Two delightful Farmyard Tales stories in a single book. Read the first story flip the book over & read the second story on the reverse. Specially written with the help of a reading expert to ensure young children succeed in their first efforts at reading. Illustrated by Stephen Cartwright theres a little yellow duck to find on every page! ...

There were three people standing in the darkest place watching him. Simon is outraged that his Mum plans to remarry. He can't bear her new fiance or the way his mother & sister seem to have forgotten his late father. Overwhelmed by hatred & anger he seeks solace in a nearby abandoned water mill. But another powerful hatred lingers within its walls. & it is about to be unleashed... Westall's immense talent is evident from the opening line
- Simon's anger & unhappiness are tangible & the Scarecrows' ill-intentions terrifying.
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Three sinister & creepy tales by Anthony Horowitz a master-storyteller & the best-selling author of the Alex Rider series. Gary hates the countryside
- why did his mum have to bring him here to stay with his gran. Its boring & prickly & field after field it all looks the same
- especially when youre lost.. . Kevin loves computer games but this latest game (Smash Crash Slash 500 Plus) breaks all the rules & now Kevin is part of the game.. . Howard is in Heaven strange after a life spent bullying stealing & playing truant
- so why is he so unhappy?


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This book tells the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades showing for the first time how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. From salmonella in eggs to BSE from the Millennium Bug to bird flu from DDT to passive smoking from asbestos to global warming scares have become one of the most conspicuous & damaging features of our modern world. It analyses the crucial role played in each case by scientists who have misread or manipulated the evidence; by the media & lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; & finally by the politicians & aofficials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response leaving us all to pay a colossal price which may run into billions or even hundreds of billions of pounds. The book culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what it shows has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through man-made global warming. In an epilogue the authors compare our credulity in falling for scares to mass-hysterias of previous ages such as the post-mediaeval witch craze describing our time as a new age of superstition. ...

Late one night after a strange tube journey to Whitechapel in East London Paul makes a new friend John Redman
- daring & enigmatic
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TWO WOMEN DEAD It was a vicious calculated murder. The killer selected his victim at Euston station followed her home on the tube strangled her to death in front of her child. At the same time killed in the same way a second body is discovered at the back of Kings Cross station. & this grisly event eerily echoes the murder of two other women stabbed to death months before on the same day. TWO KILLERS WORKING TOGETHER It is DI Tom Thorne who sees the link & comes to the horrifying conclusion. This is not a serial killer the police are up against. This is two of them
- & two killers are way more deadly than one.. .
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The fourth hilarious story about Splat the Cat the irresistible character from Rob Scotton bestselling creator of Russell the Sheep Its Halloween & Splat is determined to be the scariest cat in the class. Unfortunately hes just too much of a scaredy-cat. Hes afraid of a little spider & everyone says his costume looks more silly than scary. & when the teacher tells a ghost story in the dark Splat gets so frightened that he tips over his pumpkin jack-o-lantern. But when the lights go back on the entire class is scared silly by a small black furry creature with a big pumpkin head. Whoooo could it be? ...

From his gaol cell outlaw Will Scatlocke waits to be hanged. Before he swings Will
- known to his friends as Scarlet
- dictates

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Cathy Scarlet & Tom Feather have decided to create the best catering company in Dublin. They have the perfect premises heaps of talent & even a few contacts but not everyone seems as pleased by the idea of Scarlet Feather as they are. Toms parents are disappointed that he has turned his back on the family business. Cathys husband buries himself in work becoming ever more distant whilst his mother thinks Cathy should stay at home to look after him. & Toms relationship with his beautiful ambitious girlfriend becomes fraught as she struggles to realise her dream of becoming a model. As Cathy & Tom strive to maintain their emotional ties amidst catering triumphs & disasters they are supported & undermined by an enchanting cast of classic Binchy characters. ...

This is a troubling story of crime sin guilt punishment & expiation set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New Engl&. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However it is not so much her harsh sentence but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax. ...