Collection: Children's fiction

The titles in this series cover a wide range of fiction genres listed for Key Stage One in the National Literacy Strategy. Brightly illustrated, fun stories by top authors and illustrators focus on key areas of interest for the age range.

Nasty Jack Frost is back again, this time stealing the Fun Day flags, and now everyone is quite miserable, as the Fun Day Fairies can't do their job of making each day fun! Can Rachel and Kirsty help Sarah the Sunday Fairy retrieve her flag?

Nosy, a young pterodactyl, makes friends with Banty, a young apatosaurus, despite the disapproval of their parents. When the pterodactyls save Banty from T-Rex, the adult dinosaurs become great friends as well. Nosy comes up with a plan to teach T-Rex a lesson.

When Sammy's parents buy him a parrot in an antique cage he gets more than he expected. Soon there are private ghosts all over the house, but only Sammy can see them! He has to help them escape Captain Red Beard the Really Rotten in this swashbuckling adventure story.

Myths and legends are required and reading for the National Curriculum. This book, which focuses on Theseus, is one of four Greek Hero retellings from Geraldine McCaughrean, illustrated throughout in black and white.

Based on Disney's feature-length animation, this title tells the story of Simba, a male lion cub, from his birth on the African plains, through the death of his father at the hands of his villainous uncle, Scar, to his claiming his father's throne.

Bobo needs a really big hug from someone who loves him. Walking through the jungle he passes lots of creatures enjoying a cuddle - even the snakes have got someone to squeeze. Will Bobo ever find the hug he needs?

My mum loves spots, spotty clothes, spotty wallpaper, spotty games like dominoes. My dad loves stripes, stripy suits and stripy ties, stripy humbug sweets. But they think I'm the funny one.

In large, expressive paintings and simple rhapsodic words, this big-book version of a popular picture book introduces a young girl's favourite animals, all of whom live on her farm and all of whom she loves.

Although all the bears knew there was one special child for each teddy, Hamish wasn't interested. He liked to do his own thing. But one day, everything changed. Can you remember how you found your favourite teddy? Did he choose you, or did you choose him?