Item category 2: Junior

Scope and content: The reader is invited to guess who causes the boat to sink when five animal friends of varying sizes - a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig and a mouse - decide to go for a row.

First published in 1984, a picture book in which the Little Mouse will do all he can to save his strawberry from the Big, Hungry Bear, even if it means sharing it with the reader. The Little Mouse and the Big Hungry Bear are known and loved by millions of children around the world. Little Mouse l...

All Hairy Maclary's friends want to share his tasty new bone. But Hairy Maclary has other ideas.

'Hairy Maclary felt bumptious and bustly, bossy and bouncy and frisky and hustly.' Hairy Maclary, everyone's favourite dog, is busy chasing and hustling all the neighbourhood cats from Slinky Malinki to Pimpernel Pugh. But when he comes face to face with Scarface Claw, the toughest tomcat in town...

Scarface Claw, the biggest cat in the neighbourhood, is out exploring when he gets stuck up a tree. His yowling is terrible - so terrible that it draws Hairy Maclary and all his friends from Donaldson's Dairy to investigate.

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

Edward is bored with being an emu and he tries to be like the other animals at the zoo. The book is written in rhyming verse.

Horace the elephant organizes for himself an eleventh birthday party. Horace turns eleven and celebrates with a splendid party! But when the time comes for the birthday banquet, a most bizarre mystery is revealed.

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.

A bored chameleon wishes it could be more like all the other animals it sees, but soon decides it would rather just be itself. This book teaches young children the key differences between animals and the importance of being yourself. A chameleon's antics with colour, shape and size show what make...