Children’s / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

Some of us are born to be magic.

Aoife has returned.

This bestselling picture book has had a gorgeous makeover!

Award-winning illustrator Mini Grey turns her inimitable hand to Hilaire Belloc's classic cautionary tale of Jim: who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion!

Kittie Lacey is the best hairdresser in all of Fairyland.

This bestselling picture book has had a gorgeous makeover to celebrate 10 years of The Fairytale Hairdresser!

Imagine swallowing a computer chip and becoming a living computer .

Joseph Delaney's popular book, The Spook's Apprentice, told the story of Thomas Ward, apprenticed to the local spook to help keep the county safe from the Dark.

This bestselling picture book has had a gorgeous makeover to celebrate 10 years of The Fairytale Hairdresser!

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A classic tale of adventure and bravery charting the transformation of Robert of Locksley into Robin Hood, the outlaw of myth and legend.

Once upon a time, Little Red set off into the woods to catch a wolf .

Full of fantastical places like Kumdown Upwardz, Gadzooks and Urgburg-under-Ug, eccentric kings and queens, lessons in kindness, peace and even royal thriftiness, wrapped up in more than a smattering of nonsense, The Dribblesome Teapots brings together ten modern fairy tales to be enjoyed by generation after generation of young readers.

This bestselling picture book has had a gorgeous makeover!

This bestselling picture book has had a gorgeous makeover!

The final, thrilling instalment in this extraordinary series from bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare.

From the imaginations of bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes a heart-stopping plunge into the magical unknown.

Magic can save youMagic can kill youIt should be a time of celebration.

The Selfish Giant has a beautiful garden, but he won't let any of the children play in it.

Callum Hunt s summer break isn t like other kids .

Magic beans.

A big sister is horrified when she can't fit into her swimming costume.

'I fear nobody.

"e;You're a frog, Ryan James, you're a frog.

Rob's sister Chloe lies in a coma after a riding accident, trapped in a forest of dreams between life and death.

It is deep autumn and William, Mary and Alice Constant have returned to Golden House for the half-term holidays.

Rosie finds a beautiful spiral shell in Great-aunt Rosamund's castle and notices that it has young girl looking anxiously towards a smoking volcano drawn on it.

While she's getting ready for an Egyptian-themed party at her friend's house, Rosie spots a papyrus painting on a wall in Great-aunt Rosamund's castle.

Rosie's just had her first day at her new school in Scotland, after moving to live in her Great-aunt Rosamund's castle.

Rosie gets an amazing postcard from her Great-aunt Rosamund in Africa, and she can't wait to look up a map of Kenya and find out exactly where it is.

Unlike her little brother, Luke, Rosie doesn't believe that mermaids actually exist.

Rosie and her little brother Luke are exploring the maze in the grounds of Great-aunt Rosamund's Scottish castle and Rosie discovers a carved and painted totem pole in the centre.

Rosie finds a mosaic in a passageway in Great-aunt Rosamund's old castle.

I asked myself lots of questions, like what happened in Hamelin after the children vanished?

I asked myself lots of questions, like what did Hansel and Gretel say to their father when they finally made it home?

Often, I found things were not quite as they first seemed.

Here is Cinderella, who so much deserved her fairy godmother.

Here are the twelve dancing princesses, who drove the Old King to distraction by wearing through their slippers every night.

Rumpelstiltskin - all my life I have been troubled by the injustice with which he was treated .

Here is brave, loyal Elsa, who wove the nettles in silence for seven long years.

I asked myself lots of questions, like why did the Piper's son steal the pig?

I asked myself lots of questions, like how could Snow White have left those seven kind dwarves?

Here is lovely Rapunzel, free from her tower, although perhaps not so free from her fears .

Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales is a classic fairy-tale collection to treasure.

There's been a robbery in Tale Town!

For Rapunzel, being a princess has been nothing but fun.

What starts as an adventure ends in disaster when Rapunzel, Anansi and Jack and his talking chicken, Betsy, are captured by a wicked witch and locked up in a tower!

Jack (of the beanstalk fame) and his magical talking chicken, Betsy, have always been great at making new friends.

The world is made safe by a woman .

Following Abandon and Underworld, Awaken is the final part to Meg Cabot's breathtakingly passionate The Abandon Trilogy.