Humorous Fiction

From dreamy parties with toys to night-time dances with fairy folk, tuck into bed with this collection of short stories from the world's best-loved storyteller, Enid Blyton. Discover the midnight magic! These traditional tales are ideal for younger children being read to and for newly confident readers. Each story stands alone and is the perfect length for bedtime or in the classroom.

Dexter Foreman is twelve going on eighty. He has lived at The Pines retirement village with his grandmother since he was six years old, and as a result he gets along better with senior citizens than kids his own age. He's homeschooled by the residents up until the day the county’s truancy officer shows up and announces that Dex has to go to a “real” school, to the local middle school. At school, Dex sticks out like a sore thumb. He dresses like a grandpa (and can be just as cranky). His taste in movies and music is decades out of date.

Soon-to-be eight-year-old Daffodil likes the dictionary, the middle bit in custard cream biscuits, and thinking BIG. She does NOT like her cousin Hugo Patterson-Dent, who has ten more gold stars than she does; the biscuit bit of custard creams (but that’s OK because her friend Nirmal-Next-Door eats that); or any sort of catastrophe. The trouble is that somehow Daffodil's ambitious plans tend to go pear-shaped …

This is a humorous story about two children, their mother, and a luckless father who somehow manages to draw the wrath of his wife, whereupon she turns into a fire breathing dragon and speaks in tongues.

In dieser humorvollen Episode dreht sich alles um die fünf Arten von Schülern und Lehrern vor den Weihnachtsferien. Vom chaotischen Schüler, der für jede Schneeballschlacht bereit ist, bis hin zum Lehrer, der mit Glühwein-Laune die Tage zählt. Hier treffen die nervösen Test-Hoffenden auf übermotivierte Weihnachtsfans und die strengen Notenschreiber auf entspannte Filmvorführer. Eine witzige Reise durch den vorweihnachtlichen Schulalltag, die jeder kennt!

Tauche ein in eine Welt voller Tierabenteuer und magischer Begegnungen! In diesem bezaubernden Kinderbuch entführen uns die Autoren und Autorinnen auf eine abenteuerliche Reise, die nicht nur kleine Herzen höher schlagen lässt, sondern auch eine Botschaft der Liebe und des Mitgefühls für unsere tierischen Freunde vermittelt. Begleite mutige Tiere und kleine Hexen auf ihren spannenden Abenteuern durch Wälder, über Berge und durch geheimnisvolle Täler. Eine wundervolle Mischung aus Abenteuer, Freundschaft und Magie erwartet dich zwischen diesen Seiten.

Red is a WILD TWIG who loves giving surprises. So when he jumps out and yells ‘SURPRISE’ at his friends, he expects them to laugh – but instead they are shocked and scared. Oh dear! Can Red stay wild AND find a better way to surprise his friends? We hope so! Go, Red, go!

The world is big when you're a twig, but problems, surprises – and even volcanoes – are no match for Red, Ziggy, Noodle and Stump! In three adorably funny comic stories, Red Twig discovers that not all surprises are good when he accidentally ruins his friends' snail zoo, Ziggy and Stump discover a volcano (or is it?), and Noodle tries and fails to find blue paint in nature. And at the end, young listeners can learn to make their own twig friend with simple step-by-step instructions!

Meet Moss, an apprentice dino-dung shoveler working in Primordia's royal stables. He couldn't be any further down the pecking order without being underground—and he'll certainly never get a chance to be a knight like his hero, Sir Brutus Fallsword. But fate takes a twist when Moss discovers that he has a gift for speaking to dinosaurs. He is suddenly and unexpectedly enlisted into training a truly fearsome beast—the huge and mighty Tyrannosaurus rex belonging to the king's own daughter, Princess Opal!

Time to see who really runs the house! Kids run around the house, make pillow forts, eat sugary snacks, and play with their toys throughout the day without a care in the world! No matter what they’re being told and when, they’ll be sure to make each day an even bigger blast than the last! Who’s to say kids don’t run the house as well?