When You Were a Shark is a collection of educational and entertaining stories designed for parents to read to/with children aged five to infinity!In each story, your child will have a great time being the main character who changes into and lives the life of a sea creature for a day.Although the main aim of this book is to entertain young readers with fantastical adventures in which they are the star, kids will also …… learn amazing facts about the workings and wond...

Treat your child to A Month of Bedtime Stories!CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED READ-ALOUD BEDTIME TALES TO DELIGHT PARENT AND CHILD ALIKECowardly dinosaurs, alien dogs, time-traveling slugs, fish in spacesuits, cows disguised as ants, disco-dancing horses ... This collection of wacky bedtime stories places your child at the centre of each crazy adventure by making him/her the central character. Containing heavy doses of humour which can be enjoyed by parent and child alike, and with a...

Hector and Buster are back for more crazy adventures!After his earlier adventure, Hector Dumble is determined to get his dog, Buster, talking again. So he sets up a laboratory in his bedroom and starts mixing, boiling, evaporating, condensing ...Unfortunately, things don't quite go according to plan. Will Hector's hard work pay off in the end?Find out in this shaggy dog story for kids aged six to 13.

Hector and Buster - and Geranium - are back in their biggest and most exciting adventure yet!With the help of Geranium, the next-door neighbor's cat, Hector must once again use his chemistry skills to defeat the evil super-villain Professor Evil. But can Hector develop the new formula in time?Find out in Me Tawk Funny Too: (Me Tawk Funny: Book Three).

Revenge. Betrayal. Murder.In the gritty underbelly of 1980s Glasgow, Scotland, one cop stands tall - even with a fear of heights.Faced with a daunting task, DI Luc Kidston must focus on finding a samurai sword-wielding vigilante while untangling the case of one of his protégés, who's accused of a chilling crime.To solve both problems Kidston will have to take some unorthodox steps, including enlisting the help of a forensic hypnotist and challenging his own colleagu...

Dive into Northern Britain's Dark Ages in "a book which gives a satisfying and convincing account of this little-known part of Scotland's history" (Undiscovered Scotland).Modern communications have driven motorways and pylons through the countryside, dwarfed us with TV and telephone masts, and drastically altered the way in which we move around, see, and understand Scotland. Recent politics and logistics have established borders and jurisdictions which now...

This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom, and inspired artists, writers, and musicians.It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords of Greenland and the remote islands of Faroe to the dining tables of London's middle classes, the bacalao restaurants of Spain and the Jewish shtetls of Eastern Europe.As well as following the historical thread and exploring h...

Can you guess the name?Is it a book or is it a game? It's a cross between the two - just like the strange animals you're going to see in these pages.HOW TO PLAYLook at a picture of an animal mix-up and then, before you turn the page, try to guess what it's called. For example, if you see a picture of an animal that's half penguin, half elephant, you might guess that it's called a penguilephant. Or perhaps you might guess elequin. Then you turn the p...

* Can the two strangers save the captured grasshopper children from the monster in the woods?* Can Derek the Disco Roman ever learn to dance disco like disco should be danced?* Will Captain Slinky the parrotless pirate ever find a parrot so that all the other pirates stop poking fun at him?* Can the bees use their new submarine to rescue the Queen from the underwater frog castle?Four bedtime stories for children aged 4 to 7.

Pssst! Do you remember when you were a rat? What's that? You've forgotten all about it? OK, let me tell you what happened ...A 2nd-person, read-aloud bedtime tale for kids aged 4 to infinity.

Two strangers arrive in the grasshoper village, an old man and his granddaughter.Who are they, and can they help to save the grasshopper children from the evil monster who holds them prisoner in the nearby woods?Find out in "Kung Fu Grasshoppers" - an illustrated story for children aged 4 to 7.

An illustrated story for children aged 3 to 6Tiny the acorn feels small and afraid in a big, scary world. The thing she fears most are the squirrels who roam the meadow where she lives. One day, her worst nightmare comes true - a squirrel spots her hiding in the long grass! Things look bad.But then Tiny has an idea . . .