Bath and North East Somerset Libraries

Three little monkeys, and their big monkey, are high up on their branch in the forest canopy. ‘Ok, monkeys! I’m off’, says the big monkey.

‘Now remember. Whatever you do, do not go down to the mango tree. There are tigers down there’. Mmm – mangos! think the little monkeys. They LOVE mangos. Hmm – maybe.

Maybe they could just look at the mangos? That’d be ok, right?

OH MY CRIKEYS! Doesn’t life move fast? One moment you’re in the Wibbly, relaxing with your Wibbly friends. The next, they’ve all grown tails and turned into tadpoles! And what’s more, they are bursting OUT of the Wibbly. AND you’ve got to keep up!

Some tadpoles don’t feel ready to become frogs. And some never wanted to become tadpoles in the first place. This heartwarming, hilarious story speaks perfectly to the anxiety that children can feel about keeping up with those around them.

Mikey the T. rex loves donuts, but he doesn’t like sharing. When Mikey’s delicious donuts start to disappear one by one, he thinks the reader is taking them, but he is too busy worrying about his donut dilemma to see what’s right behind him.

Will Mikey ever learn to share?

One day, in a village in Southern China, a young girl leaves her mama’s house to buy ingredients for wonton soup.

On the way to the market, she meets a wonderful array of characters going about their daily lives who all gift her with something special for her mama’s cooking pot. By the time she reaches home, she has more food than her and her mama could possibly eat.

What should the two of them do now?

On a street of old houses, a big hairy spider is searching for a home with dark corners to hide in. But when he wakes up, he finds a hand reaching for him, and a lady proclaiming that she has always wanted a kitten – and will name him Luigi!

At first, a somewhat puzzled Luigi, used to being left alone to creep and dangle and spin webs, resists her kind advances. But soon, tasty breakfasts and getting tucked into bed (no one’s ever wished him good night before) have him thinking that kittens surely live magical lives. I will be a kitten! he decides.

But how long can he keep up his façade, and what might be at stake in pretending to be someone you’re not?

Bernard the Robot loses his bottom on the park swing, and sets off to find it. Every time he gets close, it disappears again!

Bird was using it as a nest, but it was too heavy; Bear used it in his drum kit, but it was too tinny; the Squirrels built sandcastles with it…and now it looks as if they’re sailing away in it.

Will Bernard EVER get his bottom back?

Geoffrey’s got the jitters! It started last night when he was thinking about school – a funny, wiggly feeling in his tummy that grew and grew.

But when Geoffrey’s tummy jitters started talking to him – that’s when he knew they were out of control.Geoffrey had to do something.

Through a laugh-out-loud story and loveable character, Nadia Shireen shows how to understand and dispel anxeties, one jitter at a time.

Join Shane and friends as they attempt to settle the age-old question of which tastie-tastic rice dish is the best!

Shane’s favourite meal is a big, delicious, mouth-watering bowl of rice and peas. He believes it is the best rice in the whole wide world and can’t wait to bring some in for his lunch at school. But how will he react when he discovers that that his friend, Yinka, has also brought her favourite meal of Jollof rice in for lunch?

‘My Rice is Best’ is a mesme-ricing, laugh-out-loud celebration of food and friendship!

You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except, here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud.

Even if the words say ‘blork’ or ‘bluurf’. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like ‘blaggity blaggity’ and ‘glibbity globbity’.

It is spring, and the Vikings are preparing to set sail for Miklagard. But Siri is told she has to stay behind!

Her Dad, the chieftain, says that the journey is too dangerous for a little girl. But if he thinks that is going to stop her, he’s wrong. She stows away on his ship.

Aboard the same ship is a mysterious box meant to be delivered to the Emperor himself. But the villainous duo Ivar and Grim are eager to get their hands on the box, and Siri has to use all her courage and cleverness to protect it.

Luckily, she is helped by Zack, a mysterious boy she meets in Miklagard. But who is he really?

Detective Stanley has barely sat down for his breakfast pancakes when he receives an invitation he cannot refuse.

The Art Museum has been raided on the opening day of the Bleat Mondrian show and Stan has been called to investigate. The most perplexing thing about the case: nothing has been stolen!

But now Stan finds himself in a tight spot even his powers of deduction could not detect. Can he get himself out of trouble and can he solve the mystery of the Art Museum?

Detective Stanley is a colorful and hilarious young graphic reader that is perfect to be enjoyed by emerging and reluctant readers by themselves, or reading along with a parent, carer or teacher.

