Traditional stories (Children's / Teenage)
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A house for Christmas Mouse
£6.99A house for Christmas Mouse
Mouse is very excited for Christmas, but first she needs to find a home to spend it in! On her way through Treetop Forest, she meets Fox, Bunny and Bear, all in need of a little help – which she gladly offers. But, as the sun sets, it looks like she won’t have anywhere cosy to spend Christmas! Luckily, her new friends are about to reward her generosity with a very big surprise.
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A taste of darkness
£8.99A taste of darkness
A chilling, thrilling collection of 13 haunting tales. From supernatural thrillers, to contemporary horror; creepy ancient legends, to murders gone wrong – this insatiable anthology is impossible to put down, and even more difficult to forget. This must-have collection will keep you awake and inhabit your darkest dreams.
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
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Ash Boy
£6.99Ash Boy
A wonderfully warm and funny reworking of the Cinderella story, from an accomplished writer of retellings and myths. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 7+
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Aya and the star chaser
£7.99Aya and the star chaser
The third middle grade book from Radiya Hafiza, author of Rumaysa: A Fairytale and Rumaysa Ever After, set in a magical world inspired by Bengali folklore that puts brown girls centre-stage.
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Bear and Bird
£6.99Bear and Bird
Bear didn’t really like the painting. I mean, look at it. But he liked Bird a lot, and it would remind him of her. Bear and Bird are best friends! And while they don’t always understand each other, they both agree: all they want is to make the other happy. So, when Bear forgets to pack for a picnic (but pretends that he didn’t), Bird doesn’t let on that she knew all along. And when Bird discovers that Bear has more of a certain talent than she does, well, Bear finds a touching way to make her feel better.
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Beastly beauty
£8.99Beastly beauty
From New York Times bestselling, carnegie-award-winning author JenniferDonnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling ofBeauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think aboutbeauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.
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Beowulf
£6.99Beowulf
Rosemary Sutcliff recount’s Beowulf’s most terrifying quests: against Grendel the man-wolf; against the hideous sea-hag; and, most courageously of all, his fight to the death with the monstrous fire-drake.
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Big bad wolf investigates fairy tales
£7.99Big bad wolf investigates fairy tales
Join the Big Bad Wolf as he debunks your favourite fairy tales with SCIENCE! Did a princess really feel a tiny pea through a mountain of mattresses? And could a pumpkin actually turn into a carriage to carry Cinderella to the ball? Of course not! It’s all a load of fairytale NONSENSE! Or is it? The Big Bad Wolf is on a mission to find the truth behind these tales, and clear his name in the process. Combining STEM topics with classic stories children know and love, this hilarious non-fiction picture book is perfect for inquisitive children always asking big questions!
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Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms
£6.99Cameron Battle and the Hidden Kingdoms
Cameron Battle grew up reading The Book of Chidani, cherishing stories about the fabled kingdom that cut itself off from the world to save the Igbo people from danger. Passed down over generations, the Book is Cameron’s only connection to his parents, who disappeared one fateful night two years ago. Ever since, his grandmother has kept the Book locked away, but it calls to Cameron. When he and his best friends, Zion and Aliyah, decide to open it again, they are magically transported to Chidani. Instead of a land of beauty and wonder, they find a kingdom in extreme danger, as the queen’s sister seeks to destroy the barrier between worlds. The people of Chidani have been waiting for the last Descendant to return and save them. Is Cameron ready to be the hero they need?
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Catfish rolling
£14.99Catfish rolling
Magic-realism blends with Japanese myth and legend in an original story about grief, memory, time and an earthquake that shook a nation.
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Fablehouse
£7.99Fablehouse
Unleash your magic. Save your home. A spectacular magical adventure steeped in Arthurian legend. Fablehouse is a children’s home like no other. Housed in a crumbling mansion that perches on a cliff and backs on to ancient mysterious woodland, this is the home for many of Britain’s Brown Babies, children born to African-American GIs and white British women following the Second World War. Heather has already been through several children’s homes and is wary of Fablehouse and its unusual head teacher, Miss Isolde. But when children start acting strangely, Heather discovers a plot from a fae realm to infiltrate and overthrow the human world.
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Fearless Fairy Tales
£9.99Fearless Fairy Tales
Meet Trumplestiltskin, a vain and gold-obsessed little man who will stop at nothing to become richer and richer. There’s Sleeping Brainy, the princess whose only dream is to become Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Gingerbread Kid, who escapes persecution in his home country but struggles to fit in in his new one. You won’t forget the lingering stench of Mouldysocks – a boy obsessed with staring at his iPad but rather less obsessed with personal hygiene – and you’ll be rooting for Rap-Unzel when she gets the chance of fame by appearing on Kingdom’s Got Talent, but at what cost? Packed with stories about boys who aren’t afraid to cry and rhymes about girls who refuse to kiss frogs, this collection shakes up dusty, old-fashioned (and, to be honest, rather sexist) bedtime stories and totally reinvents them for the 21st century.
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Grimms’ fairy tales
£14.99Grimms’ fairy tales
From the land of fantastical castles, vast lakes and deep forests, the Brothers Grimm collected a treasury of enchanting folk and fairy stories, full of giants and dwarfs, witches and princesses, magical beasts and cunning children.
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Hyo the hellmaker
£10.99Hyo the hellmaker
Meet the Hakai Family Hellmakers: Purveyors of artisan hells andunlucky days to inflict upon your enemies. They’ll make it personal…But for a price!
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Jack Breaks the Beanstalks
£6.99Jack Breaks the Beanstalks
Jack loves climbing, but he isn’t allowed to climb the beanstalks in his garden. One night, Jack can resist no longer and starts to climb the tall, green beanstalks. Will Jack’s Mum find out? And will he tell her the truth? Learn about honesty in this story about Jack and his fairytale friends.£6.99