Young Teggs Stegosaur is a pupil at Astrosaurs Academy - where dinosaurs train to be Astrosaurs. With his best friends Blink and Dutch beside him, amazing adventures are never far away! The cadets are set a Christmas challenge - to make the brightest, biggest festive decorations the Academy's ever seen.
Cara is very sad when she breaks her leg and isn't able to join her best friends on their summer activity holiday. To cheer her up, Mum takes her to Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, where they meet Stella the gorgeous and gentle Staffordshire bull terrier puppy. Stella goes everywhere with Cara - even on the bus to a birthday party.
Join the fun on the farm!
A charming story from award-winning author Michael Morpurgo, hilariously illustrated throughout by Shoo Rayner, and perfect for readers of 5 and up.
Two funny farmyard stories for younger readers.
Mossop’s Last Chance:
“There’s mice in my barley sacks, there’s rats in my roof and now there’s mice in the corn bin. This time I’ve had enough. If you aren’t up to the job, you will have to go.”
Mossop the old farm cat likes to sleep – and not much else! So when Farmer Rafferty tells him to catch twenty-six mice by sunset, all the animals have to pull together to give Mossop one last chance…
Albertine, Goose Queen:
“Good morning, Madam, I’ve come to eat you. Your friends have all gone. There’s no one to help you now. They’re all very stupid, aren’t they?”
A fox is on the loose, and all the animals except Albertine the goose have hidden themselves inside. Albertine is safe on her island in the pond – at least so she thinks, until the fox starts swimming towards her…
Everyone loves the wickedly dry sense of humour of The Diary of a Killer Cat by Anne Fine.
Okay, Okay. So hang me. I killed the bird. For pity's sake, I'm a cat.
Poor Ellie is horrified when Tuffy drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. But Tuffy can't understand what all the fuss is about.
Who on earth will be the next victim to arrive through the cat-flap? Can soft-hearted Ellie manage to get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends up in even deeper trouble?
The hilarious antics of Tuffy and his family as told by the killer cat himself.
'Anne Fine knows how to make readers laugh' Guardian
Anne Fine has written numerous highly acclaimed and prize-winning books for children and adults. The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year; and Bill's New Frock won a Smarties Prize. Anne Fine was named Children's Laureate in 2001 and was awarded an OBE in 2003.
***Waterstones Book of the Year 2015***
From an award-winning designer comes an original fable about need and loss
Once there was a Fox who lived in a deep, dense forest. For as long as Fox could remember, his only friend had been Star, who lit the forest paths each night. But then one night Star was not there, and Fox had to face the forest all alone.
The Fox and the Star is a work of prose and design, each page thoughtfully created by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Sarah's full of nerves when she arrives at Sunnyside Stables, but she's not the only one. Sprite, a new addition to Sunnyside, is flighty and anxious. Together they must work to rebuild each other's confidence - but in order to help Sprite, Sarah must first conquer her own nerves.
Everyone enjoys having Rusty the fox cub to stay at Animal Magic, especially Eva. Eva knows that the cub must be returned to the wild, but has her love ruined Rusty's chances of being set free...?
Lottie is loving life at her uncle's magic pet shop and every day her own magical powers grow stronger But when she discovers her friend Ruby is in trouble, Lottie realises she's going to need every ounce of magic she's got and probably some help from her furry friends too.
Meet Lottie. She's a little girl just like you - she loves adventures, mysteries and her little puppy, Biscuit.
When Lottie finds an old book all about beasts of the world in her attic, she can tell it's going to be the start of a brilliant adventure! All she needs is a beast of her own to track . . . and she doesn't have to wait long. There are strange rustlings and footprints in the Branksea Island woods! Lottie and her friends Mia and Finn set themselves the task of tracking down the Beast of Branksea.
But what exactly is this mysterious creature? And can the trio find it before Mia's older brother Sammi ruins the whole adventure?
Are you ready for the best adventure ever? Jamie, Tom and Wanna have journeyed to the hot Permian desert to discover more about the creatures there. They soon spot a dimetrodon with a huge fan on its back and decide to track it. But when a hungry predator spies the boys, they realize that they're the ones being stalked ...
