They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret . . .

Time is running out for Mrs Frisby, a widowed mouse with...

'Don't move!' said a voice, and the voice, like the eye, was enormous but somehow, hushed - and hoarse like a surge of wind...

From the author of Charlotte's Web, a charming story of a bold, adventurous little mouse.

Stuart Little is no ordinary mouse....

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

Once there...

Inspired by Hugh Lofting's classic tales of Doctor Dolittle, his son Christopher Lofting has updated his father's story for...

A heart-warming, funny and fast-moving story set in 1930s America - past winner of the highly prestigious Newbery Medal.

Bud...

Originally published as Last Stories of Polly and the Wolf, the wolf is back again and determined to eat Polly. He set up all...

Clever Polly And the Stupid Wolf by Catherine Storr has delighted generations of young children.

Twelve stories written for...

In The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken, the small town of Pennygaff, the legendary Harp of Teirtu is found - and lost again....

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

When Charles and Meg Murry go searching through a...

The classic story of the extraordinary animal doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh - Doctor Dolittle.

Once upon a time, many...

Ten-year-old Gerald doesn't know why his older brothers and sisters complain so much. With snakes in the bath and scorpions on...

The Country Child is a semi-autobiographical story about a girl growing up in the country before the First World War. Alison...

'You may call me Carbonel. That is my name.'
This is the story of a cat, a broomstick and an ordinary schoolgirl called...

Celebrating 80 years of Gobbolino - the charming tale of a witch's cat who would rather be a kitchen cat, with the original line...

Following a serious illness, Will is sent to stay with his uncle in the wild, bleak mountains of Tywyd. He is troubled by vague...

When Andrew's family moves house, he strikes up an unexpected friendship with his neighbour Victor. There isn't a thing Victor...

Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.

Not a speck, not a stain on her gray school...

The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier is an unforgettable World War II survival story.
Although the silver sword was only a paper...

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the classic story of a girl growing up in the deep South. Set in Mississippi at the height of the...

In this thrilling re-telling of the Anglo-Saxon legend, Beowulf, the renowned children's historical fiction writer Rosemary...

In Back Home, Michelle Magorian, author of the bestselller Goodnight Mister Tom, tells the powerful and unforgettable story of...

A bunch of scruffy urchin kids in the backstreets of Paris outwit thieves to uncover the whereabouts of millions of francs stolen...

In their desperate quest to find the grail, stolen by the forces of the Dark, the Drew children have returned to Trewissick. One...

The six servants of the Light - the Drew children, Will, Bran and the mysterious Merriman - have reached their last, desperate...

'Hiding...where would we hide?... Margot and I started packing our most important belongings into a satchel. The first thing I...

The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett is the story of everyday life in the big, happy Ruggles family who live in the...

A Vicarage Family is the first part in a fictionalized autobiography in which Noel Streatfeild tells the story of her own...

We three Fossils vow to try to put our name into history books, because it's our very own, and nobody can say it's because of our...

Sylvia Waugh's extraordinary novel about the Mennyms, a family of life-sized rag dolls, won the 1994 Guardian Children's Fiction...