Margaret Mahy

El jefe de los bandidos y sus secuaces secuestran a la bella señorita Laburnum, la bibliotecaria, con la intención de pedir por ella al ayuntamiento un importante rescate. Pero no han contado con el buen corazon de la joven, su valentia y un terrible sarampion.

Una brubujeante historia en verso de Margaret Mahy, ganadora de la medalla Hans Christian Andersen 2006, por su señalada contribución a la literatura infantil.

Once apasionantes relatos de misterio y fantasía de algunos de los autores más importantes de la literatura juvenil actual. Relatos de asesinatos, pesadillas que se cumplen, fantasmas que vuelven a l

Strange and exciting things are in store when Tom and his mum move to Prodigy Street one ordinary Thursday. Theres a man with a magical name, a friendly dog with a powerful, waggy tail, and some remarkable surprises when anyone makes a wish. Includes more than 50 hilarious black and white illustrations by Tony Ross, who also illustrates Francesca Simons Horrid Henry books and David Walliams childrens books, as well as his own picture books.

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.Sam has an ordinary life - but his mother used to be a pirate! One day at breakfast, they decide to go to sea and an amazing adventure begins. A brand new Early Reader edition of this hilarious story.

A joyful jumble of poems, songs and stories.A full colour paperback edition of this wonderfully witty and delightfully silly collection of stories and rhyming nonsense from all-star author and artist team, Margaret Mahy and Quentin Blake.Poems, prose and rhymes from bestselling author Margaret Mahy, and beautifully illustrated by inaugural Childrens Laureate, Quentin Blake, this edition of NONSTOP NONSENSE is a perfect gift that children and adults will enjoy again and again.

Un mago, una inventora, una tía adoptiva, dos gatos listísimos, tres malhechores y seis niños superdotados... Todos coinciden en la sorprendente Escuela Inesperada, para vivir la más disparatada aventura. ¡Unete a ellos! Un magico y genial relato en el que lo mas increible resulta verosimil.

In a time not far from our own, a colourful group of travellers braves the twisting, unpredictable landscape of a world trying to remake itself years after near-destruction. They are the magicians, clowns, trapeze artists and musicians of Maddigan''s Fantasia, healing the injured land with wonder and laughter. When three mysterious children join the Fantasia - children with uncanny abilities and a secret past - they bring with them powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to hunt them down. Soon Garland Maddigan, the 12-year-old daughter of the Fantasia''s ringmaster finds herself embroiled in a series of terrifying adventures that will take her into perilous underground tunnels, through the land of the Witch-Finder and across time itself...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey.When the little boy tells his mother he has seen a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion in the meadow, she decides to make up a story for him too and gives him a matchbox with a tiny dragon inside. A brand new Early Reader edition of this beautiful classic story.

Yo ho ho! All across the city, the pirates are getting restless and long for a party. So when a retired pirate comes to babysit for the Terrapin family, they are in for quite a surprise...From the rumbustious author and artist team of Margaret Mahy, winner of the Carnegie medal, and Quentin Blake, the first Childrens Laureate, and best known for his partnership with Roald Dahl, this is a dazzling story which will delight pirate loving boys everywhere.