A girl goes on a journey to a faraway land, where the birds need her help. Her magic feather means she can understand them - but is it too late to save their nests?
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Picture Books
Fiction
Early Readers
Poetry
Educational
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Paper Chase
Here is a wood where the trees grow tallAnd here is the tallest tree of all,And sitting under its branches – look!~Here is a boy, reading a book … … until he is disturbed by the arrival of a girl with a paper plane. The touching tale of their friendship is woven into...
Follow the Swallow
Chack the blackbird is trying to get a message to Apollo the swallow. We follow dolphins, camels and crocodiles, under oceans and through deserts to help get the message across. There is also an “early reader” version of this title, with illustrations by Martin...
Gozzle
It's springtime. Bear has woken up hungry and finds a lost egg outside his cave. Breakfast? No! Out hatches Gozzle, a very sweet little gosling who is convinced that Bear must be her daddy – and that she should be able to climb, dig and eat honey just like him.
Jonty Gentoo
One night, a plucky little penguin sneaks out of the zoo. Jonty, a young gentoo penguin, is determined to find his true home in Antarctica. It's going to be an amazing journey - but can Jonty really find his way?
The Tooth Fairy and the Crocodile
Ruth Mary is used to collecting teeth from under the pillows of sleeping children, not animals. But when the Fairy Queen sends her off to the jungle, Ruth Mary doesn't mind. And all is going well. That is, until she collects the tooth of a crocodile, who wakes up and...
The Oak Tree
This is a story spanning a thousand years, over which time an acorn grows into a mighty oak. The tree witnesses a whole sweep of history, from the Viking invasion to a modern-day teddybears' picnic, and on each page we see children playing different games around it,...
Who Lives Here
Colours, Colours Everywhere
Explore a whole paintbox of colours in this exciting and interactive story. A little girl paints her own adventure, starring a bright blue tree frog who sails away in a red balloon and is marooned on a purple island. Children will delight in the rhyming text and in...
What the Ladybird Heard at Christmas
In a big old house, the ladybird is visiting her friend the spider for the festive season. But those two bad men, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, are up to no good again. They have a devious plan - to steal the children's Christmas presents from their stockings! It's a good...