General Children's

Leon McAuley / Albert and the Magician

When Mr Curry the headmaster announces The Great Gazebo is coming to visit the school, Albert's big sister Fionnuala tells him awful tales of the powers of magicians, especially over seven-year-old boys. 'They appear in a cloud of smoke and red...

Jonathan Meres / The World of Norm: May Require Batteries

What with overdue homework, overdue pocket money and a bag full of overdue newspapers, one thing's for sure: life for Norm isn't getting any less unfair. And did he mention the fact that he's the only kid on the planet without an iPad?...

Brendan O'Carroll / Jimmy's Joke Book

This is a selection of humour from Jimmy, a regular contributor to Ian Dempsey's "Breakfast Show" on 2FM for over ten years. At 8:07 am each morning, he telephones Ian and they chat. Jimmy is always good for a gag or a funny observation on...

Phoebe Bright / Lucky Stars: the Perfect Pony Wish

One night Cassie is gazing at the twinkling sky, when suddenly a shooting star zooms into her bedroom and transforms, into Stella Starkeeper. Stella and Cassie fly to the secret world of the stars, and Cassie discovers she is destined to be a Lucky Star...

John Wood / The W.H.I.F.F.

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Andrew Matthews / The Kingfisher Treasury of Funny Stories

These funny stories all contain favourite characters such as Posy Bates, Dilly the Dinosaur, flying dogs and dancing cows.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good...

Jennifer Curry / Family Poems

This title presents brilliant poems to entertain your whole family. In here you'll find rhymes from favourite poets including Michael Rosen, Jack Prelutsky and Kit Wright, as well as some poems written by kids like you. There are happy poems and sad...

Beverly Cleary / Beezus and Ramona

This is the first title in the hugely popular series about Ramona Quimby. Ramona's sister, Beezus, tries very hard to be patient, but how many nine-year-old girls have to put up with their embarrassing, annoying little four-year-old sisters? Sisters...

Martin Waddell / Star Striker Titch

A fun football story by an award-winning author in this popular series for young readers. It's the school five-a-side World Cup. Titch has new boots and he's ready to score goals. But Bungo's the striker and he doesn't want tinies like Titch in his team...

Jeanne Betancourt / Stolen Ponies (Pony Pals)

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Ann M. MArtin / Mary Anne Saves the Day

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Margot Bosonnet / Red Belly, Yellow Belly

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Robert Swindells / Doodlebug Alley

It's World War II, and doodlebugs, the deadliest bombs yet, are raining down on London. No one is safe, no street intact. The war is tearing Sandy's family apart. Do they stand any chance in Doodlebug Alley?All of our books are second hand, and...

Janet Perkins / Haffertee's First Christmas

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Chloe Ryder / A Unicorn Adventure!

Chevalia is an enchanted island where ponies and horses rule, its magic powered by eight golden horseshoes hanging in the royal castle. But the horseshoes have been stolen and must be found before Midsummer Day or the island will lose its magic ...A...

Dick King Smith / The Fox Busters

The Foxearth fowls have a tradition of battling with the crafty foxes whose cunning is hard to outwit. Then the bold rooster fathers three exceptional chicks - Ransome, Sims and Jeffries - who fly faster, higher and further than any chicken has ever done...

Pete Johnson / Help! I'm a Classroom Gambler

Harvey thinks school is the most boring place on earth - and so he and his friends devise a way to help relieve their boredom. Lessons are actually quite interesting when you have more at stake than just whether you'll get through it without being...

Dick King Smith / Connie and Rollo

Connie Button amazes her parents when she begins to speak - somehow she can add up even the biggest numbers in her head! And when Rollo says HIS first words, they are all in rhyme. But will Connie's brainy tricks get her into trouble? And can Rollo...

Catherine Doolan / Drochlá Gruaige (Sraith SOS)

Ba bhrea le Finn a bheith 'cuileailte' -- ach nil se ar chor ar bith. Deanann se a dhicheallach teipeann air ...go dti go n-athraionn se a stil ghruaige! Finn really wants to be cool. He tries very hard, but nothing works. Until he tackles his...

Lee Weatherly / Breakfast at Sadie's

Sadie is fourteen years old and unhappy at school. Her dad died four years ago, and she lives alone with her mum in their seaside bed and breakfast. Her mum thinks Sadie doesn't try hard enough at anything she does, and her teachers think she's...

Niki Daly / Pa's Perfect Pizza

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Julia Donaldson / Princess Mirror-Belle and the Magic Shoes

Ellen still can't believe that mysterious Mirror-Belle is her friend. After all, how can you really believe in a girl who stares at you out of the mirror but who isn't your reflection? A girl who claims she is a princess from a magical,...

Redvers Brandling / Spilling the Beans on Robin Hood and other robbers of the copse

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Stephanie Dagg / Oh Mum!

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Michael Carroll / Moonlight

The perfectly preserved body of a 10,000 year-old headless horse is discovered in a glacier in Norway. In Dublin, a genetic engineer in the employ of a ruthless businessman dreams of creating the fastest racehorse ever. Add an inquisitive young girl and...

Andrew Matthews / The Beasts of Boggart Hollow

Twelve stories about the animals who live in Boggart Hollow and the silly thingsthey do. Among them are Mr and Mrs Rat who are so ambitious for their daughter that they want her to marry the sun; a hedgehog who falls in love with a scrubbing brush, and...

Dick King Smith / Sophie in the Saddle

Small, but very determined, Sophie loves animals and is going to be a farmer when she grows up. In this book she gets a dog that she calls Puddle, makes friends with a Vietnamese pot-bellied pig and has her first ride on a pony!All of our books are...

