Collection: Children's fiction

It's another busy day at the ant hill. The farmer ants are collecting food, the worker ants are building tunnels and the soldier ants are guarding the queen. But for Andy, it's a very special day: it's his birthday! Word spreads for his 'small gathering' and, in no time at all, thousands of ants ...

This banana wants to know: are you a banana, too? Help Banana find its fellow pair in this super silly board book. Lift the flaps and uncover all sorts of other yellow-coloured things along the way like a quacking rubber duck and a whizzy toy car. The surprise mirror ending, hidden underneath the...

This frog wants to know: are YOU a frog, too? Help Frog find its fellow pair in this super silly board book. Lift the flaps and uncover all sorts of other green-coloured things along the way, from some friendly popping peas to a pair of splashy boots. With a surprise mirror ending underneath the ...

When Aunt Lucy cooks up her special Peruvian stew recipe, it is so delicious that Mrs Brown makes up a new word to describe it ('Scrumflumptuous!') and everyone in the street wants to eat it! Aunt Lucy appoints Paddington as the perfect bear to take charge of her takeaway business to make sure ev...

A baby unicorn in Happyland? Now that would be a surprise! Mr Wrong is going on a unicorn hunt, which would usually mean no hunt and no unicorn, as Mr Wrong is never right. But he does find a baby unicorn and no one is more surprised than Little Miss Surprise! Though the surprises don't stop ther...

They sound like the Bad Guys, they look like the Bad Guys - and they even smell like the Bad Guys. But Mr Wolf, Mr Piranha, Mr Snake and Mr Shark are about to change all of that - whether you want them to or not!

The Baddies are the meanest ghost, witch and troll in the land. They adore being bad and fight over who is the nastiest. When a little girl moves into a nearby cottage, the Baddies can't wait to scare her out of her wits, but will they succeed?

Barbara is having one of those days. She has a sock problem and there's a strange pea. Then, all of a sudden, Barbara's Wobbler is out of control! But what happens when a bad mood like this comes along? Barbara has a lot to learn about the ways of wobblers in this laugh-out-loud story from Nadia ...

Bluey, Bingo, Mum and Dad are at the beach. While Mum is off for a walk, Bluey discovers a beautiful shell and runs to catch up with her. What will she discover along the way in her first solo adventure?

Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same, for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved.