Tattybogle, the scarecrow loves the rain and the wind, and is always cheerful, but one day the wind blows too hard and all that is left is a stick. Or is it?

Essie Cluckett, lady-scarecrow, strikes up a friendship with Tattybogle who used to be a scarecrow but is now a tree. When moths prefer Tattybogle's leaves to Essie's hat she turns sour and has to decide between her vanity and friendship.

A dirty pup has trouble finding someone who wants to play with him, until he meets a piglet who is as dirty as he.

Tells the story of Hattie Coram, who was abandoned as a baby at the London Foundling Hospital. She is trained as a domestic servant and becomes a maid in Charles Dickens' household where she is plagued by the nickname "Tattycoram" and eventually used by Dickens as a character in his novel, Little Dorrit.

It is seventeenth-century Scotland, and the Covenanters – those wanting religious freedom from the dictates of English rule – are gathering strength. Hugh Herriott, fresh from a Covenanting background, finds himself working for redcoat Colonel Claverhouse and his Lady Jean: first as the stable-lad and in later years, as galloper to Claverhouse. The tension mounts between the two sides of the divided country. Claverhouse, with Hugh always by his side, leads his troops in bloody battle against the Covenanters, through forest and valley, village and town, victory... and loss.

Meet Babushka, a woman who is so busy focusing on the little things, that she hardly notices the miraculous events going on around her. This touching Christmas story shows that the more you give away in love, the more you will receive.

A story for confident readers aged 7 to 11. Jeannie does not know what it is to be lonely until she meets a Silkie from deep under the sea. She wants him to stay with her always, but he can only come on land in human form when the moon is full. Jeannie resorts to trickery and magic to keep him by her side, but when he begins to fade away she learns that real love is stronger than magic.

Old Al Haji Amadu lived in a town called Timbuktu in a very hot country called Mali in the middle of Africa. He had three wives, seven children and five extremely naughty goggle-eyed goats. They munched and they gobbled and they chewed whatever they