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Jeremy Strong

AARGH - the school inspectors have arrived! 
 
There's trouble at school, but Casper and his friends have an out-of-this-world secret . . . THEY'RE ALL SUPERHEROES! Masher McNee and his monster zombie mob are no match for their extra-special powers in the playground. WHAM-BAM-JELLY-AND-JAM! 
 
With a snoring zombie giving Casper sleepless nights, and a gruesome discovery for show-and-tell, the Cartoon Kid is ready for anything - dead or alive! 
 
SPLUDDD!!!SPINNG!!!!BOOFFF!!!!! 
 
** Three funny stories in one book for 6+ by Jeremy Strong, the award-winning author of The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog and My Brother's Famous Bottom. 
** www.jeremystrong.co.uk 
** Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney, and Liz Pichon's The Brilliant World of Tom Gates.

Cartoon Kid - Zombies!

MEET CASPER! By day he's a regular school kid but by . . . later on in the day he's CARTOON KID! 
 
That's right - Casper is a SUPERHERO - but shhhhhh, keep it quiet because it's a SECRET! Casper, Big Feet Pete and Sarah Sitterbout are in for a shock when a MONSTROUS new teacher arrives. She says her name is Mrs Cloddle - ha! - CLODZILLA more like. Cartoon Kid to the rescue! 
 
And that's just ONE of their adventures in this laugh-out-loud book . . . WHAM BAM JELLY AND JAM!

Cartoon Kid - Supercharged!

Jennifer Curry

If you're someone who thinks the best part of school is going home, then this is the book for you! It's packed with stacks of brilliant rhymes that will keep you entertained for hours on end - in school and out! 
 
From the school swot to school dinners, we've got every subject covered in this bumper book of poetry. Don't go to school without it!

The Complete School Verse

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSE 
 
 If a little fellow comes along, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, and if he never answers questions, then you will know who he is. 
 
 He is the Little Prince, the mysterious, innocent and beautiful boy who appears to a pilot stranded in the desert and makes an extraordinary request. He has journeyed to our planet from his home among the stars, encountering all sorts of peculiar grown-ups along the way, and a fox who teaches him to see the important things in life. But the Prince has left behind a flower growing on his star, a rose which is his treasure and his burden, and before long he must return to it. 
 
 Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, has translated what is for him 'one of the greatest stories ever written' so that more English readers might discover the joy of reading this enchanting fable. The Little Prince is a story for everyone, for children and grown-up children, for kings, geographers and lamp-lighters, even for the very serious and the very wise. 
 
A beautiful hardback edition - the perfect present to enchant children and grown-up children this Christmas.

The Little Prince

A new translation by Michael Morpurgo

Dick King-Smith

There are six puppies in the pet shop window; five posh pedigree puppies, and a scruffy little mongrel with a grand ambition - to be a guard dog. 
 
The other pups laugh at him. How can such a small, scruffy dog possibly expect to be bought to guard a home? Especially when his bark is the most horrible, earsplitting racket they have ever heard! Will the poor little guard dog be doomed to a lonely life in the Dogs' Home - or worse...?

The Guard Dog

Anne Fine

Anne Fine, the 2001-3 Children's Laureate, has collected poetry she feels it would be a shame for any child to miss. 
 
A SHAME TO MISS . . .1 is aimed at junior readers and is a diverse mixture of classic, well-loved poetry like Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky' or Tennyson's 'Break, Break, Break' alongside poems from more modern poets like Kit Wright, Brian Patten and Diana Hendry. Other poets featured include Hillaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Robert Graves, Kipling and many others: more than 70 poems in total.

A Shame to Miss Poetry Collection 1

When Babe, the little orphaned piglet, is won at a fair by Farmer Hogget, he is adopted by Fly, the kind-hearted sheep-dog. Babe is determined to learn everything he can from Fly. He knows he can't be a sheep-dog. But maybe, just maybe, he might be a sheep-pig . . . 
 
