Mary Louise Books

This story is about Mr Scruff, who likes to keep himself busy helping is family. He lives with his wife, daughter, Pixie, and son, Maxie, inside someone's shoe closet. Their home i inside a forgotten boot, at the very back of the closet. Mr Scruff finds himself in trouble, once more. This time, as he busies himself collecting food for his family, he finds himself being stalked by a giant cat. Will he escape the sharp claws of the clever cat, or will he be the cat's next dinner?

Pixie is a beautiful Scruffutoe, who lives with her family in a forgotten boot at the back of the shoe closet. Her adventure is about curiosity, wonder and discovery, as she sees a magical tooth fairy for the very first time. Pixie is in awe as she discovers what magical things tooth fairies can do, where they live and why they appear!

Maxie Scruff is a curious little Scruffutoe, who lives with his family in a forgotten boot at the back of the shoe closet. Whilst playing in the shoe closet, he is whisked away and transported to the beach. At first, the beach looks awesome, as he discovers wonders he has never seen before, but soon he encounters giant creatures, who only see Maxie as their next juicy meal!  Who are the creatures that challenge him, and will he ever get back to his Scruffutoe family?

This story is about Maxie Scruff, who is a curious little Scruffutoe.  He lives with his mother, father and older sister, Pixie, inside someone's shoe closet. Their home is inside a forgotten boot, at the very back of the closet.
​Maxie's curiosity gets him into trouble again.  This time he spots a beautiful, shiny ladder to climb.  He doesn't know it is actually the web of a large spider!
Will Maxie get trapped in the spider's web? Will the spider decide to have Maxie as his next meal?

Pixie finds herself in all sorts of trouble when she catches a ride inside a shoe, into a busy hairdressing shop. After being caught in the path of sticky hairspray, blobs of bleach and whirlwinds of foreign hairs, Pixie gets angry and starts stinking the shop out!

This story is about Mrs Scruff, who lives with her husband, Mr Scruff and her daughter, Pixie and son Maxie. Mondays are Mrs Scruff's house cleaning day. Whilst alone, cleaning her shoe house, a beastly Slater Bug spots her and traps her inside her shoe house. He wants to make her his next meal! Will her 'stink' be strong enough to save her this time?

This story is about Maxie Scruff, who ventures from his shoe closet, into the outside garden, to seek excitement and adventure! Maxie doesn't count on meeting a hungry trapdoor spider and a very hungry blue tongue lizard! Will he be someone's dinner this time? Will his 'stink' be powerful enough to help him escape? Who is the unexpected friend he meets in the garden?

This story is about Maxie Scruff, who has many toys and loves to play with them all. But Maxie is sometimes lazy and doesn't put his toys away after playing with them. Until one day, he finds that the toys he leaves lying around, keep disappearing. He discovers a large creature is taking his things, but when he bravely investigates the creature's hide-out, Maxie is captured and trapped inside a dark hole! What will happen to Maxie, and what important lesson will he learn for the future?