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When Paddington returns from his trip to Peru, he doesn’t waste any time getting back to business. The Stock Exchange, the ballet, the barber’s shop, Mr. Curry’s kitchen...nothing is safe when Paddington gets to work. First published in 1966, Paddington at Work is the seventh novel by...

Live through a raucous and stinky night in the life of a New York City garbage truck. What fun it is to keep the city clean, by eating a special recipe of alphabet soup!

There has been a huge festival and no end of rubbish has been left behind - everything from sunglasses to shoes, drinks cans and bottles. Who would have thought humans could leave so much behind, not bothering to recycle? The Wombles have their work cut out for them.

Join the fun as a train pulling a long, heavy load races a speedy, little car across the country - through the mountains, through the desert, through a blizzard. The race is on!

This is a fun Level Two I Can Read book based on Dan Gutman’s My Weird School series, which has sold more than 12 million books! Join the gang from Ella Mentry School in this hilarious, hijinks-filled sports story as they show young readers why they attend the weirdest—and most fun!—school...

I'm Brave! is the most irresistible addition yet to Kate and Jim McMullan's hilarious series: a fire truck.

Clementine sammelt Omas und Opas wie andere Leute Briefmarken. Sie hat schon einen ganzen Sack voll davon. Das kommt daher, dass Mama und Papa sich getrennt und neue Freundinnen und Freunde gehabt hatten. Mine - so wird sie meistens genannt - hat inzwischen viel mehr Omas und Opas als alle anderen Kinder, die sie kennt. Und sie darf sie besuchen, wann immer sie will. Das ist lustig, für Abwechslung ist gesorgt. Mine rollt Knödel mit Opa Knödel. Sie macht Klimmzüge mit Opa Klimmzug.

Amy loves craft time at school. But when her teacher asks everyone to make their own dragon, Amy feels stuck. Her first dragon has a long, wingless body, stag-like horns, and eagle claws, but her friends don’t think it’s a real dragon. Then she makes dragons like theirs, but none of them feels quite right.... None of them feels like hers.