Children's stories

At 14 years old Roy Keane was told he was too small to be a professional footballer. For the next four years, club after club turned him down, until Cobh Ramblers finally took a chance on him. His performances for the semi-professional Irish team caught the eye of a scout from Nottingham Forest, ...

The Timekeepers are a secret organisation of kids who keep the course of history on track - and history needs them - a villain called DeLay is causing chaos! When the hands on their watches start to spin backwards, the Timekeepers know that DeLay has been up to no good, and it's up to them to put...

Meet the Blunders: Bertie, Betsy, their children, Brutus and Bunny, along with their beloved grandma Old Lady Blunder, and their pet ostrich, Cedric. An ostrich is not a sensible pet, but then the Blunders are not sensible people. This family of upper-class twits live in a crumbling country house...

Best friends Alice and Leo love making things, and they're never happier than when they're working together in Leo's garden shed, which they've turned into an arts and crafts studio. Then one day they are transported to a miniature world where magical creatures - the Pixies and Glitterbugs - use ...

Andy and Terry's amazing treehouse has 13 new levels! They've added a chocolate waterfall you can swim in, a volcano for toasting marshmallows, a bulldozer-battling level, a baby-dinosaur-petting zoo, a not-very-merry merry-go-round, a boxing elephant called the Trunkinator, an X-ray room, a disc...

It's a normal day with normal chores for Sally and her brother. Until everything turns topsy-turvy when the Cat in the Hat arrives! With a whirlwind of fun, and the hilarious but chaotic antics of Thing 1 and Thing 2, the day promises to be anything but boring. Yet Sally's wise pet, the Fish, war...

Paranormal students Delores and Prudence are being hounded by inquisitors after they broke the rules and helped rescue fellow student Maud from death at the hands of an evil spirit. Cruel inquisitor Magoria Jepp is searching for secrets at their home in Edinburgh's Tol Booth Bookstore, but does s...

Huw always pops in to see his nan on the way home from school - she bakes him cakes and never fusses about his homework. And so it's a great shock when, one day, Nan forgets his name, and calls him Hywel - the long-unmentionable name of her late brother. As Nan slowly slips into the grip of demen...

Ato and friends return in this moving and rousing follow up to Crossing the Stream. Ato is finally going to Nnoma, the bird paradise his late father helped to build. But when he visits Nana to say goodbye, he overhears her talking on the phone about something hidden on Nnoma. Bursting with curios...

When three friends get lost in the woods, only a gang of litter pickers can help them find their way out! 'The Long, Dark Trek' is a low-level phonics reading book.