Hierdie bundel stories is ʼn karos waarmee jy jou kind opnuut kan koester. Daarmee saam kom die genadegawe om waarlik mekaar se harte te hoor. Om dit reg te kry het jy nie geld of goed nodig nie. Al wat nodig is, is om vir slegs 20 minute elke aand sonder die selfoon, TV en al die 1001 dinge wat jou aandag deur die dag opeis vir jou kind ʼn storie te lees. Die sleutel tot behoorlike lees- en taalvaardigheid begin lank vóór gr. R – by iets eenvoudig soos ʼn slaaptydstorie en jou onverdeelde aandag. ’n Ideale boek vir jou kleinding wat hou van stories, rympies en speletjies.

All dogs walk and jump and run, but dogs don't fly - it can't be done, can it? Jez Alborough's uplifting tale is for anyone who has ever, just for a second, stopped believing in miracles.

A full-colour short story taken from the magical Wishing-Chair series. Perfect for new readers. Be whisked away!

Never in their wildest dreams, could Mollie and Peter have imagined something so wonderful as a magic Wishing-Chair that will fly you anywhere and grant your every wish!

And so when a goblin steals their mother's ring, they set off on an adventure on the Wishing-Chair to the goblin village to get it back!

Umbhali lapha uxoxa izindaba ezimfushane ezimayelana nezigigaba ezihlukene ngempilo yasemhlabeni. Ezindabeni, umbhali ubuye athinte kwezothando, ubudlelwano phakathi kwabantu nangokuthi omunye uthinteka kangakanani empilweni yomunye nasemphakathini aphila nawo. Lapha kusetshenziswe ubuciko obukhulu ukwenza ulimi lwesiZulu lube lula entsheni yamanje. The writer talks about life and its problems. ??He also touches on love and relationships. The writer aims to make the Zulu language easy for today’s youth to understand.

Number One for Fiendish Fun! Get ready for a bumper edition of mayhem with this totally awesome collection of six favourite Horrid Henry stories!

Have a ghoulishly spooky halloween with Horrid Henry! This book contains six scary stories about things that go bump in the night, plus tons of fun jokes and activity pages to keep Horrid Henry fans of all ages entertained for hours.

An irresistible introduction to reading for pleasure - the perfect gift for Horrid Henry fans everywhere.

X-kit Achieve [subject, grade, e.g. Mathematics Grade 10] Study Guide has been revised to according incorporate the latest Assessment Guidelines (as outline in Section 4 of the CAPS), and updated with current trends to ensure the content remains relevant and applicable to learners. Written by experienced teachers, X-kit Achieve Study Guides are filled with step-by-step explanations, annotated diagrams and illustrated concepts, plenty of practice activities and answers, summary tables, and exam hints and tips.

Sixteen extraordinary authors―including New York Times bestsellers Melissa de la Cruz, Renée Ahdieh, and Julie Kagawa―reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate. This exquisite paperback anthology includes an original bonus story from Ellen Oh. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called A Thousand Beginnings and Endings a “must-read.”

A mountain loses her heart. Two sisters transform into birds to escape captivity. A young man learns the true meaning of sacrifice. A young woman takes up her mother’s mantle and leads the dead to their final resting place.

Bestselling and award-winning authors explore the timeless themes of East and South Asian lore in sixteen original stories that will appeal to every reader. From fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge, these stories will beguile readers from start to finish. Edited by We Need Diverse Books co-founder Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, this anthology contains stories from sixteen Asian and South Asian authors, including New York Times bestsellers and award-winners. In a starred review, Kirkus called it an “incredible anthology that will keep readers on the edges of their seats, wanting more.”

Featuring:

Renée Ahdieh, Elsie Chapman, Sona Charaipotra, Preeti Chhibber, Roshani Chokshi, Aliette de Bodard, Melissa de la Cruz, Julie Kagawa, Rahul Kanakia, Lori M. Lee, E. C. Myers, Cindy Pon, Aisha Saeed, Shveta Thakrar, Alyssa Wong, and a new original story by Ellen Oh.

An all-new collection of short stories from the world of Magnus Chase!

Travel the Nine Worlds with your favourite characters from the world of Magnus Chase in a brand-new series of adventures.

Find out why Amir Fadlan hates clothes shopping in Midgard, see how Mallory Keen learns in icy Niflheim that insulting a dragon can be a good idea, and join Alex Fierro as they play with fire (and a disco sword) in the home of the fire giants, Muspellheim.

But watch out for Thor, who is jogging through all Nine Worlds so he can log his million steps - and is raising quite a stink . . .

