A new title in the amazing Essential Picture Book Classics list from Harper Collins. This book is packed with beautiful images & reassuring words as a mother bunny tells her baby bunny how much she loves him. The runaway bunny first published in 1942 has indeed become a classic picture book. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words & loving pictures. This beautiful new edition will be loved & shared by families for years to come. The genius of this book lies in its touching simplicity. It belies the depth & power of its message." Emma Thompson." ...

Banjo is about to tuck into his sausage when it jumps right up off the plate & runs away. But the sausage
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Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing & reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Mother Duck warns her ducklings about the dangers that lie in wait outside the gates of Potter's Barn Farm. But one little duckling is determined to go exploring... ...

When justice is for sale every jury has a price. In Biloxi Mississippi a landmark trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake begins routinely then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely & at least one juror is convinced hes being watched. Soon they have to be sequestered. Then a tip from an anonymous young woman suggests she is able to predict the jurors increasingly odd behaviour. Is the jury somehow being manipulated or even controlled? If so by whom? & more importantly why? ...

The thrilling sequel to THE FALSE PRINCE (9781407133058). GAMES OF THRONES for a younger audience. If you like the danger & sword-fighting of MERLIN you'll love this! Jaron is now in his rightful place as king but he knows that with traitors in his castle & enemies at the borders he is far from safe. He must go on a journey to discover the truth behind his family's murder. The trick will be coming back alive. ...

Everyone at the stables is on alert when travellers return to the area. But Piacannot help but be drawn to one traveller girl Jazz who has real pony-whispering powers. When she & her pony become runaways should Pia help Jazz -- & risk her new friendships at the stables? ...

Samuel's not allowed to enter Shadow Forest. But what's to stop the forest from coming to him? There's one thing every troll child dreads more than anything
- & that's being sent to the Betterer. The Betterer is the most evil troll in Shadow Forest who loves to punish his fellow trolls for their grubby & stupid habits in lots of horrible ways. When one troll boy escapes the forest to be with his favourite human Samuel Blink the Betterer is not very happy. Until he realizes that the most useful thing to have in his Bettering Tower would be a real life human child. So he places his Bettering Branch & Gripgrass Juice in his pockets & sets out on a quest into the human world beyond the forest to kidnap Samuel & the troll friend he's been hiding in his wardrobe.. .
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The squabbling Norse gods & goddesses of Runemarks are back! & there's a feisty new heroine on the scene: Maggie a girl the same age as Maddy but brought up a world apart
- literally in World's End the focus of the Order in which Maddy was raised. Now the Order is destroyed Chaos is filling the vacuum left behind...and is breaching the everyday world. This is a chilling prophecy from the Oracle; a conflict between two girls; & with just twelve days to stave off the Apocalypse carnage is about to be unleashed...
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Seven oclock on a Monday morning five hundred years after the end of the world & goblins had been at the cellar again... Maddy Smith was born with a rusty-coloured runemark on her hand
- a symbol of the old gods & definitely cause for suspicion. For magic is dangerous. Or so everyone thinks. But Maddy enjoys working magic. Even if it is just to control some pesky goblins. & every time her friend One-Eye
- a good-for-nowt Outlander
- comes by he teaches her more & more about the gods & the runes. Now he wants Maddy to open Red Horse Hill & descend into World Below to retrieve a relic of the old gods. Otherwise it is likely to be the End of Everything. Again... An epic romp into the heart of the old Norse tales: wild dangerous richly inventive & superbly imaginative.


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Seven o'clock on a Monday morning five hundred years after the End of the World & goblins had been at the cellar again. Maddy Smith has always been an outsider. In a world ruled by the harsh & puritanical Order she is shunned for the strange birthmark on her left h&. For this is no ordinary birthmark
- it is a runemark a sign of the old gods. In fact Maddy can do things that no-one else can things that could be called magic. But not until she meets the old traveller One-Eye an outsider like herself does she learn what power she really has & what she will be asked to do with it. In Runemarks" Joanne Harris creates a world not unlike our own
- if it had been shaped by the Vikings instead of the Romans
- & colours it with her familiar blend of rich imagery & gritty realism. A disenchanted world where the gods died long ago. Can Maddy bring them back to life?"


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