A love letter to nurses and midwives everywhere. With uplifting stories and anecdotes from both current and retired nurses, midwives and nursing support workers, this book will inspire future generations to follow in their footsteps.

The stories of the Panchatantra have been read aloud and shared for thousands of years, kept alive by generation after generation of storytellers.

In this captivating collection of ten animal tales, reimagined with warmth and wit by Nikita Gill, you’ll meet mighty elephants and courageous mice, cunning crocodiles and clever monkeys, talkative tortoises and little lapwing birds.

Discover a world of wonder, wisdom and friendship, of helping others, speaking out and finding courage.

FAST AND FURRY-OUS!

Welcome to the woods. It’s chaos in there!

Bunny and his friends Weenie the Squirrel, Pig (the pig), Action Beaver and Skunky the Inventor lived a peaceful life in the forest – until Monkey’s rocket crash-landed and he decided to take over!

Now Monkey is causing mayhem, Bunny is determined to put a stop to it, and . . . what’s that? It’s an out of control shark tank, ruining a lovely picnic!

Izzy and her friends overhear their head teacher talking about ‘missing treasure’ and ‘running out of time’.

They know this means there’s TREASURE buried in the school somewhere and that Mr Graves wants it all for himself. So Jodi says they’ve got to find it first, and they should start by searching the staffroom. After seeing things they will never forget, they head to the basement. Gary Petrie’s dad is working down there and he’s seen something SHINY! So they send Zach’s cat down with a camera strapped to her head and study the footage carefully.

What they see is SHOCKING and CHANGES EVERYTHING. It’s not treasure in the basement, it’s a BEAST with SHINING EYES and it’s coming to get them! RUN!!!

The island of Ramoa was once luscious and populated with mighty beasts. Now though, it is home to barren and tamed cities, where nature is locked out and trouble is brewing.

When Kayla’s beloved animal companion, a rare winged pangron, is stolen, she’s determined to get him back. But to do so, she’ll have to leave her city and journey into the wild and forbidden Beastlands.

There, she meets Rustus, an exiled young warrior, and Alethea, a healer desperately seeking a cure for a mysterious disease. As their quests unite them, they’ll adventure across the lands they know so little about, leading them to discoveries both great and terrifying.

Not least that the beasts they’ve always been taught to fear might not be so terrifying after all.

Remember the time we flew to the moon without a rocket? And the time we went to the bottom of the ocean and fought a high-voltage octopus? And how about the time we got lost in the Land of Lost Things?

That was one of our most exciting adventures yet! It all started like this. Lose yourself in this title – you’ll never want to be found!

Lulu Whifferton-Rear loves to mind her own badgery business, but when she discovers that important humans are actually BOPs (Badger Operated Persons), she is thrust into the world of the Rumpington Academy of Badgering.

There, her catastrophic training leads to the most dramatic of first missions – Save the World! A madcap, heart-warming adventure story about badgers, cheese and tomato sandwiches, staying true to yourself and how ‘too much welly’ might just be the perfect amount.

For as long as she can remember Rumaysa has been locked away in her tall, tall tower, forced to use her magic to spin straw into gold for the evil Witch and unable to leave.

Until one day, after dropping a hijab out of her small tower-window, Rumaysa realises how she might be able to escape. Join her as she adventures through enchanted forests and into dragon’s lairs, discovers her own incredible magical powers and teams up with Cinderayla and Sleeping Sara!

A magically fresh, empowering and funny debut, which retells three classic fairytales – Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.

Oliver grew up in a family of explorers – but his biggest adventure is about to begin!

Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes off in search of his missing parents.

But before he can put his rescue plan into action there’s the evil Stacey de Lacey and an army of pesky sea monkeys to contend with . . . EEP!

Though Skylar’s old friends felt sorry for her, they were too afraid to talk to her. Yakov’s old friends were far away, blown across continents by war. Skylar is longing for the grandfather she had before his stroke and trying to survive the school bully when she meets Yakov. He is just desperate to go home.

They recognise something in each other. A need for friendship, but something else fizzy beneath the surface. A refusal to accept the bad hand that life has dealt them. A reckless desire to change things up for the better. So when the island just off the coast of their town goes up for sale, it’s no surprise they want it.

But how can two children possibly buy an island? And what will they risk to be able call it their own?

Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk.

Will stealing the queen’s jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang?

When the mysterious Nowhere Emporium arrives in Glasgow, orphan Daniel Holmes stumbles upon it quite by accident. Before long, the ‘shop from nowhere’ — and its owner, Mr Silver — draw Daniel into a breathtaking world of magic and enchantment.

