Collection: Junior Fiction - Premier's Reading Challenge

Retold from the original fairy tales, these lively stories will captivate readers with their delightful illustrations and fun lift-up flaps which really add to the action.

A magic girl. A talking dog. Let's get this party started . . . Cinders lives a boring life with her selfish stepsisters and mean stepmother. So when her wishes start magically coming true it's a surprise to say the least. Then Cinders meets her fairy godmother: she's magic, she can fly, and she'...

A magic girl. A talking dog. Let's get this party started . . . Cinders lives a boring life with her selfish stepsisters and mean stepmother. So when her wishes start magically coming true it's a surprise to say the least. Then Cinders meets her fairy godmother: she's magic, she can fly, and she'...

A magic girl. A talking dog. Let's get this party started . . . Cinders lives a boring life with her selfish stepsisters and mean stepmother. So when her wishes start magically coming true it's a surprise to say the least. Then Cinders meets her fairy godmother: she's magic, she can fly, and she'...

Twelve-year-old Zita, an orphan and a housemaid, has resigned herself to a life of drudgery when a strange letter arrives, naming her the only living heir to the Brydgeborn fortune. Now the mistress of the castle, Zita soon realizes foul play led to the death of her family. And as she is guided ...

Each year, bar-tailed godwits undertake the longest unbroken migration of any bird, flying from their breeding grounds in the Arctic to Australia and New Zealand and back again. They follow invisible pathways - pathways that have been followed for thousands of years - while braving hunger and tre...

Some time ago, in a big city in a distant country where winter would sometimes last three years, there lived a woman. She had a child. A son. And because she loved him very much she promised herself that he should be spared the terrible things that happen in life, and with him in her arms she lef...

Clancy has just moved house. He is missing his old house terribly - the new house is much too big and much too lonely. How will he ever make it his home?

Although he is part of a herd of Belted Galloways, Clancy has no belt. Because he is totally black, all the other cows treat him like an outcast. However, he discovers that there is an advantage to being all black. At night he can sneak unseen into the rich pastures of the fat Herefords next door.

Clare’s Goodbye is about a thoughtful girl called Clare and the day she moves house. At first, Clare is reluctant to join her brother and sister in systematically saying goodbye to parts of their home (the tree house, their bunny’s grave), and in the end Jacob and Rosie stop trying to include her...