Children's / Teenage fiction: Animal stories

Being a su-paw-star isn't working out quite like Michael had planned. So when Susan the Labrador gets kidnapped, Michael jumps at the chance to increase his TV ratings and wow his fans by becoming not just a mind-reading sausage dog, but a detective mastermind as well - oh, and he should probably...

Panther is not like the other cats. Leopard has beautiful spots, Tiger has impressive stripes and Lion has a magnificent mane. Panther is small, shy and dark. One night he decides to go and find out where in the jungle he really belongs. Finally summoning the courage to scale the treetops, he ans...

In this enchantingly illustrated, almost wordless picture book, a story of courage and creativity unfolds when a girl who is afraid of the dark meets a magical moon bear who is afraid of the light.

The elephants want to trick Elmer into thinking they've forgotten his birthday. There's only one problem with the joke they're playing - it's not actually Elmer's birthday at all. Elmer's friends keep trying to warn them but they won't listen!

Mark the hammerhead shark doesn't have it easy - unless he wears a disguise, waiters won't serve him, and he can't go anywhere without people screaming and running away or teasing him. But when a little boy befriends him on a cruise ship holiday, he can see something in Mark that everyone else ca...

Mira can't wait to start Unicorn School. (Her big sister goes and won't stop going on about it). But when Mira arrives on her first day all the unicorns are gone - except Dave! Dave isn't quite the sparkly unicorn Mira was expecting to find at the end of the rainbow - he's more grumpy than glitte...

Little Red Riding Hood - who is not-so-little anymore! - is riding her pony through the woods to visit Granny for a picnic and a surprise. Now that she is bigger, she feels much braver than the last time she went. Until - what was that? Was it the Big Bad Wolf?

October and her dad live in the woods. They sleep in the house Dad built for them and eat the food they grow in the vegetable patches. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They read the books they buy in town again and again until the pages are soft and yell...

Sid is an octopus who is desperate to solve the mystery of his vanishing socks. After staging a stake-out to catch the thieves, Sid discovers the stolen socks are ruined and he must learn to love the odd socks that remain. A colourful mystery with counting and matching fun and an underlying messa...

The InvestiGators are the best crime-fighting duo in the world. But not even their hi-tech training programs can prepare them for the return of their greatest nemesis, Crackerdile, in a shocking new form! Even worse, he's creating a team of super villains! Faced with the choice between saving the...