Children's Books

There's no place on earth like the Whippet Hotel. Every floor has its surprises and secrets. Guests are either mad or mysterious. And ducks are everywhere. If anyone knows the...

As a builder during America's Great Depression, you'll take any job you can get. But you'd better have a good head for heights, because you're about to start work on...

What would happen if every creature on land and sea were free to be as rotten as possible? If every day was a free-for-all; if plants grew barbed wire; if...

Romeo Montague thinks he's in love until he meets Juliet, the daughter of the Capulets. With her, he discovers what true love really feels like. But their two families are...

An incredible claim by the eccentric Professor Challenger leads to an expedition deep into the Amazon, where an unlikely group of men find themselves on a journey into unknown dangers....

The time traveller has invented a time machine. Its capabilities are beyond even his fertile imagination. Hundreds of thousand of years in the future, the beautiful Eloi people live in...

This gorgeous colouring book is perfect for girls who love to take the time to fill in lots of detail and complete delightful pictures. With loads of lovely drawings to...

Planes, trains and automobiles - plus the odd alien spacecraft, make this the ideal colouring book for creative boys. Packed with fantastic drawings to colour, The Boys' Colouring Book will...

This book is a cornucopia of entertaining activities - ensuring fun for all the family. There are ideas suited to all the different occasions that families spend time together: weekday...

You ruled Egypt for a brief but turbulent period, oversaw a national change in religion and then died mysteriously at only 19 years old. Since your body was first examined...

Ducky and Piggy are having a tea party with their younger friend Bunny. But Bunny can't join in the real fun because he won't stop sucking on his bottle. Ducky...

Life in the Inkworld has been far from easy since the extraordinary events of Inkspell, when the story of Inkheart magically drew Meggie, Mo and Dustfinger back into its pages....

Meet Dude Harris - one minute surfing the crowd, the next, a real dead rock star! Luckily, with the help of some new ghostly pals, Dude discovers that the afterlife...

Calm the mind and body, improve patience and boost confidence with yoga! These cards include forward bends, back bends, partner poses and balance poses.

Tom Crean ran away from his Kerry home, aged 15, to join the British navy in 1893. He travelled to the Antarctic with the famous explorers, Scott and Shackleton. He...

At last a book that no boy, young or old, should be without; a book that guarantees hours of fun; a book that shows readers exactly how to be the...

Includes over 150 more puzzles - ranging in difficulty from the satisfyingly simple, to get puzzlers started (and addicted), to the more challenging, for scorchin' suduko-ers. A simple tutorial explains...

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of "The Origin of the Species", this title takes readers around the world on a voyage of discovery with the famous scientist, from...

This book contains amusing illustrations and descriptive text, which provide an interesting insight into the harsh realities faced by convicts under the old penal system, and the beginnings of colonial...

The original volume in our best-selling "Children's Miscellany series". Packed full of fascinating facts that will astound and amaze, this irreverent but intelligent guide to the weird, wild and wonderful...

Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of the extraordinary events of Inkheart, and the story whose characters strode out of the pages, and...

"Bake me a brazzle, Felix, you're looking good!" said Snakeweed. "Archie and I have had a Ripping time over here - but now we want to go back. And I'm...

I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood...