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Paul and the Ponco People
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Seven coloured doors, one white door, and the way home. Every chapter is always open; the doors simply remember where you have been.

Seven doors and the white doors

  • Red Door Chapter 3 · carved with a tomato
    • 3 Red All Over
  • Orange Door Chapters 4–5 · carved with a playing card
    • 4 Orange Rules
    • 5 Riddle-Me-Diddle-Me
  • Yellow Door Chapter 6 · carved with the Go-Go-Pole
    • 6 The Go-Go-Pole
  • White Doors Chapters 13–18 · carved with the Heartlight
    • 13 Ronnie’s Secret
    • 14 The Great Debate
    • 15 No Best Colour
    • 16 A Proper PoncoCatastrophy
    • 17 Seven Problems, One Answer
    • 18 The Heartlight
  • Green Door Chapters 7–8 · carved with a leaf
    • 7 Larry of the Emerald Isle
    • 8 Half a Boy
  • Blue Door Chapter 9 · carved with an air-cushion shoe
    • 9 The City of Tomorrow
  • Indigo Door Chapter 10 · carved with a roll of drawings
    • 10 The Colour Nearly Forgotten
  • Violet Door Chapters 11–12 · carved with a submarine
    • 11 The Magnificent Violet Lady
    • 12 The Balloon Beneath the Sea

The way home

  • Home Chapters 1–2 · carved with a house
    • 1 The Most Boring Morning in the World
    • 2 The End of the Rainbow
  • The Road Back Chapters 19–21 · carved with a signal mirror
    • 19 A Startling Invitation
    • 20 The Last Piece of Rainbow
    • 21 Home Sweet Home

Prefer a plain list? All twenty-one chapters in order.

Original story and characters by Peter Birch

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