Children's / Teenage fiction: Animal stories

Porky Pies is always telling lies, trying to terrify his brothers and sisters into believing that the Big Bad Wolf is back. But when the biggest fibber in the litter tries to plan his most daring prank yet, the joke is on him this time. So who will have the last laugh?

When her dad is kidnapped by a woman with a giant hamstoceros, Bitsy and best friend Kosh are swept into a secret world of ancient meteorites and strange beasts called magicores, each conjured using a different emotion. Using a powerful bestiary called Magicalia, the friends must quickly become c...

At the start of the summer, Tia is excited to see all the visitors arriving for their holidays on Gull Haven Island, and she's delighted to make a new friend. But Tia's feelings change when some selfish tourists upset a newborn seal pup and its mother, and then she sees how people are carelessly ...

Someone or something in the village of Knobbly Bottom is eating up EVERYTHING! When a chocolate cake goes missing, nine-year-old Maggie McKay gets the blame. But when entire vegetable plots are devoured overnight, huge bite marks are found in garden furniture and even her friend Fred's grandad's ...

Ruffles loves scratching and sniffing and sleeping. But most of all, he loves his bouncy, bouncy ball! But wait! Where is Ruffles' bouncy, bouncy ball? It's not between the books, in the fishbowl, or even in the umbrella. Where could it possibly be? Can Ruby help Ruffles find his lost ball, or is...

Join inventor Bertha and robo-bird Blink on an adventure full of friendship, with a sprinkling of science and a nod to nature. When a rumble in the jungle disturbs Bertha's work, the unlikely pair venture into the wild to investigate.

Relatable, funny, and heart-wrenchingly honest, Saving Sunshine is the poignant story of Muslim American siblings learning how to build each other up in a world that is too often unkind.

Never has Aman needed a friend more than when a springer spaniel appears before him one day. The dog becomes a constant companion, a shadow, and that's what Aman decides to call her. But life in Afghanistan is becoming more dangerous by the moment, and eventually Aman and Shadow must find the cou...

It's sleepytime at the Heeler house and Bingo has decided to wake up in her own bed. But will she be able to drift off to sleep and stay there? And will she be the only family member to struggle to get some rest?

Peppa and her friends are decorating the clubhouse for Halloween! They have spiders, bats and witches' hats - perfect to make it a spooky clubhouse! But they don't want to make it too scary, just a little bit scary! Happy Halloween!