General Stories

The fairy tale you thought you knew. The story of the 'Sea Witch', the villainess from Hans Christian Anderson's classic tale 'The Little Mermaid', told from the viewpoint of the Sea Witch when she was a twelve-year-old girl.

16-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. And worse still, so will the privacy of 'Blue', the pen name of the boy he's been emailing. With ...

'Sing! Sing! Sing!' - Bing can sing. Pong can bang. But who is the loudest? 'Fang' - Is Seth's new dog too fluffy to be called Fang?

This reader features the two stories 'Sniff Sniff' and 'Hal is Big'.

Pip sniffs, what can he smell? Ron dresses as a robber, what will happen?

Sonic the Hedgehog and Miles 'Tails' Prower. Best friends through thick and thin, they've always got each other's backs. Celebrate the terrific twosome with these three high-speed, high-flying tales full of action and adrenaline. First, Dr Eggman is missing, but his rogue robots are still running...

It's holiday time in Enchanted Valley! Best friends Emily and Aisha are delighted when they're whisked away for a magical trip to Holiday Island with Sparklebeam the Holiday Unicorn. But when the evil unicorn Selena steals Sparklebeam's lockets, everything starts to go wrong: the ocean's waves ar...

'Tangled Tales' contain two stories in one book. Each side follows a different character in the same story, which aims to encourage children to see that not everything is always what it seems. Whether it's a gang of ghost-hunting kids and the ghost they're convinced isn't there or a vegetarian va...

Year 2 at Wigglesbottom Primary is never boring. They don't expect to run a race against a chicken at Sports Day, or eat green toxic slime at lunch (it's halloween custard!) or that Anne Marie Moor is an ant queen and one of her subjects is called Lady Gaga - but they love every minute of it! Thi...

Bear and Bird are best friends! And while they don't always understand each other, they both agree: all they want it to make the other happy. So, when Bear gobbles up the special, surprise cake Bird made for him, Bird laughs and laughs. And when Bird gets completely lost after sitting on a rock w...