Michael Foreman

The littlest dinosaur discovers the advantages of being small as he frolics among the lily pads with his new frog friends, and then bravely finds his way home after getting lost in the woods.

Living in ruin and rubble with a wire fence and soldiers separating him from the cool hills where his father used to take him as a small child, a boy's tiny, green plant shoot gives him hope in a bleak landscape.

While looking for her beloved puppy, Poco, one winter day, young Mia discovers how beautiful the world can be, as well as a way to make her own village of Campamento San Francisco more lovely and her family's life easier.

Tom disobeys his mother when she tells him not to play with her new kitchen timer and finds himself transported to a time when dinosaurs are alive.

A city cat who lives out his fantasy of being able to fly finds that staying on the ground isn't so bad after all.

'There once was a beautiful and peaceful country. It was high in the mountains on the roof of the world, and a land of steep green valleys and swift flowing rivers. Every day the sun climbed above the snowy peaks and shone upon the land. People said that if trouble ever did come it would last only as long as the shadow of a flying bird . . .' Michael Foreman's rich collection of fairy tales from around the world will excite, surprise, amuse and enthrall readers. These twenty-two familiar and lesser known tales – from Russia, China, India, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland and Mexico – come from storytellers as well-loved and diverse as Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Arthur Ransome, Terry Jones and Edna O'Brien.

The stray cat who lives on the hill enjoys the summer when the tourists feed him, but his fortunes shift when winter approaches and food becomes more difficult to find.

For this ordinary working dog, an average working day, keeping an eye on his master, the builder and the rest of the townsfolk, is about to change dramatically.

An illustrated collection of traditional rhymes, some familiar and some not so familiar.

A boy describes what it feels like to score a goal that makes his soccer teammates stop teasing him.

A small cat reminisces about events that took place around the manger where it was sleeping on the night the baby Jesus was born.