Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

When flowers bloom around Aziza's fairy door, it's time for another adventure with her magical friends in Shimmerton. This time her older brother, Otis, comes along, too! They arrive just in time for the spring fete where they discover the cutest magical puppy and a town clock that has stopped wo...

'Aziza's Secret Fairy Door and the Mermaid's Treasure' is the fourth title in this fun and inclusive, young magical adventure series for readers of 6-8 from Lola Morayo. Inspired by fairies and creatures from world mythology this is gorgeously illustrated in black-and-white throughout by Cory Rei...

Paul du Pain's bakery is a very special place. Each day, Paul bakes the bread while Marie serves customers in the shop. Everyone who walks in the door walks back out feeling happier than before. But when Marie goes away, Paul's days become sad and grey. Without her, the bakery's magic is gone. Wi...

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Ea...

Young Twig lives in the Deepwoods, among the Woodtrolls, but he isn't one of them. In a brave attempt to find out where he belongs, Twig sets out for the mysterious, fascinating and dangerous world beyond.

In this twist on a traditional tale, a woman makes a pancake for the hungry children, but the pancake is hungry too, and it wants to eat them!

Fi, a treasure hunter with a knack for riddles, is busy running from her own deadly curse, when she pricks her finger on a spindle. Bound to the sleeping prince Briar Rose with the spindle's magic - and chosen as the only person who can wake him - Fi is stuck with the prince's ghost until she can...

When Selah found true love with Prince Torden of Norway, she never imagined she'd have to leave him behind. All because the Beholder's true mission was a secret Selah's crew didn't trust her to keep: transporting weapons to the rebels fighting against the brutal tsarytsya, whose shadow looms over...

There once was a boy who was going to be king one day. Sir Michael Morpurgo brings us a poetic celebration of our new monarch, King Charles III, illustrated in watercolour by acclaimed artist Michael Foreman. There once was a little boy, born a prince. Encouraged by his parents, he grew up with a...

The Never After crew is back for another twisted adventure. This time, they're off to Snow Country - after they rescue the beleaguered Lord Sharif of Nottingham from the evil Robin Hood, who has been plaguing the land with his thievery and mischief. But Robin's antics aren't the only dangers afoo...