About Danielle Steel: Danielle Steel is one of the world’s most popular and highly acclaimed authors, with over ninety international bestselling novels in print and more than 600 million copies of her novels sold. She is also the author of His Bright Light, the story of her son Nick Traina's life and death; A Gift of Hope, a memoir of her work with the homeless; and Pure Joy, about the dogs she and her family have loved. 
 
To discover more about Danielle Steel and her books visit her website at www.daniellesteel.com 
 
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Roald Dahl

Quentin Blake

Every Saturday morning the Gregg family goes off to shoot animals and birds. But the girl who lives next door hates hunting. 
Now it's made her so angry she's PUT THE MAGIC FINGER ON THEM ALL. And very strange things have begun to happen . . .

The Magic Finger

Jess Brallier

Jack Keely

Meet Tina and Tuck - two unlikely friends ready for adventure! A fun, full-colour series for 6+ children, ideal for readers moving from picture books to chapter stories. 
 
Boone School is in trouble! Taps dripping slime, classrooms full of bugs and lots of other disasters mean Principle Bruno might lose his job. 
 
Then Tuck and Tina discover that a masked troublemaker is causing mischief, just so he can take over the school and steal rare dinosaur bones buried beneath the building! 
 
Cue a high-speed chase across land, sea and air. . . but can the two mice track down the culprit and save the day? 
 
Praise for the Tuck and Tina series: 
'Heartwarming and hilarious!' Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Tuck and Tina and the Dinosaur Thief

Meet Tina and Tuck - two unlikely friends ready for adventure! The first in a fun, full-colour series for 6+ children, ideal for readers moving from picture books to chapter stories. 
 
Tina lives at Boone Elementary and LOVES listening in to Ms Pigeon’s lessons and seeing all the kids having fun with their friends. She just wishes she had a real friend of her own.Then Ms Pigeon announces that a new class pet is arriving and Tina wonders if her wish might come true.Tuck is a ball of energy with a knack for causing chaos and the opposite of who Tina expected. She’s sure he’s going to be nothing but TROUBLE!Then Boone Elementary is faced with closure and Tina and Tuck decide to work together to find an ancient treasure that’s rumoured to be hidden somewhere in the school – can these two unlikely allies save the school before it’s too late?! 
 
'Heartwarming and hilarious!' Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Tuck and Tina and the Lost Fortune

Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. 
Oh, if only Mr Hoppy could perform some great feat that would make him a hero in her eyes! 
Then one day an amazing idea rushes into his head. 
 With the help of a magical spell, some cabbage leaves and one hundred and forty tortoises, can shy Mr Hoppy win Mrs Silver's heart?

Esio Trot

Meet Tina and Tuck - two unlikely friends ready for adventure! A fun, full-colour series for 6+ children, ideal for readers moving from picture books to chapter stories.Strange bumps! Spooky Shadows! Odd noises! No wonder Tina and Tuck think that Boone School is haunted! 
But when the two mice spot burglars prowling in the school corridors, they wonder if maybe the school “ghost” might not be so bad after all. And that perhaps the Boone School spook can even help them scare off the crooks . . .? 
 
Praise for the Tuck and Tina series: 
'Heartwarming and hilarious!' Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of The Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Tuck and Tina and the Haunted School

Richard Curtis

Rebecca Cobb

It's Christmas Eve and there's one very important question on everyone's mind - have YOU been good this year? 
 
For twins Sam and Charlie this is a big worry. Charlie has been especially naughty and everyone is sure that she won't get any presents AT ALL. But when Santa makes a mistake, it's up to naughty Charlie to put things right. Will her last-minute secret act of kindness be enough to redeem her after all? 
 
A brilliantly funny and heartwarming story for Christmas Eve from acclaimed scriptwriter Richard Curtis and award-winning illustrator Rebecca Cobb

The Empty Stocking

Think of your favourite Roald Dahl moment and surely a song or verse cannot be far away... 
 
SONGS AND VERSE has seven sections bursting with rhymes about monsters, gruesome children, magical creatures, ghastly adults as well as a few unusual surprises. From the strange and scrumptious dishes enjoyed by James's Centipede to George and his marvellous medicine, and from greedy Augustus Gloop to the Giraffe and the Pelly and Me there are many classics here together with some previously unpublished treats. 
With a foreword and opening illustrations by Quentin Blake, and illustrations throughout from other award-winning artists such as Babette Cole, Lauren Child, Chris Riddell, Alel Scheffler and Tony Ross, you will find a touch of magic on every page.

Songs and Verse

George Kranky's Grandma is a miserable grouch. George really hates that horrid old witchy woman. 
One Saturday morning, George is in charge of giving Grandma her medicine. 
So-ho! Ah-ha! Ho-hum! George knows exactly what to do. 
A magic medicine* it will be. One that will either cure her completely . . . or blow off the top of her head. 
 
*WARNING: Do not try to make George's Marvellous Medicine yourselves at home. It could be dangerous.

