When Dorothy and her pet dog, Toto, are swept away from their Kansas home, they find themselves in the magical land of Oz where munchkins live, monkeys fly and Wicked Witches rule. In their quest to return home they meet a cast of characters that have become much loved by families since the story was first published in 1900. Dorothy, played by Lydia West (Years and Years) joins the Tin Woodsman, Scarecrow and Cowardly Lion as they follow the yellow...

Follow the Swallow When Apollo the swallow flies to Africa, Chack the blackbird wants to send him a message. But Africa is far away. Can a jumpy dolphin, a grumpy camel, a greedy crocodile or a playful monkey help to deliver the message? The Wrong Kind of Bark Finlay's a real dreamer, and he's always getting things wrong. So when he brings his puppy into class, it looks as if Finlay's heading for BIG trouble! The Quick Brown Fox Cub Frisk loves exploring!...

A collection of gorgeous stories from Quentin Blake and John Yeoman. Including: The Bear's Winter House Beatrice and Vanessa The Heron and the Crane Mouse Trouble Mr Nodd's Ark Rumbelow's Dance Sixes and Sevens Up With Birds The Wild Washerwomen The Young Performing Horse.

When Leah Doyle and her adopted sister Su go on holiday together to Magaluf to celebrate their A-levels, only Leah returns home. Her successful, swotty sister remains abroad, humiliated and afraid: there is an online video of her, drunkenly performing a sex act in a nightclub. And everyone has seen it. Jennifer Doyle, mother of the girls, successful court judge, is furious. How could this have happened? How can she bring justice to these men who took...

One evening in early spring, in the days when all the trains were driven by steam, a stationmaster found something abandoned on a train ? Mr Ginger Leghorn is used to collecting up umbrellas and other lost property but he?s never found an abandoned puppy on his train before. He has no intention of keeping it but his five children - Alfie, Arthur, Beryl, Sissy and Albert - have other ideas and Jim is soon a much-loved, but often disruptive, member...

The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter are now available as a downloadable, digital audiobook, complete and unabridged! The twenty-three tales in this set have never lost their popularity, and sell in their millions all over the world. Meet again the famous characters that children love and adore... PETER RABBIT, SQUIRREL NUTKIN, THE FLOPSY BUNNIES, MRS TIGGY-WINKLE, TOM KITTEN, JEREMY FISHER, JEMIMA PUDDLE-DUCK and many more. These stories are beautifully...

Mira CAN?T WAIT to start Unicorn School. (Her big sister goes and won?t stop going on about it.). But when Mira arrives on her first day all the unicorns are gone ... except Dave! Dave isn?t quite the sparkly unicorn Mira was expecting to find at the end of the rainbow - he?s more grumpy than glittery, more interested in lunch than magical Quests and he always runs off when Mira tries to ride him - but Mira?s not going to let that get her down. Along...

Gobbolino is the charming tale of a witch's cat who would rather be a kitchen cat. Gobbolino has one white paw and blue eyes and isn't wicked at all, so his mother doesn't like him. He escapes to look for a kitchen home but is distrusted everywhere he goes and blamed for mysterious happenings, such as the farmer's milk turning sour and the orphanage children's gruel turning into chocolate. After many such adventures, Gobbolino finally finds the home...

In the eternally frozen city of Hodeldorf, the Tattercoats live up on the roofs and by a strict code: only steal what you need, don?t leave a trace of yourself behind and if another Tattercoat is in trouble, you must always help them out. So when Otto?s mother goes missing and he is lured into a factory for children with nowhere else to go, the Tattercoats must come to the rescue. Dare they enter the Forest of Lost Things, where wolves, witches and...

Mabel lives with her parents in The Mermaid Hotel, by the sea. Mabel likes to keep an eye on the comings and goings of all the guests. Then one day a particularly in-ter-est-ing old lady comes to stay. There is something very suspicious about her, with her growly voice and her heavy trunks and her beady-eyed tortoise. And why does no one know her REAL name? There can only be one answer, Mabel decides ... this guest is a SUPERVILLAIN. But even supervillains...