Children's / Teenage fiction: Animal stories

When Lillie goes on a boat trip in Wales with her family, she spots a young dolphin swimming alongside them. Later, her big sister and older cousin are particularly mean to her, so Lillie sets off on her own to see the dolphin calf again.

After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives - and eventually her own.

All Sloth Bear wants to do is play with Porcupine but it's nap time in the jungle and all the other animals are sleeping. So she throws a guava at Porcupine's tree to wake him up and SPLAT! THUD! BUMP! Little Tiger gets woken up too! And Little Tiger is rather hungry. This funny story set in the ...

Peter Rabbit cannot wait to eat breakfast, and takes a big bite of his favourite food, a radish! But when his first bite results in a loose tooth, Mrs. Rabbit tells him the tooth fairy will come visit him. Peter starts to worry why the tooth fairy wants his tooth and whether he'll ever be able to...

An absurdly funny and heartwarming lift-the-flap picture book about two giraffe friends, who are out on a walk together. Meet Torla, the taller-than-average giraffe, and Smorla, who's - well, smaller than average. Right at the very beginning of their walk, Torla's longer-than-average neck gets st...

Trixie the witch's cat is a very happy cat. At least, most of the time. There is only one thing that really makes Trixie's fur prick up - her snowy white paw. How can Trixie be a real witch's cat if she's not pitch-black all over? And how can she be truly spooky with one white paw ?

This engaging, eye-catching series makes learning phonics fun. Each story introduces beginner readers to a wide variety of phonemes in a lively, rhyming tale. David Semple's bright, detailed illustrations bring the stories to life, encouraging young readers to return to them time and time again.

Victor the wolf has lots of worries. He worries that he isn't brave enough, that he isn't big enough and that he isn't fierce enough. In fact, Victor feels anxious about almost everything. But when Victor shares his concerns with his best friend Pablo, he starts to feel a bit better. And with Pab...

Help Little Ghost look for her friends this Halloween. Lift the felt flaps to see where they are hiding and who will say BOO!