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The third book about Morris, the lovable fat ginger kitten whose main interest in life is food! A Roaring Good Read for children who are just able to read on their own.Morris gets chased up the apple tree by a great big dog. He crawls to the end of a very long branch…and then gets stuck. He is much too afraid to come down. His sister, Rose, climbs up the tree to join him, then they are both stuck.…
An hilarious story, told in letter form, about King Alfred – he who burnt the cakes, and his battles with the Vikings.Berwin, son of Egfrith, writes to Wulfric, son of Elred using his miraculous new talent of reading and writing. Berry’s spellings leave a lot to be desired and in his hilarious letters he tells a tale of mixups and mayhem when King Alfred hides in his family’s cottage but is mistak…
Morris is a lovable, greedy fat ginger kitten. In this story he is afraid of the new cat flat, but how will he get his food which is inside the house, when he is outside! A Roaring Good Read for new readersMorris is a loveable chubby, lazy kitten. When a new cat flap is installed in the door, Morris is horrified. Morris is scared. It doesn’t bother his sister, Rose. It doesn’t bother his brother, …
The further silent adventures of the trouserless man, who now extends his half-dressed antics outside the office onto an unsuspecting world…Enter the extraordinarily ordinary world of a half-dressed man.In the world of ROGER, silence speaks volumes, whether in the workplace, at leisure, or on his travels.Following his debut collection of captionless cartoons in 2006, this follow-up book sees ROGER…
A moving and heart-warming short story from the collection, BEYOND THE STARS, written by 14-year-old competition winner and illustrated by one of Ireland’s best-loved and award-winning picture-book creatorsRuka is different from all the other ten-year-olds in the village, lacking the magical powers needed to begin training as a young sorcerer. Lonely and insecure, she runs away into the forest in …
Danny loves dancing, but not the funky, popular variety that would have his friends green with envy; no, Danny loves Ballet. A ‘Billy Elliot’ for younger readers by this renowned ballet-loving author.Danny loves ballet, but he daren’t admit it to his mates. But one of his teacher’s knows, and she casts Danny in the starring ballet role in the end of term show at school. But Danny is also in the sc…
Topical satire from the authors of Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit?‘Is the Cameron government a coup?’ This is the question under discussion in this witty and topical article from the bestselling authors of ‘Is it Just Me or is Everything Shit’. This question, and 44 other questions, orbiting this central question like satellites of love. Such as, ‘Will Cameron kill Clegg?’ and ‘Did Sam Cam in…
When Isobel and Alex came home from school to find their abusive father had brutally murdered their mother, their world was thrown into chaos. Plunged into a care system that neglected them, Isobel and Alex were expected to come to nothing, and had only each other to rely on.Isobel and Alex’s mother used to do everything with them. A full-time teacher, she dedicated herself to her children, partly…
A hilarious compendium of weird, wonderful, warped classic and new games.Taken from the brilliant website http://strange-games.blogspot.com/, Montegue Blister's Strange Games is a pocket-sized compendium of the most hilarious, noisy, messy, and often vomit-inducing games ever written.Finally, the official rules for all the games you played at school as a kid, such as Finger Jousting, Peanuts, Slap…
Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His…
This is Ethel’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the s…
В этом сборнике собраны не просто стихотворения, а целая история. Проходя через жизненные трудности ты записываешь свои мысли, свои чувства. А эти самые чувства выливаются в стихотворения моей жизни...
Молодой офицер Андрей Калинин служит на современной атомной подводной лодке Северного флота России. Андрей вспоминает некоторые события из своей жизни: срочную службу, пронизанную дедовщиной, конфликт с сослуживцем Абу Бароевым по прозвищу Чечен, своих друзей по военно-морскому училищу Пашку и Серого, первую любовь… Спецслужбы предлагают…
Все очень неспокойно в сказочном лесу. Баба Яга пребывает в долговременной депрессии после предательства Кота Баюна. Не радуют старую колдунью ни мелкие пакости, ни ссоры с соседями, ни надоевшие развлечения. Все меняется, когда к ней попадает законченный алкоголик по имени Валерьян.
Сказка о маленьком трусливом мальчике по имени Тихон. Попав в Тридевятое царство, он превращается в могучего богатыря, единственного на всю округу. Совсем недавно он боялся каждой дворняги, а теперь ему предстоит спасти царицу Варвару из плена бабы Яги и старика Кощея. Что же из этого выйдет? Это мы узнаем от кота Василия, который вместе с Тихоном отправится в Темный лес, чтобы написать новую сказ…