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One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper.
That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins.
But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all.
Takes you on a journey with a nine-year-old boy called Bruno. And sooner or later you will arrive with Bruno at a fence.
Lines may divide us, but hope will unite us . . .
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
Once upon a time, Little Red set off into the woods to catch a wolf . . .
But the woods aren't all they seem - and are there even any wolves left? Mini Grey re-imagines the classic Little Red Riding Hood fable in an entirely new way. Can Little Red help her new friends in need and recover the wild days of the past?
This is a powerful, moving and funny picture book which will have children and adults revisiting its exquisite pages time and time again, and discussing the important message it holds. From the award-winning author/illustrator of The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon, The Pea and the Princess and Biscuit Bear.
Fiction/Picture booksA ground-breaking book for children about a girl who, despite the fact that she uses a wheelchair, does the same kind of things, and experiences the same moods and emotions as able-bodied children. This book won the 2000 NASEN Special Educational Needs Book Awards. Illustrated by Tony Ross. Readership level: 4+.
Fiction/Fantasy & magical realismThe novels in Brian Jacques powerful fantasy series have been given a new jacket treatment to attract a new generation of readers. Age range: 9-11 years.
Angelica Sprocket lives next door. Her overcoat has pockets galore. And you'll never guess what's in them... This title lets you prepare to be surprised, thrilled and tickled pink by Angelica Sprocket's never-ending pockets, and the marvellous things she keeps in them.
Suitable for younger readers, this book covers the wonder and mysteries of time and space, the frequently bizarre and often obsessive scientists and the methods they used, and the extraordinary accidental discoveries which suddenly advanced whole areas of science when the people were actually looking for something else (or in the wrong direction).
Thomas Ward's final battle with the Fiend is drawing near, but he has never felt more alone in his task. Isolated and afraid, Tom must risk his life against a ferocious vampire god, even as he learns that the final destruction of the Fiend may involve a sacrifice more terrible than he can imagine...
Fiction/Picture booksA funny, imaginative story from the creator of the award winning Eat Your Peas. Inside Billy's bucket he can see all kinds of magnificent sea creatures. Bright and exciting illustrations. Readership level: 0-5yrs.
Fiction/Picture books
The latest terrifying novel in the Spook's series - the books that inspired the forthcoming movie Seventh Son, featuring Jeff Bridges, Ben Barnes and Kit Harrington.
The Spook, his apprentice Tom Ward and Alice have fought evil side by side for years. But can they survive the final destruction of the Fiend? The final battle with the Dark approaches in Joseph Delaney's worldwide hit "Spook" series . . .
For years, the local Spook has been keeping the County safe from evil. Now his time is coming to an end, but who will take over? Many apprentices have tried . . . Some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive. Just one boy is left. Thomas Ward. He is the last hope.
Doctor Dolittle fills his house with so many animals he drives away his human patients. In fact Doctor Dolittle can talk to the animals and prefers them to humans anyway. Then one day Doctor Dolittle gets a mysterious call to come to Africa.
A murder mystery like no other, this novel features Christopher Boone, a 15 year-old who suffers from Asperger's syndrome. When he finds a neighbour's dog murdered, he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
Fiction A new edition of the time-slip novel that was first publihed in 1969. When Charlotte wakes up on her first morning at boarding school she is surprised to find that she has travelled forty years back in time. Readership level: 9 - 11 years.
The elephants decide to play a trick on Elmer. Snake suggests pretending to Elmer that he looks pale and ill, to see if they can make him believe that he really is unwell. However, at the same time, Snake also plots with Elmer to trick the other elephants into thinking he is sick by covering Elmer in pale mud.