Recently available children's titles

Professor Frank Mouse is very clever, very inventive - and very lonely. He would love to have a friend, so one day he makes Teddy! But Frank doesn't realise that what he really needs is a true friend - someone to teach him that real friendship is all about sharing, and Teddy might be just the fel...

The king wants the perfect crown to wear for his party, but none of them are quite right. The queen might just have a good solution. 'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Original stories are accompanied by enga...

In this second story, the Lucky Wish Mouse and her ten tiny charges are happy playing on a warm spring day - except one little mouse has no one to play with. The ever-resourceful Lucky Wish Mouse spies the problem and comes up with a joyful plan to make sure not one little mouse is left out.

When war breaks out, Billy's dad joins the army and most of his friends are evacuated from Balham, South London. But Billy's mum doesn't believe the bombs will ever fall on them and she refuses to send him and his sister Rose away. Life in Balham has certainly changed for Billy: no school, no fri...

The Aviation Parade is coming to Forgetown this summer, and Harley Hitch is creating a flying machine that will really stand out - a flying robot hippogriff! But Harley wants the flying machine to be a surprise. She soon finds that keeping secrets leads to tricky explanations and lots of trouble,...

The bear's hat is gone and he wants it back. Patiently and politely he asks the animals he comes across whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others. But just as he begins to lose hope a deer comes by and asks a question that suddenly sparks the bear's memory.

Staying at Kirrin Cottage, it doesn't take long for the Famous Five to come across a mystery. Kirrin Cottage is a rambling old house, with secret hiding places, and even an underground tunnel. The Five aren't the only ones to make this discovery.

'War Horse' is the story of Joey, a thoroughbred horse, and how he is forced into the thick of the harrowing, poorly-led battles of the First World War.

Mavis and Marge are different from other animals. They want to go a-wandering. Over the hills, across the sea, and up to the moon they go, gathering a band of free-range friends on the way. But, suddenly, from across the milky way, home has a distant allure.

The titles in 'The Graphic Shakespeare Series' are an ideal introduction to Shakespeare's plays, but can equally well be used as revision aids. Each book is set out into acts in the same way as the original play, although the story is told in narrative text with only key speeches remaining in the...