Three original stories for children who have just started reading on their own. Stories feature wrestling raptors, a hilarious tale of vegetarian dinosaurs and a prehistoric egg hatching in a modern museum. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.

Four Classic Stories In This Wonderful Collection.

The intrepid Professor Liedenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core.

Detective Lindsay Boxer’s long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby has been kidnapped without a trace. As her marriage begins to suffer from the pressures of work and her new boss watches her every move, Lindsay discovers that the victim may be keeping secrets as well.

symphonic fairy tale for narrator and orchestra has enchanted generations of children.

Two children find the Green Ship when they climb over the wall into what is more like a forest than a garden. The ship has bushes for bows and stern and its funnels are trees; a small garden shed on an ancient stump is the wheel house and in command of the ship is the owner of the garden, old Mrs Tredegar.

Learn how to create tiaras and finger food for your Perfect Princess Party, or get ready for the festive season with some wonderful Winter Wonderland recipe and gift ideas! There’s plenty to keep you busy all through the year.

With clearly illustrated step-by-step instructions, you’ll be able to make (and bake) along with Poppy.

So what are you waiting for? Princess Poppy can’t wait to share her favourite recipes and crafts with you!

Heidi is a work of fiction written in 1880 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as Heidi’s years of learning and travel (German: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and Heidi makes use of what she has learned. It is a novel about the events in the life of a young girl in her grandfather’s care, in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book “for children and those who love children.” Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature.

Now with new, updated layout and cover, Philipp Keel’s timeless journal All About Me is an amazing tool for self-reflection and the perfect gift for you and your loved ones.

The Sign of the Four is a classic of detective fiction and a forerunner of this now-ubiquitous genre.

Sherlock Holmes – The Hound Of The Baskervilles

Sherlock Holmes – The Hvalley Of Fear