Charlie and Lola

 

October 26, 2008

Charlie, Lola, Lotta and Marv have been growing a pumpkin all through summer for the Halloween party at school - and it's enormous. Everyone has decided what costumes to wear, except for Lola. On the day of the party disaster strikes, and Lola has a double crisis!

 

October 3, 2008

It's Save an Animal week at school, but spots interfere with Lola's plans to save a panda.

 

October 1, 2008

Lola needs actual ice-skates because they are sparkly and white, and when she gets them, she will be the best ice-skaterer in the whole school. But it's not quite that simple.

 

September 29, 2008

Everyone is hooley hooping. Charlie, Marv, Lotta, in fact the whole school, is hooley hooping, and Lola has had enough. She decides to make up a new craze, but soon realizes it's not as easy as you might think.

 

September 24, 2008

Once they understand what a fossil actually is, Lola and Lotta are determined to find one! Charlie isn't so sure they will. Undeterred, Lola Keeps searching. Then they go to the beach ...

 

September 22, 2008

It's raining and everyone is bored. Even Sizzles is bored. The toy cupboard is full of boring toys, until Marv finds an intriguing box with an intriguing challenge.

 

September 18, 2008

Lola loves looking after Granny and Grandpa's cat, Caspar, but keeps calling for Charlie's help. Lola and Lotta quickly discover that it's fun calling for Charlie and watching him come running. Fun, that is, until Caspar is really in trouble.

 

September 16, 2008

Lola always loves the presents her best friend Lotta gives her, until the HAT! It's itchy and it has dangly bits. Even Soren Lorenson, Lola's imaginary friend, thinks it wouldn't be too bad if she lost the hat a little bit by accident. Then Lola really does lose it.

 

September 12, 2008

Lola and Lotta are practising for the school concert that evening. Then Lola gets a fit of the hiccups. At first it's very funny. But soon she just wants her hiccups to go away!

 

September 10, 2008

Charlie and Marv have to come up with an invention for a school project by tomorrow. Lola keeps interrupting their efforts with ideas of her own. The boys have to invent something really fantastic and they are beginning to panic!

 

September 7, 2008

Lola and Lotta have a pretend shop that sells completely everything. They're having great fun until they accidentally sell Charlie's swimming goggles to Morten, their only customer.

 

September 4, 2008

Outside the weather is extremely and absolutely boiling hot. Lola, Charlie and Arnold Wolf (from next door) try to cool down with fanning, panting and then ice creams. But Arnold takes a rather a big bite of Lola's ice-cream and the whole thing plops to the ground. To make matters worse Arnold won't share his, so Lola doesn't want to be his friend ever again no matter how hot it is! Charlie and Lola play in the garden, but then Arnold appears with a brand new irresistible paddling pool, and asks them to play. Will Arnold ever say sorry? Will Lola ever forgive him?

 

September 2, 2008

Is there a big hungry giant up in the sky with a rumbly tummy? Or is the sky going to fall down? Lola really doesn't like thunder. Charlie distracts Lola with raindrop races and bouncy hailstones - all great fun until the next big clap of thunder! How can Lola stop being frightened? Who'd have thought that wooden spoons and biscuit trays could be the answer!

 

August 4, 2008

Lola goes back to school, but everything has changed. She has a new teacher and will be sitting at a desk (though still with her best friend, Lotta). She also doesn't like her new tights, her new shoes,or the way the leaves are coming off the trees. She and Lotta decide to go into hibernation, unless Charlie can tempt them out.

 

March 7, 2007

Usually Lola just loves going to school but recently she's not so keen. It's all the counting and the writing and the reading. Especially the reading.

 

March 1, 2007

Lola is in a superstitious mood. If you step on the cracks, do bears really jump out at you? Or is it crocodiles? Or maybe lions?

 

February 27, 2007

Everybody in the whole school has to make a picture of their house for open visiting school day.

 

February 21, 2007

Lola isn't scared of the dark. She just wants the bedroom door open, the window blind up and the light on - that's all!

 

February 15, 2007

The boys say Lola is too young to speak Spanish, so she and Soren Lorenson invent their own land - Lolaland and their own language Lola Language!

 

February 13, 2007

Mrs Hanson has chosen Lola to look after Bert, the class guinea pig, for the school holidays. Lola makes sure she knows everything about guinea pigs. That is, everything except where to find him when Bert totally and utterly disappears!

 

February 7, 2007

It's Lola's first ever school sports day and, after much deliberation, she decides to enter the Egg and Spoon race - the most difficult race of all. How is she ever going to keep her egg on her spoon?

 

September 27, 2006

Charlie and Lola's well-rehearsed circus act for Granny and Grandpa is put in jeopardy when poor Charlie breaks his arm playing football with Marv. Lola and Soren Lorensen try to nurse him back to health and cheer him up. But will Lola find anything for poor "broken" Charlie to do in the circus?

 

September 21, 2006

Lola's extremely most favourite red shiny shoes no longer fit, and Dad insists that she gets a new pair of shoes. Lola is not having any of it; her old red, shiny shoes are her favourite and she is definitely not going to change them, not ever!

 

September 19, 2006

Lola and Lotta are best best friends. They do everything together. Then a new girl arrives at school and Lotta seems rather taken with her. Lola starts to feel left out.

