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Playtime, Poppy Cat Poppy Cat loves sunshine, and dancing and swinging! Join her in the garden for touch-and-feel fun! Other Poppy Cat books to collect: Zoom, Zoom, Poppy Cat Goodnight, Poppy Cat Yum, Yum, Poppy Cat

Based on Albert Payson Terhune's popular stories from the 1920s, this is the tale of Lad, a purebred collie whose bravery saves the life of a little girl.

Pedro and Blanco are two horses, neglected and lonely, living on a sun-baked Spanish island in the 1970s. Their lives change dramatically when their owner, Farmer Pepe, buys a tractor and has no use for them anymore. One day an old lady stops by their field and is shocked at their poor condition.  She decides to help them to be fit and strong again. Their new life slowly begins to unfold.  At midnight on Christmas Eve something magical happens that changes their lives completely.  As they embar...

Dinky the Dolphin is tired of performing tricks in the marine park. But when he finally makes his escape, he meets a hungry shark on the loose! Only his tricks can save him now. Dinky the Dolphin is one of eight new titles in the hugely successful series of small format storybooks for preschool children based on the popular TV animation series Animal Stories. Each title -- based on a single TV episode -- follows the amusing antics of an animal character who is struggling to overcome a particul...

Paddington Bear’s Adventures have been treasured by readers for over 40 years. Now his Peruvian points of interest and whimsical misadventures have been recorded in a scrapbook format. Read all about Paddington’s life and times in this full colour, interactive novelty scrapbook filled with flaps, fold outs and the occasional marmalade stain! This collection of Paddington’s particulars, culled from the original novels and picture books, is chock-full of important memorabilia:...

Darkling is ragged and wild, but Jenny can't help falling for him. As soon as her grandfather buys the chestnut colt, she is thrilled. But a racing colt turns out to be a frightening responsibility - especially one as temperamental as Darkling...

Only Willow has the power to defeat the malevolent Church of Angels, and they will stop at nothing to destroy her. Willow isn't alone, though. She has Alex by her side - a trained Angel Killer and her one true love. But nothing can change the fact that Willow's a half-angel, and when Alex joins forces with a group of AKs, she's treated with mistrust and suspicion. She's never felt more alone...until she meets Seb. He's been searching for Willow his whole life - because Seb is a half-angel too. C...

A teenager's link to animals gives way to human connection in this smart, incisive new novel.Sixteen-year-old Ted O'Connor's parents just died in a fiery car crash, and now he's stuck with a set of semi-psycho foster parents, two foster brothers – Astin, the cocky gearhead, and C.W., the sometimes gangsta – and an inner-city high school full of delinquents. He's having pretty much the worst year of his miserable life. Or so he thinks. Is it possible that becoming an orphan is not the worst thing...

From best friends James Bowen and street cat Bob, stars of the number one bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob, comes a special edition of The World According to Bob for children aged 11 and above.Best friends James Bowen and street cat Bob have been on a remarkable journey together. In the years since their story ended in BOB: NO ORDINARY CAT James, with Bob's help, has begun to find his way in the world.Along with the adventures and the fun there have been tough times too, but through moments of...

Typical Malley - to avoid being shipped off to boarding school, she takes off with some guy she met online. Poor Richard - he knows his cousin's in trouble before she does. Wild Skink - he's a ragged, one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, and enough of a renegade to think he can track Malley down. With Richard riding shotgun, the unlikely pair scour the state, undaunted by blinding storms, crazed pigs, flying bullets and giant gators. Carl Hiaasen first introduced readers to Skink more than 25 years...

This chapter book is sure to make a splash! Find fun, funny, and TRUE stories of heroic and talented dolphins and amazing dolphin friendships. It's perfect for budding bookworms and animal lovers alike.

The third novel in Toby Forward's Flaxfield Quartet.Tamrin doesn’t like being at the Canterstock College for Wizards, but when the tailor who sent her there arrives to take her away she knows that she should not go with him. She sets off to find Sam, only to find that their mutual enemy, Ash, has been waiting for her to lead the way to Flaxfield’s old apprentice so that she can use him to help her to escape from the Tower in which she is imprisoned.

Narrated by an Archaeon, a 3.8 billion year old species, the oldest on earth, Downdrift is a work of speculative eco-fiction that describes the impact of ecological pressures on animals that are adopting human behaviors, with droll and sometimes alarming, results. The book follows a year of changes and the travels of a housecat and a lion who are inexplicably driven towards a rendezvous. At first, a few isolated harbingers of change appear, but they quickly escalate. Squirrels take up manic knit...

Wabi was born an owl—a great horned owl who grew to become such a strong, confident creature that he was afraid of nothing. But now he is afraid. He fears that he might never win the heart of the girl he loves. Somehow, despite his own intentions, he has fallen in love with a girl—a beautiful, headstrong human girl. And so he begins the adventure of his life. He shape-shifts into human form in order to be with her. But before he can win her love, he must face an even greater challenge in a land...

A detective in the wild.   Young Precious gets a very special treat.  She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp.  While there she makes a new friend, a boy named Khumo, and meets an actor-lion named Teddy, who is starring in a film.  When Teddy disappears, Khumo and Precious will brave hippos and crocodiles as they search for the missing lion.  With a Reader's Guide

Thirteen-year-old Jas tries to prove that the owner of the farm where she works has killed her favorite horse, Whirlwind.

After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.

On the farm, some very strange noises are keeping the farmer awake. The ducks are having fun singing and banging ‘instruments'-- what a racket! But their noise is keeping someone else awake too, wily Mr Fox. There's trouble on the way ... Panda number 20

Boisterous toddler board books join the phenomenally best-selling `How Do Dinosaurs' series!How do dinosaurs clean their rooms?With rubbish bins and dusters and brooms!Jane Yolen's playful, read-aloud text and Mark Teague's hilarious illustrations show your own little dinosaurs just how fun and easy tidying up can be!Perfect for parents to read aloud to their children, this book is as funny as it is instructive.