Best Selling Books by Andrew Fusek Peters

What is free running? Where did it begin and how do you do it? Find out all about this fast-paced sport in an information book packed with exciting photographs and written by Andrew Fusek Peters. - Collins Big Cat Progress books are specifically designed for children at Key Stage 2 who have a Key Stage 1 reading level, giving them age-appropriate texts that they can read, building their confidence and fostering positive attitudes towards reading. - Text type: An information book - Curriculum links: P.E.

A retelling of the traditional Indian tale, in which one sly animal is outwitted by another.

Freestylers are short thrillers high on suspense and adventure - perfect page turners if you want to finish a story in one sitting, especially reluctant and struggling readers. Cool, edgy computer hackers, Kiran and Ros are teens who set out to fight crime and injustice with the help of a shape-shifting data beast they''ve created.

Nat and Kate start going out, break up, make up, and feel their love growing deeper. But in one moment everything changes, and all the hopes and promises of the future are shattered. Deeply absorbing, this powerful story is told in different voices and entirely in poems. Lyrical, funny, heart-wrenching and gripping, the variety of poetic forms magically captures the panoply of emotions associated with falling in love for the first time and suffering a bereavement.

From family break-up and bullying to first love and the first day at school, this collection is a unique blend of raw emotion and heady experience for 9-11 year-olds. Ideal as a literary and PSHE resource, the poems are grouped in handy sections for easy reference by theme.

There is a party on the train and all the animals are jumping aboard with their instruments. Follow the pace and rhythm of a locomotive as the party starts off slow and gets wilder and wilder then slows back down to a snooze at bedtime.

Ed and his friend Zack are on holiday in London, where Ed keeps noticing the particularly friendly and intelligent rats coming out of the cellars. Following a rat into an abandoned underground station, Ed finds himself on a weird journey into London''s sewers and the forgotten River Fleet. Here he encounters mystical owls and Victorian sewer workers, but also the power to take on the drug-pushers who threaten to destroy the city''s youth.

This is a collection of lyrical poems about land, love and loss, from the author of May the Angels be With Us.

A tiny ant helps overcome a bullying goat.

There''s nothing that Fred likes better than to stroll around the local graveyard. For Fred isn''t your normal type of kid-he just loves all things ghoulish and ghosty, even if it means getting grief from Barry the Bully at school. But one day while mooching around the cemetery he suddenly slipsdown a hole and enters a whole different world-the world of ghosts! To be accepted, he must pretend to be dead (of course) and he finds himself taking the entrance exams to Ghost School. Fred succeeds and has a whale of a time, for he can now practise his spooking as much as he likes, and he meetslots of hilarious characters. When his cover is finally blown and he returns to his own world, his new friends are very useful for giving old Barry the creeps . . . Full of variety and humour with an appealing design to draw the reader in, this book is great for dipping into or reading from start tofinish. There are many different types of poems and plenty of jokes and riddles to make this collection a useful resource for teachers as well as highly appealing to children.

A talkative tortoise lets his vanity win out over common sense in this tale of why the tortoise has a cracked shell. This is a retelling of the traditional Indian tale.

Freestylers are short thrillers high on suspense and adventure - perfect page turners if you want to finish a story in one sitting, especially reluctant and struggling readers. Cool, edgy computer hackers, Kiran and Ros are teens who set out to fight crime and injustice with the help of a shape-shifting data beast they''ve created.

