Hana's Helpline: LEE: The Lion Who Didn't Like Going to the Dentist

Lee – The lion who didn't like going to the dentist
Lee the lion was scared of going to the dentist. He went with this mum and had a real fright. But when Betty the bat explained what had happened he felt so much happier. Maybe going to the dentist wasn't so bad after all?

Milkshake Annual

Learn the different Milkshake! routines with the presenters and read three brand new stories adapted from the show. Sing nursery rhymes with Rhoobarb and Custard and make an amazing rocket with Noddy. Colour by numbers with Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs and help Fifi and the Flowertots find mummies for the baby animals. This is the perfect annual for young children. Packed with fun things to do with the presenters and amazing characters including: Noddy; Roary the Racing Car; Hana's Helpline; Fifi and the Flowertots; Pocoyo; Rhoobarb and Custard; Bottle-Top Bill; The Beeps; Harry and His Bucketful of Dinosuars and Little Princess.

Hana's Helpline: PATSY: The Piglet with a New Baby Brother

Patsy – the piglet with a new baby brother
Patsy the piglet wanted a doll for her birthday but instead she was given a new baby brother. At first she was cross but then she found out that helping to look after a real baby was much better than playing with a doll!

The Bare Bum Gang Battles the Dogsnatchers
Anthony Mcgowan

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.

The newest member of the gang is Rude Word, the world's ugliest dog - and he's causing trouble. He's throwing up strange furry body parts . . . and Mrs Cake's dog Trixie is missing! Ludo and the gang have to turn detective and get to the bottom of this gross mystery.

But when other pets disappear, they realize the mystery is bigger than they thought.

Can the get Rude Word off the hook?

The Little Red Train: The Runaway Train
Benedict Blathwayt

Chuff-chuff, chuffity-chuffity, chuff-chuff, chuffity-chuff . . .
Oh no! Duffy has forgotten to out on the brakes and the Little Red Train has set off down the track without its driver!
Can Duffy catch up with the runaway train?
Maybe with a little help from his friends . . .
Includes a brilliant animated DVD, which captures all the action and excitement of this classic story!

The Little Red Train: Great Big Train
Benedict Blathwayt

Huffity-chuffity, huffity-chuffity, huffity-chuffity puff!
When a lorry driver sneers at the Little Red Train, Duffy Driver is quite put out. But with roadworks, breakdowns and heavy congestion causing havoc on the roads, it is down to the Little Red Train to keep the big deliveries on track. And by the end of the day the Little Red Train is not quite so little after all!

Includes a fantastic CD of the story, read by Richard Briers, with music and sound effects!

Ninnyhammer
Dick King-Smith

Ninnyhammer might be known as the village simpleton, but Peter knows there’s more to him than that. One day he fishes a strange white stick out of the stream and discovers that it’s a magic wand . . . and that it belongs to Ninnyhammer! The magician is so grateful that he starts to help Peter and his family with their struggling farm ­- helping the cows to give more milk and the hens to lay twice as many eggs. But Peter wants to help Ninnyhammer in return. Can it really be right that his friend has to sleep in a hole with foxcubs? And can Peter persuade his dad to
help . . . ?

The Lady Grace Mysteries: Haunted
Grace Cavendish

GHOSTLY SIGHTS!

The Queen and her Maids of Honour are spending the summer at a nobleman’s estate where a new manor house is being built. But the work has to stop when a mysterious spook appears. Could the ghost of a murdered Earl be haunting the site of his death? Grace begins to investigate and finds that there are many rumours about the ghost – and uncovering the truth could be dangerous…

Explore the world of Queen Elizabeth I’s court within the daybooke of Lady Grace, her favourite Maid of Honour.

The Lady Grace Mysteries: Gold
Grace Cavendish

TREASURE AND TRICKERY!

Preparations for a wedding at Court are interrupted when a shipment of gold is stolen! The culprit is a masked horseman, all in black... or is it a gang of ruffians from the forest? The mysterious clues point in different directions and Grace, Queen Elizabeth's secret Lady Pursuivant, can't make sense of them. Will she be able to help recover the fortune?

Discover the intriguing truth in the daybooke of Lady Grace, Queen Elizabeth I's favourite Maid of Honour.

The Lady Grace Mysteries: Jinx
Grace Cavendish

SECRETS AND SUPERSTITION!

A Court visit to the famous St Bartholomew's fair ends badly when a fire leaves Lady Sarah injured and a gypsy woman dead. It seems the Ladies’ mistrust of the potion-sellers and fortune-tellers at the fair could be justified. But was the fire started on purpose? And can Grace unravel the rumours and get to the bottom of the mystery?

Open the daybooke of Lady Grace, the Queen’s most daring Maid of Honour, for a tale of charms, curses and confusion . . .

