A jam-packed colour graphic novel full of laughs and fun. Max the cat lives in Kittyopolis where villain Agent M is desperate to get his hands on a meteorite. He sends his minion, Reggie the robot to track down the meteorite which is under the care of Mindy the scientist, Max’s friend. Max gets superpowers when he takes a bite of the meteorite. What follows is an adventure involving a lot of crime, shenanigans and villainy. This book is also about friendships and how to be a good friend. A good read and perfect for fans of InvestiGators and Bunny Vs Monkey.
The colourful illustrations and easy-to-read font is sure to be a hit with young readers.
Can there really be 100 dogs doing 100 doggy things packed into the pages of this picture book? Follow the bouncy rhyme as it weaves its way through an array of hilarious hounds (from petted pugs to silly sausage dogs) and find out . . .
This silly celebration of dogs is bursting with funny details to spot and crazy, characterful dogs to fall in love with – a bark-aloud book to return time and again.
Join Spot and his mum in a brand new story as they go on a shopping trip to the supermarket. Spot loves helping, and he has lots of ideas for what they should buy. Shopping with Mum is lots of fun!
Six farm eggs, a cake for tea, a pound of pears and don’t forget the bacon.’A young boy sets out to do the shopping, determined to remember his simple list but as the sights and sounds of town distract him he finds himself in a terrible muddle.
What a treat this is for our younger but curious readers, and especially those who like funny books.
From the former doctor and bestselling author of This is Going to Hurt comes a new side-splitting series about the world’s youngest doctor, Dexter Proctor. He is different. He is ten years old. He has friends but he is so bright and gifted. And by the age of ten, he is working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital!
But Dexter has a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem – all the teachers are struck down with dreadful diarrhoea! Dexter must step up to the challenge and try to save the teachers and the school.
This hilarious new series about the world’s youngest doctor from the record-breaking Adam Kay and Henry Paker will keep our children informed, engaged and laughing out loud.
Arwel is fine. He is having a fine day.But yes there is a cloud above his head and yes it is growing. But he is FINE….
A fabulous picture book with beautiful illustrations that link different weather to the moods readers might experience. This story talks about negative feelings and how hiding them does not usually help. As the story unfolds, the cloud increases in size, until Arwel can not run away anymore
This story will be a great starting point to any household, nursery or classroom because talking about our feelings is important and necessary. Likewise, our mental wellbeing needs nurturing and this picture books visually shows how our worries can grow until we face them and deal with them. Children will enjoy the link between the sensory experiences of weather and the way our emotions make us feel.
What a great way to show love and support knowing that a problem shared is the best starting point to solve our worries.
A charming picture book for young children to learn simple facts about spending money.
Welcome to Bunnyland, where carrots are money!
Sonny gets three carrots for his allowance every week but wants to buy EVERYTHING with it. He wants a toy rocket, a pogo stick AND a bouncy castle! When he discovers he doesn’t have enough carrots for it all, he’ll need to make some decisions about what’s most important to him.
It’s never too early to teach your little bunny about money! Collect all the books in the Moneybunny series:
Earn It! (A Moneybunny Book)
Give It! (A Moneybunny Book)
Save It! (A Moneybunny Book)
Science is Lit is an interactive book with a range of chemistry experiments to inspire and entertain.
The book is written to engage children in the whole process of a science experiment, including controls, safety elements and how to record and analyse results. Experiments include an aim, hypothesis, method, variables/controls, how to record results, conclusion and evaluation.
There are difficulty ratings for experiments and explanations of the why and how of what is happening during the process. All scientific processes are described in a child-friendly and fun way that would be accessible in KS2.
The book ends with a conclusion, quiz and a detailed glossary.
Susie Dent, bestselling author, broadcaster and word expert, is on a mission to find light in the deepest, darkest corners of our language.
It takes just a short browse through the dictionary to spot how it is filled with negative words. But Susie has searched far and wide to unearth happy and uplifting words and phrases that, in some cases, are long forgotten, while others have only just been discovered.
Paired with beautiful illustrations, this is the perfect book to lift you out of your mubble fubbles (a slightly sad mood), make you grin like a gigglemug (someone who never stops smiling), and have you feeling forblissed (extremely happy) in no time.
This joyous collection of 100 positive words and their origins will show readers young and old just how wonderful language can be – and how you can use your words to make the world a happier place.
What does the sea make you think of? Crashing waves, crumbling sandcastles . . . maybe a squawking seagull or two? Well, how about . . .
Ghost ships! Mega sharks! The Bermuda triangle! Zombie starfish! Psychic sea serpents! And don’t even get us started on something called the Hot Tub of Despair . . .
You see, the sea is actually weird. Really weird. Not only is it full of amazing creatures and mini monsters, some of the world’s most mind-blowing myths and legends revolve around the sea too.
So what are you waiting for? Come with our wonderful narrator, Shrimpy, and dive into some of the incredible secrets of our weird, wonderful and totally wild oceans.
Filled with brilliant facts and myths as well as hilarious illustrations in beautiful full colour, Weird Sea is the perfect gift for little explorers who can’t wait to tell you DID YOU KNOW? and is the perfect antidote to boring kids non-fiction.
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