Isla and Heather are best friends. It hardly matters that Isla is a farmer's daughter and Heather is a pig. From the moment Isla was born, Heather has been there for her, through good times and bad. So when a damaging storm forces Isla's dad to sell his beautiful farm in the Scottish countryside and move with Isla to far-off London, Heather is bereft. She is determined to go to London to find her best friend no matter what--even if it means becoming a fugitive pig! Readers will cheer for Heather from the countryside to the big city in this humorous and charming story of long-lasting friendship, unexpected fame and a very unusual quest.

Everyone's favourite pig returns to face her hardest challenge yet! Heather the pig is happily hiding in London Zoo. But something's wrong. Her human friend, Isla, is sad, and if Isla's sad, then Heather's sad. Isla wants to move back to Scotland. Can Heather help? No problem. She'll just break out of the zoo, work out where Scotland is, walk the 500 miles to get there, avoid being re-captured, confront a wildcat, defeat Mr Busby, and then get the farm back for Isla and her dad. Easy!

Two young pigs wave farewell to their mum and set off on an epic journey to find their father. . . It's been two years since Heather got the farm in Scotland back for Isla and her dad, and she is struggling. As her piglets grow up, Heather is having to adjust not only to being a single mum, but also to having to deal with their adolescence. Over the years Heather has had many litters, but, not to put too fine a point on it, hitherto none of them made it past the suckling stage. But now Heather is no longer a working animal and is raising the two piglets she had with Aitor the stripey Bearded pig from London zoo. She's having to cope with the inevitable problems which come with being the mother of two cheeky, opinionated, adolescent piglets - Eder and her brother Tor. When a near disaster leaves Heather at death's door, her friend Rhona takes matters into her own hands. She decides the piglets need some discipline, and if Heather is too ill to provide it, she must find someone who can. She sends the piglets off to find Aitor, their father, last seen in a disused coalmine outside Gateshead some two years ago. . .

"An important and groundbreaking contribution to the struggle for the welfare of animals." --Yuval Harari, New York Times best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind The book offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote ourselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for our consumption. Social psychologist Melanie Joy explores the many ways we numb ourselves and disconnect from our natural empathy for farmed animals. She coins the term "carnism" to describe the belief system that has conditioned us to eat certain animals and not others. In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows, Joy investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly the animals are treated, the hazards that meatpacking workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year. Controversial and challenging, this book will change the way you think about food forever. "An absorbing examination of why humans feel affection and compassion for certain animals but are callous to the suffering of others." --Publishers Weekly "I think Gandhi would have loved Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows. For this is a book that can change the way you think and change the way you live. It will lead you from denial to awareness, from passivity to action, and from resignation to hope." --John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution

An inspiring tale of courage, friendship and, above all, apples! Heather's best friend is a girl called Isla, who lives with her dad on a farm in Scotland. Their idyllic life together is shattered when a thunderstorm destroys everything and forces Isla's dad to sell up and move to London - leaving Isla and Heather miles apart and utterly miserable. Then fate intervenes, turning Heather from an everyday pig into a national celebrity, and catapulting her to fame, fortune and, most excitingly of all . . . London. Armed only with her own pig-headedness, Heather embarks on a quest to track down her best friend. After all, how many girls with freckles can there be in London?

Curly the pig is stuck: will Mrs Boot be able to get him out? A well-loved story set on Apple Tree Farm featuring Mrs Boot the farmer, her children Poppy and Sam, and a menagerie of friendly animals including Curly the pig, Woolly the sheep and Rusty the dog. See if you can spot the Usborne Little Yellow Duck who is hiding on each page!

This board book about Curly the pig has been written especially for very young children from one year upwards.

Twelve-year-old Molly and her ten-year-old brother, Michael, have never liked their seven-year-old stepsister, Heather. Ever since their parents got married, she's made Molly and Michael's life miserable. Now their parents have moved them all to the country to live in a house that used to be a church, with a cemetery in the backyard. If that's not bad enough, Heather starts talking to a ghost named Helen and warning Molly and Michael that Helen is coming for them. Molly feels certain Heather is in some kind of danger, but every time she tries to help, Heather twists things around to get her into trouble. It seems as if things can't get any worse. But they do—when Helen comes.

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This boxed set contains one copy each of the three tales: The Red Tractor, Woolly the Sheep and Curly the Pig, all by Stephen Cartwright.