explore a corridor full of impossible doorways
The corridors do not follow the usual rules.
Bob and Mary hug rainbow-coloured Floof beside a starry portal
Sometimes the biggest adventure begins with a friend.
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Illustrated cover of The House With Too Many Doors featuring Bob Mary and Floof
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The House With Too Many Doors

All eight chapters, with a colourful illustration for each. Read in the interactive reader or download the illustrated storybook.

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