Children's Fiction

Nick Mack’s best friend, Ellie, has a dog called Newton, whom she says is as much Nick’s dog as hers. But Nick still wants a pet of his own. When Aunt Terri comes to visit Nick finds a four-leaf clover in the park – and his…

Sally loves nothing more than investigating a good mystery – and her shaggy canine companion Fetch loves nothing more than to be at her side when she does. There's just one small problem: they always gets the wrong end of the…

A joyful, uplifting story of times gone by from the internationally acclaimed author of Skellig , illustrated in full colour by the award-winning illustrator of A Walk in London . Liam just wants to go out running with his mates…

Harry Miller's Run (David Almond, Salvatore Rubbino)

Imagine you wrote a story and that story came true. This is exactly what happens to Blue Baker when he writes about a savage living alone in the woods near his home. After his dad’s death, Blue finds comfort in dreaming of a…

The gods have created a world – they've built mountains, a sea and a sky – and now their days are filled with long naps in the clouds (and tea and cake). That's until Harry, Sue and Little Ben begin to fill the gaps of the…

Stanley Potts is just an ordinary boy, but when all the jobs in Fish Quay disappear his Uncle Ernie develops an extraordinary fascination with canning fish. Suddenly their home is filled with the sound of clanging machinery and…

A warm and wonderfully wacky tale told with heart and hope by the Carnegie award winning author David Almond. Lizzie and Dad live in a rainy town in the north of England. It's just the two of them, and Auntie Doreen, who pops…

Welcome to the latest grand and gripping Gaskitt story, in which Gus and Gloria have a lot of running to do, Mrs Gaskitt hardly ever gets out of bed and something dreadful happens to Horace! (Also starring: a brainy rat named…

In this thrilling, thunderous (and extra-long) Gaskitt story, Mrs Gaskitt finds a parcel, Mr Gaskitt loses a baby, Horace has mixed feelings about a bird, and the twins' teacher, Mrs Fritter, is – ooer! – not herself. Why?…

One lucky morning ... Mrs Gaskitt opens the post and finds she's won a prize! Next she kisses the postman! Never mind, though – the postman is Mr Gaskitt doing his very latest job. Meanwhile, Gus and Gloria get a new teacher,…

Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award, this book is the first in a series of brilliantly funny early readers by Allan Ahlberg. One morning Mr Gaskitt puts on all his clothes, Mrs Gaskitt picks up a robber in her taxi, Gus…

Welcome to Scream Street, where mummies rub shoulders with vampires, leeches and half-skeletal dogs are pets, and where witches sell their wares to zombies. It's a sanctuary that the government has prepared for monsters of all…

Welcome to Scream Street, where mummies rub shoulders with vampires, leeches and half-skeletal dogs are pets, and where witches sell their wares to zombies. It's a sanctuary that the government has prepared for monsters of all…

Welcome to Scream Street, where the government allows monsters such as zombies and werewolves to live in often-interrupted peace and tranquility. Trainee witch Luella is forbidden from casting certain spells unsupervised. But she…