Children's / Teenage fiction: Animal stories

Join Spot, Helen and Dad as they dig a pond at the farm in this digger-shaped board book. Spot and Helen are playing with their toy diggers on the farm, when suddenly a real-life digger appears - and they watch as Dad digs a pond for the ducklings! Toddlers will love this digger-shaped board book...

It's Halloween and Spot is getting ready for a spooky party! Toddlers will love pulling the tabs to help Spot find the perfect costume, hang up decorations and bake tasty treats for his friends!

When young fruit bat Stellaluna is separated from her mother, she's adopted by a family of birds with very different habits in this award-winning and bestselling picture book classic. Knocked from her mother's safe embrace by an attacking owl, Stellaluna lands headfirst in a bird's nest. This ado...

Martha was raised on her nana's stories. Even if no one else believes them, Martha knows that they're magic. Now those stories are helping Martha hold things together when everything around her is falling apart - out-of-towners moving into her family's old house, her nana's mysterious illness, an...

When Lillie goes on a boat trip in Wales with her family, she spots a young dolphin swimming alongside them. Later, her big sister and older cousin are particularly mean to her, so Lillie sets off on her own to see the dolphin calf again.

Hugh Dunnit may be a schoolboy, but that doesn't stop him from cracking the toughest cases. Like the case of the shredded maths homework. Sure, lesser minds might collar Hugh's new dog, Shelter. But Hugh knows there's more to sniff out. Working through the suspects, Hugh digs up a bigger mystery:...

After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives - and eventually her own.

Dress to impress with 'There's Nothing Cuter Than a Puppy', the laugh-out-loud sequel to 'There's Nothing Faster Than a Cheetah', but this time with animals and a beauty pageant! Donkeys in dungarees, walruses in woolly waistcoats, hyenas in hoop skirts. The Cutest Creature Contest is full of tou...

Molly the hare loves hide-and-seek. 'You two hide', she tells Olive the owl and Dexter the fox, and then she begins to count: '5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - ready or not here I come'. But when she opens her eyes, Molly finds the pair straight away! Soon Molly announces Olive and Dexter have to hide properly. N...

All Sloth Bear wants to do is play with Porcupine but it's nap time in the jungle and all the other animals are sleeping. So she throws a guava at Porcupine's tree to wake him up and SPLAT! THUD! BUMP! Little Tiger gets woken up too! And Little Tiger is rather hungry. This funny story set in the ...