Boyface Antelope has been waiting his whole life to turn ten and be allowed to enter his parents' stripemongering shop so he can take stripes off animals and put them on something different. Like tartan onto badgers, or removing the stripes of zebras to make ponies. On the morning of his tenth birthday he finds his parents ill, and they ask him not just to go in the shop but to look after it on his own! Will he be able to keep the stripemongery running smoothly?
Mollie and Peter are home for the holidays and they long to see their pixie friend Chinky and their magic Wishing-Chair. Together they have wonderful adventures, but what happens when the Wishing-Chair is stolen and then gets its wings cut off by the naughty Slipperies?
Completely hilarious … kind of The League of Gentlemen for kids' Zoe Ball
Shabba me whiskers! It's a bold new look for Mr Gum, the best-selling cult classic, ready for a new generation of nibbleheads.
Good evening. Do you like bears called Padlock? Course you do. Do you like hot-air balloons? Course you do. Do you like tall sailing ships with mad sea captains, and horrifying old villains and words like ‘wab!’, ‘tungler’ and ‘kelp’? COURSE you do! Well, guess what, THE TRUTH IS A LEMON MERINGUE.
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear is the fifth book in the internationally best-selling series by Andy Stanton, which has won everything from the Blue Peter Book Award (twice) to the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Red House Children’s Book Award.
Don't miss Mr Gum's other villainously brilliant adventures…
You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!
Mr Gum and the Biscuit Billionaire
Mr Gum and the Goblins
Mr Gum and the Power Crystals
Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear
What's for Dinner, Mr Gum?
Mr Gum and the Cherry Tree
Mr Gum and the Secret Hideout
Andy Stanton studied English at Oxford but they kicked him out. Before becoming a children’s writer he was a film script reader, a market researcher, an NHS lackey, a part-time sparrow and a grape. He is best known for the hilarious, bestselling and award-winning Mr Gum series and has also written picture books, including Danny McGee Drinks the Sea. Andy lives in North London and likes cartoons, books and music (even jazz).
David Tazzyman studied illustration at Manchester Metropolitan University. As well as illustrating the Mr Gum series, he has illustrated many picture books Eleanor's Eyebrows, You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus, Michael Rosen's Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots and My Mum's Growing Down by Laura Dockrill. He lives in Leicester with his wife and three sons.
""I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.""
For the first time, readers can relive all the movie magic of
the Harry Potter series with this beautiful guidebook to the secrets
of Hogwarts, complete with four foldout pages containing portions
of the map.
When fans are finished poring over the text, they can open up
the wand, which doubles as an invisible ink marker
and light. The light reveals invisible ink secrets on
the foldout Marauder's Map pages, while the pen can help
readers create their own magical map, using the blank parchment
included at the back of this book.
When all is said and done, this spellbinding guide is sure to
have fans saying, ""Mischief managed.""
Will journeys through a magical portal to reach a new part of the Night Zoo. In this mission, he must search for Maji the time-travelling elephant in the Tusk Temple.
Prima Ballerina Darcey Bussell takes you on a captivating journey to a faraway land of ballet and magic, in this summer reading special story.
One summer’s evening, Rosa is about to dance at an outdoor show when she feels a familiar tingling in her ballet shoes. Someone in Enchantia needs her…
Rosa soon discovers that a band of pirates have stolen the King and Queen’s treasure! Can she defeat the motley crew and win it back?
Join Rosa and friends on an exciting summertime adventure!
After discovering that she was a stardust spirit, Lucy has spent a magical year with her new stardust friends Allegra, Faye and Ella flying through the woods at night-time using their magic powers to save animals and the environment.
It's now Autumn and Lucy's powers have become stronger than anyone could imagine - she can do things that even adult stardust spirits struggle too. But even though, Lucy is delighted with her new powers and loves showing them off, her friends are a little upset.
So when Lucy gets trapped in the woods by a dark spirit, who wants to steal her stardust, and therefore also her powers she wishes she had listened to her friends much more! But friendship even more powerful than the strongest magic and working together the girls manage to defeat the dark spirit for good.
Thor's hammer is missing again. The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon - the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds. But this time the hammer isn't just lost, it has fallen into enemy hands. If Magnus Chase and his friends can't retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for the hammer's return is the gods' worst enemy, Loki - and the price he wants is very high.
A research trip to the Arctic and a new book - life can't get much better for David Rain. As soon as David finds himself in the icy climes, he starts to write his story of bears, dragons and the mysterious fire star. Soon he realises that his tale is beginning to mirror real life, and that an old adversary is on her way to meet him. Can David thwart her terrible master plan? Or will his world be destroyed for ever?
