Pete's having so much fun taking pictures of all the animals - but one animal wants to take a picture of Pete! This series features fun stories with a word count of fewer than 50 words for children who are just starting to read. A word list at the beginning of each story allows for a quick check of a child's ability to read and understand new words before reading, and a puzzle at the end encourages rereading for pleasure.

Have you ever wondered how and why the animals came to be as they are? In these magical tales, drawn from stories he heard as a child in India as well as on folk traditions he later collected all over the world, Rudyard Kipling gives some wonderfully imaginative explanations. This selection includes 'The Beginning of the Armadillos', 'The Cat that Walked by Himself' and 'The Butterfly that Stamped'. Originally told by Rudyard Kipling for his own children,...

This story sees Forget-Me-Not trying to make friends. His mama points out that friendships are not always instant and sometimes they take time to blossom, just like the blossom on the trees. It takes a while but it's always worth the wait. So when Forget-Me-Not meets Cherry, he decides to wait and see what happens.

Shelby Jane Cooper is 17, pretty and quiet. It's just Shelby and her mom, Shaylene, a court stenographer who wears pyjama jeans, stitches tapestry, eats ice-cream for dinner and likes to keep Shelby safe. So safe she barely goes out. So safe she doesn't go to school. Because anything could happen, to a girl like Shelby. When Shelby gets knocked down by a car, it's not just her leg that's broken: Shelby's world is shattered. Her mom turns up to collect...

Emily is delighted her lively new tabby kitten, Charlie, is settling in so well - if only he would just wear a collar! Then Emily is picked to join her school football team and suddenly she hardly has any time for entertaining a kitten. Charlie is bored now Emily has no time to play with him, so he ventures over the back wall to explore. There he meets a new friend, a cat-loving lady who makes lots of fuss over him. But Emily soon starts to notice...

Martin is a fun-loving English boy who has just turned 16. Marc is a promising Scottish footballer approaching that age. Both are enjoying their summers when they become seriously ill within days of each other. Although their paths have never crossed, their fortunes are about to be bound in the most extraordinary, intimate way. One of them will die and in doing so, he will save the other's life.

During the First World War just under a million British people died - a figure so huge that it becomes almost meaningless. It feels impossible to give it a human context. Consequently, we struggle to truly grasp the impact this devastating conflict must have had on people's day-to-day lives. Accompanying the ITV series, this book provides a personal perspective on the brutal reality of the what life was like during the First World War.

When Detective Sime Mackenzie boards a light aircraft at Montreal's St. Hubert airfield, he does so without looking back. For Sime, the journey ahead represents an opportunity to escape the bitter blend of loneliness and regret that has come to characterise his life in the city. Travelling as part of an investigation team, Sime's destination lies in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Only two kilometres wide and three long, Entry Island is home to a population...

Stanley Potts is just an ordinary boy - but Stan's destiny leads him - via a hook-a-duck stall - to Pancho Pirelli, the blue-caped madman who swims with piranhas. And as Stan delves into the waters, he finally discovers who he really can be.

Murder most festive... A locked room mystery solved with a flourish on Boxing Day. Blackmail on Christmas Eve. A missing jewel discovered in a very festive hiding place. A body slumped in a chair on Christmas morning, still listening to carols. The midnight theft of a gift intended for a saint. Crime doesn't take a holiday, so these - and many more - are the puzzles that make up Murder under the Christmas Tree, a collection of festive mysteries featuring...