Reluctantly visiting the local town on the day a carnival arrives, grumpy recluse Mr. Bear is appalled when he sees a dancing bear abused by his trainer and finds an unlikely connection with a fellow living creature....
Moving story of Welsh family life before WWI, set against a background of some of the social problems of the period. Crowded housing, poverty, dangerous conditions in the mines, and the anti-Welsh language movement are among the issues guiding life f...
Little Monster wonders how he will ever be able to leave his family one day when he sets out to be a space explorer, in a wonderful book that teaches youngsters to imagine future possibilities and shows them that even space explorers can come back ho...
Polly is not happy. Her mother is pregnant and can't stop talking about the 'new baby'. Her little sister is exceptionally annoying. Her hamster has gone missing. And she is no longer friends with her best friend So Polly decides that her only ch...
Polly's birthday has been planned in minute detail and everyone who is anyone will be attending. But the worst happens - Polly gets chicken-pox and it is all called off. And to make matters worse Horace the hamster dies. The extent of Polly's misery ...
Polly’s had enough: her hamster‘s gone missing, her best friend isn’t her best friend anymore, and the entire world is baby crazy! She’s going to run away once she’s saved up enough money and food. In the meantime, she’s got to cope with ...
Little Monster is worried - worried that it is going to leave home and travel away all on its own leaving Mother and Father Monster behind. But Little Monster soon realises that travelling away does not mean losing touch and even though it may be a l...
The man from the big house on the hill is called Mr Bear, and he is always as cross as a bear. When the fair comes to town, he sees a muzzled and chained bear, jabbed with a stick to make him dance. It stirs him up, and the bear ends up on the cool g...
Livvy has always been a model citizen, but her life changes dramatically when she is passed a note from her friend Max warning that she is in danger. The next day, she is sent to boarding school by her brother. When the servant girl is found dead aft...
Megan has a talent for solving problems. Luckily, she is persistent too, for no sooner has she fixed one problem, another pops up before her! As she goes about her everyday life, living with her family in a sleepy border village, Megan treats us to a...
Megan's reputation as a detective is on the line, and her list of unsolved cases is growing - a missing pantomime script to locate, foul play at the Llanafan Dog Show and the appearance of mysterious wooden carvings in the village to name just a few....
Hermione has been thrown out by her father Menelaus, king of Sparta, and sent to stay with her uncle Agamemnon at Mycaenae. Menelaus is angry. Hermione's mother Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, has eloped with Paris, the young prince of ...
Captured by pirates as a small girl, Eirene is now slave to the princess Cassandra of Troy. Troy was once a peaceful and beautiful city but ever since Queen Helen of Sparta abandoned her husband and daughter for the Trojan prince Paris, the Greek arm...
Electra is eagerly looking forward to her father Agamemnon's triumphant return to Mycenae after the long war in Troy. But his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus have other plans - Clytemnestra cannot forgive her husband for the sacrifice of he...
Even as a small child, Helen, princess of Sparta, knows that there is something special about her; men come from far away just to catch a glimpse of her beauty. Also there are those rumours that her real father was someone more important than King Ty...
Imagine the isolation of a place where, within several miles of home, there were no people other than immediate family -- no modern conveniences, telephones, television, internet, newspaper or mail delivery, supermarkets or shopping malls. Imagine a ...