A collection of six magical and heart-warming animal stories, by the nation's favorite storyteller.
From the author who brought you Joey the war horse, Shadow the dog and...
There was something inside the bag, squeaking and squealing in terror. Patrick didn't think about it. He leaped into the canal." For Best Mate, being rescued is only the start...
'What's that you're hiding there, Billy?
Show me, show me at once.' Her mouth gaped in horror as she
backed away from him... “Get that thing out of here,'
she whispered ......
This story is not a story at all. It all happened.
On New Year's Day Becky Morley begins to write her diary. By March, her world has changed for ever. Foot and mouth disease...
Heroism or cowardice? A stunning story of the First World War from a master storyteller. Told in the voice of a young soldier, the story follows 24 hours in his life at the...
Never has Aman needed a friend more than when a Springer Spaniel appears in the mouth of his Afghan cave. The dog becomes a constant companion, a shadow, and that's what Aman...
The incredible tale of a deserted village,
a lifelong friendship,
and one very adventurous cat.
It's 1943, Lily Tregenza lives on a farm in the seaside village of Slapton, and...
Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie
is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a...
Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a...
Toby Jenkins doesn't like boarding school - he gets called Jinks and thinks he'll never fit in. But then he meets Christopher who claims to have special powers. When the village...
We all knew what was going to happen. We'd seen it before. A ship about to founder staggers before she falls. A huge wave broke over her stern and she did not come upright...
Michael travels to Scilly for his Great Aunt Laura's funeral and inherits her diary, which reveals the moving story of her childhood, the great storms and the discovery of...