Fiction 5+

Count down to Christmas with Horrid Henry and friends in this bumper collection of festive stories! This book contains twelve of Henry's most mischievous winter tales about swapping Christmas presents, sabotaging school plays, ruining Christmas dinner and even ambushing Father Christmas.

This collection of nonsensical tales contains a feast of silly shenanigans, mischievous tomfoolery and hilarious goings on.

Bear and Bird are best friends! And while they don't always understand each other, they both agree: all they want is to make the other happy. In these four stories, the pals discover a hole, make a new friend called Mole, go out on a boat and even have fun doing nothing at all.

Set in beautiful Moominvalley, this is a colourful collection of nine adventure stories about Moomintroll and his family - in which the Moomins and their friends encounter the hattifatteners, capture a dragon, unexpectedly move house, and meet the mysterious Groke.

Lil is a pirate, a good sort of pirate, and when there is someone to save, she'll do what is right (if it takes her all night). Yes, she'll always be bold and be brave. When evil pirate Stinkbeard tries to kidnap Lil's teacher, it's up to schoolgirl and secret pirate, Lil, to come to the rescue.

Charmingly retold in rhyming verse, with enchanting illustrations throughout, this is a retelling of a selection of Aesop's Fables. In this wonderfully illustrated collection meet the vain peacock and the wise crane, discover what happens to the boy who cried wolf one too many times and find out ...

Our favourite troublemaker is back in this graphic novel collection of wild childhood adventures set on the Ivory Coast.

The plucky, troublemaking Akissi is back with her mischief on The Ivory Coast! This time, she has to keep herself from drowning, stand up to a bully, make peace with her arch nemesis - the prettiest girl in school, and evade a witch doctor's potion.

The whole of Fairyland is very excited - there's going to be a new royal baby! But when Foster the stork fails to deliver the new bundle of joy on time, the Royal Baby Fairy asks friends of the fairies, Rachel Tate and Kirsty Walker, for their help. Just where can the extra-special baby be?

Three more slapstick adventures from our favourite doggy detectives, all set in the summer sun. And things are hotting up! Someone is cheating in the sandcastle competition! There's something fishy about the new cafe! But it's the alien invasion that really makes Shifty and Sam lose their cool!