In What a Day It Was at School! there are poems about homework (oh dear!), music, a field trip (hooray!), science, spelling (gasp!), gym, and a noisy mistake (oops!). What a funny,...
Now that he's won the chocolate factory,what's next for Charlie? Last seen flying through the sky in a giant elevator in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie Bucket is back for another...
An island in a glittering blue sea, with white sand and palm where it's OK to be a girl who grows a mermaid's tail when she enters the water. However unbekown to Emily a monster lurks in the deep...
Jack Prelutsky is the undisputed master of hilarious verse for the youngest child. Here are poems about people and animals, set in such far-flung places as Minot, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa,...
Genuinely funny books for children are few and far between. So, when a story like Henry Huggins comes along, it comes to stay. Children everywhere see themselves in this irresistible boy's adventure.
Henry is dragged to dancing class against his will; vies with Moody Margaret to make the yuckiest Glop!; goes camping in France and tries to be good like Perfect Peter...
Horrid Henry encounters the babysitter from hell, traumatizes his parents on a car journey, goes trick-or-treating at Hallowe'en, and emerges victorious from a raid on Moody Margaret's Secret Club...
Four fabulous new stories: Horrid Henry builds himself a time machine and tricks Perfect Peter, Peter strikes back, Henry eats snails at Restaurant Le Posh and is dragged out on a horrendous hike...
Horrid Henry needs to complete his Gizmo collection, so he brings the supermarket to a standstill while looking for the rare Gizmo in all the cereal boxes, and as usual causes havok...
First, Horrid Henry has his courage put to the test when confronted with Nurse Needle and a nasty injection. Then it is rivalry between Henry's and the Secret Clubs as they try to outwit each other..
Horrid Henry has a bad day and decides to run away... only to be lured back by pancakes. Then he cheats in every possible way at sports day. Watch the little monster in more naughty antics...
Four uproarious new stories in which the Queen visits Horrid Henry's school and watches the children make wattle and daub; and Horrid Henry tries to hypnotise Moody Margaret, tricks Perfect Peter ...
Horrid Henry, everyone's favourite awful child, does his best : to trick the Tooth Fairy into giving him some money despite he fact that his teeth appear to be superglued to his gum, and much more...
Four stories about Horrid Henry, everyone's favourite awful child, and — as Books for Keeps called him — 'the child every teacher has nightmares about'...
In this collection, Henry accompanies his father to the office, hacks into his parents' computer, meets the Demon Dinner Lady and plans the ultimate revenge on Perfect Peter...
Four more stories about everyone's favourite awful child, Horrid Henry-Horrid Henry negotiates about eating vegetables, finds himself wearing the wrong underpants with dreadful consequences...
William Holds the Stage/William and the School Report/All the News/Aunt Arabelle in Charge/William’s Goodbye Present/William – The Salvage Collector/ William’s Day Off/Entertainment...
Another welcome volume of stories in which Martin Jarvis, ‘the wizard of the talking book’, makes the voices of Richmal Crompton's scruffy hero William – and his gang of outlaws – his own....
Perpetually scruffy, mud-stained and mischievous - that's how some folks think of William but others know that his well-meant schemes often turn out for the best!
"The Trunchbull" is no match for Matilda! Who put superglue in Dad's hat? Was it really a ghost that made Mom tear out of the house? Matilda is a genius with idiot parents -- and she's...
STOP ! You are about to embark on an incredible journey to Hollywood with the dazzling young hypnotist Molly Moon. But be warned: this trip is very dangerous, and evil lurks at every...
The fifth-grade girls and the fifth-grade boys at Laketon Elementary don't get along very well. But the real problem is that these kids are loud and disorderly. That's why the...
From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.
A humourous sequel to Groosham Grange, in which David Eliot is on course to win the Unholy Grail, a cup of magical power presented to the star pupil, but he has reckoned without...
Toni and Slade Morrison's New York Times bestselling series of fables is now available on audio and includes The Ant or the Grasshopper?, The Lion or the Mouse? and Poppy or the...