Vivian French

While helping Grandma in the garden, a child learns about the important role of the earthworm in helping plants grow.

When the quill writes GO GO GO frantically on the wall, and the House of the Ancient Crones heaves Gracie Gillypot outside onto the path, it can mean only one thing: there's Trouble in the Five Kingdoms. This time it's in the form of a beady-eyed, green-tongued witch named Truda Hangnail, who with her banished Deep Magic has vowed to succeed Queen Bluebell on the throne. Now that her horrible spell has shrunk the good witches of Wadington to the size...

When Prince Albion's celebration is thrown into chaos, a romantic bat and a greedy butler, Gracie Gillypot, Prince Marcus, and their companions endeavor to stop a fiddling zombie from wreaking havoc throughout the Five Kingdoms.

A timid young princess is afraid of dragons until she sees one for herself, then has the opportunity to prove her newfound courage to the entire school.

A retelling of a fairy tale follows a young man who becomes a princess' unlikely suitor when the king and queen issue a decree that whoever presents them with the most wonderful thing in the world will win their daughter's hand in marriage.

Billy plays detective to find out who keeps knocking his best friend Dan's lunchbox off the shelf at school and getting Dan into trouble, but it is Dan who finally solves the mystery.

The third book about Morris, the lovable fat ginger kitten whose main interest in life is food! A Roaring Good Read for children who are just able to read on their own. Morris gets chased up the apple tree by a great big dog. He crawls to the end of a very long branch...and then gets stuck. He is much too afraid to come down. His sister, Rose, climbs up the tree to join him, then they are both stuck. His little brother, Tom, rushes up to join them......

Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. Mona the goat's brother is good at jumping. Mona's sister is good at leaping. Mona is good at growing sunflowers. But...

Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. When a hungry boy wishes for an egg he gets a surprise - a magic egg that makes everything he wishes for come true with...

Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. Jodie loves to juggle - plates, oranges, anything! But his mum isn't so keen - not when Jodie has so many 'accidents' when...