There's a most unusual monster under Jo-Jo's bed - very small, wide-awake and very, very hungry. The first double-page spread of this entertaining book is worth spending sometime looking at, for even though it is wordless, it provides us with much information and a context for the story that unfolds.

Poor Jo-Jo is, like many children, afraid there might be a monster under his be ...

 Splat is a worried cat. He tries to put off starting school using a variety of humorous excuses. When mum gently insists, Splat decides to take his pet mouse Seymour to school for company, leading to pandemonium among Splat’s new classmates. Will Splat and Seymour show the rest of the class that cats and mice can be friends? And can Splat turn his worry about school into excitement ...

Join the hustle and bustle of city life, from frozen January to glittering December. No two months are the same, as you’ll discover in this joyful celebration of a year in the city.

Review: This story is a feast of imagery and descriptive text. This book was first published in 1996, but the syntax and language make it more nostalgic, and harken back to a time decades ago. T ...

Judi Barrett has taken the most noticeable characteristics of a number of creatures to give advice on things never to do with them, as demonstrated by the title. So; never go shopping for shoes with a centipede for example, and never invite an ant to a picnic. There's a clever hidden surprise on the spread about taking a giraffe to the cinema, and the book ends with something we are recomm ...

A delightful rhyming story about a thoughtful letter-writer who turns out to be Mary Christmas.

Jeanne Willis triumphs again! The little girl lists the things she doesn't need:"I'm very fond of teddies but I think I've got enough. I've got an awful lot of toys and games and books and stuff" but she'd like "a special spray that keeps the scary monsters ...

Little Wolf can't sleep, and decides that he must have a teddy bear, but asking the Three Little Pigs and Red Riding Hood for help doesn't seeem to turn out very well... and then he helps a rosy-cheeked old gentleman by huffing and puffing into a flat tyre on his red truck, and finds out where at least some teddy bears come from.

This delightful story is wittily written by Mark ...

 What does a girl do if she moves into a house and it’s full of ghosts? If she’s a witch, it doesn’t matter. She can put them to good use as household linen.

Review: The nameless main character and her cat move into a haunted house and then deal robustly with its plague of ghosts. It’s a sweet, short story that may reassure a child scared of ghosts and will m ...

Little Hairy Monster is licking his lollipop, when along comes Scary Monster and demands Hairy Monster's lollipop for himself. Despite all the bullying techniques of Scary Monster: threats of kicking, tripping,catching, scratching,shaking, stinking, deafening and finally the threat of being eaten by him, Hairy Monster stands his ground. Finally Hairy Monster's mum appears and justice i ...

Hungry Bridget stole a biscuit... a dog biscuit! It didn’t taste bad, but soon Bridget started worrying... dog biscuits are meant for dogs, not people. Would anything bad happen? Bridget is hungry and in the shed she finds some biscuits, dog biscuits, they are really meant for dogs to eat but Bridget thought that she might try one and it tasted good! When Mrs Blair finds Bridget with the ...

Santa’s Littlest Helper is always the first one to finish wrapping his presents and packing his sleigh and he is always teased by the others. But when Christmas Eve arrives and they are all suddenly struck down by the Christmas pox it is up to the Littlest Helper to think up a plan for saving Christmas. With a little help from some friends he decides that he will have to attempt the year ...