From the number one author of animal magic comes this wonderful new edition of The Sheep-Pig. With a new foreword from Michael Morpurgo, this anniversary edition celebrates one of the most famous pigs in the world of books and film.

The Sheep-pig

40th Anniversary Edition

Roald Dahl

Penguin presents the abridged audiobook edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Four More Stories by Roald Dahl, read by Roald Dahl himself. 
 
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Abridged) 
Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory is opening at last! 
 
James and the Giant Peach (Abridged) 
A little magic can take you a long way. 
 
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Abridged) 
Nobody outfoxes Fantastic Mr. Fox! 
 
The Enormous Crocodile (Abridged) 
This greedy crocodile loves to guzzle up little boys and girls. 
 
The Magic Finger (Abridged) 
Horrible neighbours learn their lesson from a little girl with powerful magic!

Roald Dahl Reads Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Four More Stories

Charles Dickens

Arthur Rackham

Everyman's Children's Classics has more than 50 titles in print. It offers the finest editions currently available of the world's greatest children's books in handsome, full cloth hardcover bindings. 
 
The library brings back into print major illustrators such as Ivan Bilibin, Kate Greenaway, Arthur Rackham, Nicolas Bentley, Walter Crane, Aubrey Beardsley, Edward Ardizzone, W.Heath Robinson and Mervyn Peake.

The most popular of all ghost stories was first published on 17 December 1843, and by Christmas Eve 6, 000 copies had been sold at a published price of five shillings. The story of Scrooge, a miser who becomes a different man when he is presented with visions of past, present and future by Marley's ghost, was an immediate success and has remainded so ever since. It is a book to read on Christmas Eve beside a blazing fire - and the best introduction to Dickens for young readers not quite ready for his longer novels. Arthur Rackham, master of the fantastic, illustrated the story in 1915.

A Christmas Carol

Casper and his friends have a not-so-well-kept secret . . . they're all SUPERHEROES! That's right; no emergency is moo, sorry, TOO big for Mr Butternut's class, not even a herd of playground invading COWS! 
 
And when the school lunch trolley is raided by some pesky packed-lunch robbers, can Casper the Cartoon Kid save the day? 
 
Three funny stories in one book for 7+ by Jeremy Strong, the award-winning author of The Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Dog and My Brother's Famous Bottom.

Cartoon Kid - Emergency!

Huw Aaron

PREPARE TO RE-ENTER THE GARDEN. 
 
Pip is now the ruler of Oakhold. Yay! But there's already trouble. Boo! 
 
Shockingly, it turns out Pip is actually a pretty rubbish leader. Something sinister is stirring in the garden - and Pip could not give two hoots about tackling it. 
 
That is, until she sends her best friend Twig out on a heroic mission, and he is KIDNAPPED. Now it's up to Pip and a most unlikely ally to get him back - and try their best to avoid . . . DEATH BY TOAD.

Unfairies: Death by Toad

Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan's publishing career began over forty years ago when Silly Verse for Kids was published in 1959. His poems were inspired by listening to his own children, and subsequently his grandchildren, and marvelling at the way they could invent new words or incorporate sound effects into their everyday language. Spike did not regard children as small adults, but as entirely different species who lived in a secret, magical world that very few adults understood. For decades he delved into this world, delighting children - and adults - of all ages with his poems and stories. 
 
Illustrated throughout with Spike's own drawings and specially commissioned artworks, this is an ideal read-alone or read-aloud book for Spike fans of all ages, featuring: Silly Verse for Kids (1959), The Bald Twit Lion (1968), A Book of Milliganimals (1968), Unspun Socks from a Chicken's Laundry (1968), Sir Nobonk and the Terrible, Awful, Dreadful, Nasty Dragon (1982), and Startling Verse for All the Family (1987).

