This is the story of a good-natured witch and her contented, purring, cat flying through the air on a broomstick without a care in the world - until the wind blows away the witch's hat. When they fly down to retrieve the hat, a polite, helpful dog brings it to them and becomes another passenger o...

One tiny snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on the tail of a whale. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. But when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay,...

As the Spook's apprentice Tom's first duty is to protect the County from the dark. But now Mam needs his help in her homeland of Greece. One of the most dangerous of the old gods, the Ordeen, is about to return there, bringing slaughter and devastation. Meanwhile, the Devil himself is still loose...

One day, there was a knock at the door of Sophie's house, just as she and her mummy were going to have tea, but the milkman had already come and it was not the day for the boy from the grocer; it could not be daddy because he was coming home a little bit later and he had his keys. Who was the mys...

Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a perennial favourite with children and adults alike. Its imaginative illustration and clever cut-out detail charts the progress of a very hungry caterpillar as he eats his way through the week.

Liam is too big for his boots, his football strip, and his school blazer. But being super-sized height-wise has its advantages: he's the only eleven-year-old to ever ride the G-force defying Cosmic rollercoaster or be offered the chance to drive a Porsche. Long-legged Liam makes a giant leap f...

School bully Jake Hunter receives a mysterious email inviting him to join a scheme for world domination. With unlimited power and wealth at his fingertips, how can he resist? But to get it he has to become an arch-criminal, entangled in a plan that threatens the planet. And that could just be a s...

When Ted and Kat watched their cousin Salim get on board the London Eye, he turned and waved before getting on. But after half an hour it landed and everyone trooped off - and no Salim. Where could he have gone? How on earth could he have disappeared into thin air? So Ted and his older sister, Ka...

Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn't know it yet. Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents' car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever. He doesn't know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway an...

Cato Hopkins is the youngest member of Mother Hopkins' 'family' - a group of skilled fraudsters and pickpockets. There's Addy, who can become a very convincing boy when she needs to; the beautiful Bella, who can charm any rich young man out of his fortune; Sam, an escaped slave and Cato himself, ...

Greg Heffley finds himself thrust into a new year and a new school where undersize weaklings share the corridors with kids who are taller, meaner and already shaving. Desperate to prove his new found maturity, which only going up a grade can bring, Greg is happy to have his not-quite-so-cool side...

"In my hair Gorillas leap, Tigers stalk, And ground sloths sleep. Prides of lions Make their lair Somewhere in my crazy hair."

For her birthday, Eva is given a very special present - a box of tricks! She soon discovers that she is a master magician and for her first trick conjures up a rather large pet from within ...Monty the polar bear. With her new friend she produces rabbits from hats, and a magical party with delici...

When Dandylion joins Miss Gardener's class on an otherwise ordinary Tuesday he brings with him colour, excitement and boundless energy but also a fair amount of mess, noise and chaos.

Timothy Pope is looking out into the night with his telescope. Is that really a shark he can see? Turn the page and find out...Children will delight in peeping through the die-cut holes and guessing what Tim has spotted.

Bear and Rabbit are the very best of friends. They live in their Bear-Rabbit house and cook their Bear-Rabbit meals in their Bear-Rabbit kitchen. But one day they spy a wonderful shiny thing and they can't agree who it belongs to. Could this be the end of a very special friendship?

All children know that wolves are mean, cunning, unscrupulous creatures and the wolf we meet in this story is no exception. He's particularly nasty because he wants to trick some innocent little lambs into helping him so that he can eat them for his dinner. Luckily, wolves are not known for their...

Ludo, Noah, Jamie, Phillip and Jennifer are The Bare Bum Gang! They have an embarrassing name but a cool Gang Den, so things could be worse. Join the gang in a new adventure as they battle the forces of the evil Dockery Gang, guard with their lives the secrets of their underground sweet stash, an...

It was my birthday. How was I supposed to know it wouldn't be the only party around town on that dark and dreary Halloween night? So things ended up in a bit of a mess. (Well, more than a mess, really. A complete disaster.) But it was not my fault so don't blame me . . . Another laugh-out-loud Ki...

'This book is for penguins only. If you're not a penguin, stop reading now or I'll slap you with my flippers! 'Fresh from a jungle trip, Peter, his exuberant assistant Punky and their friend Harold discover their beloved ice-skating rink has been over-populated with some dubious-looking penguins....

When Lucy Pennykettle suspects there’s a monster in her bedroom, her mum knows exactly what to do. She makes a guard dragon – Gruffen – to look after Lucy. But soon Gruffen realises there’s a mystery behind the monster...

Kaspar Prince of Cats opens in 1912 at the Savoy Hotel, when orphaned bell-boy Johnny Trott unexpectedly finds himself the guardian of Kaspar Kandinsky, "the most beautiful cat in all of Russia". Kaspar makes friends with one of the guests, Lizziebeth, only child of wealthy New York par...

This cosmic new fiction series stars Bob, the famous Man on the Moon. In this first book, when the Stupendous Alacazamo makes the moon disappear, it looks like Bob might be out of a job!