An exquisite new collection of short stories from award-winning author Simon Van Booy.Over the past decade, Simon Van Booy has been listening to people’s stories. With these personal accounts as a starting point, he has crafted a powerful collection of short fiction that takes readers into the innermost lives of everyday people. From a family saved from ruin by a mysterious benefactor, to a downtrodden boxer who shows unexpected kindness to a mugger, these masterfu...

This book is a bout a fun loving squirrel named Scrappy. He goes on a little adventure with his friends from the forest to learn some things about the world outside the woods.

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.Horrid Henry is far too busy to bother with his stupid, boring spelling homework. He'll just have to come up with a spectacularly brilliant plan instead.

The cat sat comfortably on the wall.Are you sitting comfortably?Then I will continue.As you know cats like to sit. Sometimes they like to sit and think, and sometimes they just like to sit. But on this occasion the cat was sitting and thinking,'What a lovely day'.But little did the cat know that it was all going to go horribly wrong.

Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog find excitement and adventure wherever they go in Enid Blyton's most popular series.After the Five see a boy being kidnapped at the beach, they set out to find him. But where have the kidnappers hidden the boy?Will Timmy lead them to the answer?In addition to the Famous Five novels, Enid Blyton wrote a clutch of short stories based on the characters. These were published in magazines and collected in the ...

It's the summer holidays, and the hairiest family in Teddington decide to take a holiday by the seaside. But it's never long before trouble sniffs these hyenas out, and Bobby is mistaken for a pup and snatched by a wicked dognapper.The Bolds will need all their ingenuity to hunt her down. But can these hyenas-in-disguise save the day, without letting the cat out of the bag...?‘I wish we lived next door to the Bolds!’ Davina McCall

Most children get pretty fed up from time to time with nagging parents who make all the decisions: Do this....Do that.... Go to bed.... You can't wear that shirt......and so on.In this story, however, the tables are turned when the children are told by their parents that for one whole day they can decide everything concerning the family - absolutely everything..............

When Harry the alien lands his spacebin in his friend Colin's garden, it's time for an adventure!There's just one problem - they'll have to take Colin's naughty, snotty little brother with them...Colin's day is about to turn Cosmic! But when aliens attack, will it end in disaster?

Timmy has a wild imagination. One boring Sunday he decides to have a look inside the strange forest on the other side of the road. He can see eyes blinking at him through the bushes. When he gets inside the forest his bravery suddenly disappears and he realises he has walked too far and is lost. Join Timmy on his adventure through the forest and find out exactly who the old man is...