It's Christmastime in the garden and Hermie and his friends are hustling and bustling to prepare for the big day. But more than anything, they all eagerly anticipate the crowning moment of the holiday season: the arrival of Grannypillar's scrumptious fruitcake. Suddenly Christmas is hijacked when Iggy and Ziggy Cockroach - the meanest, greediest bugs in the garden - steal Grannypillar's fruitcake. How will Christmas survive?! But deep in the hearts of the garden's youngest, the true meanin...

Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the world changed; perhaps it was simply the moment the world finally understood its deadly diagnos...

Christmas shopping is hard enough, especially when youve got a grinch like Reggie on your list. Jughead is determined to get the perennial trickster the perfect gift, but what do you get for the guy who puts the bah in humbug? Only way to find out is to read The Christmas Turkeys!

Cooking, a concert, and cricket on the beach – it’s a Lulu Bell Christmas story!The Bell family are preparing for the best Christmas ever. There are presents to wrap, yummy food to cook and costumes to sew.But Lulu’s friends Olivia and Jo are too sad to sing in the school concert because their little cat Bonnie is missing. Can Lulu cheer them up and help find Bonnie before Christmas Eve? Maybe a special letter to Santa will help.

A mischievous gingerbread man learns the importance of character and helping others in this sweet tale for children.When this gingerbread man was baked, someone forgot to put in the ginger. He’s made of eggs and cinnamon and flour and butter and sugar, but he’s missing a key ingredient! Without ginger, the gingerbread man feels like he’s not really a gingerbread man at all! He can’t be sold in the bakery, so he lives at the back of the store. And there he causes al...

Here come the holidays, and Archie and his friends make the greatest gift of all!Packed with over 400 pages of classic Christmas tales, this festive collection is sure to get you in the spirit!The ARCHIE’S FAVORITE COMICS series gathers some of the most beloved comic book stories ever for fans of all ages!Filled with warmth and laughter, ARCHIE’S FAVORITE CHRISTMAS COMICS collects the most fun, humorous and heartwarming holiday tales from the past seven decades. Lau...

The gang gifts Jughead with a very special holiday treat—a brand new hat! He doesn’t have much in terms of money to gift his friends with in return, so he makes a list of the ultimate presents he wants to create for each of his friends. See what he wishes to buy his closest pals in “Fantasy Time,” a fun new story kicking of this comics digest!

From the Golden Books archives comes a classic Christmas tale by a master storyteller and one of the great Golden Books illustrators.A forest is hushed for the animals' Christmas. The elephant brings a fir tree from far away, and the animals gather silently. . . . The kangaroos decorate the tree with pinecones, and the giraffe places a star at the top.“Now, as it happened before, the lion lay down with the lamb. . . .”This beautifully told story by...

Wherever he went, he heard people say,"I must get a photo with Santa today!"Santa is taking a break from Christmas and going on holiday instead. But it's not easy to relax when you're one of the most famous people in the world. From Paris and Sydney to the Great Wall of China, people recognise Santa wherever he goes. And all they want is to take photographs with him, whether he's in the gym, having a swim or even eating his lunch. It might not be as fun on ...

A sweet (or is it salty?) Christmas story with heart, humor, and plenty of punny holiday cheer.Peanut is going over the river and through the woods to his grandmother's house for Christmas, but getting there is a food-filled adventure for this little nut! First he gets stuck in a traffic jam (make that a traffic jelly), then the bridge is closed so he has to take a (gravy) boat across the river, where he gets lost in a forest of (cookies shaped like) Christmas tree...

From two extraordinary talents, a beautifully crafted picture book for the Christmas season.The three wise men, or the three kings, are familiar figures in the Christmas tradition. Newbery medalist Linda Sue Park has taken the brief biblical references to the three as the starting point for a new story.In it we meet a boy who is learning his father’s trade; a man who gathers resin from certain trees; a merchant in the marketplace; and three strangers in bri...

A quirky tale-spin on the traditional Shoemaker story. When Dim and Doms pranks almost cause the death of Santa theyre banished from the North Pole. Jobless, homeless and cloth-less the Elf twins make their way to London, but its a long way from the sweets and songs of the toy factory and they must be careful what they say, because someone is determined to destroy Santa forever. Storyteller Vicky Parsons works with traditional tales and Greek myths in audio, video, live performances and e-pri...