Return to the world of Mortal Engines in this new book of three short stories about the rebellious young aviatrix, Anna Fang, illustrated by Ian McQue. A key character in the Mortal Engines book and film, this is your chance to learn more of her past. Night Flights includes Traction City, the 2011 World Book Day Book by Philip Reeve. In a dangerous future world where gigantic, motorised cities attack and devour each other, London hunts where no other predator dares. But Anna Fang - pilot, adventurer, spy - isn't afraid. The three stories show gripping, moving, exciting moments in Anna Fang's life: her childhood as a slave aboard the moving city Arkangel, a showdown against a robotic Stalker that is terrifyingly out of control and her free life as an intelligence agent for the Anti-Traction league that might not be quite as free as she hoped.

Sanri kan nie wag om haar beste vriend, Markus, se neef te ontmoet nie. Danté en sy gesin bly in Vlermuishoogte – ’n geheimsinnige ou kasteel. Maar iets is nie pluis nie ... Waarom het Danté se pa ’n skaduwee soos ’n vlermuis? En is Markus dalk in gevaar?

Mieke is mal oor meerminne.

Haar ma en haar ouma dink hulle bestaan net in sprokies.

Maar Mieke weet hulle bestaan regtig.

En danksy die meerminprinses Luna en haar betowerde skulpkammetjie, kan Mieke deesdae by die meerminne in hul ongelooflike onderwater-wêreld gaan kuier! Dit voel teen hierdie tyd al soos haar tweede tuiste.

Prinses Luna is baie opgewonde toe sy uit die bloute 'n brief van prins Kadan kry. Hy is die meermin-prins van die Koraalkoninkryk - en op haar ma se verjaardagbal het hulle heerlik gedans. Daar is net een probleem: Luna se pa en Kadan se pa is aartsvyande!

Toe Luna besluit om vir Kadan in die Koraalkoninkryk te gaan kuier, wéét Mieke daar is moeilikheid op pad.

Kort voor lank trotseer hulle die donker dieptes van die oseaan waar allerlei skrikwekkende avonture op hulle wag - 'n storm, 'n donker kelpwoud, seeslange, skeepswrakke … en twee baie kwaai meerminkonings!

Vir die eerste keer verskyn al vier Slym-boeke saam in een pragtige volkleur-omnibus, met illustrasies deur die skrywer, Fanie Viljoen. Dit sluit in:

- Slym: Die wêreld se eerste wurm in 'n paddakonsert

- Slym en die beker van geluk

- Slym en die gogga-sirkus

- Slym en die towertapyt

Langs die riete in Paddavlei,

daar waar al die paddas bly,

onder die grote hemelruim,

woon daar ook 'n wurm, Slym.

Op 'n dag word 'n wurm deur 'n voël gevang. Maar die wurm se naam is nie verniet Slym nie … Hy skrik so groot dat hy 'n bol vrotterige slym in die voël se bek skiet. Die voël skrik op sy beurt weer so groot dat hy vir Slym laat val … by 'n skool vir paddas.

En só begin 'n hele reeks avonture by die paddaskool, waar Slym vir juffrou Plat Anna en die ander onderwysers leer ken, hope gawe paddamaats soos Paddavoet en Brulbekkie maak, en moet ligloop vir Giftand die slang en die skoolboelie, Padarotti.

Fanie Viljoen se Slym-reeks is nie verniet so gewild nie. Sedert die verskyning van die eerste Slym-boek in 2004 het dié oulike wurm en sy aanhangers al hope avonture saam beleef. Slym het die eerste wurm geword wat in 'n paddakonsert gesing het, hy het 'n draai by die gogga-sirkus gemaak, die paddakoning ontmoet en selfs op 'n towertapyt gery! Boonop het hy sommer twee ATKV-Woordveertjies ook ingepalm!

Vir die eerste keer verskyn al vier Slym-boeke saam in een pragtige volkleur-omnibus, met illustrasies deur die skrywer, Fanie Viljoen. Dit sluit in:

- Slym: Die wêreld se eerste wurm in 'n paddakonsert

- Slym en die beker van geluk

- Slym en die gogga-sirkus

- Slym en die towertapyt

Sanri is teen hierdie tyd gewoond daaraan dat vreemde dinge op Raaiselfontein gebeur. Toe brille links en regs begin wegraak, kry sy dadelik snuf in die neus. Dan maak Sanri en Markus kennis met ’n spookmeisie – en sy het hulle hulp nodig.

Hierdie is die eerste boek in ’n splinternuwe reeks oor aspirantjoernalis Sanri Steyn en haar vriend Markus se avonture op Raaiselfontein. Die aweregse humor en lekker grillerige avonture sal seuns en meisies vasgenael hou!

Twelve extraordinary Doctor Who stories, each featuring a monstrous villain from the Doctor Who world.

On every planet that has existed or will exist, there is a winter . . .

Many of the peoples of Old Earth celebrated a winter festival. A time to huddle together against the cold; a time to celebrate being half-way out of the dark.

But shadows are everywhere, and there are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things, lurking in the cold between the stars.

