Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. When he moves house he meets Shumel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas. Features an exclusive interview with the author.

Ione Muffet has spent every summer she can remember alone in the summer house at the end of her garden. But the arrival of the extraordinary Ned Hump changes all that. Ione's father, Professor Muffet, his beautiful secretary, Caroline, and Ned give Ione a riotous introduction to adult life - how not to cope with love, money, careers and forty uninv...

Sarah Jane and friends battle a deadly computer virus in this exclusive audio story, read by Elisabeth Sladen. Sarah Jane is in a Christmassy mood, but her cosy afternoon listening to carols is interrupted when Mr. Smith suddenly announces that danger is imminent. The supercomputer has detected abnormal internet activity in the vicinity of Bannerma...

In the late 1700s your circumstance of birth meant everything. Toby and Aaron may both find themselves living at Captain Thomas Coram's Hospital for parentless children, but their histories are as far apart as they could possibly be. Toby has been rescued from a life of slave labour in a faraway country; Aaron is the illegitimate son of the heir to...

A full-cast dramatisation of Kipling's classic animal adventure starring Eartha Kitt. Rudyard Kipling's famous tale tells the story of Mowgli, the 'man-cub' rescued from the tiger Shere Khan and adopted by a wolf pack. As he grows up, Mowgli learns the ways of the jungle from Baloo the bear, Bagheera the black panther and Kaa the rock python. His l...

Tracy Beaker thought things would be perfect with her new foster-mum Cam. But it's hardly fair that Cam refuses to buy her designer clothes and give her loads of money, now is it? So Tracy bunks off school and hides out in her secret place to avoid being teased by the other pupils and to stop herself from strangling Vomity Bagley, the English teach...

Bad, mad and brilliant to know - it's the Bagthorpes again! Confusion reigns at Unicorn House when the resident tramp disappears. A police search is undermined as various Bagthorpes pursue their own lines of enquiry - and disappear...Another fantastic story featuring the funniest family in fiction, from bestselling author Helen Cresswell.

Only available in audio, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic lifts the lid on the moviemaking secrets behind the latest instalment in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts series. Narrator Dan Fogler (who plays No-Maj Jacob Kowalski) will guide you through the process of creating the magical, on-screen world and expl...

Dirty Bertie-the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits-is back for another helping of comic chaos! With ever-increasing madcap schemes and crazy capers, Bertie continues to revel in his revolting ways. Join Bertie in Smash! his 22nd adventure, as he finds himself in a spot of bother with Mrs Nicely next door, tries his hand at a round of golf a...

Michael's baby sister is ill, and the whole house is sick with her. While his parents spend time at the hospital, he explores their new home. In the old, derelict garage he finds something sinister: a strange creature, part owl, part angel. Is it something good? Or something evil? Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of th...

16 digitally-remastered bedtime stories, written and told by Johnny Morris on a special vinyl-look CD. 1. Winkle, the Zoo Cat, is lost and found 2. Nibble, the Squirrel, has his revenge 3. The arrival of Otto, the German Giraffe 4. Coconut, the Orang-Utan, has fun with the lawn 5. Otto and Georgina, the Giraffes, give their tongues a rest 6. Bernar...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Tales from Moominvalley by Tove Jansson, read by Hugh Dennis. If you haven't met a Moomin yet, you're in for the most magical fun! If you found a tiny golden dragon with green paws, would you know what to do with it? Well, Moomintroll thinks he knows what to do. But when he takes his new-found pet home, thi...

Jade is so used to being with and agreeing with Vicky, her best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer there. But Vicky is not going to let a little thing like being dead stop her from enjoying life to the full. Wherever Jade is, Vicky makes her presence felt.

Rowan knows he is strange. But dangerous? He didn't mean to scare his sister. In his right mind, he wouldn't hurt a fly. But there's a place he can go where they say they can fix his mind... As the second World War begins, Rowan is diagnosed as schizophrenic and sent away to a hospital where the latest treatments are available. But the treatments a...

In this fantastical collection of stories, a king hides a terrible secret under his crown, a marvellous dream inspires an epic journey and a clever girl outwits the king! This collection of three lovely tales from Julia Donaldson are an ideal first step for children embarking on a lifelong journey through the wonders of stories.

From the world's favourite author, David Walliams - ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters. Are you ready to meet the World's Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls!  Like Sofia Sofa - a TV super-fan so stuck to the sofa that she's turning into one!  Or Dribbling Drew - a boy whose drool gets him in...

When Josh is forced to spend a summer with his eccentric aunt, he thinks it will be the most boring summer ever. Instead, he finds himself talking to a ghost from one hundred years ago! In order for the ghost to finally be at peace, it needs some help, and Josh reluctantly agrees to assist. But Josh needs to dig in the old cemetery, and when he doe...

Roman Britain: Marcus Flavius Aquilla, a young centurion is forced into retirement after he is wounded in his first major engagement against a rebel British tribe. It allows him the freedom to embark upon a dangerous mission to find out what happened to the Ninth Legion which, years before, disappeared in the savage lands of the Picts. Will he find...

Trouble is haunting Cassidy Blake... even more than usual. She (plus her ghost best friend, Jacob, of course) are in Paris, where Cass's parents are filming their TV show about the world's most haunted cities. Sure, it's fun eating croissants and seeing the Eiffel Tower, but there's true ghostly danger lurking beneath Paris, in the creepy undergrou...

A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by a master storyteller. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village - safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear.

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a terrifying beast. As the boys' delicate sense of order fades, so their childish dreams are tr...