The Revenge Files of Alistair Fury: Summer Helliday
Jamie Rix

It's the holidays!
Howzat! Strawberries and cream! Hayfever! School's broken up and I've got the chance to be a celebrity at last! There's a film audition in my neighbourhood and I'm determined to get the main part even if it means having to kiss Mrs Muttley's warty hands to get dancing lessons. Mum wants to drag me off on a family holiday with Granny, but that clapped-out old toilet-on-wheels won't come between me and superstardom. Nor will the caravan. My big brother and sister want to ruin my chance of fame but I've got friends in high places, and I'm not just talking about Mr. E when he's on top of a skip. So watch out Mel and William! RIP. Revenge Is Planned.

The Trouble with Wenlocks: A Stanley Wells Mystery
Joel Stewart

Stanley Wells would tell you that he is an ordinary boy. It's just that sometimes extraordinary thinghappen around him...

Stanley and his unusual new friends Dr Moon and Morcambe have a mystery on their hands. There are monstrous wenlocks about, and they spell trouble. Weird things happen to the local children when they encounter these terrifying creatures. Stanley must escape from a train full of wenlocks to find out why. Can he and his companions unravel the truth, with the help of Umiko Lee and her comforting sorrow creatures? What's more, can Stanley learn to play the ukulele in the face of certain doom?

A weird and wonderful debut novel filled with fascinating characters and strange happenings, illustrated throughout with Joel Stewart's atmospheric drawings.

Tree Soup: A Stanley Wells Mystery
Joel Stewart

Stanley Wells is an ordinary boy, who happens to be quite curious. His friends are the mysterious Dr Moon and his canine companion Morcambe. Together they seem to stumble upon strange happenings and trip over mysteries that just need solving...

Stanley is sleeping in the caravan at the bottom of the garden of his new house. He awakes at the sound of an odd whooooomphing noise and goes to investigate. There appear to be new trees in the garden... very odd. And now his mum and the twins are missing - could these things be connected. And what about Jim, the old man who lives in the woods with his parrot telling tales of the sea? Could he be involved somehow. Dr Moon is the only person who can help Stanley with this puzzle and luckily he's on his way...

Accidentally, On Purpose
Kes Gray Illustrated By Nick Sharratt

Does Daisy put the knickers in the laundry basket or . . .
oops a daisy – in the paddling pool?
You decide in this hilarious split-page book filled with cheeky choices!

Tiger Ways
Kes Gray Illustrated By Nick Sharratt

Oh no! Daisy's mum has been stolen by a gang of mad elephants! Luckily for Daisy, she's adopted by a family of friendly tigers and has to learn the 'tiger way' to survive. Still it's not all bad, she gets to live in a cave, sleep in trees and best of all, she doesn't need to take a bath - because everyone knows all cats are afraid of water!

And the fun doesn't stop there! This edition includes a fantastic fold-out theatre with finger puppets to encourage imaginative play and story telling.

Daisy and the Trouble with Giants
Kes Gray Illustrated By Nick Sharratt

Fee Fi Fo Fum! What has Daisy gone and done?! Diasy has decided she wants to meet a REAL giant! If Daisy met a real giant he'd pick Daisy up and put her on his shoulder and they'd have giant adventures! They'd eat crunchy creams as big as tractor tyres, and if she got thirsty, they'd have giant lemonades out of giant straws. It would be sooooo gooood! Trouble is . . . if you want to meet a giant you need a magic bean. And finding magic beans can be troublesome . . .
The trouble with giants is they really shouldn’t live at the top of magic beanstalks. If giants didn’t live at the top of magic beanstalks then Daisy is convinced that she wouldn't have got into big trouble AGAIN!

George's Secret Key To The Universe
Lucy and Stephen Hawking

‘Welcome,’ said Cosmos,
‘to the Universe!’

When George’s pet pig breaks through the fence into the garden next door, George meets his new neighbours- Annie and her scientist father, Eric- and discovers a secret key that will take him on a rollercoaster ride into outer space!

For Eric has the world’s most super-intelligent (and stroppy) computer, Cosmos, who can whisk George and his friends off to any point in the Universe. Soon they are hurtling past planets, through a dangerous asteroid storm to the very edge of our solar system and beyond.

But someone else would like to get their hands on Cosmos – someone whose power-hungry plans will lead Eric and George to a black hole and sure-fire deep space danger…

Dewdrop Babies: The Summer Party
Patricia MacCarthy

The Dewdrop Babies are very excited because today is the day of their summer party. But there's still a lot to do before their guests arrive. The ballroom must be decorated, the entertainers must practice their performances and most important of all the feast must be prepared. Things start to go wrong when the three chefs, Sweetpea, Poppy and Rose each decide to prepare special secret surprise treats for their friends.

Will they be able to fix the chaos in the kitchen and have the feast ready in time for the party? Join the Dewdrop Babies on their latest adventure to find out.

Alec Devlin: The Eye of the Serpent
Philip Caveney

EGYPT 1923.
Fifteen-year-old Alec Devlin is on his way to the Valley of the Kings to spend the summer holidays working on his Uncle Will's archeological dig. It's not the first time he's spent his summer this way . . . but this year things are different.