Here are twelve stories - one for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas - to remind you that to come out of the darkness we need to go into it in the first place.

We are not alone. We are not safe. And, whatever you do: don't blink.

Written by popular children's author, and lifelong Doctor Who fan, Dave Rudden.

• Early start, Large print stories with a moral.

Far, far away there was a wood. A jumble of twists and turns, ups and downs, and unknowns. The little creatures that lived there each had a thing that made them happy... ... all of them except Pod, who just can't seem to find hers. Exasperated and sad, Pod sets off to discover where her 'happiness' might be hiding, only to find it in the friends she meets along the way.

Mickey has no cricket kit and his mom, a single parent, cannot afford a new one. He goes reluctantly to a charity shop where he buys a second-hand kit.

The charity shop owner suggests that the initials ‘JK’ on the bat mean that the bat belonged to Jacques Kallis. Mickey finds that he plays extraordinarily well with this bat and begins to believe that it is a ‘magic’ bat.

The coach wants to take Mickey to the district trials where he’ll be the youngest player. But disaster strikes when Mickey leaves his bat behind by mistake: he has to face playing without his magic bat.

MML 2017 Literature Award Winner.

• Early start, Large print stories with a moral.

• Early start, Large print stories with a moral.

Lana se gesin neem ’n pragtige Jack Russell-hondjie aan. Wanneer Lana die hondjie Rakker noem, het sy geen idee hoe stout hy gaan wees nie. Rakker beland die heeltyd in die moeilikheid. Sal Lana dit regkry om hom uit die moeilikheid te hou?

Lana se maatjie, Lisa, is gekies om in ’n TV-advertensie te verskyn. Die enigste probleem is, dit is ’n advertensie vir hondekos – en Lisa is bang vir honde. Daarom besluit Lana om met haar hondjie, Rakker, saam te span om seker te maak Lisa skud vir eens en vir altyd haar vrees vir honde af. Maar dan kry die TV-mense onverwags ’n plaasvervanger-hond nodig – en Rakker kry uit die bloute die kans om ’n ster te word!

Jong troeteldierliefhebbers sal versot wees op Lana en haar ondeunde hondjie, Rakker, se skreeusnaakse avonture!

Ooo ...

Ek is ’n eensame krokodil.

Mense kyk vir my en gril.

Ek soek maters hoog en laag,

maar almal sê ek vreet te graag.

Geslagte Afrikaanse kinders het grootgeword met Betty Misheiker se liedjies oor die dapper muis wat kamstig bang is vir niks; die lappop wat saam met die vrot pampoen en die stukkende skoen op die ashoop beland; en die eensame krokodil wat die luisteraar nooi om in die water te klim.

Hierdie reeks bestaan uit drie oulike prenteboeke gebaseer op die lirieke van Misheiker se immergroen kinderliedjies “Die lappop”, “Die eensame krokodil” en “Die dapper muis”.

Iemand het ’n lappop op ’n ashoop weggegooi,

sy was gedaan en stukkend,

verbleek en nie meer mooi nie.

Op die ashoop hoor sy stemme praat

en dié verwelkom haar.

Maar o, ellende, toe sy kyk,

wat sien die lappop daar?

Net ’n vrot pampoen en ’n stukkende skoen,

’n grammofoonplaat en ’n kous sonder maat,

net ’n leë bottel bier, ’n verlepte angelier,

’n gelapte binneband en ’n ou koerant.

Geslagte Afrikaanse kinders het grootgeword met Betty Misheiker se liedjies oor die dapper muis wat kamstig bang is vir niks; die lappop wat saam met die vrot pampoen en die stukkende skoen op die ashoop beland; en die eensame krokodil wat die luisteraar nooi om in die water te klim.

Hierdie reeks bestaan uit drie oulike prenteboeke gebaseer op die lirieke van Misheiker se immergroen kinderliedjies “Die lappop”, “Die eensame krokodil” en “Die dapper muis”.

Sanri se neus begin kriewel toe sy die nuwe seun in hulle klas ontmoet. Felix tree baie vreemd op – hy klouter oor mure, eet regte vissies op sy pousebrood ... en hy het ’n groot geheim! Kort voor lank is daar groot moeilikheid op Raaiselfontein. ’n Nare rotskurk en sy weermag van rotte beplan om die dorp oor te neem.

Jacqueline Wilson's Happy Holidays is the perfect summer read for any fan!

Don’t just spend your summer holiday with just one pal from Jacqueline Wilson’s world, hang out with a whole bunch of them!
As well as puzzles, fun facts and activities this bumper book also features short stories from:

• Tracy Beaker
• Hetty Feather
• Beauty (from Cookie)
• Gemma (from Best Friends)
• Lily (from Lily Alone)
• Plus a holiday adventure with Tim and Biscuits from Cliffhanger!