• Boy (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    “A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams

    Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!

    BOY, Roald Dahl’s bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days, illustrated by Quentin Blake.

    As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl. There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her sweet shop.

    There are stories of holidays in fishing boats, African adventures and the days of tasting chocolate for Cadbury’s.

    You’ll hear tales of horrible school bullies and the motor-car accident when Roald’s nose was nearly sliced clean off . . .

    Roald Dahl vividly shares his memories; some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleasant. All are true.

  • The Enemy Within (African Writers Series)

    Set in South Africa in the early 1990s, against a backdrop of de Klerk’s rise to power, Steve Jacobs tells the story of Jeremy Spielman, a Jewish junior barrister, and his defense of a Xhosa man accused of murder.

    The murder trial, an Afrikaner girlfriend, and a mother who has tried to keep him from gentiles his whole life, all force Jeremy to confront his own love-hate relationship with the anti-apartheid struggle, South Africa’s almost unconscious racism, anti-Semitism, and his faith in an unjust legal system.

    Steve Jacobs trained as a lawyer but left his legal career to concentrate on writing. He is an active campaigner against cruelty to animals and has worked with squatters at Crossroads and in a local group opposing a nuclear power station.

  • Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane (Hardcover)

    New Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane. Published in 1984. Includes We Look and See We Come and Go The New We Work and Play

  • The Very Best of OLIVIA: A Storybook Treasury (Hardcover)

    Ten favorite Olivia tales in one beautiful book—a great value, and a great gift!

    This storybook treasury includes ten bestselling adventures starring the ever-imaginative Olivia in a 9 x 9 paper-over-board treasury: Dinner with OLIVIAOLIVIA and the BabiesOLIVIA Opens a Lemonade StandOLIVIA and the Haunted HotelOLIVIA and the School CarnivalOLIVIA Cooks Up a SurpriseOLIVIA Leads a ParadeOLIVIA the PrincessOLIVIA Builds a Snowlady, and OLIVIA Meets Olivia. Featuring eye-catching foil on the cover and charming antics throughout, this deluxe collection of Olivia stories is a must-have for any fan!

  • The Jungle Book (MacMillan Popular Classics)

    On a warm evening in the Seeonee hills, a family of wolves finds someone at the threshold of their cave–a human child, who knows nothing of the world of men. Adopted by Father Wolf, the man-cub Mowgli grows up with the pack in the Jungle. He begins his journey and learns the law of the Jungle with the help of his new-found friends. Embark on this adventurous journey with Mowgli and many others, as you read the enchanting The Jungle Book.

  • Beauty and the Beast

    A Tale as Old as Time…

    Belle wants more out of life than the small provincial town of Villeneuve can offer. There she stands out from the crowd with her unique point of view, her strong-willed independence, and her love of books. She longs for travel and adventure, for a life as exciting as the stories she reads.

    But when Belle’s beloved father is taken prisoner by a beast in an enchanted castle, her path is forever changed. Risking her freedom and her future, she takes her father’s place secretly vowing to escape. But as she learns more about the Beast and his mysterious castle, Belle realizes there may be more to his story– and her own– than she ever could have imagined.

  • The Enormous Crocodile (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other animals in the jungle join together to put an end to his nasty schemes, the Enormous Crocodile learns a lesson he won’t soon forget. Dahl’s wicked humor is as delightful as ever in this new, larger edition of a hilarious favorite.

  • Hidden Mountain (Hardy Boys Mysteries #186)

    Age Range: 8 – 12 years

    Here today — but where tomorrow?
    Frank and Joe have gone hunting — but instead of sniffing out wildlife, they’re out to find the Wilkersons. Darren Wilkerson, the Hardys’ classmate, and his family were living in Bayport under the safety of the Witness Protection Program — until someone found them out. Unable to get in touch with the government, the Wilkersons were forced to flee without its assistance. Now Darren and his family have made it to Canada, but they’re not yet out of the woods.
    The Hardys quickly arrive on the scene to help. But just when they’re hot on the Wilkersons’ trail, they get caught in a trap. Can Frank and Joe escape in time to save the Wilkersons from their predators?

  • The Scarlet Letter (FingerPrint! Classics)

    “Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!”

    In the seventeenth-century Puritan community of Boston, Hester Prynne is trapped, first into a loveless marriage and then into adultery.

    With the scarlet letter ‘A’—signifying an adulteress—fixed on her bosom, she is brought out of the prison and made to stand on the scaffold with her infant.

    What happens when Hester, in spite of being
    publicly shamed by the crowd and repeatedly
    urged by a young priest, refuses to reveal
    the identity of her daughter’s father?

    A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity and double standards of the society. One of the first mass-produced books in America, it became an instant bestseller on its first publication in 1850. it continues to remain Hawthorne’s masterwork.

  • The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Popular Classics)

    Around the World in Eighty Days, one of his most popular books, was first serialized in late 1872 in a French newspaper. An instant success, the novel details the round-the-world adventures of the affluent Englishman Phileas Fogg who, accompanied by his French valet Passepartout, sets out on an impossible journey for a wager of £20,000. This groundbreaking novel has since been adapted numerous times for the theatre, television, radio and cinema.

  • Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Illus. in full color. Children will be cheered just contemplating the outrageous array of troubles they’re lucky they don’t have.

  • I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sollew

    Age Range: 6+ years

    The hero of this hilarious tale discovers that in attempting to avoid trouble one often encounters even greater difficulties.

  • If I Ran the Circus

    Age Range: 6+ years

    In this delightful tale, Morris McGurk dreams about staging the world’s greatest show, packed with the most tremendous, stupendous acts ever seen, from the Spotted Atrocious — a beast most ferocious — to the Drum-Tummied Snumm from the country of Frumm. This delightful book forms part of the second stage in HarperCollins’ major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of 10 more titles in August 2003, such all-time favourites as How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? and Dr. Seuss’ Sleep Book boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. If I Ran the Circus belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.

  • Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories

    Age Range: 6+ years

    In this hilarious book, featuring three timeless fables, Dr. Seuss explores the pitfalls of growing too big for your boots!

    With his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, Dr. Seuss has been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years. Creator of the wonderfully anarchic Cat in the Hat, and ranking among the UK’s top ten favourite children’s authors, Seuss is firmly established as a global best-seller, with nearly half a million books sold worldwide.

    This delightful book forms part of the third stage in HarperCollins’ major Dr. Seuss rebrand programme. With the relaunch of six more titles in January 2004, such all-time favourites as The Lorax, The Foot Book and Yertle the Turtle boast bright new covers that incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels: Blue Back Books are for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books are for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books are for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Yertle the Turtle and other stories belongs to the Yellow Back Book range.

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Grow your heart three sizes and get in on all of the Grinch-mas cheer with this Christmas classic–the ultimate Dr. Seuss holiday book that no collection is complete without!

    Every Who down in Who-ville liked Christmas a lot . . . but the Grinch, who lived just north of Who-ville, did NOT!

    Not since ‘Twas the night before Christmas has the beginning of a Christmas tale been so instantly recognizable. This heartwarming story about the effects of the Christmas spirit will grow even the coldest and smallest of hearts. Like mistletoe, candy canes, and caroling, the Grinch is a mainstay of the holidays, and his story is the perfect gift for readers young and old.

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