There are many foods which Lola doesn't like, so one day Charlie decides to play a trick on her...

When Sam-I-am persists in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green eggs and ham, perseverance wins the day, teaching us all that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it.

Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten is the story of a mean old man and a sunny, friendly little girl.

Bald Borka is different to all the other birds. She needs a woolly jumper to keep warm and she isn't very good at flying. Then one day she finds a new home, and suddenly Borka's no longer the ugly duckling

Would you rather dance with a goat or tickle a monkey, help a witch make a stew or help Santa deliver presents, or eat spider stew or mashed worms? This book depicts such unlikely alternatives. John Burningham's many other books include Aldo , Trublov , Borka and Oi! Get Off Our Train .

A wonderful tale about enjoying being different. Chrysanthemum loves her name, until she starts going to school and the other children make fun of it.

Offers a collection of fables with fresh morals. They are about various kinds of funny and annoying characters and the general moral offeredis.

Only a child has the courage to speak the truth about the Emporer's lack of clothes, in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's traditional fairy-tale. The illustrator sets the tale in a small kingdom around the year 1913, featuring fashions of the period and an early motor car.

The beautiful and haunting novel that launched David Almond as one of the best children's writers of today. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread children's book of the Year Award.

Everybody knows that elephants and rhinos can never be friends. Or can they? Babar's daughter Isabelle and Rataxes' son Vic won't let the grown-ups stop them from playing together. But when they sneak off in a boat, the weather turns stormy and they worry they will never see their families again.

The follow-up to the bestselling classic 'All Kinds of People', this book asks the question: What do you and your family believe in? The lift the flap format celebrates all kinds of children with all kinds of beliefs in a warm, open way.

When the driver leaves the bus temporarily, he gives the reader just one instruction: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you let him drive? Told entirely in speech bubbles, this is a brilliantly original book.

An edgy new picture book from the creator of 'Percy the Park Keeper'. It features a new style of illustration and thought-provoking plot.

A UFO is lost in space, until it spots a strange, blue planet. Zooming in for a closer look, the UFO discovers a curious creature watching it. The two quickly become friends and explore the earth and heavens together in one unforgettable afternoon.

This is a simple story about a creature called Something Else who is excluded from his neighbour's activities because he behaves and looks different. But then when an even stranger creature tries to make friends with Something Else, he doesn't want to know, until he sees himself in the mirror.

When a rat comes to live at the edge of their wood, most of the animals reject him. But Frog, who is friendly by nature, decides to find out if Rat is really as unpleasant as he is made out to be. As he discovers, Rat is intelligent and good-hearted after all, and a true friend in emergencies.

It's getting late and the bus driver is going to brush his teeth and get ready for bed. Will you do him a favour while he is gone - don't let the pigeon stay up late. But this pigeon is wide awake: he isn't even tired - in fact he's in the mood for a hot-dog party.

Ari is an 11-year-old boy with a gift for music. By translating his early travels around Europe with his mother into pieces of music, Ari grows to realize that life is composed of many kinds of journeys, and accepting those journeys is part of finding your place in the world. This book is for children aged 10 and above.

Once elephants came in two colours: black or white. They loved all other creatures, but each set wanted to exterminate the elephants that were not the same as themselves. For a long time it seemed that there were no elephants in the world at all, not of any colour. But, then the descendants of the peace-loving ones emerged from the jungle.

All dogs walk and jump and run, but dogs don't fly - it can't be done, can it? Jez Alborough's uplifting tale is for anyone who has ever, just for a second, stopped believing in miracles.