Uncle Will and his young assistant, Tom, have recently made an amazing discovery - an ancient tomb hidden deep below the earth. But only hours after opening it's doors, Uncle Will falls mysteriously ill and Tom seems to have disappeared without trace,

Alec sets about unravelling the tomb's mysteries - seemingly harmless animals have turned into rabid killers, long dead mummies are rising from their tombs, the spirit of a powerful High Priest is claiming people as living hosts . . .and Alec must confromt a terror that has waited three thousand years to be reborn.

Astrosaurs: Revenge of the Fang
Steve Cole

Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur- he’s an Astrosaur! Captain of the amazing spaceship DSS Sauropod, he goes on dangerous missions and fights evil- along with his faithful crew, Gipsy, Arx and Iggy!

Teggs can’t wait to see his old schoolmates, Blink and Dutch, at the Astrosaurs Academy reunion. But when they are kidnapped by an evil group known as the FANG, he soon discovers some old enemies out for revenge!
With his friends’ lives at stake, Teggs must betray his loyal crew and become a space
outlaw - at the mercy of the FANG’S cruel forces

Cat In The Manger
Michael Foreman

Long ago, in a faraway land, a cat lived in a barn. Of course, he had to share it with all the other animals: cows and chickens and.mice! Then, one wintry night, the door flew open and in came a man and a woman on a donkey.

Hair In Funny Places
Babette Cole

Girls and Boys are always curious and even sometimes alarmed by the behaviour of their bodies as they grow up. Puberty being a particularly unsettling time, Babette Cole has made this the subject of the fifth title in her bestselling series of family dilemmas. Who else but Babette would have the temerity to tackle this subject in a picture book and the genius to carry it off! In Hair in Funny Places her artwork is without exaggeration some of the best she has ever done - it is brilliant. The text, which takes the form of a conversation between a small girl and her teddy bear, is ingenious and funny - it is the behaviour of Mr and Mrs Hormone (wonderfully depicted) which is responsible for and plays havoc with both physical and emotional states of girls and boys between (roughly) the ages of eight and eighteen.

Elmer's Concert
David McKee

Join the ever-popular Elmer on a very noisy day in the jungle. It's concert day and all the animals are warming up for the big event. Little fingers will have lots of fun pressing the buttons to hear the sounds of their favourite animals like bird singing, and kangaroo bouncing, but that's nothing to what happens when Elmer gets everyone together to make his own, very special jungle music.

The Rainbow Book Of Nursery Rhymes
Sam Childs

Hush-a-bye Baby, Baby Bunting, Little Miss Muffet, Humpty Dumpty, Wee Willie Winkie and The Owl and the Pussycat - every single favourite nursery rhyme can be found in this magnificent book - and that's guaranteed!Sam Childs' vibrant, captivating illustrations sing with life, colour and fun making every spread a celebration. Stunning, innovative design adds to the feast. An irresistible gift book.

Ug : Boy Genius Of The Stone Age And His Search For Soft Trousers
Raymond Briggs

Ug and his parents are living in the Stone Age. And that means stone blankets, stone cold food, an even colder cave and, worst of all, hard stone trousers! Being an inquisitive and intelligent child, Ug suggests a series of modifications to improve the quality of family life. His ideas about heating, cooking, boats, and balls that actually bounce are met with a hostile reaction by his parents who don't know what he's going on about. Even Ug himself is occasionally unsure of the purpose of his inventions - his round stone that rolls down the hill is great, but what is it actually for? With the help of his father, who is slowly coming round to his son's way of thinking, Ug comes tantalisingly close to his ultimate garment goal, only to find that there are some obstacles even a boy genius can't overcome.

Elmer And The Stranger
David McKee

One day Elmer and his friends meet a stranger, called Kangaroo, and he's got a problem. He can bounce, but he can't jump. He's been practising secretly for the jumping competition but he just keeps falling over. Lion is confused - is there a difference between a bounce and a jump? Elmer explains that Kangaroo thinks there is, he thinks a jump is much more difficult and that's why he can't do it. But with a little encouragement from Elmer, Kangaroo wins the jumping competition and turns himself from a stranger into a friend.

Me And My Cat
Satoshi Kitamura

Late one night an old lady in a pointed hat comes in through the bedroom window. She brandishes her broom, whispers some witchy words and leaves. Nicholas is surprised, but not as surprised as when he wakes up to find himself in the body of his cat. Soon he realises that a cat's life isn't just about lazing around in the sunshine.

Fantastic Daisy Artichoke
Quentin Blake

Truelove
Babette Cole

This story introduces a lovable new dog character called Truelove. His nose is put out of joint by the arrival of a new baby in the house; so much so that he leaves home. But he falls into bad company and is forced to return, shamefaced. But his owners are delighted to see him again.

Postcards From No Man's Land
Aidan Chambers

What happens to Jacob Todd when he visits his grandfather’s grave at the annual commemoration of the Battle of Arnhem is paralleled in time by the events of the dramatic day in World War Two when retreating troops were sheltered by the family of Geertrui Van Riet. Geertrui, now an old lady, reveals secrets to Jacob in contemporary Amsterdam which completely overturn his view of himself and his country, and lead him to question his very place in the world.