A funny and charming new story from bestseller Hilary McKay for Egmont's red banana series. Tilly never has time to tidy her messy bedroom because she is always too busy helping other people. So when she leaves home to visit her far-flung relatives, how will her family cope without her? Red bananas [...]
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 inc[...]
Hilary McKay revisits Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies after the events of A Little Princess and Sara Crewe's happily ever after. But Sara is much missed - and most acutely by best friend Ermengarde, who laments that 'nothing is the same as it was before'. But life must go on at Miss [...]
It's December, and Robin, his friend Dan, and Sun Dance are laid low with chickenpox. To keep them amused, Robin's mother entertains them with memories of the summer when she was eleven and Nick and Charley stayed at her house. When they met Harriet, a strange, shabbily dressed girl who seemed full[...]
After Saffron Casson discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same again. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests a stone angel to her, Saffy knows she has to find it. Realising that her childhood in Siena[...]
Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy: Hilary McKay's Casson family are eccentric, artistic, and very real![...]
It's a long hot summer - to Permanent Rose it seems never ending. Rose misses Tom, Indigo's friend who went back to America, and new friend David is no replacement. Caddy's fiancee, Michael, tries to cheer her up by delivering a rose every day, but that just provides temporary relief. What with Dadd[...]
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After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past.[...]
Tilly's little brother Timmy used to be as good as gold. But now he makes all sorts of chaos during the night and won't go to sleep. It's the fault of his imaginary friend, Naughty Morgan. He's the boss around here now. Can Tilly find out how to tame Morgan before her parents are forced to sell Timm[...]
There are discos at school several times a year, but the Valentine's Day disco is the one that everyone talks about. They only sell the tickets in pairs. You have to ask someone, or be asked by someone before you can go. Torture.
But it won't be torture if Indigo Casson's special plan for the V[...]
IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL FOR THE START OF A NEW TERM, AND THE ECCENTRIC CASSONS ARE UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS Indigo, having just recovered from a bout of mononucleosis, must return to school after missing an entire semester. Only his younger sister and loyal sidekick, Rose, knows why he's dreading it so [...]
Feisty Rose takes center stage as the highly original Casson family faces a long, hot summer. As usual, things are a bit chaotic. Eldest daughter Caddy is engaged to darling Michael, and she's not altogether sure she likes it. Saffy and Sarah are on a mission to find Saffy's biological father (whil[...]
Rose knows that nothing stays the same forever. Still, it's hard to watch her sisters and brother growing up and moving so far ahead of her. Caddy is back, but she's not living at home. And worse -- she's broken up with Darling Michael. Saffy and Indigo are so busy, they are seldom home. With her f[...]
Get to know the Casson family in this effervescent novel that "strikes a lovely balance between humor and poignancy" ("Publishers Weekly," starred review).Cadmium Casson is twelve years old the summer that everything changes. Not only are her closest friendships in jeopardy, but her mom is expecting[...]
School has started, and secrets and adventures await Binny and her family in this delightful sequel to "Binny for Short," which "Publishers Weekly "called "a well-crafted story that balances moments of hilarity with poignancy" (starred review).
Binny's blissful summer is over and school is begin[...]
Hilary McKay revisits the Casson family, but this time with a difference ...Go back in time ...Caddy is 12, grappling with school, best friends, first boyfriends, younger siblings and the unexpected arrival of one baby Permanent Rose who has arrived in the world a little sooner than expected. While [...]
Binny's life has been difficult since her father died and her dreadful old Aunt Violet disposed of her beloved dog, Max. Her world changed then, to a city flat with not enough space for her Mum, her big sister Clem and her small brother James. Definitely no room for a pet. Then one day Aunt Violet d[...]
A funny and endearing new story of friendship from Whitbread-winning author Hilary McKay.
Hilary McKay's Fairy Tales is a classic fairy-tale collection to treasure. Featuring Hilary McKay's imaginative retellings of key favourites, this ten-story collection includes the much-loved tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella, The Princess and the Pea, Rumpelstiltskin, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, The Swa[...]
Tom and Emily live with wicked Aunty Bess, the worst aunt in the world. They don't have proper beds. The food is so bad, they like their school dinners. And they even have to cut her extra long toenails! Just as well Emily's good at swops! She swops their gran for a donkey - but can she swop their h[...]
Peter is the boring one. His family is dull, he never has exciting adventures. Even his ghost is hardly scary at all...This is a laugh-out-loud comedy starring the Quiet One (for once!). Barrington Stoke specialises in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.[...]
Tom and Ellie are staying with terrible witchy Aunt Tab, in her sticky house with its sinister treacle pond. Can Tom and Ellie escape...or are they stuck? Barrington Stoke specialise in books for reluctant, struggling and dyslexic readers.[...]
Cadmium, Saffron, Indigo och Rose är alla lika färgstarka som färgkartan de fått sina namn ifrån
Rose känner sig ensam och övergiven. Alla andra i familjen är upptagna med sitt och storasyster Caddy har varit försvunnen sedan hon gav sig av för att försöka hitta Michael. Skol[...]