George's Marvellous Medicine (Colour Edn)

Eoin Colfer

Will has four brothers and it's chaos in his house! If he's not being teased by his big brother Marty, he has to deal with the terrible, three-headed bundle of cuteness that is his three younger brothers. Even worse, his mother has the brilliant idea of packing Will and Marty off to the library during the holidays. She just doesn't understand! Not only is the library no fun, it's also the habitat of the legendary librarian Spud Murphy. If you put a foot wrong, it's rumoured she will use her dreaded gas-powered spud gun and you don't want that - just ask Ugly Frank how he got his nickname! Eventually Will and Marty discover a love of books and that Mrs Murphy isn't so bad after all!

The Legend of Spud Murphy

Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. 
Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. 
Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. 
Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. But not for much longer, because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits, once and for all . . .

The Twits (Colour Edition)

Michael Broad

Will's school play is Beauty and the Beast, but Urk has discovered there'll be more than one monster on opening night! The show must go on, but can they stop Rumblefart and his mad monster mob?

Monsterbook: Rumblefart and the Beastly Bottom

Jon Scieszka

Lane Smith

You may think you know the story of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf &ndash; but only one person knows the real story. And that person is A. Wolf. His tale starts with a birthday cake for his dear old granny, a bad head cold and a bad reputation. The rest (as they say) is history. 
 
A hilariously inventive retelling of the popular story which Publishers Weekly called the &lsquo;Funniest book of the year&rsquo;.

The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

Dick King-Smith

Mike Terry

Laurence Higgins, an enormously fat black cat, has breakfast with Mrs Higgins, lunch with the Normans, tea with old Mr Mason and supper with the Barclay-Lloyds. None of them know why he is so fat on just one meal a day! Lawrence is happy until he finds the walking from house to house tiring and begins to get indigestion. His friends tell him to lose weight if he wants a girl friend so he begins to spend one day in four with all his owners. He gets thinner but the cat he fancies down the road tells him she doesn't like slim boys - she's lost her heart to an enormously fat black cat she used to see up the road! Triumphantly Lawrence returns to his four meals a day, spurred on by the thought of meeting Bella when he's back to his normal size.

Fat Lawrence

Catherine Storr

A series of children's modern classic novels by renowned 20th century children's writers. All the titles in this series have the A Puffin Book logo, contemporary-style covers, and child-friendly endnotes.

The very funny stories of Clever Polly and the stupid wolf, gathered together in one volume, including Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf, Polly and the Wolf Again, Tales of Polly and the Hungry Wolf and More Stories of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf. 
Drawing occasionally on well-known fairy tales, and skilfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm. And Polly, not scared at all, outwits the wolf on each and every occasion!

The Complete Adventures of Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf

"On a hill above the valley there was a wood. 
In the wood there was a huge tree. Under the tree there was a hole. 
In the hole lived Mr Fox and Mrs Fox and their four Small Foxes. . . " 
 
Mr Fox is a very clever fox - every evening he creeps down into the valley and helps himself to food from the nearby farms. 
 
Chickens from Farmer Boggis, ducks and geese from Farmer Bunce, and turkeys from Farmer Bean. 
 
But now the farmers have had enough, and together they hatch a plan to get rid of Mr Fox for good! 
 
But what they don't know is Mr Fox has some help, and a fantastic escape plan of his own...

Fantastic Mr Fox

Arden Jones

The start of a spellbinding, new illustrated series featuring Witchy Boo, a little ghost with a BIG magical secret! Perfect for fans of Isadora Moon and Kitty’s Superhero Adventures. 
 
Even though she’s a ghost, Boo has never liked being scary – not like her brothers Shock and Shriek. 
 
But when a witch’s hat finds its way onto her head, Boo learns that not all ghosts have to be scary. Some ghosts can be . . . witchy! 
 
Follow Witchy Boo on her magical journey, as she learns to accept herself—with the help of some very cute friends. 
 
Perfect for 5-7 year-olds, reading independently or with assistance.

Witchy Boo: Casts Her First Spell

"The Pelican spread his huge white wings and flew down on to the road beside me. 'Hop in,' he said, opening his enormous beak . . ." 
 
MEET BILLY. A kid with a dream. He wants to turn an old wooden house into an incredible sweetshop full of treats! 
 
AND MEET THE LADDERLESS WINDOW-CLEANING COMPANY: Monkey, Pelican (Pelly) and Giraffe (who needs ladders when you've got a giraffe?!). 
 
They have just landed a big break cleaning all six hundred and seventy-seven windows of the mansion owned by the richest man in all of England! All they need now is a little help from Billy. 
 
Can these unlikely new friends make Billy's wildest dreams come true and take him on an adventure he'll never forget . . .?

The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

William Steig

Doctor de Soto, a dentist who also happens to be a mouse, is the best dentist in town. He treats animals of all shapes and sizes - that is, except for "cats and other dangerous animals". When a fox appears in his surgery with bad toothache, kind-hearted Doctor de Soto agrees to help. But is he foolish to trust a fox? Could a small mouse outwit the foxiest of animals? This modern classic is full of mischief, warmth and humour.

Doctor De Soto

Anne Fine

'Okay, okay. So stick my head in a holly bush.' 
 
Tuffy knows what he likes. And he doesn't like the 'art' that Ellie's mum brings home from her new classes. So what's a cat to do? 
A few scratches here just happen to shred a painting. A nudge there somehow slips a vase off a shelf. Dad hope a horribly lumpy clay pot will be next, but Tuffy's having none of it. The killer cat will go his own sweet way!

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