Do horses eat cheese?

That's one of the burning questions playing on the mind of a girl named Elise Mayflower as she tackles a two-day horse ride from the town of Cressingham to the city of Deep Watling.

Not only does Elise face a three-hundred-mile ride on horseback, but she's to do it wearing a delicate pink summer frock carefully tailored by her aunt.

Surely riding three-hundred miles wearing a chiffon dress can't be that hard, can it?

What happens when a saboteur doesn't know the difference between a barnacle and an octopus?

And should anyone ever trust an ale named Gooseberry Prickles?