Bug Club is the first phonics-based school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach children to read. With a fantastic mix of fiction, non-fiction, comics and phonics, and characters with kid-cred such as Walllace & Gromit, Casper the Friendly Ghost and Shaun the Sheep, plus new characters like the Mermaids and the Fang Family, there''s plenty to engage both girls and boys. Bug Club books are ideal for reading at home too, as additional practice or just for fun. Each Bug Club book is levelled to Book Bands (just like the books your child brings home from school in their book bag), so you can be sure you''re buying great reads at the right level for your child. Helpful parent notes on the inside cover of each book highlight high frequency words and sounds, and the inside back cover includes ideas for games and activities related to each book. Bug Club''s Lime Level Reading Pack will really capture the imaginations of your confident and fluent young readers at Year 2. It contains 4 fiction and 2 non-fiction books -- Music Master; Super Sleuth; Tick, Tock, Unfix the Clock; Lickety Kwick and the Mixed-Up Fix; Awesome Animal Adventures and Cool Stuff About Earth.Music Master: One morning Mae hears a trumpet on the radio. Her mum says no to trumpet lessons but her friend''s sister helps her learn to play and Mae performs in the school concert -- her mum is delighted Super Sleuth: It''s time for Mae to go to school but no-one is going anywhere because the keys have disappeared. Cool-headed Mae helps Roz to track down the missing keys in time to get to school. Tick, Tock, Unfix the Clock: The Meddlers are meddling with the workings of the Busyville town clock and the Bank Busting Bunch are about to rob the town bank. When the clock goes crazy, the police investigate...Lickety Kwick and the Mixed-Up Fix: Boy racer Lickety Kwick thinks he''s a dead-cert to win the Junior Racing Car Championships but the Meddlers have other ideas Awesome Animal Adventures This non-chronological report compares the planet''s largest animals over three time periods: the time of dinosaurs, the time of early mammals and the present day. Cool Stuff About Earth: This book takes the reader on a journey around planet Earth and explains the Earth''s position in its solar system. Questions are posed and answered by a helpful alien tour guide.

After his mother disappears and he has to move to a new town to live with his grandfather, Ed makes a new friend, is tormented by the local bully, and has an intimate encounter with a local legend.

When Jan and Marie discover who is stealing and selling the eggs of a peregrine falcon, they suddenly find themselves in danger. This exciting novel revisits the Kleceks, a family from the Czech Republic newly settled in Shropshire. Teenage brother and sister Jan and Marie are soon unravelling mysteries, but they will need even greater courage to face what is about to happen.

Covering as much as 2,000 hectares (4,942 acres) of heather-covered hills with stunning views of the Shropshire Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Long Mynd is an important place for wildlife, geology and archaeology. Carding Mill Valley once drew Victorian day-trippers looking for ''Little Switzerland'' - complete with ''England''s Little Niagara'' - and it''s still drawing the crowds today. Managed by the National Trust since 1965, when the land was overgrazed and degraded, Carding Mill Valley and the Long Mynd have seen a return to healthy heathland. Species that were in decline now abound, and this guidebook will show you where and when to find them. Richly illustrated throughout and with specially commissioned artwork, this guidebook will briefly relate the history of the place before expounding the year-round delights of Carding Mill Valley and the Long Mynd, the wildlife hotspots, where you can dip your feet, stretch your legs, expand your lungs and refresh your soul.

Their life was full of colour until one day a thief came and took it away. This is a story of despair and hope for families who are touched by the devastating effects of depression.

Fed up with Dingo Dog''s bullying ways, the other animals of the Australian bush country come up with a plan to keep him away from their billabong.

A lively and colourful original story about one day in the life of two friends Dragon and Mousie, a dragon and a mouse who live together in a large oak tree, with a short Welsh glossary; for 4-7 year-old children. A Welsh version Gwich a Draig (ISBN 08624 36222) is available. First published in January 2003.

In ''Dip'', Andrew Fusek Peters describes an extraordinary year of wild swimming. He leads us to rivers, lakes, waterfalls and hidden pools, into wild waters and untamed landscapes that have the potential to surprise and move us in unexpected ways. Following in the wake of great writers such as Richard Jeffries and Edward Thomas, ''Dip'' combines meditations on place, history and myth with sharp observation and a poet''s eye. It is also a personal journey: swimming through all four seasons, Andrew Fusek Peters surfaces at last from deep depression.

Que vaut la parole d''un tigre rusé et terriblement affamé ? Le sage qui vient de se faire berner par le tigre fait appel au jugement des animaux de la jungle. Le tigre va-t-il le manger, ou trouvera-t-il plus malin que lui ?

George is spy-crazy--at home he sleuths around to his heart''s content with all sorts of gadgets and at school with his mate Stan he runs a spy club with a secret language, codes, a spy magazine and special missions. The suspicious behaviour of his drama teacher and the hold-up of the bank by amysterious granny give George a real challenge; can he piece it all together? And what will he do when discovers a sinister plot to take over the country? Here are poems that can be read as stand-alone pieces but that also form humorous and fun storylines. With lots of variety in design and content,including plenty of different types of poem such as haiku, acrostics, diary poems and shape poems, this is a book with much direct appeal to children that can also be used as a resource by teachers.