Books about UWC

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.

Michael's parents buy a yacht, and take him off to sail round the world. Washed overboard in a fierce storm, Michael finds himself on the shore of a remote island - and soon discovers he's not alone. Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, survived the war and the bombing of Hiroshima, but his family perished. As an extraordinary bond forms between the two, Kensuke faces a heart-breaking choice: can .

One day, Gumboot is given a large bar of chocolate. He puts it in the basket of his bicycle and rides off to the park. Happily munching on the chocolate, he stops to watch the ducks as they feed and play. Gumboot decides he will give the ducks some food.

There are no penguins at the North Pole, but there used to be... Here is the story of the last North Pole penguin, told by the master-storyteller Mick Inkpen, creator of Kipper and Wibbly Pig.

With radical innocence and great sophistication, Bhajju Shyam, a tribal artist from central India, records his observations of London in the form of a stunning visual travelogue.

Lola has a cold and is feeling really ever so not well. So her big brother Charlie thinks of all sorts of ideas to try to cheer Lola up. He brings her pink milk and biscuits, sings her a special song, plays her best smiley jigsaw puzzle and even takes her on a cloud-hopping adventure! Soon Lola's feeling much, much better.

In this clever and literal play on words, OK is turned on its side, upside down, and right side up to show that being OK can really be quite great, encouraging children to discover their own individual strengths and personalities. Full color.

Claire has hurt her knee so she sets off home to tell her mum all about it. On the way she meets her friends and tells them how the fall happened. But just how did it happen ...? Was she dropped by a wolf, a slithering snake, an enormous dragon or a hairy gorilla?

When newly orphaned Mary Lennox arrives from India to live with her uncle, everyone at Misselthwaite Manor thinks her a most disagreeable child. Then one day she discovers a garden - a secret garden. With the help of Dickon and her spoilt, invalid cousin, Mary brings the garden back to life; and as she does, the mystery behind it is revealed.

This collection of classic fairy tales introduces very young children to these popular stories. This particular story covers Red Riding Hood .

When their Owl Mother goes off hunting one night, the three baby owls sit and think as they wait for her return. This is a tale from the acclaimed King Rollo Films, accompanied by music.

Sunny the meerkat lives with his enormous family in the Kalahari desert. They are all very close ...so close, in fact, that one day Sunny decides he's had enough and packs his bags. He's off to visit his mongoose cousins. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn't fit in.

Harry, the black and white dog with a nose for mischief, is back. On a trip to the seaside, he gets tangled up with a bunch of seaweed and comes out of the sea looking like a monster. As usual with Harry, he creates a lot of havoc before finding his own family again.

Pip is a playful, three-year-old Adelie penguin. She's not nearly as big as the Emperor penguins, who also live in the Antarctic and turn up their noses when she passes. However, after Pip's played with her friend, William, the sperm whale, she doesn't feel so small anymore.

Trucks and donkeys, cars and camels, carts and buses..... The bustling streets of Cairo are exciting, but today Ahmed will share his secret, which is even more exciting.