Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

Clara is a small, strong-willed princess who likes running wild, jumping ditches and climbing trees - but most of all, she loves collecting creepy-crawlies and making them her friends. That's not easy with a bossy butler and a pernickety nanny always on your case. When Clara discovers that an ogr...

Clara is a small, strong-willed princess who likes running wild, jumping ditches and climbing trees - but most of all, she loves collecting creepy-crawlies and making them her friends. That's not easy with a bossy butler and a pernickety nanny always on your case. When Clara discovers that an ogr...

The brand-new Gods Squad is back! Seth, the Egyptian god of war, has stolen the sun god. Vesper and Aster must save the world again, but enemies old and new are gathering.

Vesper and Aster need Excalibur to save the world. At the top of Glastonbury Tor, they find an elevator down to the enchanted realm of Camelot, where Arthur has been waiting for this day. The elderly King and his loyal knights snap to attention - at last they have a quest! But Excalibur will only...

Long ago, Old Bear (with his scruffy hair and threadbare paws) was packed away in a box and taken up to the attic. And there he stayed until Bramwell Brown remembered him.

An enchanting treasury of teddy bear tales from Jane Hissey's beloved BAFTA award-winning Old Bear and Friends series! This beautifully illustrated compendium of classic picture books features five of Jane Hissey most-loved stories.

Old Macdonald loves his phone: it helps him organise his farm. But when the animals each get one of their own, they are soon on their phones all day - 'Here a tweet, there a chat, WhatsApping the farm cat' - and before they know it, no work is getting done! What can Old Macdonald do? Sing along t...

Old Macdonald loves his phone: it helps him organise his farm. But when the animals each get one of their own, they are soon on their phones all day - 'Here a tweet, there a chat, WhatsApping the farm cat' - and before they know it, no work is getting done! What can Old Macdonald do? Sing along t...

Have you ever wondered why the Mean Old Witch is mean? Or why the Big Bad Wolf is bad? They weren't always that way. The Big Bad Wolf used to be small and sweet. But when a witch was mean to him, everything changed. The Mean Old Witch used to be young and kind, singing to the birds and picking up...

A powerful mother-daughter drama that explores the fault lines between love and control.