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Sharing both human and hawk genes, a young girl escapes from her cage at a top secret laboratory where she was conceived by military scientists in a botched experiment designed to create stronger soldiers.
When the King remarries, his beautiful daughter is forced to leave his castle by her mean-spirited stepfamily. Laden only with bread, cheese and kindness, the Princess seeks her fortune and finds three friendly heads in a well. When the stepsister follows, however, it is clear that the three heads may be either friend or foe . . . This story is a magic bean. It may not look much like a bean, but I can promise you that it is. For if you plant it in a young mind, it will grow into a love of story and reading. These beans are favourite fairytales and legends that will delight, thrill and thoroughly entertain. Each story has been brilliantly crafted by one of the best-loved writers for children. This story was published by David Fickling Books as part of the Magic Beans anthology. The complete anthology is available in hardback and in ebook format.
This is a potato with attitude! It's come from outer space and it's landed in the council rubbish tip. It's growing bigger by the minute and it's looking round for things to eat. Only Cruncher, his grandad and a potato-obsessed professor are around to stop it before it wipes out the human race. The bad news is that the crash has upset the rules of space and time and Silas Smite, the mad preacher, has been brought from the past to hunt down all potato lovers. The good news is that Grandad has a secret weapon: Gloria, the super bin van designed to collect space junk. It's chaos out there - expect anything!
A plant virus is turning people into human/plat hybrids called Verdans. It's a beautiful, peaceful way of life that will save the world. Until the rise of the Cultivars: aggressive warriors who want to wipe out humanity...
When Eric finds a way to communicate by "ear language" with the zoo animals he makes friends with them and when he discovers some very disturbing news he finds his loyalities torn.
Bill is very proud of his new baggy pants with the many pockets but when he goes to buy potatoes for his mother, strange things begin to happen.
Nemo has seen some amazing sights in his circus life, but nothing matches Chingwe the humanzee in the Wonderland freak show. One look at the creature-part human, part chimpanzee-sends Nemo into a rage. You can't put people in cages! Nemo rescues Chingwe and take shim home but quickly learnsthat not everyone shares his tolerance. The men with guns, for instance, who want to see Chingwe destroyed...This novel is now reissued in a smaller format mass-market paperback.
Lennie finds old Miss Butterworth in the run-down toffee works and is told the dreadful story of Clum, the toffee monster created by old Mr Butterworth in Victorian times. Little does Lennie know that Clum is kept in the freezer until, through a series of mishaps, he finds himself confronted by the 7 foot rampaging toffee fiend. To escape, Lennie must don a lace dress and tam o'shanter and disguise himself as Clum's master, Young Harold. Clum, shining with sparkle bars, looks like a silver knight and walks with the disguised Lennie onto a building site. He is buried by a JCB. Lennie is very sad, but cheers up when he becomes a helper in Miss Butterworth's toffee works. But in the spring, Clum's hand wriggles through the ground ...
Panther poo is scary poo, and that means danger to shrews, so Tiny Shrew needs to know exactly what it smells like. If he can't sniff out danger he could end up as a panther's lunch! But he soon discovers that he can't smell anything at all. So how will he survive in the jungle? A very funny story, perfect for reading aloud, about survival, being different - and scary poo!