Gavin Bishop

Retells the fatal episodes in the lives of two foolish pigs and how the third pig managed to avoid the same pigfalls.

Having heard about the sea and longed to see what it is like, Little Rabbit receives an unexpected gift from a seagull.

Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is a strange and fragile character having experienced such a traumatic childhood, which resulted in spending a long time in a mental institution, he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up. The sights, sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the deeply buried memories of his childhood. At the centre of these memories is the great trauma of losing his mother (Miranda Richardson). Spider believes that his father, Bill Cleg (Gabriel Byrne) murdered her so that he could move a prostitute into the house in her place. As Spider claws through the falsehoods he has woven around himself, he finally begins to arrive at the truth of his life and his mother's death ... The truth, which will take him to the very limits of his faltering sanity.

Old Bear and his friend Brown Bear decide that sleeping all winter is a waste of time, so they stay awake planning a warm summer vacation and then sleep through the whole trip.

Big Bear is feeling grumpy. What will make him smile?

Presents the traditional nursery rhyme 'There was a crooked man'. On board pages. Suggested level: junior.

A counting book featuring the animals from Cowshed Christmas, who gather again to celebrate the birth of their babies. There is one foal, two calves, three puppies, and more. Suggested level: junior.

Gavin Bishop, award-winning children's author and illustrator, tells of his 1950s childhood growing up in Kingston beside Lake Wakatipu. Bishop recalls his boyhood spent haring around outside, building huts, eating girdle scones and marmite sandwiches, going to school on a horse and catching eels. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.

The Maori people of New Zealand tell this version of the Polynesian folktale in which a trickster uses magical powers to slow the movement of the sun.