1. King of the Nogs * 1961

How Noggin saw the face of his bride on the white bone knife which the green bird had brought him, and how he sailed beyond the black ice at the edge of the world to bring her home.

How Noggin came to fight the dragon and met its cold breath, how the dragon fled, and who it was that carried the cold treasure back to its rightful place.

How Olaf the Lofty and Graculus' strange intricate device serves the Nogs, and descends on the dry Land of Silver Sand to bring justice and happiness to that sad place.

How Olaf the Lofty's fire machine ends in disaster, and how the King-under-the-Hill saves the Nogs from the results of Olaf's other scientific follies.

How Nogbad the Bad uses a tropical island for his evil purposes and how the crown of the Northlands is saved.

How Nogbad the Bad takes Olaf's invention to help him in his evil schemes, and how the magic forces he unleashes are more than he can master.

How Noggin's young son Knut manages to prevent this massive masterpiece of pastrycook's art from being set before his father, and what the unsavoury filling is.

'Green fingers' has Nogbad the Bad and his flowers grow tall and beautiful and very strange.  For him the way to achieve his wicked aims lies in his skill and knowledge of the gentle art of gardening.

How the terrible legend of Troldeskow became a game to play in the dark nights of the Northland, and how the game became a dark contest between the forces of good and evil.

How Olaf the Lofty invented a musical instrument so massive that it awoke the denizens of the deep and how Nogbad the Bad used it for his evil purposes and rose to a great height.

How Nogbad the Bad turned the tide of time and brought darkness to the Land of Nog, and how the darkness was washed away by the folly of Olaf the Lofty.

How Nogbad the Bad harnessed the fire beneath the sea and sought to bend the world to his evil will and how a mermaid and several Great Orps lifted him away.