Hodder & Stoughton One Year With Kipper Inkpen Mick

Welcome to Malory Towers, where there's more to life than lessons! • This term, the girls get a surprise when Darrell Rivers returns to Malory Towers with a glamorous new girl in tow. Zerelda soon catches everyone's eye for all the wrong reasons! Meanwhile, Bill is causing a stir with her horse-mad ways - and there's a big shock in store for Darrell • Between 1946 and 1951, Enid Blyton wrote six novels set at Malory Towers. Book 3 was first published in 1948. This edition features the classic text and is unillustrated

The Secret Seven are siblings Peter and Janet, and Jack, Barbara, Pam, Colin and George. Together they are The Secret Seven - ready to solve any mystery, any time - in Enid Blyton's classic series of 15 mystery novels • Peter is running the hoopla-stall, but when Fred offers him a pony ride, Scamper is left in charge. When Peter returns Scamper and the money are missing! • In addition to the Secret Seven novels, Enid Blyton wrote six short stories based on the characters which are published in The Secret Seven Short Story Collection (Hodder). The stories are also available in individual volumes, divided into chapters to make them ideal for newly confident readers. They have been illustrated in full colour by Tony Ross

A classic Kipper picture book about baby animals, perfect for sharing together • Kipper and Arthur are talking about baby animals. A baby owl must be an owlet, so a baby frog is a froglet and a baby hedgehog can only be a hoglet... But what is a baby dog called? Do you know? • Little ones will love joining in with this charming story about baby animals and growing up

Cuddle up with Kipper! A classic Kipper story about being afraid of the dark, now in a sturdy board book, perfect for little hands • Where's the best place to try out the most powerful torch there is? Kipper and Tiger decide that it must be in the middle of the woods at the bottom of Big Hill. But just what is that big animal with horns that they can see on the other side of the tent? Perhaps it would be safer to camp in Tiger's room • The perfect book to soothe night-time fears

Can one boy with no memories save the world? • In the Earth world, a boy dreams of faraway lands to escape life with his horrible aunt • In the Elf world, he wakes up with a mysterious golden torch but without any clue who he is … • except for the compass he pulls from his pocket, engraved with one name: Jayben • Jayben discovers that many moons ago, a giant put a dark spell on the golden torch, and the elves forgot everything that had come before. Now they hang precious memories in jars on trees, just to try to remember • But a new darkness grows among them • An evil villain called Null is burning down the forests, hellbent on finding the torch and becoming the most powerful being ever to live • If Jayben can find his own magic and ignite the torch with its fierce violet flame, his power will be unstoppable … Can Jayben save the world before the lights go out forever? • A story of courage, hope and friendship

Kipper the dog has found a soggy blue balloon in the garden. At first, it seems like an ordinary balloon, but it's not. It's full of fun, magic and endless possibilities • 30 years after it was first published, The Blue Balloon is a celebrated picture book classic. It features the very first appearance of Mick Inkpen's much-loved puppy charachter, Kipper, and has delighted millions of children worldwide. This playful tale of imagination, complete with fantastic fold-out pages, is a classic to be treasured, loved and shared time and time again • This gorgeous anniversary edition comes complete with special bonus material and is an absolute must for all Kipper fans!

Вошедшие в данный сборник рождественские рассказы Энид Блайтон по праву считаются нестареющей классикой детской литературы. Эта книга - отличный подарок для тех, кто насладился этими историями в детстве и хочет познакомить с ними новое поколение читателей • Книга «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories» оказалась столь популярной, что издательство Hodder & Stoughton по просьбам читателей выпустило второй праздничный сборник, и именно его вы держите в руках! Энид Блайтон передаёт атмосферу Рождества с несравненным мастерством, какой бы аспект праздника она ни описывала: колядки, ожидание подарков, праздничный стол и, конечно, посиделки с родными и близкими… Да, в историях Блайтон, как обычно, нашлось место для озорства и хаоса, но добро и веселье в них всегда на первом месте! • Рассказы из этой книги ранее не публиковались в «Enid Blyton`s Christmas Stories»

Mrs Blackhat returns in this hilarious rhyming picture book. Perfect for Halloween! • Mrs Blackhat has a new broom. And it's not just any broom: it's a whizzy new ZoomBroom, with buttons, bleeps and its very own app! • But what will Mrs Blackhat do when the battery runs low? Maybe it's time for some old-fashioned magic • A wickedly funny Halloween tale, with a timely message about embracing technology and good old-fashioned magic

From the award-winning creators of Percy the Park Keeper and Kipper comes a new edition of a picture book classic - perfect for children finding out about nature and how things grow. Mick Inkpen is the libraries' ninth most borrowed author • Jasper plants a bean. He waits for it to grow into a beanstalk all week. How long will he have to wait before he can start looking for giants?

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 • When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain • Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Michael's help if he is to survive. With his new friend Mina, Michael nourishes Skellig back to health, while his baby sister languishes in the hospital • But Skellig is far more than he at first appears, and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister, Michael's world changes for ever

The fourth title in the number one bestselling CHERUB series! A routine operation for James turns into a much more deadly mission • Leon is a small-time crook who's ridden his luck for three decades. When he starts splashing big money around, the cops are desperate to know where it came from • They call in CHERUB, a secret organisation with one essential advantage: even experienced criminals never suspect that children are spying on them • James' latest mission looks routine, but the plot he begins to unravel isn't what anyone expected. And the only person who might know the truth is a reclusive eighteen-year-old boy • There's just one problem. The boy fell to his death thirteen months earlier

Quentin has a problem with his Quack in this hilarious new title from bestselling pairing Kes Gray and Jim Field! • From the creators of the bestselling Oi Frog! comes an hilarious tale about one duck's quest for a missing vowel! • Quentin was a duck with a very quick quack • 'Quck!' said Quentin. 'What's wrong with me?' • Quentin's quack has lost its A. Do any of the other animals have one to spare? Not likely! Apes don't want to be pes. Snakes don't want to be snkes. Pandas don't want to be pndas or even pands. Will Quentin be stuck with a very quick Quck?! • Brilliant for reading out loud and teaching children about vowels and animals