BEST BOOKS > 6 - 9 yrs

Oh no – watch out! Don't look now! Inside this book is an EXPLODING cow! FIVE... FOUR... THREE... TWO... ONE... KAPOW! More rhyming mayhem and comic madness from the bestselling duo of the inspired JUST! series. Andy Griffiths rhyming text – that will entice and engage the most reluctant child to read while laughing all the way – is hilariously counterpointed by Terry Denton's delightfully wonky illustrations. A side-splitting companion to the award-winning and Children's Book Council shortlisted title,... read more

This title presents the tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs.

Ancient China, Han Dynasty. A slave girl saves the life of an ageing dragon and escapes her brutal master. Pursued by a ruthless dragon hunter, the girl and the dragon make an epic journey across China carrying a mysterious stone that must be protected. This is the story of a young slave girl who believes she is not worthy of a name but finds within herself the strength and courage to make this perilous journey-and do what must be done. The first book in this award winning series from Carole Wilkinson.

Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey - and he's been trying to get back home for over four hundred years! Now Charlie has been whisked into outer space. Get ready for alien encounters and a totally cosmic adventure. Will Charlie ever get safely back home or is he marooned forever? Gadgets, Inventions, Monstrous Creatures, Evil Villians ...No adventure is too BIG for Charlie Small!

Laughter is the best medicine, they say, so what better way to support the Cure Kids foundation than with a joke book? Why did the kiwi sit on the clock? So he would be on time! With 500 more hilarious jokes inside, this is a book that will keep Kiwi kids and adults laughing for hours. And what’s more, it’s homegrown! This joke book is a way to support Cure Kids, the charity that gives children who live with an illness the opportunity to step back and just enjoy life, and funds research into life-threatening childhoo... read more

When Mr Green announces his diabolical plan - he has decided to get married - his children (Derrick, Samantha and Michael) are horrified. Especially when they discover his real motive - he wants to sack their beloved nanny, Nanny Piggins. Obviously their father has to be stopped, and Nanny Piggins is just the pig to do it. Never cross a flying pig. Nanny Piggins and the children have many exciting adventures - including being blasted across Dead Man's Gorge with an armadillo, breaking into a maximum security prison in search of Ch... read more

Part of a major reissue of all the Stanley Lamchop titles, with new artwork by American artists Scott Nash. Age5+.

Flat Stanley Stanley Lambchop wakes up one morning to find a notice-board has dropped on him in the night, leaving him happy and healthy, but only half an inch thick. It's a little unusual, but he finds he can fly like a kite, be sent on holiday through the post and can use his special new skills to catch some art thieves. Still, he's glad when his brother Arthur thinks to use the bicycle pump to inflate him back to his normal shape.

Stanley Lambchop is polishing his mother's birthday teapot when a boy genie appears out of the spout. Prince Haraz is mischievous and young genie, and very happy to grant Mrs Lambchop's wish to be famous. He also helps Mr Lambchop beat the horrible tennis player Tom McRude, and creates a lionphant when Stanley and Arthur can't decide which animals they want. But Prince Haraz misses his home and his friends, and is delighted when Stanley wishes him free of the lamp.

The President of the United States himself chooses Stanley and his family to become the first humans to explore in Star Scout, a new top-secret spaceship. They follow a message from the planet Tyrra and save its tiny inhabitants from starvation, relocating their city to the White House tennis court until it

How did the cat on the mat get flat?,Why did Ed and Ted and Ted's dog Fred get spat out of the head of a whale called Ned?,Where was Harry Black when Jack the Yak stole the snack from his sack?,What happened to Buck the Duck's brand new muck-sucking truck?,>Who else, apart from Andy G and Terry D, were chased up a tree by an evil bee?,The answers to these stupid questions – and many other stupid questions-are contained in this deeply stupid book... Well, what are you waiting for Open the book and start reading! First published 2006.

The Enormous Crocodile is very greedy and loves eating children! But the other animals plan to ruin his wicked schemes and teach him a lesson. This edition has a great new Quentin Blake cover and a new author biography. The illustrations are in colour throughout.

Return to the magical world of Enchantia in the captivating second series of Magic Ballerina by Darcey Bussell! Rosa knows that her new red ballet shoes are special, but she soon discovers that they are magical when she is whirled into Enchantia! On her very first adventure, can Rosa free the swan princess from King Rat's curse?

With a runaway lion loose in the neighbourhood, Derrick, Samantha and Michael feel scared. Nanny Piggins feels like a slice of cake. And Boris feels like that lion looks strangely familiar. In this third action-packed book of adventures, Nanny Piggins tames a lion and a lion tamer. She revolutionises the sport of ski jumping, introduces hot-pink leotards to the local Neighbourhood Watch, demonstrates trapeze skills on a moving bus, plays badminton with a wok and teaches Shakespeare a thing or two about how to write a play. All th... read more

<p>In the fifth journal found by us, the lucky and smug publisher, we learn that Charlie Small has become embroiled in an underworld from his nightmares ...Previously, Charlie had bumped into the infamous Jakeman - but when the mad professor was dragged down into the Underworld, Charlie had to follow - otherwise, how would he discover how to get back to his mum and dad? This latest adventure takes him into an unreal darkened world, where anything is possible. But will Charlie Small ever find a way out, or will he be trapped u... read more