Книги жанра детская проза
Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!Fliss is desperate for a pet in The Sleepover Club at Rosie’s, and volunteers to look after the school hamster for the weekend. Oh-oh… Kenny’s horrible sister is out to make trouble in The Sleepover Club at Kenny’s – have the Sleepover Club met their match? And …
A fifth title in the popular Bridesmaids series, aimed at 6 – 8 year old girls [but not including the boys, of course!]Jess is a talented young athlete. When her athletics teacher asks her to be a bridesmaid at their wedding, she jumps at the chance! But this is a wedding with a difference – the bride and groom are to run in a marathon and Jess has to run part of the way with them! But when a traf…
A thrilling sci-fi novel set in a believeable – and terrifying – near future… Hybrids is the winning entry to the HarperCollins nationwide new author competition with SAGA Magazine.Johnny Online and Kestrella are hybrids – victims of «Creep», a pandemic sweeping the country which causes sufferers to merge with items of technology when over-exposed to their use. Kestrella persuades a wary Johnny to…
Surrender to the power of the water…Alex knows she is different. She’s plagued by nightmares that feel shockingly real and an intense restlessness she cannot explain. As the long hot summer holidays stretch before her, Alex seeks out adventure in the rugged mountains of Injasuthi.But during a camping trip to the mystic jade pools, Alex meets Merrick, a boy who tells her the shocking truth about he…
Новая сказка Ольги Сентряковой, автора книги «Снежное облако и его обитатели», снова погружает читателя в необычную обстановку: автор в буквальном смысле спускает нас с небес на землю – из зимней заоблачной страны снежинок мы вдруг перемещаемся в жаркую пустыню. «А что может быть интересного в море песка и солнца?» – спросит читатель. Конечно, его жители –добрые и гневающиеся, трудолюбивые и не оч…
В лес мы, городские жители, ходим не часто. Хорошо, если раз в год за грибами выберемся, а то и вовсе забываем, что есть на свете такое чудо – лес. Виталий Бианки был учёным-орнитологом и знал лес превосходно, хотя почти всю жизнь прожил в Ленинграде. Его рассказы и сказки о животных и растениях – это не просто интересные, а иногда и захватывающие истории, но уникальные произведения, содержащие ог…
Обитатели живого уголка — непутёвый грызун Авоськин, пожилая рептилия Улька и птица с подорванным здоровьем Отелло — попадают в водоворот чрезвычайных событий. Они становятся участниками совсем не научных экспериментов, маскарада с разоблачениями, спасаются от потопа, предотвращают ограбление ювелирного магазина, сражаются с коварным врагом. Мир глазами хомяка Авоськина получился и смешным, и грус…
The first in a charming new series of magical books for younger readers about Freddy Frogpurse, the fun-loving, Wizzbang Wizard.Freddy pointed his magic wand at the sofa. “Wizzbang-a-dust-up! Get-me-a-gust-up!” he said out loud.Freddy Frogpurse has come to his Great Uncle Sneezer’s house to learn how to be a wizard. His house dragon, Odds and Ends, nags at him to practise more, but Freddy just wan…
Meet the strange customers and sample the foul-food served up at Fuzzby’s monster diner – the brilliant setting for this humorous story from debut author and illustrator, David O’Connell. Highly illustrated in full-colour.Bright, bold colours bring these fantastic monsters to life!Somewhere in suburbia, or maybe smack-bang in the middle of your city, there is a very special diner. What’s so specia…
Optimised for colour tablets. The images in this e-book are not suitable for viewing on black and white e-ink devices.For children aged 6 and over, Collins Junior Illustrated Dictionary contains full sentence definitions, colour headwords and child-friendly example sentences, along with beautiful colourful illustrations and photographs.Especially written to support the needs of children aged 6 to …
Optimised for colour tablets. The images in this e-book are not suitable for viewing on black and white e-ink devices.This fantastic thesaurus is especially designed for children aged 8 and above (Key Stage 2) and supports today's Primary curriculum needs. Clear and accessible, it is an indispensable tool for young writers.• full definitions for every entry and sample sentences for each synonym to…
A sparkling novel from the author of SHINE and GLITTER.“We talk about everything, Dad and me.About all the mysteries inside of us. About all our wonderings of the world.But tomorrow my dad goes to war. Then what will I do?”Jemima’s dad’s in the Army and he’s off to Afghanistan again for six whole months.Her mum’s about to have another baby and hasn’t got the energy to worry about anything else.Gra…
Specially commissioned short stories, by prize-winning authors, on the theme of Mirrors.READERSHIP: 10 – 14A collection of new , specially commissioned short stories by some of the finest authors of children’s books today: Anne Fine, Berlie Doherty, Leslie Howarth, Mary Arrigan, Gaye Hicilmaz, Jeremy Strong, Malorie Blackman, Elizabeth Laird , Melvin Burgess, Celia Rees, Kate Thompson, Paul Stewar…
Join the Sleepover Club: Frankie, Kenny, Felicity, Rosie and Lyndsey, five girls who want to have fun – but who always end up in mischief!Some members of the British National Ballet come to Cuddington Primary to teach the pupils a few moves – but the Sleepover Club has a few moves of its own, particularly when the M&Ms start getting snotty! It all boils down to a competition – who will have the be…
Two girls with two very different lives come together in this beautiful and moving story of friendship and family, by a major new voice in girls’ fiction.Meet Maya. She has a cosy, comfy life with her slightly hippy mum and dad by the sea in Cornwall. But as an only child, Maya feels smothered by her parents’ love and longs to be a given more freedom and independence; but what Maya wants more than…