Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

Featuring artwork from Enid Blyton's illustrator Dorothy M. Wheeler, this book of classic nursery rhymes is the perfect gift. Original artwork from 1916 illustrates nursery favourites including Little Jack Horner, Jack and Jill and Humpty Dumpty.

A collection of traditional folk tales, selected and retold by the renowned Alan Garner.

This morning, Little Red Riding Hood goes to her grandmother's house, when suddenly a big bad wolf falls on her. 'Rhaaaa! I'm going to eat you!' he said. 'And why?' asks Little Red Riding Hood.

Celebrating all ethnicities, genders and sexualities, this collection of 17 short stories takes new and familiar fairy tales and reimagines them in contemporary and inclusive light. The collection was originally published in Hungary, where the inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters sparked political cont...

Meet Trumplestiltskin, a vain and gold-obsessed little man who will stop at nothing to become richer and richer. There's Sleeping Brainy, the princess whose only dream is to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Gingerbread Kid, who escapes persecution in his home country but struggles to f...

From the Brothers Grimm to Hans Christian Andersen, this illustrated collection contains a wide range of classic fairy tale stories we know and love. As well as favourites such as Cinderella, The Snow Queen, and Jack and the Beanstalk, A First Book of Fairy Tales also includes some lesser-known g...

Uncover tales of gods and monsters, travel to kingdoms in the sky and below the sea, and meet a cast of magical animals in this lyrical retelling of some of the oldest and most famous stories from around the world. 'A First Book of Myths' is a collection of fourteen well-known myths. From the sto...

Discover the strength of a super-scholar who spoke up against her nasty foster carer and a gender-fluid spy who challenged an entire army. Root for an Iranian-Irish hero trainer, a shape-shifting eco-warrior, and Ireland's first farmer. From mermaids and fashionistas to athletes and monster-slaye...

In 'The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg' it is man's greed that leads him to kill the goose that gave him his wealth. In the Jataka fable of 'The Tortoise and the Geese' Tortoise never stops talking. When his friends, the Goose Brothers, leave to fly South Tortoise wants to join them but to do so ...

This collection contains more than 30 enthralling new retellings of favourite myths as well as some you might not have heard before! Including Theseus and the Minotaur, The Twelve Labours of Herakles, and the escapades of Jason and the Argonauts, each myth is told in engaging modern language, whi...