Synopsis:  Seven short stories linked by the scary voice of Captain Night-Night Porter, the custodian of the deep sunk ship where all naughty people end their days!

Review: This book will appeal to all who love to be scared and enjoy the disgusting. Jamie Rix has taken stories of everyday naughty, thoughtless children and devised the most fiendish punishments that mea ...

 This book is part of the ‘Nature Storybooks’ series produced by Walker Books. This non-fiction series attempts to teach young children about the lives of animals through the eyes of just one animal in that species. In ‘One Tiny Turtle’ Nicola Davies follows one turtle through to adulthood. 

Review In ‘One Tiny Turtle’ readers ...

 This book is part of the ‘Nature Storybooks’ series produced by Walker Books. This non-fiction series attempts to teach young children about the lives of animals through the eyes of just one animal in that species. In ‘All Pigs are Beautiful’ Dick King-Smith introduces young readers to the world of the pig.

Review The fact that Dick King-Smi ...

Synopsis: Stanley Wells is an ordinary boy, who happens to be quite curious. His friends are the mysterious Dr Moon and his canine companion Morcambe. Together they seem to stumble upon strange happenings and trip over mysteries that just need solving... Stanley is sleeping in the caravan at the bottom of the garden of his new house. He awakes at the sound of an odd whooooomphing noise ...

 Look out, look out, Jack Frost is about! Jack is snow white and always cold. Within a surreal setting and supported by weird woodland creatures, it is up to Jack to save the magic enchanted forest from the wicked goblins. Will he succeed and is so how will he do it?

 Review: An intriguing, original tale of how this character from a well-known children's rhyme came in ...

Watch a caterpillar metamorphose into a butterfly in this fun, informative, award-winning picture book, part of the new Nature Storybooks series.

This beautiful book is excellent for reading aloud to a group or for sharing as a bedtime storybook. The plot of the story is interwoven with facts about caterpillars and their development and maturation into beautiful butterflies. This series ...

Part of "The Classifying Animals" series, this book offers detailed insight into the world of amphibians. It looks at the class of amphibians, and the orders, families and species within it. It reveals the characteristics that distinguish the amphibians in different groups. It compares the differences in their life cycles.

This non-fiction title is an excellent and through book ...

As a collector of alphabet books, I'm always on the look out for a fresh take on this flexible genre. My personal collection numbers almost 500 books from around the world and as a collection it's a fascinating record of culture, nationality and history.  Only in Australia would Vegemite be used to illustrate the letter V!

 ABC UK is, as the title suggests, an ...

Synopsis: The land of the goblins is hidden, but not so far away. If you look carefully, you might just find it… Butterfingers and Mildew need to take more care of their egglets! After all, there’s a snootle-pig about…

Review: Part of a successful series of books about goblins, David Melling’s ‘Tree Goblins’ is an imaginative ...

It takes a desperate man to do what Special Agent Jack Strong is about to do. Time is running out for Jack, he has a dossier that it is no longer safe for him to keep, he must leave it somewhere and hope that whomever picks it up, and as a result holds the key to the future of humankind, is brave enough to enter the secret world of intelligence. It will be up to them to crack codes, solve puzz ...