Kate McMullan

Her favorites were Nancy Drew mysteries, Greek myths, Pippi Longstocking, and any animal stories, but only if the animals didn’t die. She also read Little Women, which was sad but acceptable if the people died and The Borrowers, which was about tiny little people that lived behind the walls in houses. She loved comic books as well, along with Mad Magazine.

The best place to start is the Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig series, the earliest of Kate McMullan's multi-book series: it opens with Fluffy, the Secret Santa (1949) and runs to 26 books across 1949–2005, ending with Fluffy's School Adventures (2005). Kate McMullan's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Kate McMullan has 181 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1949 and 2022. 146 of them belong to 13 named series — the largest being the Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig series with 26 books — and 35 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Kate McMullan's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig (1949–2005, 26 books), Pick-a-Path (1983–1985, 9 books) and Step into Reading, Step 5 (1984–2015, 13 books), plus 10 more.

This guide splits Kate McMullan's 181 books into 13 named series and 35 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Fluffy the Classroom Guinea Pig (26 books, 1949–2005); Penguin Young Readers: Level 3 (26 books, 1994–2015); Dragon Slayers' Academy (24 books, 1997–2018); Step into Reading, Step 5 (13 books, 1984–2015); Eek! Stories To Make You Shriek! (10 books, 1996–2004), plus 8 further series.