Item category 1: Picture Books for Older Readers

Poor Akissi! The neighbourhood cats are trying to steal her fish, her little monkey Boubou almost ends up in a frying pan and she's nothing but a pest to her older brother Fofana. But Akissi is a true adventurer, full of silliness and mischief and nothing will scare her for long!

It's the start of the 1860s, and the Old West is changing - a change that comes as a shock to the Daltons when they're arrested not by Lucky Luke, but by Allan Pinkerton! The man is determined to turn bandit-hunting into a modern, rational business - even at the cost of the American people's pers...

Urgent message for the Dalton brothers: the president has approved a special measure to combat overpopulation in the country's prisons. They're going to be hanged! Their last hope lies in a little known law that would see them walk free if they were to marry. A frantic Ma Dalton tries to locate b...

When he encounters a criminal from his past, Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi strike out, determined to fulfill a promise he made himself as a young Jedi: to bring in this fugitive on his own.

A little knight is very happy that his wall protects him from the dangers that are sure to lurk on the other side. However, he is too busy mending a hole in his wall to notice the mounting dangers on his own side. Luckily he is rescued by one of the 'baddies' on the other side, and finds out that...

A spin off/prequel to 'Despicable Me' and 'Despicable Me 2', 'Minions' tells the story of the loveable henchmen before they entered into Gru's employ, and charts their story through the centuries as they search for the ultimate evil mastermind to serve.

Picture books are such good fun and so is making them - but who knew there were so many things that could go wrong? This is the story of a picture book doomed from the very start. Allan has a good idea for a book about a crocodile, but every time he sits down to write, he's interrupted. The manus...

Banjo is a very hungry little boy who every evening has a sausage for his dinner. But one day his sausage, called Melvin, jumps off the plate and races down the road, and everything else follows - peas, French fries, carrots, fork and knife, table and chair - with Banjo bringing up the rear.

Everything in Burglar Bill's life is stolen, from the toast he has for breakfast to the bed he sleeps in. When one of the boxes he steals turns out to have a baby inside, Burglar Bill is faced with all sorts of new problems.