Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage)

  • Sleeping Beauty: A Mid-Century Fairy Tale

    Sleeping Beauty: A Mid-Century Fairy Tale

    £6.99

    Young Annabel lives in the 1950s and dreams of a future with jetpacks, flying cars and robots. However, little does she know that she is living under an evil spell that could mean she has no future at all?

  • Farmyard Tales The Grumpy Goat

    £5.99

    This is one of a series of stories featuring Poppy and Sam, their dog Rusty, Curly the pig and Woolly the sheep, as they go about their lives on Apple Tree Farm. This much-loved story has been rewritten with the help of reading experts to fit into the framework of the Usborne Reading Programme.

  • Magic Paintbrush

    Magic Paintbrush

    £7.99

    An enchanting tale told in rhyming verse from the author of The Gruffalo.

  • A Jar of Pickles and a Pinch of Justice

    £6.99

    Prince Veera and his best friend, Suku, are left in charge of King Beema’s court when the king goes off on a hunting trip. Each day the king’s subjects come before the boys with their problems and petty disagreements. Can Veera and Suku settle the dispute between the man who sells a well – but not the water in it – to his neighbour? Or solve the mystery of the jewels that have turned into pickles? And what about the old washerwoman who is set the task of washing the king’s elephants until they turn white?

  • Year Full Of Stories

    Year Full Of Stories

    £14.99

    This treasury of 52 stories collects together a rich resource of myths, fairy tales and legends from around the world, with a story for every week of the year. 

  • Cinderella

    Cinderella

    £6.99

    Cinderella moves into the era of flapper girls and the Charleston in a new telling of this famous rags-to-riches tale.

  • Rapunzel

    Rapunzel

    £6.99

    Set in the glamorous seventies, this lively retelling is bursting with colourful period detail as Rapunzel goes from being a tower-block prisoner to a free and groovy girl.

  • Beyond The Kingdoms

    Beyond The Kingdoms

    £7.99

    Fairy tales are just the beginning. The Masked Man is on the loose in the Land of Stories, and it’s up to Alex and Conner Bailey to stop him – except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and no one will believe they’re in danger. With only the help of the ragtag group of Goldilocks, Jack, Red Riding Hood, and Mother Goose and her gander, Lester, the Bailey twins discover the Masked Man’s secret scheme: he possesses a powerful magic potion that turns every book it touches into a portal, and he is recruiting an army of literature’s greatest villains!

  • Ella Bella Ballerina & Midsummer Nights

    £7.99

    Everyone’s favourite little dancer, Ella Bella Ballerina, steps out of fairytales and into the world of Shakespeare as she goes on a magical adventure in Fairyland, with Puck, King Oberon and Queen Titania. Who will the queen fall in love with when under the king’s spell? And what will become of the hapless actor Bottom, transformed into a donkey?

  • Reading Ladder Lev 3 Storm

    £4.99

    A beautiful, gripping story, perfect for children learning to read. Winner of the Carnegie Medal.

  • Little Red Riding Hood

    Little Red Riding Hood

    £5.99

    Illustrated in full-colour throughout, this is a traditional story, retold for younger readers.

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