It all started when my sister, Thea, discovered a mysterious map. It showed a secret treasure on a faraway island. In no time at all, my sister dragged me and my cousin Trap into her treasure hunt. It was an adventure I’d never forget…

Haunted wooden legs, captains good and evil, parrots a-plenty – they’re all here in this wide-ranging collection of illustrated pirate stories, brought to you by authors such as Cornelia Funke, Colin McNaughton and John Grant. Read them while you’re scrubbing the decks, walking the plank or navigating the open seas. Ooh-arr. ‘I was hooked from page one’ – PIRATE TIMES ‘Totally scurv-acious!’ – JOLLY ROGER WEEKLY

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is a much-loved children’s classic – the essential first book for babies. This stunning chunky caterpillar-shaped book is the perfect first introduction to this timeless story. As they turn the pages, young children will learn all the words from the world of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, from ‘egg’ to ‘strawberry’, ‘lollipop’, and, finally, ‘beautiful butterfly’!

Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller! As a young man, Roald Dahl’s adventures took him from London to East Africa, until the Second World War began and he became a RAF pilot. You’ll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with deadly green mambas and hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling. Going Solo is exciting, enthralling and just like its prequel Boy – it’s all TRUE.. Illustrated with photographs and original letters

‘A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero’ – David Walliams One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear. BEWARE. There are witches EVERYWHERE. Witches could be a cashier in a supermarket, a woman driving a fancy car, or even your own teacher. The only thing a witch cares about is squelching children. She hunts and squelches as many children as she possibly can. At least one a week. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of YOU disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her. But if their plan fails, the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what will happen?

“A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” – David Walliams From the world’s NUMBER ONE STORYTELLER, James and the Giant peach is a children’s classic that has captured young reader’s imaginations for generations. James Henry Trotter lives with two ghastly hags. Aunt Sponge is enormously fat with a face that looks boiled and Aunt Spiker is bony and screeching. He’s very lonely until one day something peculiar happens. .?