Item category 1: Picture book

This folk tale tells how the 24 lakes of the River Min came to be called the Dragon's Tears. When Chun Li releases a golden fish, he is rewarded with a magic pearl. It is at this point that his troubles begin.

A little boy wakes up one morning to see The Opposite sitting on his ceiling. This impish creature manages to ensure that whatever the little boy says, the opposite will be true. The little boy tries to rectify everything as it goes wrong, but the mess in the kitchen and the classroom soon gets h...

Sunny loves jigsaw puzzles - the bigger the better. When she completes one, she gets a warm, happy honeybee buzz. One day, her Gran gives her a ONE-THOUSAND-PIECE puzzle. Piece after piece, all by herself, she puts together the picture, until - DISASTER! The final piece is missing. Sunny may be s...

When a famous explorer goes missing in the North Pole, his son, Tom, decides he must find him. And so a daring adventure begins across the treacherous icy terrain of the North Pole. Will Tom be able overcome the many challenges ahead and find his father?

Enter the imaginary world of a little girl playing with her mother's hijaab. With a swirl of the hijaab, she is at once a brave warrior queen, an adventurous nomad in the desert, a beautiful bride, inside a bedouin tent.

Carlo, the young giraffe, goes with his dad and his cat Crackers to the new library for the first time. Carlo loves the new library with its books and posters and chairs with wheels. But he's a bit scared of the sharp-toothed crocodile librarian, Mrs Chinca, until he finds out just how much she r...

Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat but when she asks the duck, the goose and the turkey to help her plant them, they say they are far too busy. When Little Red Hen has grown the wheat, harvested it, turned it into flour and baked the bread, will she let them help her eat it? And who is tha...

Sam loved to talk. He talked all the time. But when he got to school he stopped talking. He joined in with all the activities but didn't start talking until it was time to go home.

Although Lola agrees with her brother that it would be useful to learn how to write, read and count, she can't go to school because her invisible friend's too nervous to go. This title in the 'Charlie and Lola' series deals sympathetically with children's fears surrounding the first day at school.

One of the best known stories from '1001 Arabian Nights', this tale begins with the discovery of a cave full of treasures beyond belief. But, as Ali is about to find out, keeping hold of this bounty is far from easy.