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In this book full of absurd poems and very short, silly stories, a man takes his tadpoles for a walk in his hat, a cat is surprised by its talking feet, a tiger gobbles up a dentist, ten baggy clowns do a do-wacky dance . . . along with many more preposterous flights of imagination. Cowley channels the spirit of classic, silly humorists such as Spike Milligan, Edward Lear, and Ogden Nash in this exuberant collection for the family that emboldens listeners to experiment and play with language.

When scaredy Bear stumbles into the shop, he's NOT ready for anything … especially when Wilbur and Fred suggest a run-for-your-life dinosaur adventure! Join Bear as he summons his courage to outplay Big T in a game of crazy golf, is given the run-around by a trio of Tricera-tots, and turns detective to hunt out the veggie thief and restore peas to the dino allotment.

The Story Shop is packed full of plots, costumes, and characters galore. And shopkeepers Wilbur and Fred are ready and waiting to find every customer their perfect adventure! When Suzy Sloth is found snoozing in the shop, Wilbur thinks she'll be perfect for a mystery-solving detective adventure … but can she stay awake long enough to sniff out all the clues?

Meet the utterly irresistible Miss Petitfour (a name of unknown origin but possibly descended from bakers of tiny delicious cakes). She loves baking and making and dancing with her cats, but most of all she loves to fly. All she has to do is pick up a favourite tablecloth (preferably the one with the paisley print), catch the breeze and she swooshes off on an adventure – with her many cats (Minky, Misty, Taffy, Purrsia, Pirate, Mustard, Moutarde, Hemdala, Earring, Grigorovich, Clasby, Captain Captain, Captain Catkin, Captain Clothespin, Your Shyness and Sizzles) dangling paw-to-tail behind her.

Have you ever heard about the cookie-cutter shark, which bites out cookie-shaped morsels of flesh from much larger animals than itself? Or the goblin shark, which was thought to have become extinct 100 million years ago until a living specimen was discovered in 1898? And did you know that the whale shark has jaws the size of a 12-year-old child? The earth is home to over one billion sharks across 500 different species, and there's so much to learn about these ancient rulers of the ocean!

Pack your bags – it's time for Dragon Camp! Ava and Jack are excited for an adventure in the High Country with Graun, Fafnine and their friends from the Dragons at Home Project. There'll be songs around a campfire, roasted marshmallows and even a treasure hunt! But when the treasure hunt leads them to a secret dragon egg seller, the naughty dragons make it their mission to shut it down. Will the naughty dragons protect the eggs from being sold … and will they make it home as happy campers?

There's so much more to elephants than their enormous size! Have you heard about their excellent memory or their adorable sense of humour? Did you know that they actually walk on their tippy toes? And wait till you see who their cousins are – you're in for a surprise! Elephants can live until the age of 70 and are Earth's most intelligent giants, with incredible communication and relationship-building abilities.

Junior agents Finn, Milo and Tasi, along with a young hacker, Ether, and Arty the microraptor, are dispatched to Scotland to recover stolen technology that could plunge the world into chaos. It's their most nail-biting mission yet – even before they wake a monster from the deep ...

Some kids are good and some are not … Some look the same, like Deb and Dot! Deb and Dot are twins and complete opposites. Deb is friendly and everyone likes her – but Dot doesn't quite know how to play nicely with the other monsters! Can Teacher Ted help the twins out with a plan?

Birthday parties should be fun, not smelly. Too bad the fart monster doesn't know that... Ben's been invited to a birthday party and the whole class is there, including the fart monster. There are plenty of party games and... a terrible smell. While everyone blames the dog, Ben knows it's not Turbo's fault...

Every year, the village of Blubber competes against the neighbouring town of Gulp in the Viking Games, and every year, the Blubberers get thrashed. Convinced he can do better this time, Vulgar starts training – with comically catastrophic results – but worse is to come when he arrives at the Games to discover he and his friends have all been mistakenly entered into the goat hurdling! And when Vulgar's arch-enemy Gunnar turns up in the same event, the stage is set for the most ill-tempered and chaotic goat-hurdling race in Viking history.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Are those clouds shaped like bottoms?! Nothing exciting has ever happened in Ben Dugan's backyard. That is, until something crash-lands from the biggest and smelliest storm cloud in the sky! In one split second, Ben's life changes forever...

Vulgar is a Viking boy who longs for the glory days of raiding, pillaging and enormous beards. Life in the village of Blubber is so dull, it's all knitting and goat-herding and yawwwnnn. Vulgar feels it's up to him to introduce a bit of mayhem and chaos, and just as soon as he's finished juggling with elk manure, he's going to relish the challenge.

That's what Uranus looks like? It's not shaped like a butt! Ben's class is off to the new space exhibit. The fart monster can't wait to show Ben where he comes from – Planet Let 'er Rip! When the two friends find an empty space shuttle, is this their chance to visit the fart monster's home?

Today it's sports day in the sun. But do you think that Pete can run? Ever since Pete tripped over his long legs and enormous feet, he refuses to run races with the other monsters. But what happens when Jamie Lee gets stuck in the mud down the well? It will take a special someone to help rescue her!

When Will gets nervous, he lets out a stink. But what will all his classmates think? William wants to be in the school play, but there's a problem. When he's nervous, he farts! How can he possibly audition, let alone win a part?

No-one likes to be left out This makes Luna scream and shout! Luna's a ghost, so her classmates can't see how she feels when they accidentally leave her out of their games. Will showing her true colours help her – or scare them away for good?

Stone Beach Primary is not ready for Ben Dugan and his new best friend. Ben's about to start at his new school and the fart monster's coming along for the ride. But Ben is worried. If his friend gets up to mischief, will the other kids blame Ben? How will Ben survive his first day?

It started off innocently enough. Mo just wanted to catch a girl’s eye. She was this super-talented and mysterious skater girl who looked like she had the universe all figured out. So Mo did what any self-respecting nerd would do: He put aside his chess pieces, his guinea pig, and his books on astronomy and transformed himself into a skater guy, in the hopes that she might notice him. He never expected to catch the attention of his entire town, practically all of Sweden, and the internet.

Juniper Bell is on her own. She's betrayed her friends, been double-crossed by the Arcanists, and exiled from her home. The Arcanists have won, and now she can only watch from afar as her city is destroyed, and her twin sister is corrupted by evil magic. But Juni's got one thing going for her - she's a breaker of rules, a maker of trouble. So she'll be back. But can she save the city and everyone she loves, before it's too late? The epic conclusion to the Arkspire series, from the bestselling author of Frostheart.