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Feisty Ophelia Wild decides to set up her own detective agency, with its headquarters in her tree house. Along with her assistant, Albert, she foils bullies, solves a meat-pie mystery, and cracks the case of the disappearing dentures. A very fun and engaging story in verse from Elena de Roo, with illustrations by Tracy Duncan.

In a lush New Zealand forest, Pearlie is helping the park fairy Omaka prepare a very special party. The rushing streams and glistening silver fern fronds make one of the loveliest sights Pearlie has ever seen, but soon she discovers that this wild park is full of surprises. And its creatures are the most surprising of all! When Pearlie finds herself lost among the ancient trees, she starts to worry. Is something hiding in the branches? Perhaps a wise old local could let Pearlie in on some of the forest's secrets.

Dinah feels sad. Her class has gone on a school trip to see the dinosaurs at the museum, and everyone else has a tasty packed lunch - except Dinah. Until a funny new friend decides to help ...Soon Dinah has a very special packed lunch - but there is an even bigger surprise in store!

Includes wildlife facts, all told in a rhythmically rhyming story that keeps children captivated for hours!

Billie has found the most adorable guinea pig in the pet shop. She is going to love it forever! If only she can convince her mum and dad...

The new girl at school won't stop copying Billie! It is so annoying. What can Billie do?

Billie is saving up for a special toy, and Jack is helping her do jobs. But what will happen when Jack wants to spend the money on something else?

In a genius collaboration, acclaimed authors Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee - energized by the art of Tony Fucile - introduce two outrageously funny little girls! Meet Bink and Gollie : two precocious little girls - one tiny, one tall, and both irrepressibly funny. Setting out from their super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie), they share three comical adventures involving painfully bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvellous companion. ... read more

Join Little Witch and her friend Billy Wicked for three fun stories full of word plays, set in a magical land. Little Witch's favourite things are broom races with her best friend Billy Wicked and lemon-and-slime ice-cream with crunchy spider sprinkles. She would love to eat marshmallows for breakfast too, but she's stuck with toadflakes. Little Witch doesn't mean to get into mischief. Somehow though, she always does.

On an ordinary morning, in an ordinary flat, an up-till-now perfectly ordinary Bertha does an extraordinary burp. A burp so extraordinary, it knocks things over. A burp so humongously big that very soon it's causing havoc in the school canteen, the playground, not to mention her grandad's apple trees...Such a burptastic secret cannot stay quiet for long. And soon enough it lands Bertha her very own celebrity stardom...but is it all just a lot of hot air?

Fancy Nancy has many talents, but running is not one of them--so when she is chosen for the Field Day relay team, she gets worried about letting her team down.

This book is one of a new series of books, "Read and Discover", designed to encourage children to learn about the world as they learn to read. You can use it for fishing, hunting, tying, pulling, lifting and carrying - a piece of string is a wonderful thing! It supports KS1-2 Science and Literacy. It is written in consultation with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. It offers non-fiction for developing readers. It features texts and illustrations which support children learning to read. It contains extra information sect... read more

Takes you on an adventure with Nick, Sally and the Cat in the Hat. From the hot, dry Sonoran and Mojavi to the bitter cold Gobi and Antarctica, this title lets young readers discover why deserts are dry and how plants and animals - including cactus, kangaroos, camels, penguins and roadrunners - survive.

When Honey the puppy comes to live on Buffin Street, everyone is very excited. And Honey is about to discover just how much fun Buffin Street can be!

Heroic adventures of the Uncanny X-Men.

When Peter Parker is bitten by a radioactive spider he becomes super agile and amazingly strong. He makes a disguise and calls himself Spider-Man. It's not long before Spider-Man realises that New York City needs a superhero.

Get set for a hoot with these rip-roaring rhymes! Rhyming retellings of classic AesopÕs fables.

Get set for a hoot with these rip-roaring rhymes! Rhyming retellings of classic AesopÕs fables.

Jack hates spelling. He has a test coming up, but he doesn't want to practice for it. What will happen if he leaves it too late?

Jack has found a lost puppy! It is so cute. But can he convince his mum and dad to let him keep it?