Books published by publisher Hodder Children's Division

This book includes a superb model for children to press out and construct, created by top model-maker Keith Newstead. Turn the handle and watch in terror as the tomb opens and the Ancient Egyptian mummy comes to life! The book also takes readers on a fascinating journey to Ancient Egypt. As well as describing the mummification process in gruesome detail, it looks at Egyptian gods and goddesses, tombs and pyramids, famous mummies like Tutankhamun and Rameses II, and tells the strange and mysterious story of the curse of the pharoahs. It comes with atmospheric and amusing illustrations by Chris Mould.

This book includes a superb model of an alien abduction for children to press out and construct, created by top model-maker Keith Newstead. Turn the handle and watch in horror as the hapless victim is drawn up into the alien spacecraft!The rest of the book takes a fascinating look at the subject of extra-terrestrial life, from UFO sightings to close encounters of the first, second and third kinds, and the mysterious Men In Black. It recounts the many forms aliens have been reported to take - from the pointy-eared creatures in skintight clothing spotted by teenagers in Puerto Rico to the jelly-like grey creatures without arms and legs seen in Sweden. The famous Roswell Incident is also described.With atmospheric and amusing illustrations by Chris Mould.

It's Christmas in Welford and at Mandy's school, new boy Oliver Morgan has come up with a great idea. He's going to set up a 'hamster holiday camp' for all those whose owners are going away for Christmas. Mandy and James muck in too, and it looks as though Oliver's parents loft conversion will be the hamsters' holiday home. Everything's working out brilliantly! Oliver has nine hamsters to start with, but when one of them gives birth, that makes five more baby hamsters, too. They're cute, but quite a handful. Then disaster strikes, the roof of the loft is leaking, and the hamsters all need rehousing straight away! Poor Oliver feels terrible. What will he do? Then Mandy has a brainwave. There's one group of people who won't be going anywhere at Christmas - the church choir! But will they be willing to hamster-sit for a few days?

A recipe for trouble for ranch owner, Sandy Scott. But her daughter, Kirstie is undaunted by her mother's warnings. She's at her happiest riding the trails through the tall forests and deep canyons of the Meltwater Range...New arrival Moondance is a salebarn bargain; beautiful but only half schooled. Hadley blames rival dude owner, Ty Tyler, for the blue roan's bad habits and poor condition. Kirstie shares the old wrangler's doubts over Tyler's claims for his magical horse-training method. But she's not happy when Hadley rides into a head-on confrontation which could put both his and Moondance's lives at risk...