Packed with tips, hints and advice on all the tricks needed to be a super spy, including how to write and break codes, how to use disguises to avoid detection and how to stalk and shadow enemy spies effectively. Includes spy-tests, observation quizzes and code-cracking challenges.
Readers can discover all the foul facts about the TERRIFYING TUDORS, including who invited Queen Elizabeth I to see his brand-new toilet and how to catch jail fever if you've never been to prison. These bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.
You know the story ... Mary and Joseph make the journey to Bethlehem, only to find there's no room at the inn. Then along come angels, shepherds and three kings from afar to worship the baby Jesus in the manger. A Guinea Pig Nativity is the classic Christmas story as you've never seen it before: with (you guessed it) guinea pigs photographed in the starring roles. Sweet, humble and funny, they bring their own guinea-pig-joyfulness to the nativity in a way that is completely irresistible.
It's the perfect stocking filler!
Madagascar meets Gladiator in this hilarious, exciting and action-packed new illustrated chapter book series from celebrated cartoonist Gary Northfield.
From the hilarious, celebrated cartoonist Gary Northfield – author of The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! – comes a brand-new illustrated chapter book series set in Roman times! From a smelly watering hole deep in the heart of the Serengeti to the ferocious clamour of the Colosseum, join Julius Zebra and his motley menagerie of friends as they gear up to be ... gladiators! Only if they win the love of the Roman crowds will they win back their freedom. But do Julius and his pals have what it takes to succeed in a world where only the meanest and toughest survive? Madagascar meets Gladiator in this exciting, action-packed and hysterically funny story brimming with entertaining Roman facts.
A special bumper edition of dorkiness featuring the third and fourth books, Pop Star and Skating Sensation, in the bestselling DORK DIARIES series!
Nikki Maxwell has just started at her new school and is determined to make a fresh start, leaving her dorky past behind her. But when you're the girl who spills spaghetti over herself during lunch, or who dresses as a giant rat for Halloween, or whose dad drives a van with a giant cockroach on the roof, it's hard to transform from loser queen to queen-bee overnight.
But one thing's for sure, Nikki's life is never dull, and now you can enjoy the third and fourth hilarious instalments of her diary in this fabulous two-in-one bind-up. It's time to embrace your inner dork…
A bind up of the third and fourth Dork Diaries books by Rachel Renée Russell, author of The Misadventures of Max Crumbly (June 2016).
Praise for the DORK DIARIES series:
'A brilliant read!' Mizz
'Filled with fun illustrations, and fonts that keep you looking, Rachel Renee Russell has created for girls what Jeff Kinney did for boys with his Wimpy Kids series.' Amazon.com five star review
'spot on for the tween market.' The Bookseller
'The Dork Diaries series is fast becoming my favourite for younger readers ... More please!' Wondrous Reads Blog
'A tantalising series.' Waterstones Books Quarterly
Tom's mum has had enough of her mischievous son's antics. She's determined to pack him off to Sir Gilbert de Grouchy's hellishly strict Squire School at Castle Grim. Tom's desperate to save himself from a life of long distance runs and freezing cold baths, but the only thing that could possibly stop his mum is a full-scale siege of Creaky Castle.
Robin Hood's not content with being No. 1 Most Wanted man in Sherwood. So he decides to become a fisherman! But soon realises it won't be as easy as he thought - How will the famous Robin Hood cope with pirates, sea sickness and grumpy sailors? Fun comedy.
Some words to not apply to William Brown. Sweet, charming, 'dear little boy' . . . That sounds more like Georgie Murdoch, who is so sickly sweet that William is determined to turn him into a wild, muddy, noisy outlaw like himself . . .
Friendship and fun abound in this full-colour early reader for ages 4+.
In the faraway village of Snottington Sneeze
Lived a wizened old wizard with knocketty knees.
Woozy the Wizard loves his old broom - not too small, not too big - but it is a little rusty. So when he spies a Shiny New Shop with HOOVERS he can't believe his luck! If only he could make his new hoover go zoom . . . Magic and mishap ensue with Woozy and his pet pig.
The second in a brilliant new series featuring charming rhyming text and lovely illustrations, with clear shapes and colours, this is a joy to read aloud, and just right for children moving from large-format picture books to young readers.
