If you think the alphabet stops with Z, you are wrong. So wrong. Leave it to Conrad Cornelius o'Donald o'Dell (with a little help from Dr. Seuss) to create an entirely new alphabet beginning with Z! This rhyming picture book introduces twenty new letters and the creatures that one can spell with them. Discover (and spell) such wonderfully Seussian creations as the Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz and the High Ga…
Hayley is furious that her beloved cat, Judy Garland, keeps sneaking off to the garden of the weird old lady across the street. Lillian, or Boo, as Hayley calls her, hasn’ t left her house for years, not since the council came up with their plan to knock down the row of houses to make way for a new development. Everyone in the street dismisses Lillian as an eccentric old woman, but when Hayle…
Skye and Harry discover Gran isn’t quite as strict as Dad makes out in this funny family story from multi-award-winning author Anne Fine. Skye and Harry are dreading going to visit their gran, as Dad says she was so strict when he was young. He had to do lots of chores, wasn’t allowed much screen time and only had sweet treats on a Sunday! But when they arrive, Gran is much more chilled out…
No one can quite believe it when troublemaker Noah gets involved in the campaign to save a local oak tree. And when he takes his protest up into its branches and refuses to get down, the story goes viral, attracting more attention than he could ever imagined. But while Noah does really want to save the tree, and marvels at the thousands of creatures that depend on it as their home, he also r…
Young chimney sweep Tom has started seeing strange, supernatural things – fairies in the flowers by the river, a soot monster crouching in the darkness of a chimney, and then the mysterious river spirit Elle. Elle joins Tom and the other children apprenticed to cruel master sweep Mister Crow. Together, they shimmy up the town's narrow, filthy chimneys. But Tom has an ominous feeling in his bo…
At the start of the summer, Tia is excited to see all the visitors arriving for their holidays on Gull Haven Island, and she’s delighted to make a new friend. But Tia’s feelings change when some selfish tourists upset a newborn seal pup and its mother, and then she sees how people are carelessly leaving their rubbish on the beach. Can Tia find a way to show people how to respect the island …
Can Puloma save Nyla the bear and herself at the same time? Unwanted and lonely living with her unkind aunt, Puloma ends up running away with the circus. She’s relieved to find work and a place to live but can’t understand why the other circus workers are constantly worried about the police finding them. The reason for their fears is the circus’s star act—a dancing sloth bear call…
Mi dan Ma dan Mo tidak pernah melihat kucing seperti Nona Gigi. Tentu saja, mereka sudah pernah melihat kucing biasa. Tapi Nona Gigi adalah Kucing Luar Biasa. Kucing Luar Biasa berarti kucing yang di luar kebiasaan. Nona Gigi adalah Cara Lain yang dinantikan oleh Bapak dan Ibu Mo untuk menjaga Mi, Ma, dan Mo ketika keduanya keluar rumah mencari uang. Sebab di Kota Suara, semua uang yang tersedi…
Menurutku, hukum juga seperti bisnis. Kalau kamu punya banyak uang, kamu bisa membelinya seenak hatimu. Tapi kalau kamu miskin, maka tinggal terima saja di dalam bui. Tidak ada yang bisa kamu lakukan, percuma saja. Ketika kamu berbuat kesalahan atau dituduh melakukan suatu kejahatan, maka kamu harus punya banyak uang atau punya banyak teman yang berkuasa.