Books published by publisher Childrens Classics

A much-loved tale featuring Jacqueline's most popular character. STRICTLY PRIVATE. KEEP OUT ON PAIN OF DEATH. I'm Tracy Beaker. I'm 10 years old and 2 months. I live in a children's home. I call it The Dumping Ground. My best friend was Louise but she has gone off with Justine. I don't care though, I expect my mum will come and get me soon anyway. I never cry. Ever. I've done a bit of screaming and stamping in my time mind you... I like eating birthday cake. And any other type of cake. And Smarties and Mars Bars and Big Macs with French fries and strawberry milkshakes. I also like story writing. This is my autobiography. I like that word. There are some really good bits in it. Honest.

A much-loved tale featuring Jacqueline's most popular character. STRICTLY PRIVATE. KEEP OUT ON PAIN OF DEATH. I'm Tracy Beaker. I'm 10 years old and 2 months. I live in a children's home. I call it The Dumping Ground. My best friend was Louise but she has gone off with Justine. I don't care though, I expect my mum will come and get me soon anyway. I never cry. Ever. I've done a bit of screaming and stamping in my time mind you... I like eating birthday cake. And any other type of cake. And Smarties and Mars Bars and Big Macs with French fries and strawberry milkshakes. I also like story writing. This is my autobiography. I like that word. There are some really good bits in it. Honest.

A timeless classic, beautifully rejacketed. BACKSTORY: Test your knowledge of Coot Club boats and learn more about spotting birds. Tom Dudgeon has cast off a motor cruiser from its moorings to protect a coot's nest, but now the cruiser is searching high and low for him -- even offering a reward. Tom accepts an invitation for a week's cruise to teach his new friends, Dick and Dorothea how to sail. You couldn't get a better sailor than Tom but can he really stay one jump ahead of his pursuers long enough to complete the voyage?

'Wait, wait! Save us! What'll we do?' Simon is determined to become a painter when he grows up so he sets off to London to make his fortune. But the city is plagued by wolves and mysterious disappearances. The Twite household, where Simon is lodging, seems particularly shifty. Before he even gets a chance to open his glistening new paints Simon stumbles right into the centre of a plot to kill the King. And worse than that Simon is kidnapped and sent to sea! Luckily there are two friendly stowaways aboard -- the feisty Dido Twite and the spoiled young Justin. But when the ship catches fire things look pretty dire. Can they escape? Will they save the king in time?

"The world that the children enter as soon as they get off the train in the Lake District is as separate from their everyday world as Hogwarts or Narnia... For most readers, the idea of cooking trout you have caught yourself is as strange and poetic as the idea of casting a spell that turns a teacup into a turtle." --Guardian 'Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!'Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and cooked it yourself? The four Swallows, John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake full of such plans and they can't wait to meet up with Nancy and Peggy, the Amazon Pirates. When the Swallow is shipwrecked and the Amazon's fearsome Great-Aunt makes decides to make a visit their summer seems ruined. Then they discover a wonderful hidden valley and things take a turn for the better.