A Children's Treasury of Milligan

Classic Stories and Poems by Spike Milligan

Adèle Geras

Henrietta Branford

Jacqueline Wilson

Malorie Blackman

Philip Pullman

Tony Mitton

Alan Garner

Berlie Doherty

Gillian Cross

Kit Wright

Michael Morpurgo

Susan Gates

Linda Newbery

Magic beans. Sow them. Plant them. Watch children grow. 
 
'If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!' - Shel Silverstein, Poet 
 
Each and every one of the stories in this anthology is a magic bean: a wondrous tale that will capture your imagination. Prepare to be dazzled by Rapunzel's golden tresses. Prepare to be moved by the suffering of the Little Mermaid. Prepare to laugh yourself silly as 'Mr Sultana' struggles to get the better of a little red rooster! 
 
Lovingly crafted by the finest authors and illustrators, these 'magic beans' will delight, thrill and thoroughly entertain.

Magic Beans: A Handful of Fairytales from the Storybag

Henry Williamson

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In the wild there is no safety. The otter cub Tarka grows up with his mother and sisters, learning to swim, catch fish - and to fear the cry of the hunter and the flash of the metal trap. Soon he must fend for himself, travelling through rivers, woods, moors, ponds and out to sea, sometimes with the female otters White-tip and Greymuzzle, always on the run. Eventually, chased by a pack of hounds, he meets his nemesis, the fearsome dog Deadlock, and must fight for his life.

Tarka the Otter

Nick Sharratt

Everything you could ever want to know about Jacqueline Wilson and her books in one adorable, small, pink package. This is a must-have for fans, bursting with new titbits from Jacky herself, info about the characters and plots, artwork from Nick Sharratt and more.

The World Of Jacqueline Wilson

Prepare to enter the world of the Unfairies! Where battles are epic, mighty and mega . . . though on a slightly miniature scale (just don't tell them that . . .) 
 
 
Some stories will tell you fairies are sweet, kind, magical creatures. 
 
Well, those stories are WRONG. It’s time everyone knew the TRUTH! Fairies are sneaky, cunning and about as magical as slugs. 
 
Join our impulsive, hilarious and somewhat surprising hero Pip on a breakneck adventure among the warring unfairy tribes of The Garden. 
 
Expect sinister plots, epic acorn-based warfare, a dubious ancient prophecy, thrilling centipede chases . . . and a hero who doesn’t give two hoots about anything.

Unfairies

Casper and his friends have an amazing ZEEOWWW! WHIZZ! SPLATT! secret - THEY ARE ALL SUPERHEROES! 
 
Which will come in very handy this Sports Day when a dog named JAWS is let off his lead. . . AARRGHHH! 
 
And what happens when Casper's vacuum cleaner swallows a HAMSTER? Find out in not just one, but THREE Cartoon Kid adventures. WHAM-BAM-JELLY-AND-JAM!

Cartoon Kid Strikes Back!

Lizzie refuses to speak. She doesn't want to talk to Rory or Jake, her new stepbrothers. Or to Sam, their dad. Or even to her mum. She's completely fed up with having to join a new family, and nothing can convince her to speak to them. Not football, not pizza, not a new bedroom. That is, until she meets Great-Gran - a member of the new family who is even more stubborn than she is . . .

Lizzie Zipmouth

Alexandre Dumas

Discover the real story behind Disney’s latest blockbuster adaptation The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, and the iconic Nutcracker Christmas ballet, as told by Alexandre Dumas 
 
‘How could you imagine, silly child, that this toy, which is made of cloth and wood, could possibly be alive?’ 
 
The nutcracker doll that mysterious Godfather Drosselmeyer gives to little Marie for Christmas is no ordinary toy. On Christmas Eve, as the clocks strike midnight, Marie watches as the Nutcracker and her entire cabinet of playthings come to life and boldly do battle against the evil Mouse King and his armies. 
But this is only the start of the tale. 
 
Read on for enchantment and transformation; enter a world by turns fantastical and sinister, a kingdom of dolls and spun-sugar palaces, and learn the true history of the brave little Nutcracker.

The Story of a Nutcracker

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