Holly can't wait to watch her friend Puck, the fairy pony, compete in the Rainbow Races. But when an enchanted storm is unleashed over Pony Island, ruining the races, the home of the fairy ponies is threatened with darkness for ever...The Fairy Ponies series is an exciting addition to Usborne Young Reading, introducing children to wonderful, original, illustrated fiction. Developed in consultation with reading experts.
THE STORY CONTINUES in the third volume of Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs, narrated by David Tennant.
Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. Hiccup's memoirs look back to when Hiccup was just an ordinary boy, and finding it very hard to be a Hero.
Climbing on to a Roman Dragon Rustling ship by mistake in your first 'Boarding an Enemy Ship' lesson is bad enough. But to then discover that Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn't have been more wrong, especially when he steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese. Can Hiccup save the dragons and the day?
How to Train Your Dragon is now a major DreamWorks franchise starring Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett and Jonah Hill and the TV series, Riders of Berk, can be seen on CBeebies and Cartoon Network.
Read all of Hiccup's exploits in the series: How to Train Your Dragon, How to Be a Pirate, How to Speak Dragonese, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse, How to Twist a Dragon's Tale, A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons, How to Ride a Dragon's Storm, How to Break a Dragon's Heart, How to Steal a Dragon's Sword, How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel, How to Betray a Dragon's Hero and How to Fight a Dragon's Fury.
Check out the brilliant website at www.howtotrainyourdragonbooks.com It's the place to go for games, downloads, activities and sneak peeks!
(P) Hodder Children's Books 2005
Tom is in shock. He's just discovered that his dad is an escaped
fairy on the run. Tom doesn't know he is a demisprite
- the child of a fairy and a human - until he meets his three fairy
godmothers. They've been summoned to protect him, but they can't
stop bickering, and two of them are hardened criminals. Tom
must survive their botched magic spells, learn to fly and enter the
dangerous Fairy Realm to save his parents... From the author
of BESWITCHEDOne of the most enchanting, funny and
suspenseful stories to have been published for some time THE
TIMES
An epic, heart-wrenching follow-on from E. Nesbit's Five Children and It stories.
The five children have grown up and World War I has begun in earnest.
Cyril is off to fight, Anthea is at art college, Robert is a Cambridge scholar and Jane is at high school. The Lamb is the grown up age of 11, and he has a little sister, Edith, in tow.
The sand fairy has become a creature of stories ... until, for the first time in 10 years, he suddenly reappears.
The siblings are pleased to have something to take their minds off the war, but this time the Psammead is here for a reason, and his magic might have a more serious purpose.
Before this last adventure ends, all will be changed, and the two younger children will have seen the Great War from every possible viewpoint - factory-workers, soldiers, nurses and ambulance drivers, and the people left at home, and the war's impact will be felt right at the heart of their family.
Find out all about the Cybermen, their creator and enemies, their history and home planet. Then join one in a brand new adventure in ""Going off the Rails"".
THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON BEHIND THE COSMERE
****
'We must not cower in the dark because we're afraid of the spark within us. The answer is not to put out the spark, but to learn to control it'
Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies. Pilots have become the heroes of what's left of the human race.
Spensa has always dreamed of being one of them; of soaring above Earth and proving her bravery. But her fate is intertwined with her father's - a pilot who was killed years ago when he abruptly deserted his team, placing Spensa's chances of attending flight school somewhere between slim and none.
No one will let Spensa forget what her father did, but she is still determined to fly. And the Krell just made that a possibility. They've doubled their fleet, making Spensa's world twice as dangerous . . . but their desperation to survive might just take her skyward . . .
****
SANDERSON IS AN EXCELLENT STORYTELLER:
'Thrills and snappy dialouge'
DAILY MAIL
'Episodic and fast-paced with surprises around every turn'
SCI FI NOW
'I loved this book. What else is there to say?'
PATRICK ROTHFUSS
'Epic in every sense'
GUARDIAN
A hilarious and heartfelt new series about a group of magical misfits!
Nory Horace is nine years old. She's resourceful, she's brave, she
likes peanut butter cookies. Also, like most people in her magical
world, she's able to transform into many different animals.
Unfortunately, Nory's shape-shifting ability is a bit...wonky. And
when she flunks out of her father's own magic academy, Nory's forced
to enter the magic equivalent of the remedial classes.
But Nory and her new classmates are going to prove that upside-down
magic definitely beats right-side up!
A huge rock hurdles through space on a collision course with Earth. It's enormous, as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs. You've got a little more than a day to get to safety. Where will you go? Who will you help – and who will help you? When YOU CHOOSE what to do next, the choices you make could mean the difference between life and death. Can you survive the greatest disaster that the human race has ever known?
