'Who's in the loo? There's a very long queue. Is it an elephant having a poo?' This witty rhyme will resonate profoundly if your house has many occupants. It includes illustrations that highlight the fun.

The ghastly Mr Skumskins O'Parsley's favorite dishes include worm cast butties, squashed tadpoles on toast and bogey burgers. O'Parsley decides one day to bake an extra special cake, with more revolting ingredients than you can possibly imagine. However, when the cake decides to eat HIM, he realizes it is time to mend his ways.

Includes a rhyme with illustrations.

When two small sisters go fishing to the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt. They find a bog baby. Small and blue with wings like a dragon, the girls decide to make him their secret. I won't tell if you won't. But the bog baby is a wild thing, and when he becomes poorly, the girls decide they must tell their mum.

Where the willow meets the water a tadpole met a caterpillar. They gazed into each other's tiny eyes... and fell in love. 'I love everything about you', said the caterpillar. 'Promise you'll never change'. And foolishly, the tadpole promises.

Includes a rhyme with illustrations.

Presents a spray to frighten monsters, laces that tie themselves, a hamster that lives forever and a brand-new baby brother on Christmas morning.

Dr Xargle, the green alien school teacher is attempting the hot topic of Earth relations and his views are as refreshing, remarkable and idiosyncratic as ever! Here we learn that Brother Earthlets are smelly, sticky and dangerous, while Sister Earthlets are shy, sneaky and give piercing shrieks.

'I'm Grill Pan Eddy! Everybody ready? Catch me if you can!' Help! There's a mouse in the house.

All the young wild animals think Bat is mad. How can she say a tree has the trunk at the top and the leaves at the bottom? Until, that is, they consult wise Owl who suggests that if they just try looking at things from Bat's point of view, they might see thing very differently.

Susan laughs, she sings, she rides, she swings. Susan gets angry, she gets sad, she is good and she is bad. Susan is just like any other child, or is she? Turn the last page and all will be revealed.

There was once a cow, who was always miserable; and a lamb who tried to cheer her up. But the cow was impossible to cheer up! Even Father Christmas was too jolly for her. The poor lamb burst into tears himself, and wallowed in misery. Finally the cow started to miss him, and gave him the best birthday present ever, a great big grin!

Little Rhino is rude to everyone, and has been since the day he was born. He sticks his tongue out, he makes rude noises, and he waves his bottom at anyone in front of him, with no respect for person or place. Until, that is, he meets his match with someone who is prepared to treat him the same way!

Colin is small, even for a mouse. His mother refuses to let him play outside with his brothers and sisters unless he is wrapped in a big fluffy ball of cotton wool. But instead of keeping him safe, the cotton wool attracts the attention of every fierce creature imaginable - little boys, ducks, even foxes!

In this successor to Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets , which was shortlisted for the Children's Book of the Year Award, the doctor and his aliens prepare to take another trip to Earth to study man's best friend, the Earth hound.

Mayfly might have only one day to live, but she enjoys every moment, observing all the life around her, and rejoicing in her own. As she soars over the sky at dawn, she bathes in the golden light and dances to the music of the universe.

One day a little boy loses his bellybutton, so he sets off into the jungle to find it. On the way he meets lots of animals, who each have their own bellybuttons. But it seems that somebody has stolen the little boy's, and they may not be so eager to give it back!

The young heroine of this book may live in a big city high rise block, but she just wants to be a cowgirl. With a little imagination ordinary city objects become objects more suitable back home on the ranch. A washing line is much better as a lasso and Dad's hat makes a great cowboy hat.

'You can't teach an old dog new tricks.' The Young Pups don't want to visit Grandpa - he is so boring, and only ever wants to talk about the olden days. They don't believe Grandpa was ever young or fun, so Grandpa sets out to prove them wrong, and show them that there is life in the old dog yet!

A lazy horse does nothing except standing still. She doesn't: 'giddy up' for the farmer, nor 'trot off' for his wife, nor play cowboys for their son, nor jump for their daughter. So she gets sold to a tinker, then to the circus, and then to a butcher. But the dozy dobbin demonstrates that, though lazy, she isn't stupid, and runs like the wind.