U is for Unique.

A charming, imaginative story featuring Stick Man and an unfortunate sequence of events that take him further and further away from his family home. This is an ideal yuletide bedtime story with Santa helping to reunite Stick Man with his beloved wife and children in time for Christmas. With Donaldson’s characteristic rhythmic genius and Scheffler’s…

Henry loves books; so much so that he starts eating them! And the more he eats, the smarter he becomes, digesting knowledge on all kinds of subjects. But Henry’s greed for good books starts to have unsavoury consequences. This is a great celebration of books and the benefits to be had from reading. This is…

Fiction and non-fiction merge brilliantly in this book-within-a-book. A rabbit picks a library book about wolves and learns all about their habits and behaviour. Yet as their natural prey, the reader rabbit is in peril! To avert disaster and to protect sensitive human readers, Gravett provides an alternative ending to her tale which is funny…

A delightful modern and unique take on the age-old lesson of sharing. A vulnerable shell-less crab seeks refuge from a greedy gull in an abandoned shell only to soon find he has company from other rock-pool dwellers. Will the crab and his new housemates learn to share? It’s refreshing to find some lesser known sea…

This is a laugh-out-loud modern-day classic of a pesky pigeon determined to get his own way. Pigeon, who insists on driving the bus despite being told not to, goes to great lengths to sneak a turn at the wheel. Pigeon tries whining, pleading, charming, coercing and shouting to get what he wants. A clever story…

A brilliant book that makes the extraordinary appear commonplace. When a tiger knocks on the door of Sophie’s house, Sophie and her mother entertain their guest as he joins them for tea. The tiger has a ferocious appetite that they do their best to accommodate, and the tiger leaves happy. When Sophie’s daddy returns home…