Rex Stone / Attack of the Lizard King

When Jamie moves to Dinosaur Cove with his father he's looking forward to doing some fossil hunting on the beach. But when he and his friend, Tom, discover a forgotten cave with fossilised dinosaur footprints, it takes them to another world ...a...

Eva Ibbotson / Dial a Ghost

'Get me some ghosts,' said Fulton Snodde-Brittle. 'Frightful and dangerous ghosts!' Fulton has gone to the Dial A Ghost agency with an evil plan. He wants to hire some truly terrifying ghosts to scare his nephew Oliver to death. The...

Marie Burlington / Dear Me!

Dear Me, Grandad took me to town today and let me buy whatever clothes I wanted. Mum would never have let me off so lightly! Everything's changed for Cathy - she's moved in with Grandad while Mum's in hospital and she has to go to a new...

Emily Smith / Joe v. the Fairies

Joe is sure he's right, but his sisters are obsessed by them. They've turned the climbing frame into a fairy bower, there are fairy cakes for tea and no one wants to do his assault course any more. Then a new neighbour arrives, who loves climbing trees...

Dorothy Edwards / My Naughty Little Sister and Bad Harry

More short stories about the adventures of the naughty little sister. This time she teams up with Bad Harry and together they get into all sorts of mischief. Author Dorothy Edwards is well known for her Naughty Little Sister stories.All of our books are...

Pete Johnson / Rescuing Dad

Joe and Claire can see why Mum chucked Dad out. He looks a mess, he can't cook and he's useless around the house. Something must be done: they're the only ones who can help transform him into 'Dad Mark Two'. And when they unveil this...

Brian Moses / Greetings Earthlings!: Space Poems

I, the moon, would like it known -- I never follow people home. I simply do not have the time. And neither do I ever shine. For what you often see at night is me reflecting solar light. And I'm not cheese! No, none of these: no mozzarellas, cheddars,...

Jamila Gavin / Someone's Watching, Someone's Waiting

When Emma goes to stay with her aunt and uncle in old Cote's Hall, she anticipates a holiday of boredom. But things begin to change when she discovers a beautiful doll that is uncannily real. Gavin also wrote "Grandpa Chatterji" and...

Edgar J. Hyde / The Scarecrow

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

David Henry Wilson / How the Lion Lost His Lunch

Jeremy James finds some strange inhabitants in Warkin-on-Sea, a lion, a non-go, non-stop donkey, a lady who hates children, and monkeys who eat cars. Illustrated by Axel Scheffler.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy...

Enid Gibson / The House in Angel Lane

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Conor McHale / Don't Open That Box

Two boxes -- one large, one small -- arrive for Granny Lambert. But wily Belzoni, her cat, sees the note printed on the small box that reads: Don't Open that Box, Open this one first! Unfortunately Granny doesn't notice the sign and opens the big...

Frank Lampard / Team T. Rex: Book 14

Frankie and his team love playing football. There's always time for a game. And now that they have their magical football they're playing against teams they never imagined! While on holiday at a summer camp, Frankie, Charlie, Louise and Max the...

Shaun Traynor / Hugo O'Huge: The Children's Giant

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Julie Sykes / Fairy Bears 3: Blossom

Fairy Bears are the size of bumblebees and live beneath a giant sycamore tree in Firefly Meadow. Fairy Bears always do their best, working hard 'to care for the world and all its plants, animals and children'. This is the Fairy Bear Promise...

Bel Mooney / But You Promised!

Kitty, Bel Mooney's naughty, messy, loveable heroine, returns in a new set of adventures. This time her cry is 'But you promised!' She discovers that sometimes grown-ups make promises they can't keep. But then so do children!All of our...

Nigel Crowle / Conquering Romans

Why did the Romans wash their clothes in wee? Just what do you do all day if you were a god? If you want to know the answers to these incredible questions and more, you will find them in this hilarious new trivia series which guarantees to leave out all...

Bel Mooney / Why Me?

Kitty learns that things do go wrong - for her, her family and her friends. But at least they have each other and at times like this only one thing matters; being able to make others laugh.All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the...

Dick King Smith / Sophie's Snail

Sophie is four-years-old and very determined. When she grows up, she's going to be a farmer. Already she's saving up to buy a cow, two hens, a pony and a pig. She's very fond of most creatures - especially little ones, like snails, and...

Marian Broderick / The Witch Apprentice

What if you were adopted by witches? There's something very odd going on in Anna Kelly's new home - her guardians, Grizz and Wormella Mint, are witches, and they want Anna to help them with their nasty spells! Poor Anna gets stuck in their...

Dick King-Smith / Ace

Ace is a pig who understands the human language and replies to Farmer Tubbs with one grunt for yes and two for no. Soon he is quite a house-pig enjoying TV and sitting in the farmer's chair. The author also wrote "Sheep-Pig", "The Fox...

Terrance Dicks / Sally Ann Goes to Hospital (Streamers)

All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a...

Joyce Lankester Brisley / Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories

Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories by Joyce Lankester Brisley is loved by new readers and old friends alike. The enchanting and classic adventures of a little country girl. The Milly-Molly-Mandy stories are perfect for reading aloud. They have been loved and...

Erika McGann / The Fairytale Trap

Who's afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf ...? When Grace and her witch apprentice friends sign up for the school pantomime they get much more than they bargained for. A mysterious enchanted object turns the entire school into a real medieval village, with a...

Philip Ardagh / Awful End

When both of Eddie Dickens' parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie,...