Rita and the Romans

Hilda Offen, Hilda Offen

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (2 reviews)

It's Roman day at the Sports Field. There's plenty of work for Rita--a toddler's being launched in the air from the catapult, a trumpeter's in trouble, and she is even called upon to build Adrian's Wall! Join in the hilarious adventures of Rita who dons her special cloak and boots and becomes Rita the Rescuer, strong, fast and fearless, and able to rescue her siblings and others from danger or disaster. These wonderfully funny stories are perfect for early readers with colour illustrations on every page.

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Thunder Raker (Agent Alfie, Book 1)

Justin Richards

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (1 review)

A hilarious new series for younger readers, following the misadventures of an ordinary boy at an extraordinary school for young spies… Jake's dad is head of the Secret Service. Alice's dad is a double agent. Harry's dad has infiltrated SPUD – the Secret Partners for Undertaking Destruction. And Alfie's dad… is a postman. Thunder Raker Manor is a very exclusive school. All the pupils are there because their parents or guardians are agents and spies. All except one. Because eight-year-old Alfie's dad isn't anything to do with the secret services. He's the local postman who just reckoned that Thunder Raker Manor was a great school. So when the Head Teacher receives a letter from the Prime Minister saying that Alfie has been given a special place and will start immediately, he isn't to know that Alfie's dad wrote it and slipped it in with the 'special' post… Now Alfie has to get to grips with Thunder Raker’s unusual curriculum and some even stranger new friends. He’s got classes in camouflage (if anyone can ever find Mr Trick) and Assassination (only kids keep going missing from Miss Fortune’s class). And he’s now in permanent danger from SPUD agents. But to his surprise, Alfie finds that he might just be quite good at this spying game…

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I am so over being a Loser

Jim Smith

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (4 reviews)

Barry's mum has become a bit of celebrity, and now he can't go anywhere without seeing a poster of her eating a chocolate digestive or wiggling her bum in a pair of jeans. It's so annoy-embarrassing, and everyone at school is making fun of him. But you can't keep Barry down for long...

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The Dumb Bunnies' Easter

Dav Pilkey, Dav Pilkey

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (3 reviews)

Mummy Bunny is really dumb. Daddy Bunny is even dumber. And Baby Bunny is the dumbest bunny of all. This title allows you to join the stupidest family around for a barmy adventure.

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The Great Reindeer Rescue

Stephen Mangan, Anita Mangan

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (4 reviews)

  A high-energy, brilliantly silly, fully illustrated festive adventure story by much-loved actor Stephen Mangan and talented artist Anita Mangan. ""Nine- to 12-year-olds will love this funny, fast-paced story"" Good Housekeeping Christmas Gift Guide It's Christmas Eve and one of Santa's reindeers, Dave, is FED UP. He's stuck behind boastful Rudolph again and a fart-in-the-face is the LAST STRAW. In the commotion, Santa crash lands on the roof of nine-year-old Holly’s home causing an almighty Christmas lights explosion that blasts the reindeers to far-flung corners of the Earth. It’s up to Dave and Holly to fly round the world to rescue all the reindeers. Can Holly and Dave get all the reindeers back to Santa to SAVE CHRISTMAS?  This funniest festive adventure is a must-read spin on The Night Before Christmas From the bestselling creators of The Fart That Changed the World and The Day I Fell Down the Toilet A laugh out loud celebration of the magic of Christmas    Praise for The Great Christmas Reindeer: ""Filled with humour [...] genuinely funny situations which younger readers will delight in as they root for the story's hero and heroine as they battle to save Christmas … Wonderfully illustrated by [Stephen's] sister, Anita, making this a very appealing choice for readers in KS2 … this would also make a wonderful shared bedtime read, with adults enjoying much of the humour too"" Jacqui Sydney, book blogger ""From the very first page, readers will laugh out loud at this off-the-wall tale of Santa's newest reindeer, Dave, and the trouble he (unintentionally) causes when Rudolph is boastful one too many times ... The Great Reindeer Rescue is one hilarious event after another - just the thing for middle grade readers this December!"" Kate Heap, book blogger ""Great addition to the family Christmas library. Will be cheerfully read again and again by all three generations"" Parent review ""A perfect book for the run to Christmas and my 8 year old is very much enjoying the story so far. Plenty of humour and some lovely illustrations too!"" Parent review ""Fun, engaging and full of Christmas spirit"" Parent review   More Praise for Stephen & Anita's books: ""Brilliant, clever, kind of genius"" Graham Norton  ""Manages to feel both classic and modern at the same time"" Good Housekeeping  ""A beautiful and exciting adventure that ignites the imagination"" Edith Bowman   Stephen Mangan is a bestselling author, actor and presenter. His comic gift is seen in shows such as Green Wing, I'm Alan Partridge and Episodes. Stephen appears in drama such as BBC One's The Split and regularly performs on stage in roles such as a much-praised Scrooge in The Old Vic's A Christmas Carol. Stephen presents Portrait and Landscape Artist of the Year and new gameshows Password and The Fortune Hotel. He is a guest presenter on Pointless and Have I Got News for You. Anita Mangan is a successful illustrator and designer whose remarkable artwork sparks with wit and style. She worked for Comic Relief before becoming a designer and illustrator. Since then, she has worked on award-winning books and the bestselling ""Be a Unicorn, Sloth, Flamingo..."" series - as well as illustrating Stephen's children's novels. Stephen and Anita have appeared together on Celebrity Gogglebox

