Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Little Bear can't sleep. Even with the biggest lantern at his bedside, he is frightened of the dark. But Big Bear finds a way to reassure him by taking him out to see the moon and the stars - and then Little Bear falls asleep.

A peddler sells caps from a tall, tottering pile on his head. Unable to sell a single cap one morning, he sits under a tree and falls asleep. When he wakes up, the caps are gone and the tree is full of cap-wearing monkeys...

The enthralling story of Captain Cook's voyage to Australia, as seen through the eager eyes of a cabin boy. When young Isaac Manley sailed on the Endeavour from England in 1768, no one on board knew if a mysterious southern continent existed in the vast Pacific Ocean. It would be a voyage full...

When Captain Crabclaw advertises for a crew for his new ship, the Speedy Squid, he doesn't expect to get a duck, a cow, an elephant and a giraffe! Its hoist, the mainsail and anchors aweigh with the most unusual pirate crew the high seas have ever seen! This rollicking tale of swashbuckling and s...

Captain Flinn is Puffin's favourite pirate. He has swashbuckled his way through THREE pirate dinosaur adventures and lived to tell the tale. But now he faces his toughest challenge yet.

A family day out at the beach turns into a swashbuckling pirate adventure as imaginations run wild in this timeless and classic picture book.

Captain Cook and I have a lot of things in common. Here are three of the big ones: 1. We are both named James Cook. 2. We are both great explorers. 3. We both look great in a tricorn hat. Meet Captain Jimmy Cook - the not-quite-so-famous explorer (yet). He might be stuck in Third Grade, but he's ...

Captain Cook and I have a lot of things in common. Here are three of the big ones: 1. We are both named James Cook. 2. We are both great explorers. 3. We both look great in a tricorn hat. Meet Captain Jimmy Cook - the not-quite-so-famous explorer (yet). He might be stuck in Third Grade, but he's ...

Captain Pugwash sets off in pursuit of a ship that could be carrying gold, but Cut-throat Jake is not far behind.

Ahoy there, me hearties! Meet CAPTAIN SNEER - a most boastful buccaneer! He's ROUGH and TOUGH. He's BRAVE and BOLD. He SAILS the SEAS in SEARCH of GOLD!