General fiction

A sequel to "Fifteen Ways to Go to Bed", this poetry collection is bursting with ideas for getting dressed. The poems address familiar subjects that children will identify with such as growing out of your clothes, getting wet and dressing up. ...

Presenting a work from an award-winning author shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, winner of the Smarties Young Judges prize and a specialist in African folklore, and illustrated by Liz Pichon, this picture book tells of a little girl on the way to her grandfather through the jun ...

Providing information about aviation for children, this is an illustrated adventure of a little aeroplane determined to prove his worth. Persevere is a lonely little biplane. He used to carry passengers, but now they all travel on the bigger planes. Most of the jets look down on ...

A story of pirates, zombies and one voodoo ostrich - let the swashbuckling begin! ...

Life is tough for Nova. Her parents are obsessed by running their hotel and her older sister seems too grown-up and good-looking to spend any time with her. Then Nova meets gorgeous Liam who is having an even worse time than she is and perhaps their friendship could help both of ...

Lets you track dinosaurs with the earliest fossil hunters and modern-day geologists. This book helps develop childrens reading skills and general knowledge. It also features a rich vocabulary and challenging sentence structure. ...

"Six farm eggs, a cake for tea, a pound of pears and dont forget the bacon". A young boy sets out to do the shopping, determined to remember this simple list, but as the sights and sounds of town distract him, he finds himself in a terrible muddle. ...

By day, Eliot is a quiet boy who likes to read and play with his toys. But when the clock strikes midnight, Eliot is transformed into a hero! When hes not showing off his super swimming skills or wowing the crowds with his expert-lion taming, you can find him assisting the Queen. ...

Boggis, Bunce and Bean are the nastiest and meanest farmers you could meet - and they hate Mr Fox! Theyre determined to catch him and lie outside his hole, ready to shoot, starve or dig him out. Clever Mr Fox has other plans and manages to outwit the nasty farmers. ...

When Milly, Michael, Jason and Jess move to a town in the middle of nowhere, the last thing they expect to find is a magic book - with its own talking bookworm called Skribble! The grumpy worm promises that "The Genie Handbook" can make them into genies in six easy steps. ...

Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of WW2. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley - but his new-found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London. ...

When a small boy turns up on Bob and Joans doorstep unable to say much except I was a rat, the kindly couple adopt him. It seems strange but Bob reads about odder things every day in his newspaper. To them, the sunny little chap is Roger, and hes trying hard to adapt to human lif ...

This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africas apartheid. ...

Presents a true-to-life story of two teenagers drawn into the dangerous and destructive world of heroin addiction. ...

Ruskin Splinter is small and thin, with knock-knees, thick glasses and a squeaky voice, and the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh. Big, strong Elvis is stupid but he looks like a hero. But when the mysterious beast, Krindlekrax, threatens Lizard Street and e ...

Lee Raven, boy thief, has stolen something he really didnt mean to. Now he faces a perilous flight through London (and the murky sewers below) as he tries to escape capture - because Lee has stolen the Book of Nebo, a book that has existed for thousands of years and tells every s ...

In 2009, the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera reaches its 75th year. In commemoration of this event, the author has brought together some of the best loved and most critically acclaimed authors to pen stories inspired by opera. ...