Collection: Junior Fiction Hardback

"Outrageous!" the judges cried. "Ridiculous!" Who would dare enter a portrait of a duck in the Grand Contest of Art? But when Felix Clousseau's painting quacks, he is hailed as a genius. Suddenly everyone wants a Clousseau masterpiece, and the unknown painter becomes an overnight sensation. That'...

A daring young astronaut arrives on Mars, certain he will find life there. But soon he realises he's made a mistake. He won't find life on Mars - and what's worse, now he can't find his spaceship! But as only the audience can see, if only he would turn around he might just meet the friendly Marti...

'It's not easy getting your Lion Diploma.' So Jon Agee's little narrator begins his hilarious description of the crash course he took on becoming an honorary lion. At first he doesn't score high, but when it comes to rescuing an endangered neighbourhood cat, the lion in him is unleashed!

A bedtime counting book with a difference! The numbers one to five have a different tactile texture on each piece to help young children learn their numbers in the company of five stargazing bugs!

It's peekaboo time. Lift the soft felt flaps to find the hidden eyes, ears, noses and toes!

It's bedtime. Lift the soft felt flaps to find out what the little ones are up to!

Once, many years ago, there was a baby, in his pram, with his sisters and their sandwiches and lemonade and toys. A lyrical and epic story about a baby and a trio of toys, and their adventure on the high seas. Beautifully told by master storyteller Allan Ahlberg and stunningly illustrated by Emma...

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...

Tilly loves treasure hunting - and so does her family. Tilly's mum hides her breakfast banana in the kitchen, Tilly's dad hides her toy rabbit in the garage. But at bedtime it's Tilly's mum and dad who have to do the hunting!

One morning, Banjo is helping his dad to wash the car. His little sister Elsie comes running up. 'There's an egg in my egg cup!' she yells. 'And a great big grey thing - UNDER THE TABLE!' Brimming over with Allan Ahlberg's idiosyncratic voice, charm and character, and perfectly matched with Bruce...