Synopsis After a dramatic escape from the appoaching floods, Jack and his family relocate to the country, where they meet Michael, ill and cared for by his sister. United by their love for horses, Jack and Michael hatch a plan to save a wild young horse from destruction. But they're in for a rough ride ...

Review After the Flood is set some time in the future ...

Synopsis Mousebeard, yearns to be released from an ancient curse which dooms him to remain at sea. What’s more he seeks revenge on his mortal enemy Isiah Lovelock. In the meantime two young mousekeepers decide to help him leading to an exciting adventure which threatens their lives.

Review: The story finds the crew of the Silver Shark setting off on a quest to lift t ...

 The earthworm is one of the oldest living inhabitants on this planet. It was only with the arrival of human beings that their presence in many parts of the world came under threat. This book takes readers through the relationships between the earthworm, the natural world and human beings through time and up to the present day.

Review This highly original book charts the hist ...

  Spooking is the wonderfully weird, ramshackle town at the top of the hideous hill. Its rival, Darlington, is the modern, all-too-perfect city at the bottom of the hill. When the mayor of Darlington announces a water park will be opened in Spooking, Joy Wells is determined to save her beloved town from becoming just as boring and plastic as Darlington. But someone is out to stop her, no m ...

This title contains a treasure trove of advice from financial expert and star of BBC's "Your Money or Your Life", Alvin Hall. Money might make the world go around, but only if you know how to use it, and who better to teach your child all about finance than BBC's "Your Money or Your Life" presenter, Alvin Hall. They'll enter the world of business and ec ...

: When Victor Frankenstein creates a living man in his laboratory, little does he realize that his life will be destroyed by his own creation. The classic novel by Mary Shelley is vividly and faithfully retold in graphic novel format.

Review: The Graffex series aims to translate works of classic literature into fast-paced but faithful graphic novels, bringing our literary heritag ...

This is the story of the Big House by the Mersey and the people who lived there: the twins Walter and Dorothy, whose father is the butler; Master George, the desperately lonely son of the wealthy owner; and Tweeny, the little maid treated hardly better than a slave. In a way the house belongs to all of them, though the lives of the servants and masters couldn’t be more different. When di ...

  There is nothing in this world that Artemis Fowl can't handle. He's a teenage genius with a whole world of magical allies to call on (if he can think up a reason for them to help him, and he usually can) and practically the only person in the world who can match him is in the most secure prison on the planet. But when his mother is struck down by a magical illness, the only cure ...

The Wizard’s Promise is the climax of the Doomspell fantasy trilogy.

At the end of The Scent of Magic, all the world’s children’s magical powers were awakened. This has turned the world upside down: children are empowered whereas the unmagical adults are dependent. A few children loot and terrorise, but most use their gifts re ...

As we enter the digital age, advances in technology are turning robots that were once pure fantasy into real artificial beings that can walk, run and talk like human beings. As a result, children's fascination with robotics has never been greater.

"Robots" vividly portrays and illustrates the complete spectrum of robotics, from the earliest design sketches and concepts by pi ...