""IT'S GOING TO BE WOOF-ONDERFUL!""
There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog. Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic . . .
Batty's efforts to impress visitors at the zoo fail, but he is determined to be popular like the other animals. First he goes to the penguin pool but the water is cold and he doesn't like fish. Then he tries the gorilla enclosure but he doesn't have any fleas for the gorillas to pick off him. He tries to laze in the sun with the lions but its far too bright for his sensitive eyes. When eventually he returns to his bat cave he finds that everyone else is trying to be like him, hanging upside down.
This clever and witty story is brought to life with Batty's upside down view of his surroundings, involving the reader in turning the book upside down with him. With its warm-hearted theme it is sure to delight readers young and old.
Little Crocodile has lost his Mummy. ""Are you my mummy? He asks a monkey. ""Well can you swing from a tree like me?"" asks the monkey, but Little Crocodile can't even reach the lowest branch. Will Little Crocodile ever find his real mummy?
A thriller set in the equestrian world about making the impossible possible, about reaching the top on a one dollar horse.
Fifteen year old Casey Blue lives in East London's grimmest tower block and volunteers at a local riding school, but her dream is to win the world's greatest Three Day Event: the Badminton Horse Trials.
When she rescues a starving, half-wild horse, she's convinced that the impossible can be made possible. But she has reckoned without the consequences of her father's criminal record, or the distraction of a boy with melty, dark eyes, with whom she refuses to fall in love. Casey learns the hard way that no matter how high you jump, or how fast you gallop, you can never outrun the past.
A real life thriller that delves into the competitive and elite equestrian world from the 2011 BLUE PETER BOOK OF THE YEAR award-winning author.
Nanu, penguin chick is facing her first winter in the harsh, icy conditions of the Antarctic. Her parents care for her and she flourishes but as the weather gets worse they must go off foraging for food, leaving Nanu alone for a while. Her parents are threatened by leopard seals and only just escape, whilst Nanu is attacked by two hungry skuas. Nanu's fiercely protective parents manage to save their chick - and see her through her first winter.
The Killer Cat is here in two hilarious tales.
In The Diary of the Killer Cat Ellie tries to get wild Tuffy to change his murderous ways before he ends up in deep, deep trouble.
And in The Return of the Killer Cat, while the family is away, the cats can play, but will the grumpy cat sitter spoil the fun?
