When 11-year-old Caitlin discovers a shrimp-like alien creature on the shores of her island home, she takes responsibility for teaching it about the world. Mostly, this just involved stopping little Perijee from eating everything! Caitlin becomes increasingly close to her alien friend, treating him like a brother.
There's only one problem - Perijee won't stop growing.
Then the authorities try to hunt him down and through his fear, Perijee disappears and starts causing trouble. Caitlin must leave home and travel across the country to try and convince Perijee to stop destroying everything before it's too late.
In this delightful classic from the one and only Dr. Seuss, Morris McGurk dreams about staging the world’s greatest show!
Join Morris McGurk for the world’s greatest show, packed with the most tremendous, stupendous acts ever seen, from the Spotted Atrocious – a beast most ferocious – to the Drum-Tummied Snumm from the country of Frumm. If only he ran the circus…
With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK’s top ten favourite children’s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with over 600 million books sold worldwide.
As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching Dr. Seuss’s bestselling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands – Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. If I Ran the Circus belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.
Demon, Official Beastkeeper to the Gods, is transported to the stables under the sea in Poseidon's watery kingdom
Taking care of the stables up on Mount Olympus is one thing, but when Poseidon, god of the seas, takes Demon to his underwater realm to cure some sick hippocamps, the young stable boy is pretty fed up. Doris the Hydra can't be trusted to tend to the beasts, how will he breathe underwater . . . and what in Zeus's name is a hippocamp anyway?
With the help of his magical medical box Demon manages to cure the sea horses of their scale-rot, but when Helios orders him to the Stables of the Sun because one of his steeds has gone lame, Demon realises he's about to get caught up in a feud between water and fire . . .
The third in a delightful action-packed four-book series from acclaimed writer Lucy Coats, who uses her original and funny voice to bring to life the gods, goddesses and beasts of the ancient Greek pantheon.
Geronimo Stilton is a bestselling children's series with a dedicated international fan base. It follows the adventures of the Geronimo Stilton the famouse journalist, searching for the next hot scoop.
Jessica and Natalie are best friends again, but things have changed a bit. Jessica's got new friends now and the comic that they've put together has just launched in school to great acclaim. But Scarlett, a new cartoonist on the block, is after her comic crown. It's felt-tip pens at dawn!
What's inside a laptop? How can you stuff 1,000 CDs into an MP3 player? Who built the Internet? How smart is the world's smartest robot? How do smartphones and TV remote controls work?
The answers to these and other brilliant questions about technology can be found in this funny and fascinating book in the Science Sorted series by Glenn Murphy, bestselling author of Why is Snot Green?. Packed to capacity with megabytes of marvellous information. Robots and the Whole Technology Story explores everything from the first simple engines to the latest gadgets, computers and networks.
Discover more funny science with Disgusting Science: Bodies: The Whole Blood-Pumping Story.
Nick, Molly and Karl have nowhere to turn but to each other in the latest Odd Squad adventure, and they'll need every ounce of wit, resourcefulness and help they can get in order to rise above their biggest challenge yet.
Published in thirteen countries worldwide, this is the third in the brilliant series from Michael Fry.
Horribly Hilarious Joke Book is full of hundreds of horribly hilarious
historical jokes and illustrations in one laugh-out-loud book.
A must-have book for any Horrible Histories fan, you'll literally
laugh your head off at this comical collection of nasty bits.
The fifth screamingly funny novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country.
Hot on the heels of bestselling Gangsta Granny comes another hilarious, action-packed and touching novel – the story of a little girl called Zoe. Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her. The school bully Tina Trotts makes her life a misery – mainly by flobbing on her head. And now the evil Burt from Burt’s Burgers is after her pet rat! And guess what he wants to do with it? The clue is in the title…
From the author that is being called ‘a new Roald Dahl’, Ratburger is not to be missed!
Readers can discover all the foul facts about IRELAND, including why wax models were captured and made Prisoners of War, which warriors went to battle naked, and how to make yourself invisible.
