Lottie thinks anything would be better than spending the next few months with her boring uncle and a cousin she hardly knows. At least they run a pet shop. Surely this vacation can't be all bad if there are kittens involved? Lottie is happy to spend her time talking to the animals in the shop. Then one day, to her surprise, the animals start to talk back! Suddenly Lottie's summer is better than…
It's September, what does it mean for Richard 'Beast' Best to be left back? It means being teased by his old friends while he's stuck facing the same old teacher. But thanks to Mrs. Paris, the reading teacher, Beast starts to enjoy reading, and he just m
Hetty and her brothers and sisters have just enough money for a ride each on the roundabout. But when Hetty finds a starving kitten she realizes she'll have to make a choice...
Doohickey gets a job as the professor's assistant. But all he's allowed to do is clean the house. So when the professor goes out, Doohickey decides to put his newest invention to good use. After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Jackie's dad is good at everything apart from baking cakes. But he's got to learn, and fast, if he's going to win that bike for Jackie in the bake-a-cake competition. Top TV chef Denzil Doonut boasts he can teach anyone to cook but can he teach Dad?
One of the guinea-pigs was standing up with his paws on the mesh. His nose was twitching and searching, as if he knew Joe was coming and wanted to meet him. Joe has just moved into the area and he is very glad when a boy in his class offers to sell him a guinea-pig. It seems such a friendly thing to do. But he soon discovers that Bruiser is no friend. Even worse, there is something very strange…
"I dare you," says the old man, grinning and showing his yellow teeth. "I dare you all three to go to the Dragon-maker!" Is he joking? Or does he really have mysterious powers? Sean, Michael and Joe take up his strange challenge and immediately they are whirled into a wild and wonderful adventure. Can they trust Spellbinder, the talking cat? And why is the Dragon-maker so desperate to find them?
Winston dreams of making a flying machine, with the help of Scrapman, the amazing mechanical man he made out of odds and ends from his scrapyard. But things aren't going too well. "It won't fly." says Winston. "It's too heavy." "Odd ear," says Scrapman. But with the help of his faithful Scrapcat, can Scrapman find a way to get it off the ground?
Shelley had just had one of her ideas. "We could train animals. It will be EASY PEASY. No problem at all." Kelly, her friend, is not so sure. "What animals shall we train?" she asks. "Hmm," says Shelley, looking at Dustbin, the dog. "Oh, NO," thinks Dustbin. "Here we go again...."