Nosy Crow: 95 books

From singing and dancing to doing things with pickled herring - the villagers of Blubber are gifted in many ways. And they've decided to have a talent contest to prove it. Vulgar knows it's his time to shine. Will he perform his armpit 'music' or juggle some elk poo? No! He will act out a Viking legend, with fighting and dragons and giants and all that stuff. And he will win! Won't he?

Izzy and her friends are really surprised when Miss Jones starts being nice to them. After all, this is the teacher who secretly smiled when Maisie Miller fell off her chair that time. And then a teddy bear appears on her desk, with “You're Great” written on its tummy. Miss Jones isn't a teddy...

The brilliant sequel to WITCHWORLD finds Flo pitched into battle with a dire creature the inhabitants of Witchworld have long thought to be mythical - the terrible Haggfiend! Armed only with Old Magic, can Flo stop the dreadful threat to Witchworld? This time Flo's on her own, with not even her batty old grandma to help her, and so battle against the scary, hairy hagg commences...

Mr Grunt's a man with a mission. He has to get a Person of Great Importance (or POGI) to someone called Mrs Bayliss by the twenty-fifth. Alive and well. And he can't tell anyone more than that, not even his lovely wife, Mrs Grunt, because there will be people trying to snatch the POGI and so the POGI...

Izzy and her friends have never liked school dinners. And they’re getting worse. The dinner ladies are acting strangely. Lollipop man mentions there is a new head dinner lady and calls her “a bit of a legend" (in a bad way) and that she used to be here a long, long time ago and has returned....

Pugly is a pug with aspirations and dreams. While his owner is at school, he bakes cakes, builds space rockets and solves crimes. Things never go entirely to plan, though… Funny, sweet stories for 5/6 yr olds.

John Drawbridge has moved to Widemoat Castle to learn to become a knight. And there is a LOT to learn. . . How to charge with a lance on horseback without falling off. Why the spiral staircases always go up in a clockwise direction. How to defend the castle against invading parties. Why the plates...

Compelling period fiction for 9+ readers from the Waterstones Children's Prize shortlisted Helen Peters. Evie couldn't be angrier with her mother. She's only gone and got married again and has flown off on honeymoon, sending Evie to stay with a godmother she's never even met in an old, creaky house...

Meet Mr and Mrs Grunt. Oh, go on. They're not that bad. No, actually, they ARE. Maybe worse, even. But Sunny, their sort-of son, is okay. They stole him from a washing line as a baby. He was hanging by his ears, which probably explains why they're so wonky (but not why he has sticky-up hair that NEVER...

Growing up on the embattled Mawr Estate in South Wales, all Gemma sees are burglaries, muggings, sadness and boredom. With a dad in prison and a mum who has given up hope, she, like everyone around her, is holding on to memories of the times when happiness wasn't so hard to find. When her search for...

Jessica can't wait to tell her friends about her brilliant new idea for their comic. Not that she's an actual genius, or anything… But they're all too busy stressing about the school musical to listen. ACTORS! At least designing the best scenery ever is going well. Until Amelia and Harriet VanDerk...

Daisy Wart is now Twinkle Toadspit, the witchiest witch of all, AND she is still an amazing actress! How can she do all her school stuff AND tour her play? By doing all the magic spells really, really fast and without practising first, that's how! Even if it means CHAOS and DISASTER, the show MUST...

Olivia can't believe she's really at the legendary Edinburgh Festival. Every summr, people put on plays, they dance and tell jokes, and this year, it's the magnificent Swan Circus! But the run doesn't go smoothly. The Circus ends up homeless, it keeps raining and there's a thief in their midst who's...

Pugly has NEW ice skates and a new SPARKLY outfit, and he is READY to win PETS ON ICE! But someone wants the gold medal very badly and they will stop at nothing to get it. Can Pugly pirouette on to the podium, or will he be cut down in his furry prime? 'Pugly' is a laugh-out-loud series about a very...