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Join in the fun with Rod Campbell's Dear Zoo and Friends Audio, perfect for car journeys and bedtimes. I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet . . . Rod Campbell's classic story Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with toddlers and parents alike ever since it was first published in 1982. Now you and...

Abridged edition. The fourth in the series of the classic fantasy tales – The Chronicles of Narnia. Read by the unforgettable Sir Michael Hordern. “Look sharp!” shouted Edmund. “All catch hands and keep together. This is magic – I can tell by the feeling. Quick!” Evil King Miraz and...

Since its publication in 1952, Charlotte's Web has become one of America's best-loved children's books. For fifty years, this timeless tale of how a little girl named Fern, with the help of a friendly spider, saved her pig Wilbur from the usual fate of nice fat little pigs has continued to warm the hearts of readers everywhere. Now this classic, a 1953 Newbery Honor book, comes to life in a delightful unabridged recording, read lovingly by the author himself.

Frightened that their baby sister, Dineo, will die, 13-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, who works there as a maid. Their journey illustrates at every turn the grim realities of apartheid - the pass laws, bantustans, racism, the breakdown of family life. The opulence of the white 'Madam’s' house contrasts starkly with the reality that Naledi and Tiro face - that their baby sister is suffering from starvation, not an incurable disease.

Fourteen enchanting animal tales featuring some of Johnny Morris's favourite creatures. The stories are: ‘Charley and Gladys, the Warthogs’; ‘Lulu, the Baby Seal’; ‘The Kookaburras’; ‘Bubbles the Hippopotamus’; ‘Chatterbox the Budgerigar’; ‘Hooter the Elephant’; ‘Mark...

Cheveux blonds comme les blés, écharpe au vent... le petit prince est connu de tous. Les aventures de cet enfant pur et innocent tombé du ciel sont emplies d’amour, de poésie et de vérité. Voilà un message qui nous incite à poser un regard neuf sur notre humanité et notre condition humaine. C’est une invitation à revenir à l’essentiel, à célébrer la vie dans son expression la plus noble, en toute simplicité, avec les yeux du cœur.

With over one million copies sold, this series of modern classics about the charming Penderwick family from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestseller Jeanne Birdsall is perfect for fans of Noel Streatfeild and Edward Eager. When summer comes around, it's off to the beach for...

The first in the series of the classic fantasy tales – The Chronicles of Narnia. A complete and unabridged edition. Written after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe but designed by C.S.Lewis to be read first, this enchanting prequel – with its story of time travel, sorcery and magic rings...

Join Pooh as he goes visiting - and gets a little stuck! - in this classic Winnie the Pooh collection, voiced by an incredible all-star cast. Performed by incredible talent including Finty Williams, Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig, Robert Daws, Jane Horrocks, Geoffrey Palmer and Judi Dench, this...

Then Again, Maybe I Won't is a classic coming-of-age story from the boy's perspective, from Judy Blume, the author of Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret. Tony Miglione is thirteen, living in a cramped house with his family in New Jersey. But then, when his Dad invents something that makes...

Penguin presents for the first time the complete, unabridged audio edition of Mary Norton's The Borrowers, read by Christopher Eccelston. The Borrowers live in the secret places of quiet old houses; behind the mantelpiece, inside the harpsichord, under the kitchen clock. They own nothing, borrow...

Bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar knows how to make readers laugh. And there are laughs galore in perennial favorite Sideways Stories from Wayside School, the first book in the series! Accidentally built sideways and standing thirty stories high (the builder said he was...

This timeless classic is now an easy-to-read chapter book! The four March sisters--Meg, Amy, Beth, and feisty Jo--share the joys and sorrows of growing up while their father is away at war. The family is poor in worldly goods, but rich in love and character...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! 'They can't have moved away without saying a word!' Winter is coming, and the Fillyjonk, the Hemulen, Toft, Mymble, etc...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she enters a very strange world of chess pieces and nursery rhyme characters such as Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee and the angry Red Queen. Nothing is what it seems and, in fact, through the looking-glass...

Als Pippilotta Viktualia Rollgardina Pfefferminz Efraimstochter Langstrumpf in die Villa Kunterbunt einzieht, staunen Tommy und Annika nicht schlecht. Pippi hat nicht nur einen Koffer voller Goldstücke, einen Affen und ein Pferd - sie ist auch das stärkste Mädchen der Welt! Zusammen erleben sie viele Abenteuer, gehen in den Zirkus und auf den Jahrmarkt, feiern Geburtstag und reisen auf der Hoppetosse zur Taka-Tuka-Insel.

In Enid Blyton's best-selling school series, Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been. In book seven, the school's strawberry plants are vandalised, and a lost blazer button at the scene of the crime leads straight to the Naughtiest Girl. It is hers, but how did it get there - and why would anyone want to pin the blame on Elizabeth?

Irish fairy tales and legends - full of enchantment, brave deeds and lost loves. The best tales from the Irish tradition, including: 'How Cúchulainn Got His Name', 'The Magic Shoes', 'Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach', 'The King’s Secret', 'The Children of Lir', 'The Giant’s Causeway', 'The Bodach of the Grey Coat', 'The Pot of Gold', 'Tír na n-Óg' and 'The White Gander'. Irish fairy tales and legends are full of enchantment, brave deeds and lost loves. Told from generation to generation, they are as fascinating now as they were to their original listeners.

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself, is an insightful, historical story about imagination, dreams and starting somewhere new. From Judy Blume, the bestselling author of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. Sally J. Freedman loves making up stories – stories in which she is always the star...

Abridged edition. The fifth in the series of the classic fantasy tales – The Chronicles of Narnia. Read by the unforgettable Sir Michael Hordern. “Stop it!” cried Eustace. “It’s some silly trick you are playing! Ow!” A great cold salt splash had broken right out of the frame and they...