The Guest Room, Diana Hendry's new collection of poems, continues her always perceptive explorations of family, childhood and finding oneself, encounters with people (whether neighbours or strangers) and animals (pets or otherwise). Added to this is her embracing of Seamus Heaney's notion of poetry paying attention to the world, here including climate change, coronavirus, political prisoners, Palestine and the health service, for example - never preachy, telling it slant.There's pleasure to be found throughout, in her craft and characteristic wry humour and in what U.A.Fanthorpe called her 'remarkable eye for the truth and an ability to see the otherness in the ordinary.'

When the Thing-in-a-Box became a Thing-on-Two-Legs, Mulligan's life took a turn for the worse. Gone was all the attention. Gone were the long walks with Mr and Mrs Dembo. Now they could only toddle and waddle to the end of the road. Something had to be done. Jets is a series of simple stories with lots of lively pictures, ideal for children who are just beginning to enjoy reading.

A bewildered dog cannot understand what is so special about a box that makes wah wah noises - until he discovers there's a baby inside. Diana Hendry won the Whitbread Children's Book Prize in 1992.

From the Costa award-winning author of Harvey Angell, comes the sequel to Out of the Clouds.

Pa is off again to work on his world-changing scientific discovery, leaving the rest of the Coggins family behind at their hidden clifftop home, Dizzy Perch. Oliver is in charge, with strict instructions about no visitors, in order to protect Pa's top-secret location. But Ma doesn't listen, and invites her favourite author to say.

When a woman arrives at Dizzy Perch claiming to be the author, the whole family are enchanted by their guest. All apart from Oliver, that is. A good job too, because the woman is really the sister of Pa's Sworn Enemy Mac, whose mission it is to bring Pa down and steal his research.

How is Oliver going to be able to keep his promise to Pa and protect his family, when they simply refuse to listen to him...?

A classic mystery adventure perfect for fans of Enid Blyton.

Everyone knows that little sisters can be a handful. But this little sister is more - she's a zoo-ful ! A fresh and funny picture book from much-loved author Diana Hendry.

This little sister is a monkey, a bear, a camel, a penguin, a crocodile...

Her big brother just wishes she'd be a little girl now and again. After all, you can't cuddle a crocodile...

A wonderful imaginative romp from an award-winning author and bestselling illustrator.

There's a mysterious, magical new lodger at gloomy 131 Ballantyre Road: Harvey Angell, whose bright beaming, thousand-watt smile can somehow cheer the most miserable people - even cross, penny-pinching Aunt Agatha! From the moment Harvey walks through the front door, Henry knows there's something very strange and special about his new friend. But where does he disappear to late at night? And why does he have an unusual clock, that tells the time in centuries and years, rather than hours and minutes? Henry's determined to find out Harvey Angell's marvellous secret . . .

Since the arrival of Harvey Angell at 131 Ballantyre Road, life is a little bit brighter for orphan Henry - even mean old Aunt Agatha isn't quite so miserable these days. Still, when she agrees to take everyone on holiday, Henry can't believe his luck. For the first time ever, he's about to see the sea. Sibbald House isn't quite what he'd pictured - a dusty, tumbledown, creaking old cottage in a freezing, windswept Scottish fishing village. On the first night, Henry can't sleep a wink for the spooky moaning noises coming from somewhere within the house - and on discovering a hidden room with a ghostly secret, he knows he has to solve the mystery that the house - and the village - has been hiding for years. It's time to enlist the help of the extraordinary Harvey Angell . . .