Collection: Junior Fiction Hardback

Raymond Briggs's comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple, in his usual humorous, yet macabre way.

Will awoke on a Midwinter Day, his 11th-birthday morning, to a waiting world outside his own time which offered some explanation for his overnight inheritance. To find and join together the five remaining Signs of the Light was the dangerous quest which Will alone had the power to accomplish.

Inspired by the tales of Robin Hood, the Outlaws have come up with a new scheme for redistributing the treasures of the rich to the very poor. But this inevitably leads William into battle with the gronw-up world, with typically disastrous consequences.

Paddington, the intrepid bear from Darkest Peru, has a knack for "smelling out things". His sharp nose, supported by marmalade sandwiches, leads him into many adventures.