 

September 13, 2006

A dentist's waiting room, where there is absolutely nothing to do, is definitely the most boring place of all when the lady at the desk seems determined to ruin any fun that Charlie and Lola start to have. But even she can't stop Charlie and Lola from turning a dull old water-cooler, fish tank and tooth poster into an epic pirate adventure on the high seas!

 

September 7, 2006

Charlie is Magic. Lola knows this for a fact. He has a new magic set and he can make coins appear from behind her ears! Lola wants to be magic too.

 

September 5, 2006

Lola refuses to admit that the bedroom she shares with Charlie is messy: "it's just all spread out!" Charlie points out that it is not just her room, it's his too. Then Charlie decides to move out!

 

November 8, 2005

My Little Town Sharing the My Little Town play set that Granny and Grandpa gave them proves a bit of a challenge for Charlie and Lola. Lola wants big flowers and trees and butterflies and a zoo house, while Charlie wants an airport with a control tower and a huge runway. Before long, Charlie gets quite carried away, hogs the whole game and is intent on saving his little world. Lola is understandably very upset. Can she forgive Charlie and help him out with the Martian invasion?

 

November 4, 2005

I'm Far Too Extremely Busy Lola simply does not have time to play today; she is far too extremely busy organizing her office full of mermaids, running her own café, dentist and library. She's far too busy to play with Charlie, or Lotta, or even her imaginary friend Soren Lorensen. So she could not possibly find the time to play Charlie's new card game - Flip Flop. However, when Marv comes round to play cards, Lola is not sure that being extremely busy all the time is quite such a good idea.

 

November 2, 2005

I Must Take Completely Everything Lola is packing to go to Lotta's for the night. And she is packing everything because her and Lotta are going to play Cinderella! This means that Charlie and Marv can have the whole bedroom to themselves to set up an enormous race track of their own. Disaster strikes when Lola realises she has left her suitcase at home, and Charlie and Marv find they are missing a really important piece of track. Imagination comes to the rescue in the form of a teaspoon and an intergalactic space race. But where exactly did that missing bit of track go?

 

October 31, 2005

Snow Is My Favourite And Is My Best... Snow is on the way and Lola is bursting with excitement. Lola just loves snow. After she finally gets to sleep, she wakes up the next morning to find that everything has gone completely, extremely white! Charlie, Lola, Marv, Sizzles and Lotta have a wonderful time in the park. They make snow angels, and have snow races, and Lotta and Lola even make a snow dog. Snow really is the best thing ever! Until it melts. Charlie helps a very disappointed Lola see that snow is even more special because it is not there all of the time.

 

October 27, 2005

"Say Cheese" To please Mum, Lola is determined to stay clean and tidy for her very first school photograph. And Lola's not very good at staying clean and tidy. What makes it even harder to achieve is that there is a water-tray, school lunch and painting class before the school photograph happens. But, as ever, Charlie and Lola find a way of producing a really absolutely, very special photo of Lola after all.

 

October 24, 2005

I Love Going To Granny And Grandpa's Granny and Grandpa's house is by the sea where there are pony rides and lovely things to eat, a big dressing-up box and Caspar the Cat. But Lola is worried that Soren Lorenson, her imaginary friend, might miss her while she is away. Charlie solves that problem. Then she says she cannot go away because Mum and Dad might miss her. Charlie comes up with another solution. But Lola still doesn't want to go to Granny and Grandpa's. Why? Ohhh, it is because she might miss Mum and Dad. Can Charlie put her little troubled mind to rest?

 

September 21, 2005

Charlie wins first prize at school for his fantastic homemade rocket. Then Lola and her imaginary friend, Soren Lorenson, find that they have to transport an elephant back to the jungle, and Soren persuades Lola that using the rocket is a really good idea.

 

September 19, 2005

It's ever so easy for Charlie to make Lola jump. But what Lola wants more than anything is to make Charlie jump. This proves quite tricky.

 

September 15, 2005

Charlie has promised Marv that he'll play football with him but poor Lola has a very nasty cold and is stuck in bed. She begs Charlie to stay with her. Charlie tries all sorts of ways of making her feel better but a butterfly chase on Flutterby Mountain finally does the trick. Will Charlie ever make it to his football match?

 

September 13, 2005

Lola simply has to win all of the time. She can run faster than a cheetah, she can bounce higher than a kangaroo, and she can stand on one leg for longer than a flamingo. She beats Charlie at snakes and ladders by climbing up a slippery snake. Could this be cheating? But when Charlie wins the race round the park, a tired little Lola points out that you don't have to win all the time ... or maybe you do.

 

September 9, 2005

It's the school play and Lola is determined to be the sun. She knows the part will be hers because yellow is her favourite colour. She was born to play the sun! Imagine her disappointment when she finds out that she's a leaf. And not only that, she's a boring brown autumn leaf. But, with Charlie's help, Lola discovers how leaves are far from boring. And when the big day arrives, Lola is the best leaf in the whole wide forest.

 

September 7, 2005

Will Lola ever be sleepy enough to go to bed, Charlie wonders? She drinks pink milk with tigers, cleans her teeth with a lion, shoos whales down the plughole and has a pyjama party with some dancing dogs. When at last, Charlie manages to get his little sister to feel sleepy, there's a surprise waiting for him in his bed.