Item category 1: FICTION

Billie's party is going to be the best ever. She has lots of fun games planned! But what if Billie's friends don't like her party? Or worse, they don't come?

Billie can't wait for the new baby to arrive. She's even going to give it her favourite teddy! But what will happen when her parents go to hospital without her, and Billie's teddy goes missing?

"Billie has started Ballet classes. She wants to be a famous ballerina! But will Billie's dancing dreams come true?"--Cover.

A baby makes a wish which results in a merry chase by the castle residents across fields, forests, oceans and mountains after a huge lion.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, fat and full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.

Floyd gets his kite stuck up a tree. He throws up his shoe to shift it, but that gets stuck too. So he throws up his other shoe and that got stuck, along with... a ladder, a pot of paint, the kitchen sink, an orang-utan and a whale, amongst other things! Will Floyd ever get his kite back?

Billie finds a tiny bottle at the beach. She and her friend imagine what's inside. Is there a secret message from a pirate?

Each page gives a different glimpse of a baby's day, as the adults in his world go about their obscure yet urgent tasks. The initial view of each full page illustration is through a peep hole in the centre of the page. A rhyming text describes the picture, and asks "what does he see?"

When her best toy mysteriously disappears, Olivia the feisty pig is determined to find out who is responsible.

On the green skies and blue plains of Planet Namek, a war rages between two equally evil forces: Emperor Freeza, who wants to use Namek's Dragon Balls to become immortal, and Vegeta, last prince of the Saiyans, who has betrayed his former master in search of the same prize.