Bill Badger and Izzybizzy the hedgehog set out on the canal in their narrow boat 'Wandering Wind'. They have a cargo of conkers, and hidden beneath them is a treasure! But how can they defend it against Big Ginger and his band of fierce cats?

A second book of stories written for the author’s daughter, who was scared of the wolf under the bed. The blundering, endearing wolf is still determined to prove himself cleverer than Polly – but the resolute and affectionate Polly outwits him every time! Skilfully blending fantasy and reality, these stories are bursting with humour, originality and charm.

Plucked from their old home in Guernsey and sent all the way to London, the three Forbes children find themselves thrown into the exciting yet frightening world of the theatre. Their mother has come from a long line of great actord and Sorrel, Holly and Mark are expected to carry on the family tradition.

Bunchy lives all alone with her grandmother in a cottage in the country. But Bunchy is never lonely — how can she be with all her special friends? The pastry girl, the Scribbles family, who started life on the back of an envelope, the naughty clothes-peg people who almost made Bunchy fall off the clothesline! — and of course the little wooden sailor-doll...

Clare lives with her ancient great-aunts in a rambling old house that has been the family home for generations. One day, Clare discovers an ancient wood carving in the attic. Soon, she begins to dream about the tribe it originally belonged to.

Arthur Ransome's masterly retelling of the beautiful fairy tales of old Russia was his first book for children. Generation after generation has thrilled to the story of Baba Yaga, the witch with iron teeth; the tale of the Little Daughter of the Snow, who melted for lack of love, and many others. Ransome visited Russia before the Revolution and heard these stories first-hand from the people he met there.

A romantic adventure story about the love of Phillippa of Windri and Sigismund, Count of Monte Lucio, and the enemies who plot to kill him.

In this brilliantly clever collection of poems about all forty-one English Kings and Queens, the Bad Kings are bad and the Good Kings are good — make no mistake about it! William the Conqueror, Henry VIII (Bluff King Hal was full of beans: He married half a dozen queens), Queen Bess, Victoria, George VI — and ending with a tribute to Elizabeth II: Here is the Queen that everyone knows — these poems bring our monarchs unforgettably to life.

Tennis became important in the Heath Family's life early on — the twins were only nine, and the others younger when they started to play. But their grandfather and father before them had been top players — the four red-headed children had tennis in their blood. They join the competitive tournament circuit and battle hard to win! An absorbing story from an enormously popular children's author — and Noel Streatfeild's favourite book.