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Mummy Penguin is off to find a fishy dinner for her family. She has to swim very fast, climb a slippery cliff – cu-crunch, cu-crunch, cu-crunch – and even tiptoe past some sleeping seals. Shh! All the while, Little Penguin looks on in awe and says: ‘Well done, Mummy Penguin!’.
Dr Morley is about to embark on a quest to the northernmost tip of the world, to discover a creature that everyone talks about but nobody has ever seen: the giant Arctic jellyfish. After years of research and hard graft, she gathers together a highly trained crew and a boat full of specialist equipment, and sets sail for the vast icy scapes of the Arctic. Will she find what she is searching for? Or will it find her?
A trip to the park on a windy day, counting ducks in the pond or simply enjoying playing hide and seek at home, there is so much that Katie and her little brother, Olly get up to in their charming pre-school world. ‘The Shirley Hughes Treasury’ delights in celebrating the everyday life of children in five sections for you and your little ones to dip in and out of and share at bedtime and any other time of the day. Featuring an array of classic stories, engaging poems and nursery rhymes as well as early learning, this essential collection celebrates the work of one our most revered authors to be treasured by a new generation of first readers and is the perfect gift.
Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Gerald has a big decision to make. But will he make it in time?
One day Alex finds a dragon living under his stairs. He isn’t sure what to do – but luckily he knows just who to ask for help. Open the envelopes and read the hilarious letters Alex receives from the fire brigade, the butcher and more as he tries to take care of his new friend. Who would have thought having a dragon for a pet would be so tricky?
Retold by Ann Turnbull and illustrated by Sarah Young, this collection of Greek myths features timeless stories of Theseus and the Minotaur, Persephone, King Midas, Ariadne, Orpheus and Eurydice, and Echo and Narcissus.
After one trick too many, Loki is banished to live on Earth as a ‘normal’ school boy. Forbidden from using his awesome godly powers, Loki must show moral improvement. As he records stuff in his magical (judgemental) diary, it becomes clear Loki hasn’t a clue how to tell good from evil, trust from tricks, or friends from enemies.
Judy Moody has a double! Amy Namey is exactly like Judy, and she’s a member of the ‘way-cool’ My-Name-Is-A-Poem Club. But when Judy starts an Around-the-World school project with her new best friend, her old friends start to feel left out.
Judy Moody is in it to win it. The Virginia Dare Bookworms are reading up a storm to prepare for the book quiz. Judy’s trying out all kinds of tricks: from hanging upside down like Pippi Longstocking to teaching herself to speed read The Princess in Black; even Stink has covered a cape in sticky notes to help him remember all the answers! They may have super reading skills, but who knows when a serious case of brain freeze will strike! Will the Bookworms be as cool as cucumbers or freeze up on the big day?
Bad moods, good moods, even back-to-school moods – Judy has them all. Meet Judy, her little bother, Stink, her best friend Rocky and her pest friend, Frank Pearl, and read all about their adventures.
What made Pele the greatest player of all time? How did Nadia Nadim flee from Afghanistan and end up playing for Manchester United? Who was the Liverpool player who invented the world’s most popular football boot? This collection of fifty biographies brings together the the incredible true stories of the game’s greatest legends who changed the world of football.
Gillian Cross’s brilliant retellings and Neil Packer’s clever illustrations bring to life Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey,’ two of the greatest stories ever told. When first published Walker’s versions of the ‘Iliad’ and the ‘Odyssey’ attracted attention both for the quality of the writing and for their amazingly stylish artwork. Multi-award-winning author Gillian Cross makes two of the greatest stories in the world come alive for children in her strong, clear, deceptively simple retellings, which are faithful to the spirit and structure of Homer’s epic poems.
Blending her joyful London scapes with the story of a mischievous little girl, Nancy, and her long-suffering dachshund, Roger, Alice Tait creates a wild and calamitous chase by boat, bus and bike across all of London’s most famous and best sights – from Buckingham Palace to the Tower of London. With over 15 flaps throughout, an incredible pop-up Nelson’s column and a fold-out map, young readers will delight in this interactive adventure, and will love joining in with Roger’s catchy refrain: ‘NO, NANCY, NO!’
Imagine you can hear everything the town of men say about you. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don’t fit into their plans. Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run.
A series of exquisitely coloured cut pages of increasing size introduce woodland families – bears, deer, rabbits and teeny, tiny mice – who are all beginning to feel really tired! ‘Dear me’, says Great Big Bear, ‘it must be time for bed!’. But Little Bear is certainly not sleepy – he’s wide awake!
Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret – she’s also the Princess in Black, and stopping monsters is the perfect job for her!
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