Benjanin Zephaniah didn't tap into his true potential until he had sunk into the depths of despair.

Review Wilkins describes her tiny book as 'a profile', and intersperses biography with appropriate examples of Zephaniah's poetry. She gives a truthful account of his dysfunctional home life, his problems at school, eventual exclusion and drift into crime. We learn t ...

Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he is an Astrosaur and Captain of the amazing spaceship DSS Sauropod. he jets off on dangerous missions and along with his faithful crew - Gipsy, Arx and Iggy - he fights evil. Teggs can’t wait to see his old schoolmates, Blink and Dutch, at the Astrosaurs Academy Reunion. But when they are kidnapped by an evil group known as the FANG he soon discovers som ...

Young Teggs Stegosaur is a pupil at Astrosaurs Academy where dinosaurs train to be Astrosaurs. With his best friends Blink and Dutch beside him he can be certain that amazing adventures are never far away!

The astro-jet flying lesson ends badly for the cadets when they crash into a freezing cavern deep underground! But there is more than rocks and ice for Teggs and the gang to cope with ...

Discover the treasure chest of minerals that is our world! With amazing pop-ups and flaps find out how many of the things that we take for granted in the world have come from the ground underneath us. From the authors of The Global Garden a book that won the Junior Aventis Prize  comes a pop-up book, a no ...

A mysterious stranger called Mr Finder offers to help Till find his dog Bess, and they interview various witnesses including a heron, a mole, a riddling cat - and Miss Mousey, whose sketch of a peaceful riverbank offers a vital clue. The quest to find Bess is full of magic but Till begins to mistrust his supposed ally Mr Finder - until at last he realizes the truth, and they track down the rea ...

Tiger Lily is a heroine on a mission! By saving the bacon of an escaped wild boar and her boarlets she can also save her beloved three-legged mischievous greyhound, Rosie, from being sent to a Dog Institution!

Tiger Lily is a lively girl whose dog is so badly behaved that Lily’s exasperated mum has threatened to send her to a home for retired greyhounds. Lily begs for second chanc ...

When guinea pig pandemonium breaks out at the local pet shop, Stink and his friends fly into action.After rounding up the loose fur balls, the Fantastic Three hit the road to find homes for 101 guinea pigs!

Review:Stink is the younger brother of Judy Moody and he has his own set of exciting adventures. After finding three escapee guinea pigs, Stink is determined to find ...

This detailed and fascinating book shows how one street has changed over a 12,000 year period. Fourteen key historical periods are illustrated across double-page spreads with supporting explanatory captions.

Review: The illustrations in this book convincingly portray the changing face of street life - each turn of the page plunges you not only into a different period of history, b ...

Synopsis - episodes in the life of the Murphy family who live at 53 Parrot Park, Dublin.

Review - This is three short very simple stories about the visit of the canadian cousins, a jumble sale and a jumper that lasts forever. There are pictures on every page (black and white line drawings) that add so much to the deceptively simple stories that this becomes a real transition book ...

  Libby has a huge imagination which means her description of her aunts wedding and her most embarrassing day ever is amazingly inventive.

Review - Libby is thrilled when the school plan a literacy initiative which means a weekend away at Pirate Palace. But the family really can't afford the fees, plus it's Libby's aunt's wedding that weekend so Libby has to wear her ...