Once upon a time there was a flea called Tiny. And the flea lived on a dog called Cleopatra. Paul Rogers' wonderfully inventive story takes the reader beyond the bounds of Tiny's world, out into the surrounding house, street and town - further and further, until Earth is just a small speck in the universe. Children will delight in trying to find Tiny somewhere on the vast Cleopatra, then turnin…
from the back cover: London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends - Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that…
from the back cover: Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventu…