Best Selling Books by Brian Patten

A stunning prose retelling of Beowulf from an author-illustrator dream-team. One dark night, the music and singing wake a monster from a swamp ... Warrior after warrior comes to slay the monster, but no one can outwit Grendel. Only the great hero Beowulf stands a chance - but even he is not prepared for the horror that lies in wait.

It all started with a scarecrow coming into the house out of the snow, bringing with him the mouse that lived up his sleeve. But it wasn''t only these two who were looking for a warm place to snuggle up!

Unfeasibly funny sequel to the popular Impossible Parents - part of the Sprinters series relaunch Poor Ben and Mary Norm. Their parents have decided to become ecologists and are getting it impossibly wrong. First they ditch their clothes, then the TV and now they''re eating yak cheese Worst of all, the kids at school have found out, and Ben and Mary are a laughing stock... again If only their parents could go back to being normally impossible, rather than ecologically impossible. But then Mary has an idea that might just work...

One day a shy little creature looked at its reflection in a frozen pond. But the little creature doesn''t know who it is. And so starts an important quest of identity.

A nine-year-old boy lives on the ninth floor of a high-rise tower block in a large, grim city. He hates it, but one day he discovers a small silver telescope that enables him to see the beauty in the world around him - from market stalls to the surface of the moon.

A Restricted View From Under The Hedge (In The Springtime) is a stunning collection of some of the finest contemporary poetry. Including new work from Chen Chen, D.M. Thomas, Robert Sheppard, Sophie Hannah, Mimi Khalvati, Bill Herbert, Megan Falley, Moniza Alvi, Sanjeev Sethi and Eileen Myles. Additionaly, it features, Brian Patten Talking to Eileen Carney Hulme Alison Lock Penny Rimbaud Paul Moss Matt Duggan Patricia Oxley Charlotte Begg Sandra Beasley S.A. Leavelsey Isabelle Kenyon Artwork From Moose

Korte verhalen waarin de olifant en de bloem samen vele avonturen beleven met andere dieren uit de wildernis.

When Danny Harris knocks over a witch, she puts a spell on his bike, and he''s off on a non-stop journey around the world. Adapted from T̀he saga of the doomed cyclist''. Rhyming text suitable for reading aloud. 4-8 yrs.