M is for Magic.

Mrs Blackhat likes everything to be black – her hat, bat, rat and cat. The problem is, her cat is ginger! So Mrs Blackhat determines to turn her kitty black, using potions and spells to work her magic. Will her story have a magical ending? A laugh-out-loud rhyming tale that is entertaining and fun.

Nora and her toy giraffe Jeff are bored one day so Grandma suggests they play in the garden. Grandma tells Nora about the many magical sights she has seen there and encourages her granddaughter to explore for herself. However, Nora is sceptical because of course tigers don’t live in gardens. Do they? This magical tale…

The world is turned topsy-turvy in this inventive magical tale. A bored young boy, called Toby, looks in his mirror and realises that something is wrong with his reflection. Suddenly he finds that he can step through it. Beyond the looking glass he encounters an array of odd sights that turn the impossible into the…

For a lot of adults, nothing evokes memories of their Christmas TV viewing quite like The Snowman, although you may not know that the iconic yuletide animation was based upon Briggs’ classic picture book. This is a picture book in the literal sense as it is completely devoid of any words. It is laid out…

This is a lovely original story for horse lovers everywhere. Sugarlump starts off life as a rocking horse but when his childhood owners are out at school all day, Sugarlump dreams of another fuller life. Cue a blue-eyed unicorn who makes Sugarlump’s wishes come true. Each life the horse wishes for begins well only to…

When Meg, Mog and Owl visit a haunted castle, it isn’t long before they are greeted by ghostly noises and spooky visions. A battle between the Green Knight and the White Knight breaks out and Meg casts a spell to help the White Knight to victory and restore the castle to order. A lively, colourful…

Suspend disbelief with a book that takes imaginative storytelling to another level. When Ellen looks in the mirror to inspect her chicken pox spots she finds herself face to face with her exact mirror image. Yet the face peering back at her belongs to Princess Mirror-Belle. She also has spots but hers are caused by…

We’ve all heard of superfoods but Burningham takes this idea quite literally and runs with it with gusto! Mrs Hargraves wants her baby to grow big and strong but his reluctance to eat means that he isn’t growing strong as hoped. That is until one day Mrs Hargraves feeds him an avocado pear… Avocado does…

For a lot of adults, nothing evokes memories of their Christmas TV viewing quite like The Snowman, although you may not know that the iconic yuletide animation was based upon Briggs’ classic picture book. This is a picture book in the literal sense as it is completely devoid of any words. It is laid out…

A trio of snooty ladies ask Mrs Pepperpot to submit a raffle prize for the school’s bazaar but when her back is turned, they cruelly ridicule her offer of ginger biscuits. Oblivious to the rebuke, Mrs Pepperpot sets to work baking, only to suddenly shrink to the size of a doll while doing so! She…