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The Curious Cake
One spring morning in Appleshire when the daffodils, hyacinths and tulips are smiling sleepily, Francine Mouse sets out to deliver Scarlet Squirrel's birthday cake. Francine, wearing her new shoes dyed green by grasshoppers and tied up with the threads from spider's web, trips over a hamper, and her cake falls to the ground in a 'rain' of curvy currants, cheerful cherries and squishy sultanas. Francine begins to cry, and her tears fall through the ground to the tunnel where her friend, Mackintosh Mole, is making his way to buy a new jacket. Her tears become a shower for him to wash the dried-up mud from his neck. Mackintosh wants to help, and he has a magic book--a proper one that smells of bad eggs. Kind-hearted Mackintosh badly mistakes the list of ingredients, confusing for instance, the French word for eggs, 'oeufs' with 'earth'. What they create puts all their lives in danger. Through a thrilling sequence of mishaps, adventure and comedy, Francine, Mackintosh, and Victor Vole all work together to try and save Scarlet's party from disaster.
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The Curse of The Deadly Marshmallows
Neil Owlsley’s dream is to one day become the world’s greatest ever reporter, oh and he has a sweet tooth and absolutely loves marshmallows.
But on an eventful day when he takes a trip to his favourite shop, not only has the shopkeeper disappeared but a curse is placed on his beloved marshmallows by someone identified only as ‘The Mysterious Old Woman’.
Quickly he puts his reporter skills into action with only one thing on his mind … save Sproglington Town because simply there is no one else.
Will 12-year-old Neil succeed where many have failed, or will the town be overwhelmed by the Curse … of the Deadly Marshmallows?
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The Dawn Before Christmas
It’s the dawn before Christmas, Santa’s ready to go,
But his reindeer are gone, out into the snow.
Now he needs to move fast, to get them all back,
To fly ’round the world and keep Christmas on track.
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The Day That I Grownup (All Except For My Outters)
For the longest time I was five-and-a-half. I remember I was five-and-a-half for such a long time I thought I would never be older. But the day came.
Yesterday, I was ‘almost six’.The story is about a little boy, Zachery, who is six. He discovers that growing up is more about overcoming fears (his ‘inners’) than physical changes (his ‘outters’).
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The Diary of a Junior Detective/ Ben Baxter's Private Diary
It’s Ben Baxter’s 11th birthday, and he is particularly thrilled by one of his presents. An aunt has given him The Junior Detective Manual by Ricky Barton. He dips into it and decides he would definitely like to become a detective. His pal Johnny agrees to help. They decide: what could be easier than becoming store detectives?
They enter a large store and start looking for possible thieves, catching the eye of the resident store detective who is convinced they are up to no good. Luckily, after a ride home in a police car and some friendly advice from a police officer, they have much greater success in solving several puzzling crimes. In this they are helped by Ben’s sister Katie, a retired Major, Ben’s rather odd uncle, who is an electronics wizard, and especially by his unusual pet Chippy, who certainly helps rescue them from more than a few scrapes.
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The Digger That Did
The Suez Canal is blocked! World shipping is blocked! A huge ship is stuck across the canal into the left bank!
First on the scene: Digger!
Tiny against the HUGE ship, he tries his best. While Presidents, Prime Ministers and CEOs fuss and fume across the world, Digger digs patiently away on his side of Suez. The world watches as the shipping jam grows longer, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Big Wigs grow more frantic, messages fizz across the world. Powerful tugboats arrive one by one, to heave from the other side of the ship. Digger digs steadily on, the sand pile behind him growing higher and higher. Just when it seems that nothing can budge the ship, a full moon shines down, a spring tide rises, Digger gives one last push, and...
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The Faery Tales
Join these four faery best friends, Willow, Aria, Delta and Ember, on a magical faery adventure set deep in the enchanted forest.
Celebrating the bumble bees’ National Honey Day should be a joyous occasion. The bumble bees Buzz and Honey are so excited! The singing frogs and the June bugs band are all set up and ready to go! There is a great sense of excitement in the air today. But the naughty faeries Dawn and Luna seem to try all they can to spoil this happy day.
Will the naughty faeries succeed in spoiling the day? Or will the faeries and their bumble bees save the day?
It’s set to be an adventure, that’s all I can say!
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The Forest - Part 2 A Friend in Need
As Thomas and Pricilla practice their dance routine for the upcoming Village Talent Competition in the forest while the four large singing oak trees sing for them, they bump into Becky and Cap running around the forest playing soldiers. As the two parties get to know one another and become great friends Thomas is confronted with a big problem with only two weeks left to go till the talent competition.
You see, Pricilla is Thomas’ imaginary friend and Cap, like Pricilla, is Becky’s imaginary friend too.
Only children with imaginary friends can see other children’s imaginary friends and of course the oak trees and animal too.
How will Thomas be able to compete in the competition with Pricilla when no one will be able to see her?
What will he do, and will Becky and Cap be able to help?
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The Four: Friends for Life
Join the fun with Agrippa, Audrey, Basharat and Brielle. The Four is about the inseparable friendship of four children from different ethnic backgrounds when they are trapped inside their school building after an accident. They get to learn and respect each others’ cultures and beliefs when they visit each of their homes when they are free. The story of the children is encouraging and is set to expand into other learning curves and adventures... Enjoy Book One – Friends for Life.
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The Further Adventures of Goldilocks
Deep in the Great Forest, 27 bears are having a meeting. They are discussing the terrible crime that has been committed in the three bears’ cottage.
With the meeting over, they set off to catch the culprit.
Unaware of the danger, Goldilocks is also in the forest once again, with an important errand to run.
Goldilocks and the bears slowly make their way towards each other, meeting various other characters on the way. You may recognise some of them. Eventually, the inevitable happens, but before the bears can inflict a terrible retribution, she takes them by surprise.
Perhaps she is not such a bad person after all.£3.50 -
The Goblin Family
This is a story about a family of Goblins. Goblins are strange little people who live in a world that we cannot see. Perhaps there is such a world, who knows for sure. Let us go into this strange world where Goblins live and imagine what it must be like. This family are very similar to our families. The people have characters, just like us and they have problems just like us.
This story tells of the ups and downs and adventures of this Goblin Family and how they squabble amongst themselves but in the end they are a family and they all love each other really!
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The Handbag Mice
What does the Queen keep in her handbag?
Two little mice called Mary and Matt are curious to find out when they see her black leather handbag lying open on the floor.
They jump in...
But then they get trapped inside her handbag!
Follow their adventures with the Queen and her handbag.
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