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What would it be like to live in the future? Or to go back in time? Or to be a cat? Or a blood cell? What would happen if a monster ate every letter of the alphabet?In this extraordinary collection of brand new poems, beloved writer and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen will make you laugh...

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF THE EXCITING THIRD PADDINGTON MOVIE, PADDINGTON IN PERU!Marmalade sandwiches at the ready! Paddington is off on an awfully big adventure with the Browns to visit his Aunt Lucy in Peru. But when he gets there, he discovers that she has gone on a mysterious quest into the jung...

Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour 14-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets, se...

John and Elizabeth Gould sailed into Australia on a cold spring day in 1838 prepared for the most astonishing adventure of their lives. They had crossed three oceans from their London home to find the treasures of Australia's birdlife and showcase them to the outside world.Elizabeth had fallen pr...

In Flanders fields, young Martens knows his family's story, for it is as precious as the faded poem hanging in their home. From a poor girl comforting a grieving soldier, to an unexpected meeting of strangers, to a father's tragic death many decades after treaties were signed, war has shaped Mart...

Young Michael Morpurgo always loved the small painting of a boat hanging on Aunty Iris’s wall. But all she would ever say about it was that her beloved Alfie had painted it and given it to her years ago – before he’d left for France during World War II and had never come back.Michael decides to t...

It’s not fair. Kim’s always lived in the shadow of his younger sister, Eila – which is not how it’s supposed to be. Everyone talks about how smart Eila is … but, in Kim’s eyes, she can still make mistakes. Big mistakes.One day, Kim and Eila find an otherworldly object floating in a lake. Kim thin...

For everything there is an appointed time, even a time for every affair under the heavens. After 13 years it’s time for Mac to return home to face a past he’s been running from. A past his best friend Dave has been unable to escape. It was 1990, their final year of school and with an INXS soundtr...

Alice Montgomery goes missing in 2015. Seven years later, her best friend Hannah is bouncing from job to job, city to city, forever feeling the need to outrun something, but unsure what. With the niggling need to move nipping at her heels, Hannah decides to return home - a small coastal town in W...

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