London, the near future. Energy wars are flaring across the globe - oil prices have gone crazy, regular power cuts are a daily occurrence. The cruel Kossak soldiers prowl the streets, keeping the...

Anton Lesser reads Kenneth Grahame’s much-loved tale about a dragon who doesn’t want to fight and the boy who becomes his friend. The Boy lives in a cottage with his mother and father, and...

Builders are digging up the foundations at Cricklepit School, but for the moment the pupils are more worried about their SATs tests and whether their classroom newspaper, The Cricklepit Chronicle,...

Catherine would say it all began in a time that was yesterday and tomorrow and eternally present. But then Catherine's a storyteller. I'm just the guy it happened to. Robert is the class victim,...

Hot Stuff'
Inventor Arthur Venger and his young assistants, Kip and Herbie, do battle with the hotheads of this world, and as usual make an alarming mess of things...

'The One-Day...

London, 1876, and baby Hetty Feather is left at the Foundling Hospital. The Hospital cares for abandoned children but Hetty must live with a foster family until she is big enough to go to school....

Joe has gone to live with his dad, leaving behind his beloved pet rabbit. Anna and her friend Suzanne try to look after it for him, but when the rabbit becomes ill, they’re convinced it’s...

How far would you go to find yourself? When orphaned Arthur Hobhouse is shipped to Australia after WWII, he loses his sister, his country and everything he knows. The coming years test him to his...

Maggie and Jason's grandfather is dead. He's leaving Jason his camera and photographs, and Maggie a box of shells. They are gifts that will take them further than they could ever imagine, uncover...

BILL'S NEW FROCK
One Monday morning, Bill Simpson wakes up to find he is a girl! Forced off to school in a frilly pink dress, Bill discovers one of the worst, most baffling days of his life...

Are you a day-dreamer? A bad loser? A nose-picker? Nothing wrong with that, you might think. But just see how GRIZZLY these things can get!

Includes 'Revenge of the Bogeyman', 'The...

Rosa's grandfather has a special song for every occasion, and even a special one to stop Rosa from being scared of the dark. In 'Rosa's Grandfather Sings Again', they go to the zoo, to the...

Bertie Boggin is the smallest of the Boggins. His older brother and sister won't play with him and he has nothing to do. Then he sees the notice on the coalshed - and there inside is the Ghost!...

Bella Donna appears to be a regular girl at a regular school with her regular friends, but she has a secret - she is really a young witch! She's working hard at learning her spells, and is...

Harry really loves football. It’s just a shame he is so useless at it! But one day, as he watches footie on TV, a bolt of lightning hits the house, and something really peculiar happens.