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Young Monsters

Michael Lawrence, Chris Mould

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (4 reviews)

Comedy horror. It's Lon's first day at his new school - the Dr Ffelix Ffurter School for Young Monsters, where boys whose parents think of them as little monsters are taught to become real monsters! Terrifying things stalk the corridors - and that's just the teachers. But is Lon bad enough to be at the school? He'll have to be on his worst behaviour to survive this place...Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+

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The Bell Family

Noel Streatfeild

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (2 reviews)

If you love Noel Streatfeild’s Ballet Shoes, you’ll adore The Bell Family. 'Well, little people, what's the news?’ Meet the big, happy Bell family who live in the vicarage at St Marks. Father is a reverend; Mother is as kind as kind can be. Then there's all the children – practical Paul, dancing Jane, mischievous Ginnie, and finally the baby of the family, Angus, whose ambition is to own a private zoo (he has already begun with his six boxes of caterpillars). And not forgetting Esau, a surefire competitor for the most beautiful dog in Britain. Follow their eventful lives from tense auditions to birthday treats; from troubled times to hilarious escapades. The perfect Christmas gift for ballet-loving children. Includes exclusive material: In the Backstory you can find out which one of the Bell children you most resemble!

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Horrible Histories Gruesome Guides: Dublin

Terry Deary

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (3 reviews)

  HORRIBLE HISTORIES GRUESOME GUIDES: DUBLIN takes his readers on a gore-tastic tour of the streets of Dublin, exposing all of its most scurrilous secrets. Tourists can plot their path to the past - picnic with pirates at St Stephen's Green, creep around the cruel cathedrals and then head to dreadful Dublin castle. Torture, traitors and cut-throat Irish chieftains, it's a trip no Horrible Histories fan will want to miss!

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Dog Star

Katy Cannon

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

Abi is kept busy with the demanding dog stars of the latest animal film - can she and Aunt Tiffany manage to keep everyone happy, so the stars give sparkling performances?

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The Blind Men and the Elephant

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (4 reviews)

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Fizzlebert Stump: The Boy Who Cried Fish

A.F. Harrold, Miss Sarah Horne

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (3 reviews)

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Jack Beechwhistle: Rise Of The Hairy Horror

Kes Gray

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (2 reviews)

The second brilliant book in the Jack Beechwhistle series. The world's a dangerous place. Luckily, Jack Beechwhistle is around to protect it. He might look like an ordinary boy, but really he's a junior secret agent. He's tackled all sorts of missions - exploding conkers, zombie sweet-shop owners, and man-eating giant slugs - with a bit of help from his best friends and sidekicks, Colin and Harry (as long as it's not past their bedtime). Then Jack notices something strange and suspicious about the hairdresser in town, Valentino. Every time Valentino cuts someone's hair, he sweeps the hairs up and collects them in a big plastic bag. But what is he using them for? Everything points to Valentino being an evil enemy agent! And Jack Beechwhistle's on the case . . .

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