Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

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  • Dory Dory Black Sheep

    £7.99

    Ever since Dory met Rosabelle, a real true friend whose imagination and high spirits match her own, school has been pretty good. But now the class is learning to read, and it’s proving to be a challenge for Dory. While Rosabelle can read chapter books in her head, Dory is stuck with baby books about a happy little farm. Dory wishes for a potion to turn her into a reader but things don’t go as planned. Suddenly, a naughty little girl who looks an awful lot like Dory’s imaginary nemesis, Mrs. Gobble Gracker, shows up. And a black sheep leaves the pages of the farm book to follow Dory to school.

  • Detective Thingy Majiggy

    £6.99

    A funny, magical and hugely original new series from internationally bestselling author Cecelia Ahern.

  • Dory Fantasmagory

    £7.99

    Meet Dory – an irresistible scamp with a huge imagination. Dory’s the youngest in her family, which STINKS because it means everyone’s always too busy to play with her. Or worse! They call her too little to join in. Luckily Dory has plenty of friends to keep her company – even if everyone else says they’re just imaginary. And Dory has a lot to do: outsmarting the monsters that live in her house, escaping from prison (aka time-out) and exacting revenge on her sister’s favourite doll.

  • Dory Fantasmagory and the Real True Friend

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    Dory’s so excited for her first day at school. Her big brother and sister warn her that if she wants to fit in she ought to leave her imaginary friend, Mary, at home – or better yet, her whole imagination! But being boring is just about as far from being Dory as you can get. And on her very first day she meets someone new, and wonderful – a little girl whose imagination and style are just about as wild as her own! Now all she has to do is convince her siblings that she’s not making it all up.

  • Meltdown!

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    Cilla Chinchilla’s ice cream van has only one rule: your ice cream flavour must rhyme with your animal name. But when her customers start to misbehave, can Cilla avoid a meltdown? It’s Rocky Road for Toad. Banana for Iguana. And Fig for Pig. But when Pig demands Rocky Road, the other customers start to complain too. Can Cilla stick to her strict rhyming rule? And will Pig ever get his Rocky Road?

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    £7.99

    This is ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ as you’ve never known it before in this darkly comic twist on a classic fairy tale. Jack’s mother is furious that Jack has traded their cow for a single bean – until she realises the bean has sprouted into a ginormous beanstalk with golden leaves! But when Jack discovers there’s a hungry giant with a keen sense of smell at the top of the beanstalk and comes home empty handed, his mother takes matters into her own hands.

  • The Giant Mystery

    £7.99

    When Mr Pottifer tries to teach Sarah’s class how to grow magical beanstalks, some mischievous garden gnomes cause havoc and suddenly Enchantment Primary has a giant beanstalk in their school garden!Join Sarah and her friends on an adventure full of imagination and wonder with a GIANT surprise is in store.

  • Bear for a Day

    £14.99

    If you were a bear for a day, what would you do? Probably wake up, eat breakfast, go for a motorcycle ride, and rescue your best friend from a rogue hot air balloon. You know, normal bear stuff! You certainly wouldn’t stand in front of the whole class and give a boring, detailed, and informational report about bears.

  • One Thousand Dreams of Shoelace

    £8.99

    An exciting, funny, eerie, and deeply moving one-of-a-kind adventure – the extraordinary follow up to The Last Life of Lori Mills.

  • Kitty Capers

    £7.99

    In this fifth hilarious graphic-novel adventure, Butter wants some quiet time alone. Away from dogs. But is this a case of be careful what you wish for? Crackers and Peanut are having a lot of fun. And making a lot of noise. Butter just wants some peace and quiet for a nice cat nap. He finds the perfect spot in a neighbour’s garden. Then it starts raining and it looks warm and dry inside the house, but it’s not long before Butter realises he’s made a mistake. Could it be that he’s actually missing those pesky dogs?