Love is a wonderful thing, and it doesn't have conditions in this novel about sister and brother Lenny and Davy as they deal with the fact that Davy is very different from everyone else around him. Da
The third book in the Blue Door series, which starts with The Swish of the Curtain 'I wanted to act before I read [The Swish of the Curtain], and afterwards there was no stopping me' Maggie Smith 'How
In the town of Fenchester, seven resourceful children are yearning to be famous. One day, they come across a disused chapel, and an idea is formed. With a lick of paint and the addition of a beautiful
With the rest of the Blue Door Theatre Company in London training to be actors, poor Maddy has been left all alone in the little town of Fenchester. She longs to follow the others to the big city, but
he hilariously wicked classic, in a lively new translationLock up your chickens! Look out for the bugs in your bed! And check that there's nothing explosive in your teacher's pipe!Meet Max and Moritz,
Lampie the lighthouse-keeper's daughter must climb sixty-one steps to light the lantern every evening and warn ships away from the rocks. One night, in the midst of a terrible storm, she discovers tha
When Anna and Nils meet Bob Gribble after school one night, little do they know that his true identity is Gribblebob, a goblin from the other side of the veil. As the mystery of his presence in their
Maddy got up and did her Junior Miss speech, trying not to overdo the comedy. Her American accent was hideous, and very funny, and all the class began to giggle.The whole class clapped when she had fi
The seven young members of the Blue Door Theatre Company are, at long last, professional actors. And they are now proudly in charge of the first commerical theatre in their hometown of Fenchester. But
A delightful story about the magical bonds of family and friendship by an exciting new voice in the world of children's literature 'Beautiful and unusual... this unexpected and striking story is one t
"The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall." Thus begins
'You don't have to shoot me', says the young lion. 'I will be your rug and I will lie in front of your fireplace and I won't move a muscle and you can sit on me and toast all the marshmallows you want
A fresh new translation of one of the world's best and most inspiring fairy talesWhen Kay is cursed by a magic mirror, he can no longer perceive goodness in anything - not his best friend Gerda, nor t
In a dusty library, in the quietest corner of a house in a Tokyo suburb, live the Little People: Fern and Balbo, Robin and Iris. Just a few inches high, sleeping in cigarette boxes and crafting shoes
Gogol's surreal masterpiece about a man and his wayward nose "Sir, now the matter is perfectly clear. You... you are my nose!" The Collegiate Assessor Kovalyov wakes one morning to discover that his n
France's best tale of love and panache, retold for children Cyrano de Bergerac is in possession of a cadet-position in the French Army, a poet's soul and a very, very large nose. He is also in love wi
