Children's / Teenage fiction: Classic fiction

What could be cuter and more fun than a baby dinosaur?! Mr Happy and Little Miss Brave have found themselves looking after a baby. A baby diplodocus! And this baby dinosaur is growing bigger by the day, which means a bigger water bowl, a longer lead and increasingly inventive ways to keep him ent...

'I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet'. This classic lift-the-flap book has been a favourite with toddlers ever since it was first published in 1982.

Deenie's the beauty, Helen's the brain. Mrs Fenner has very fixed ambitions for her daughters. She wants Deenie to be a model, but Deenie's not so sure. So when she's diagnosed with scoliosis - curvature of the spine - she's almost relieved.

From his seat in the tiny aeroplane, Fred watches as the mysteries of the Amazon jungle pass by below him. He has always dreamed of becoming an explorer, of making history and of reading his name amongst the lists of great discoveries. If only he could land and look about him. As the plane crashe...

Avita was born to be a star. Her tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. But when a handsome young artist arrives to create posters of the performers, she's appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that all he sees? A hideous monster? Determined to be more, ...

Fatima Tate wants to be a baker and enjoy some innocent flirting with her hot friend Raheem - but her strict Muslim parents would never approve of either. A powerful coming-of-age story that gives a much-needed voice to young Black Muslim women.

Katherine and Michael meet at a party. The attraction between them is instantaneous. Attraction grows to love and to an intense relationship. The future is not as simple as they want it to be as their parents insist they spend the summer apart.

When three figures turn up at eleven-year-old Harper's window in a flying canoe, informing her that she is due to start her apprenticeship, Harper discovers she is a Spectacular - a magical performer, gifted special powers from the stars. Within the walls of the Wondria, the Spectaculars' starstu...

Twelve-year-old Eli is an apprentice librarian at the largest library in the world. But when his grandmother falls ill, he enters the Glorious Race of Magical Beasts to raise money for her treatment. This annual race is always held in the most perilous places and is full of spiky dangers. Most pa...

Internationally acclaimed author-illustrator Lucy Cousins puts her unique stamp on three favourite traditional tales in this striking collection.