Recruited as Mr Silver’s apprentice, Daniel learns the secrets of the Emporium’s vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms — rooms that contain wonders beyond anything Daniel has ever imagined.

But when Mr Silver disappears, and a shadow from the past threatens everything, the Emporium and all its wonders begin to crumble.

Can Daniel save his home, and his new friends, before the Nowhere Emporium is destroyed forever?

All Marinka’s life, she has lived in her house with chicken legs. Running across the world on magical adventures, Marinka knows how her house is feeling, and it listens to her, too.

But something is wrong. And before anyone can stop it, the house has pulled itself apart and run away. With her friend Benjamin and jackdaw Jack, Marinka races after the house to find answers.

Travelling across far-distant lands, through new realms and magical places, Marinka must face up to her fears to save her friends.

Rebel is a good dog, and he loves his simple, perfect life on the farm with his owner Tom – until one day the war comes too close. Now Tom is determined to join the rebellion to defeat the King’s men.

But Rebel knows war is dangerous, and he will stop at nothing to save the human he loves. Rebel must bring Tom home before it’s too late.

Varjak Paw is a Mesopotamian Blue kitten. He lives high up in an old house on a hill. He’s never left home, but then his grandfather tells him about the Way – a secret martial art for cats.

Now Varjak must use the Way to survive in a city full of dangerous dogs, cat gangs and, strangest of all the mysterious Vanishings.

Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. She lives in a motel. Every day, while where parents clean the rooms, Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests.

Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr Yao, finds out they’ve been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tang’s will be doomed. It will take all of Mia’s courage, kindness and hard work to get through this year.

Will she be able to hold onto her job and go for her dreams.

War comes to the streets of Paris and Safiyyah’s life changes for ever.

Her best friend’s family have fled, and the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret Resistance work, it falls to Safiyyah to run the dangerous errands around the city. It’s not long before hundreds of persecuted Jews seek sanctuary at the mosque.

Can Safiyyah find the courage to enter the treacherous catacombs under Paris and lead the Jews to safety?

When Amber runs, it’s the only time she feels completely free – far away from her claustrophobic home life. Her father wants her to be a dutiful daughter, waiting for an arranged marriage like her sister Ruby. Running is a quiet rebellion.

But Amber wants so much more – and she’s ready to fight for it. It’s time for a revolution.

When twelve-year-old Estie is expelled from school, she’s sent to stay with her aunt in Scotland over the summer.

Even though Estie knows what she did was right. Even though nobody, not even her mum, asked to hear her side of the story. Estie’s determined to keep her barriers up and stick to herself until the holidays are over. But when she comes across an intricately folded paper castle with a secret message written inside – a message from someone desperate to tell their own unbelieved story – a chord is struck, and Estie can’t help but follow the clues to the next piece of artwork.

Who are these messages from? And what will their secret reveal about the town? In helping to uncover the anonymous artist’s truth, Estie just might find the words to tell her own.

A yellow moon hangs in a satin sky the night Cinderella, barefoot and in hand-me-downs, slips at the top of the stairs and dies. But not for long.

The Shadow of Death arrives to breathe life back into her bones and, for three nights only, Cinderella goes forth as Zombierella. With her skin as cold as ice and her faithful horse Lumpkin back by her side, can she seek revenge on her three cruel, fake sisters, once and for all?

Connie Ryder is taken from her home in the dead of night and sent to Silver Lake Academy – a remote, high-security facility for ‘troubled’ teens.

At Silver Lake, the vulnerable and the violent are locked in together under a brutal regime that aims to improve their behaviour.

But when Connie learns she’s been given the bed of a missing girl named Belle, she is drawn deep into a chilling web of secrets and lies.

17-year-old Dinah needs to leave her home, the weird commune where she grew up.

She needs a whole new identity, starting with how she looks, starting with shaving off her hair, her ‘crowning glory’. She has to do it quickly, because she has to go now. Dinah was going to go alone and hitch a ride down south. Except, she ends up being persuaded to illegally drive a VW campervan for hundreds of miles, accompanied by a grumpy man with one leg. This wasn’t the plan.

But while she’s driving, Dinah will be forced to confront everything that led her here, everything that will finally show her which direction to turn.

Vienna, 1936.

Elsa, Leo and Max have always been best friends, a special team of three. Then the Nazis come.

As a growing darkness descends around them, Leo and Elsa run for their lives, taking two very different paths across Europe. And Max, once their closest friend, now becomes the enemy as he is drawn into the Hitler Youth. Will the friends ever find their way back to each other? Will they want to?