Collection: Children's fiction

This classic tale of a handsome, spirited horse, 'Black Beauty' has been a children's favourite for over 100 years. Anna Sewell tells the story of Beauty's life from a young foal through to a working horse.

Richard Ayoade's children's debut gives you all the answers in a way that's silly, funny, and thoroughly beguiling. Have you ever thought about how it feels to be a book? To be left under a whiffy pant pile or shelved, forever collecting dust? To have your pages bent backwards or your spine broke...

Scamper the dog loves living at the bookshop with Paige. Not just the store, but the whole neighbourhood feels like home. There's Miss Castellano, who lives in the huge house on the corner and is always happy to dog-sit; Mr Ackermann with his delicious homemade treats; and Huan, who gives the bes...

Kayode dreams of eating the forbidden fruit of the Orishas, so he can gain their power and stop those merciless beings who terrorise his people. So when a fruit mysteriously appears in his path after the Orishas snatch his sister, he leaps on it. Surging with new and difficult-to-control powers, ...

Fred can't make a decision about anything - his parents always tell him what to do, from what to eat every day to which secondary school to choose. And that's how Fred has found himself a pupil at the high-pressure, strict Gains School, when he'd much rather be going to Browtree, with its brillia...

When Lena's beloved older brother goes missing at the end of summer camp, the bottom drops out of Lena's world. The police dismiss Kay-Kay's disappearance as that of just another teenage runaway, but Lena knows they are wrong. Tired of not being listened to, powerless to reach her parents through...

Winnie and Wilbur love flying on their broomstick. But recently they have had a few mid-air crashes and a lot of near misses. Winnie uses a little magic to find a safer way to travel, but perhaps she should look no further than the end of her nose.

It is night-time in the supermarket, and it's the veggies' weekly bath. But, what's this? Someone has been meddling with the bubble bath and that can only lead to one thing: bubbly troubly!

In the shimmering desert a happy herd of camels are out to find an oasis for a drink and a play. All, that is, except Cuthbert. He hasn't woken up in such a good mood. In fact, there are SO many things to be grumpy about, he is a camel who has The Hump. And there is absolutely nothing that will g...

Captain Underpants returns! In their ninth epic adventure, George and Harold encounter a familiar face - Professor Poopypants! He now goes by the name Tippy Tinkletrousers and is determined to seek revenge for all of the teasing his old name inspired.