Children's / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories

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  • One Christmas Eve

    £12.99

    Father Christmas visits Percy's park in this magical new picture book from the bestselling creator of One Snowy Night!

  • Paddington’s Twelve Days of Christmas

    £7.99

    Celebrate Christmas with everyone’s favourite bear, Paddington – now a major movie star!

  • The Princess in Black and the Trick-or-Treating Trouble

    £6.99

    It’s a dark and silly night, and Princess Magnolia is wearing her Princess in Black cape and mask over her clothes – just enough to pass as a Halloween costume in a hurry. She can’t wait to go trick-or-treating! This year, Princess in Black costumes are popular, and so are monster disguises. When the little monster devours an onion along with an eraser and a bar of soap, and as he politely asks for a goat at each door, Princess Magnolia begins to suspect this isn’t a costume after all!

  • The Jungle of Carabanana

    £7.99

    From Saturday Night Live legend Kate McKinnon comes the highly anticipated third book in her #1 New York Times bestselling series about mad science, three peculiar sisters, and the mysterious Millicent Quibb!

  • Lottie Brooks’s Twelve Disasters Of Christmas

    £14.99

    We all know Lottie LOVES Christmas – the chocolate, the presents, spending time with her weird but wonderful family! But what does Burger Tom get up to on Christmas Day? How did Molly celebrate the festive period in Australia? And why are the hammies so afraid of cousin Fwankie?! Because sometimes, it’s not all about Lottie! In these twelve hilarious festive short stories, find out what Bella gets up to on her first Christmas, how Toby’s prank backfires, when Poppy becomes the star of the show, and how Jess saves the day for her football team!A nd Lottie shares her most DISASTROUS Christmas story ever! So, grab a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (yes, a whole one obvs) and spend this Christmas with all of your favourite characters from the world of LOTTIE BROOKS!

  • The Rambler’s Curse

    £14.99

    The first book in a brand-new trilogy for 8+ readers, set in the world of the bestselling, award-winning The Café at the Edge of the Woods – perfect for fans of The Wild Robot, The Last Bear and The Hobbit.

  • The Bog of Frogs

    £10.99

    Rabbit loves the sky at night. But what are the stars made of? Where do they go in the daytime? WHY are they? Bear knows that Castor will be able to answer these big questions with his Far-Looking Machine. But that just makes Rabbit feel tiny in a big world. Maybe his new friends in the Bog of Frogs will be able to see things from a different angle.

  • The Boy Who Knew Too Much

    £10.99

    Prepare to have your mind blown and your cats and dogs under heavy suspicion. It’s time to buckle up for an insane, laugh-out-loud series from the best-selling global author, 260 million years in the making!

  • Don’t Feed the Troll

    £14.99

    A brilliantly hilarious fairytale adventure from the award-winning picture book author and illustrator, Emily Gravett.

  • Mari the Unwonderful Witch

    £14.99

    Mari is an eleven-year-old witch who loves her life. Indeed, what’s not to love about spending time with her amazing mothers, hanging out with her clever friends, eating delicious food and experimenting with fashion? But, if you ask any of the other witches in town, Mari loves her life a little too much. After all, a wonderful witch puts the needs of others, before herself. Magic should be used to help humans – not (for example) creating giant donuts for you and your classmates to scoff. But Mari doesn’t care what other people think of her – and when disaster strikes her town, she’ll need to convince the other witches to have the courage to break free, too, and be just as wildly unwonderful as she is.

  • A Garden of Vipers

    £8.99

    In the depths of winter, Shenanigan Swift and her family are summoned to America, where Daisy’s brother, Dandelion DeMille, is in danger. Racing to DeMille family home – a 72-storey greenhouse in the heart of New York City – Shenanigan is too late to stop a murder. But it’s Dandelion’s Uncle Charlie who has fallen victim to a mystery assassin. As a snowstorm rages outside, Shenanigan, Felicity, Phenomena and Erf must uncover both motive and means. But when every room is packed with poisonous plants and deadly creatures, how will they ever uncover what really happened in The Greenhouse?

  • The Cat in the Cupboard

    £12.99

    In this adventure, Crumble embarks on a rescue mission into the garden of his arch-nemesis to seek out his beloved lost toy. But it’s dangerous in enemy territory for our plucky feline.

  • The Great Cake Caper

    £8.99

    Meet Cinnamon Crumb. In the town of Marzipan, home to bakers of near-magical talent, Cinnamon burns toast. She’s no baker – but she is about to become a baking detective. Because all is not sweet between Marzipan’s two rival superstar bakers, Victoria Sponge and Madeleine Macaron. They will stop at nothing to win the coveted Twelve Tier Crown at the Great Cake Carnival – even sabotage. So when Victoria sets Cinnamon a mission to spy on Maddie, Cinnamon reluctantly agrees. But when Maddie asks Cinnamon to spy on Victoria too – well, Cinnamon is in a situation stickier than sticky toffee pudding.

  • The Pumpkin Thief

    £12.99

    With just a little help from Bird, Squirrel has grown some lovely pumpkins! He is so pleased with himself. But soon there's a problem . . . the pumpkins keep disappearing, one by one! Squirrel can't understand it. He's determined to catch the thief before Bird returns . . .