Collection: Junior Starter

This collection of hugs from Children's Laureate Chris Riddell is the perfect gift for a loved one, or to cheer yourself up on a dark day. It covers every possible type of hug you can think of, but one thing is for certain: every one will touch your heart.

Every Year Mr Muddle gets in a terrible muddle. He just can't remember when Christmas is. He can never get the right day or the right present for that matter. This year Mr Muddle has a plan to make sure he will get the right day for Christmas.

Meet the 12-D crew! The coolest hip-hop group in town. The crew are getting ready for a talent contest to win money to pay for their new minibus. But when the roof of the community hall where they practice suddenly springs a leak, they need a quick change of plan! This fully-decodable reading boo...

A family finds a penguin mysteriously delivered to their door every day for a year. At first they're cute, but with every passing day, the penguins pile up - along with the family's problems. Feeding, cleaning and housing the penguins becomes a monumental task. They're noisy and smelly, and they ...

Join best friends Lilo and Stitch for seven mischievous tales in this awesome storybook! Whether it's an intergalactic adventure, a surfing competition or learning about 'ohana, there's something for everyone to enjoy in this collection of exciting stories.

'Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds' features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monito...

Pim is a baby aardvark - or at least he thinks he is. But what does that mean? When he finds out that he cannot climb trees or dig deep burrows, he feels a little disappointed. But, as time goes by, he realises that being an aardvark isn't so bad after all.

P.D. Eastman character Aaron the Alligator has another early reader adventure! It's autumn and Aaron's thoughts turn to apples, pumpkins, football, and ... ghosts! Aaron gets up to his usual mishaps while enjoying playing outdoors with his friends. Young readers will giggle along as they tackle t...

Zoe is thrilled to be helping out at her Auntie Jo's animal shelter over the Easter holidays. But she doesn't expect to come across a box on the steps of the shelter containing three tiny abandoned puppies. It's touch and go for the littlest pup, whom Zoe names Cookie. Over the next few weeks, Zo...

Abigail the breeze fairy has been blown off course without her wispy wind feather. Will Rachel and Kirsty be able to find the feather and bring calm to the blustery village fête?

Abigail Toenail has a big fear. She has a fear of the toenail clipper. But Abigail needs to decide what she is more afraid of: the toenail clipper or super-sized, smelly toenails.

Ramay lives with his mother in the Himalayas. He is lazy and never helps at home, preferring to spend his days dreaming. His mum is at her wit's end. One day, she tells Ramay to leave and not to return until he has mended his ways. What will become of him?

Winnie the Witch is ready for anything! She shrinks herself down to the size of a teaspoon, gets herself ready for the camera, has to deal with an outbreak of fleas and stages a superhero rescue.

'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, enco...

'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, enco...

Bear and Bird are best friends! And while they don't always understand each other, they both agree: all they want is to make the other happy. In these four stories, the pals discover a hole, make a new friend called Mole, go out on a boat and even have fun doing nothing at all.

Ay, caramba! Adventure Duck and his zebra sidekick, Ziggy, have a spicy new mission. Their nemesis, Power Pug, has a dastardly new scheme to take over the world with a range of mind-control chocolate treats. With the help of a llama with projectile spit, Adventure Duck and Ziggy set out to foil t...