Silas and the Marvellous Misfits


Book Description

From Tom Percival, the creator of Ruby's Worry and the Big Bright Feelings series, comes Odd One Out – a new title exploring big emotions through exciting adventure! When Silas disappears, it's up to the Dream Team to get him back. But things get tough when they discover he has gone back to his family, the Glooms, and is desperately trying to fit in with them – Silas is warm, friendly and bubbly but the Glooms are all very sombre and cold. And to make matters worse, they are trying to take over the dreams of children all over the world! Can the Dream Team stop the Glooms' evil plan and help Silas to discover the joy of being himself? Odd One Out is packed full of brilliant and engaging illustrations from the author. Perfect for newly independent readers, it helps kids to deal with their worries in a fun and accessible way.




Chanda and the Devious Doubt


Book Description

Chanda and the Devious Doubt is an exciting adventure that will help children to overcome their doubts! From Tom Percival, the creator of Silas and the Marvellous Misfits – a Marcus Rashford Book Club Choice! – and Ruby's Worry, comes the second title in the action packed Dream Defenders series (previously published as A Case of the Jitters). Erika has an amazing secret. She’s a member of the Dream Defenders – a top-secret organization that will banish your worries while you sleep! When Erika gets an emergency call from the team, she dives into the dream world and meets Chanda – Chanda is struggling with her confidence and a terrifying Doubt is attacking her dream! Can the Dream Defenders help Chanda believe in herself and banish her Doubts, before they take over completely? Discover more incredible Dream Defenders adventures in Erika and the Angermare and Silas and the Marvellous Misfits.




The Great Troll Rescue


Book Description

What starts as an adventure ends in disaster when Rapunzel, Anansi and Jack and his talking chicken, Betsy, are captured by a wicked witch and locked up in a tower! It's up to Red (the sustainable woodcutter's daughter) to save the day. With the help of the witch's servant, Ella, and her magical fairy god-brother, can Red save her friends and all the other magical creatures the witch has kidnapped - including a fearsome troll? The Great Troll Rescue is the second book in this brilliant new highly-illustrated series by Tom Percival, featuring all the fairy-tale characters you know and love having brand-new adventures!




Erika and the Angermare


Book Description

From Tom Percival, the creator of Ruby's Worry and the Big Bright Feelings series, comes an illustrated series exploring big emotions through exciting adventure! Erika can sometimes get REALLY angry – her parents are giving her baby brother, Randall, all their attention and they don't have time for her any more. But one night, after going to sleep especially upset, she finds out that her anger has followed her to her dreams. She's stranded in the dream world, and to make matters worse, she's being hunted by a terrifying Angermare! Enter the Dream Team! Can they help Erika overcome her worries and get home, or will she be trapped forever?




The Genie's Curse


Book Description

For Rapunzel, being a princess has been nothing but fun. But everything goes wrong when she breaks a magical urn and blames it on her new friend, Ella. It turns out that the urn was home to a very cross (and now very homeless) hermit genie, who casts a spell making everyone blame Rapunzel for everything that goes wrong in Tale Town! With the help of her friends and a mysterious green monkey called Alphege, can Rapunzel 'undo what she has done' and lift the curse? The Genie's Curse is the third book in this brilliant new highly-illustrated series by Tom Percival, featuring all the fairy-tale characters you know and love having brand-new adventures!




The Spell Thief


Book Description

Jack (of the beanstalk fame) and his magical talking chicken, Betsy, have always been great at making new friends. But when Jack spots Anansi, the new kid in town, talking to a troll in the Deep Dark Woods, everything changes. Everyone knows that trolls mean trouble, and Jack will do anything to prove to the rest of his friends that Anansi is a troll spy. Even if that means using stolen magic! The Spell Thief is the first book in this brilliant new highly-illustrated series by Tom Percival, featuring all the fairy-tale characters you know and love having brand-new adventures!




Anti-Intellectualism in American Life


Book Description

Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction Anti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society. "As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success." —Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor




All about Feelings


Book Description

How are you feeling today? This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction to feelings is designed to help young children recognise, understand and name how they're feeling and learn to talk about and manage their emotions in helpful ways.




Attack of the Heebie-Jeebies


Book Description

Join the Dream Team as they turn nightmares into epic adventures in this fun and exciting series written and illustrated by Tom Percival. Erika is fed up of her parents paying all their attention to her annoying little brother, Randall. But when she goes to sleep angry at Randall, her dream is stolen by a pack of hungry Heebie Jeebies! Trapped in the Dreamscape with no way to get home, Erika's only hope is the Dream Team – a motley gang of creatures whose job is to see dreamers safely through the night. But there's an Angermare growing and looking for Erika – feeding off the bad mood she was in when she went to bed. As they race through the Dreamscape, Erika will need to work with her new friends if she wants to get home before morning! Attack of the Heebie Jeebies is the first in a fun and engaging two-colour illustrated series from Tom Percival, exploring anxiety in in children through action and adventure.




The Pirate Mums


Book Description

Billy's family is not what you'd call ordinary. His mums won't listen to NORMAL music. They love to sing sea shanties and dance jigs in the lounge. Their clothes are highly unusual, they have a rude parrot for a pet, and their taste in house design is, well . . . FISHY. Billy wishes his family could be more like everyone else's. Until a swashbuckling adventure changes everything!