This is a book of comic verse of Awful Warnings about the consequences of Bad Behaviour, such as Henry King chewing string. Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years , they were first published in 1907.

This story of a boy who grows to manhood, and of a tree that gives him her bounty through the years, is a moving parable about the gift of giving and the capacity to love.

Every day the small wooden people called Wemmicks do the same thing: stick gold stars or grey dots on one another. In this children's tale, Eli the woodcarver helps Punchinello understand how special he is - no matter what other Wemmicks may think. It's a vital message for children everywhere: that they are all special in God's eyes.

Contains a bedtime story.

Occupying a key position in the history of western art, this book allows the author to communicate with his readers as he intended. It helps the readers to experience the mystery and beauty of his poems as he first created them, discovering for themselves the intricate web of symbol and meaning that connects word and image.

Using a 75-word vocabulary and clear illustrations, pre-readers are helpfully introduced to the concepts of number, colour, and opposites. These books have been designed to appeal to children through the use of humour, rhyme and bright pictures that can be 'read' even by the non-reading child.

Reverend Lee doesn't realise that his dyslexia is affecting his sermons. His parishioners are at first amused and then shocked by the garbled messages coming from the pulpit. Finally a cure is found. The Vicar must walk backwards for the rest of his life. By the author of The Witches .

The enormous crocodile wants to eat a nice juicy child for lunch today and decides to leave the river to find one. This title was Roald Dahl's first ever collaboration with Quentin Blake.

Contains six nursery tales that feature wicked beasts, brazen crooks and a ghastly giant star.

A story of the author's early years at school and with his family. It features Quentin Blake cover and a section of facts about the author.

Filled with pictures and things to spot on every page, this classic has been refreshed to bring the world of Richard Scarry to a new generation of readers.

Horton the kindly elephant has his work cut out saving the tiny Whos who live on a speck of dust -- no one else believes they are there! But Horton eventually convinces everyone that 'A person's a person, no matter how small'! With a special jacket to tie-in with the brand new animated movie from 20th Century Fox.

A comic cartoon book that describes the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple.

Featuring stories about limbless cannibals, clock monsters, cursed vampire dolls, taxidermied friends, an obsessed would-be lover and fuzzy animal mutilations, this work is about Lenore who might only be small, but has talent for mischief, and occasional wanton destruction.

Take a trip into the dark, surreal world of a little dead girl with a knack for unintentional mayhem in this first instalment of a goth-tinged series! This work features stories about limbless cannibals, clock monsters, cursed vampire dolls, taxidermied friends, an obssesed would-be lover, and more fuzzy animal mutilations than should be legal.

The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma.

Features various fairy tales including: Chicken Licken , The Princess and the Bowling Ball ; The Really Ugly Duckling , and Jack's Bean Problem .

How did the rhinoceros get his wrinkly skin? Why won't cats come when they're called? How did one curious elephant with a nose for trouble change the lives of all elephants everywhere? This title includes eight stories which give answers to these and other intriguing questions. Each story is illustrated by a contemporary picture-book artist.

The story of Raymond Briggs's parents' marriage, from their first, chance encounter to their deaths. Told in Briggs's familiar strip-cartoon format, with nothing embroidered or altered, the book is also a social history of a kind, embracing such events as World War II and the advent of television.

Presents the story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year, 1964.