Fiction (Children's)

This crocodile has an enormous appetite and boasts that he is going to eat a nice juicy child for lunch. Fortunately for the children, the other animals in the jungle see through the crocodile's cunning disguises. This crocodile has an enormous appetite and boasts that he is going to eat a nice j...

One day, Elmer and his friends meet a stranger, called Kangaroo. Kangaroo has a problem - he can bounce but he can't jump. He's been practising for a competition but he just keeps falling over. Is there a difference between a bounce and a jump? By helping Kangaroo, Elmer discovers a new friend. O...

One night, Elmer hears the sound of crying. It is baby elephant and he can't sleep because he has lost his teddy. Elmer offers to lend baby elephant his teddy for the night and to search for the lost teddy the next day. His cousin, Wilbur gets involved in the search, and plays a joke on Elmer, bu...

Elmer, the joking, multi-coloured elephant, is back - this time playing a practical joke on his friends which involves painting them all Elmer-coloured and himself grey. The only way to tell which is the real Elmer is to get them to swim in the river.

Queen Elizabeth is furious at the delays to the production of her new coin - and so Lady Grace and her fellow Maids of Honour escape her bad temper and set off to skate on the frozen Thames. But their outing turns sour when a body is discovered on the banks - a man blindfolded with coins on his e...

It was a dream come true. Geronimo was off to Egypt to interview a famous archaeologist. He climbed aboard a camel to take him across the desert to the Cheese Pyramind. There he would learn the secret of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient Mouse World. It was a dream come true-I was off to Egypt to ...

Felicity and her friends have organised a surprise fun day at the hospital, but there's also a surprise in store for the fairies. "Helping Hand" - Polly has broken her arm pillow-lifting, but Felicity finds lots of ways to cheer her up whilst she is in hospital. "Medicine Mix-up" - When there is ...

Colour and animals are used in this book alongside simple rhyming text and repetition. A question and answer technique takes the reader through a range of animals and colours - a big green frog, a plump purple cat or a cheeky brown monkey. Colour and animals are used in this book alongside simple...