Emma Laybourn: 23 books

Three dinosaur stories with full colour illustrations. "Earthshaker" - a very large dinosaur comes to stay. "Elly and Aargh" - Elly the ankylosaur makes a fearsome friend! "KIng of the Killers" - can a T Rex outwit two huge and hungry dinosaurs?Combining humour and excitement, these three stories...

What's a car-mad dog to do? When Horace the dog learnt to drive, all the dogs in town copied him. He's their hero - but now the dogs are banned from driving, and the cats have challenged them to a race! Since Horace has no car, he decides to build his own. A lawnmower and a few bricks should do it... With...

It's fast, it's sleek, it's beautiful - it's the Golden Arrow car, first prize in a competition that Horace the driving dog is determined to win. All he has to do is design a car that uses alternative energy. Easy! What should he try? Wind, water or nuclear power? How about a flying car? But...

Three short chapter books in one volume tell the story of Neptune, the pirate's parrot, who sails the high seas with Captain Snatchit and his crew. Then the pirate ship, the Seaslug, sinks and he flies away to find a new home. In "The Pirate's Parrot", Neptune discovers a green island....

Six stories about Custard Castle, which has three hundred dusty rooms, a King,a Queen, a wizard - and a ghost!The ghost has always lived in Wizard Watchit's tower. But now the Wizard isn't scared of it any more, so it needs to find someone else who is...Full of gentle excitement...

"Wuthering Heights" is one of the great classics of English literature, yet many readers find it difficult to finish. This edition has shortened the book to two-thirds of its original length, and slightly simplified it, whilst preserving the book's character. It offers readers with good English a more approachable version of this famous novel.

"You cloned my leg?" asked Benbow, dazed."We cloned you, you numskull!" snapped Garracker. "Three perfect Benbows..."Benbow is a police dog who patrols the abandoned City, home to gangs of street children and their dogs. When he loses a leg, he thinks his police career is over - but his boss,...

Joe's grumpy Granpa has a very expensive computer with the latest computer mouse - a Megamouse. When Joe accidentally brings Megamouse to life, he's delighted - not least because it helps him to win all his computer games!But then Megamouse decides to explore the world outside with...

Can an Ancient Egyptian mummy really have got up and walked out of the museum? Jake and Amber are the ones who unlocked its case, so they set out to hunt it down. But it's not an easy task! The mummy is causing chaos in the town - and they're not the only ones on its trail...Read...

Sam just loves sweet things - unknown to his mother, a dentist who thinks his favourite food is celery. When Sam wins a thousand giant rainbow lollipops, he's delighted. But hiding his prize is only the first of his problems. The lollipops are all prune and mango flavour - and he quickly discovers...

Four stories about Custard Castle, which has three hundred dusty rooms and only seven people.The Thing in the Dungeon: something is howling and yowling in the depths of the castle, and it's up to Jack the servant-boy to find it...The Dragon under the Stairs: Custard Castle is freezing!...

"Every time he howls - something dies!" Doofus is a sad, black, abandoned puppy adopted from the dogs' home. But it soon becomes obvious to his new owner Holly and her animal-mad friend Clive that Doofus is no ordinary dog. Not only do his howls seem to cause dreadful things to happen -...

Can a dog really learn to drive? Horace the car-mad hound thinks so; and he can't wait to get behind the wheel of his owner's car. With the help of two stunt hamsters, Tickety and Boo, and the supercilious snake Kimi, he sets out on the road - and drives straight into trouble! Full of thrills,...

"I can't see you!" said Oliver. "You're not there." All Reece wants is to make friends with Oliver; to be one of the cool crowd at his new school. But Oliver snubs him, pretending Reece is invisible. So Reece hits on an ingenious way of getting his revenge - a way that means...