Children's stories

1485. Richard III is King of England. Henry Tudor's invasion looms. Jack Broom thinks that war and politics have nothing to do with him. He is a simple apothecary's boy dreaming of becoming a surgeon - until soldiers mistake him for a boy of noble birth and he narrowly avoids being dragged to the...

Evie is so excited to spend her Christmas holiday in Lapland, but when she hears a strange whining noise in the middle of the night, she discovers an Arctic fox caught in a trap. Can Evie rescue him in time?

During a holiday in Edinburgh, Suhana, Mia and Ayaan are transported back to India in 1799. They discover that the Sultan of Mysore is going to be betrayed. Will they be able to save the Sultan and his family?

Genies grant wishes! That's all anyone ever cares about. They forget that genies were imprisoned in those lamps for a reason. Relic Hamilton is just your average 12-year-old, living a quiet life with his grandfather above their old antiques shop in Chinatown in London. Until one day, while polish...

Gaston le Dog longs to return to the beautiful beach he remembers from years ago. So he sets off on an adventure - but mystery and danger lurk at every turn, and Gaston will need all the help he can get from the friends he meets along the way. But can they all be trusted? And will Gaston's odysse...

Benny Burns spends every weekend helping his dad by working at their burger van, parked outside the local football ground. And when Benny finds his grandfather's old recipe book and begins following its instructions, he starts cooking INCREDIBLE food - so good, in fact, that he attracts the unwan...

'Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow.' So begins Chapter 12 of 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', the story of Harry Potter's magical first Christmas at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With text drawn...

Bess can't wait to see her friends aboard the Train of Dark Wonders and embark on another adventure together. But she also has her duties as owner of the Odditorium to think about. The most urgent of these is to find a new guard animal for the secret tunnels beneath the museum. So when Bess disco...

One of Santa's reindeers, Dave, is fed up. He's seething about having to spend another Christmas stuck behind Rudolph. He unclips Rudolph's harness, and Rudolph blithely flies off, monologuing away to himself. Santa makes an emergency landing on the roof of nine-year-old Holly's family, where her...

Iona dreams of glory for her beautiful pony, Jinks, so when local dressage star Jessica offers to coach her, Iona is swept off her feet. But each of Jinks' successes brings injury or accident to her family's stables. Can they all be coincidences? Or is Iona's dream becoming a nightmare? As pressu...