Walker Racing Reads – serie

A collection of four linked stories of family life set in modern west Africa.Anna Hibiscus lives in amazing Africa with her mother, her father, her baby twin brothers, and lots and lots of her family. Join her as she splashes in the sea, prepares for a party, sells oranges, and hopes to see sweet, sweet snow!

A collection of four linked stories about family life set in modern west Africa.Anna Hibiscus lives in amazing Africa with her family in a wonderful house in a beautiful garden in a big city. Join Anna as she sings for the president, gets in a terrible tangle with her hair and visits the other side of the city.

Here is a bunch of dung-dropping, sweet-stealing, luck-jinxing villains!Four stories about young Prince Veera, who, along with his friend Suku, helps his father, the king, solve some of the problems he is having with his subjects. Trickster tales with lots of humour and colour, based on traditional Indian folktales.

Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, amazing Africa. Anna is amazing too!Anna Hibiscus and her family are going to the village with Grandfather. They travel by bus through mangrove swamp and rainforest, through scrubland and rivers, over hills and mountains. When they arrive, everyone stays in Anna's family house, which first belonged to her great-grandmother and great-grandfather. Little has changed since then: there is no running water, no electricity, no road and no signal. But Anna Hibiscus' life is about to change in many ways: cousin Joy is going to get married, and Grandfather – Grandfather talks about staying in the village! This is the sixth book in this charming series about a much-loved character all children will relate to.

Resourceful and entertaining, Flotsam and Jetsam are the Borrowers of the seashore.One day Flotsam and Jetsam find a whistle. They don’t know what it is and, when Flotsam blows it, it makes a horrible sound so they keep it as a seagull scarer. But little do they know that someone else has heard it too – a big dog with a wet nose who comes to investigate. He even spends the night in their boat house! The next day they all play on the beach but the dog’s owners soon spot him and collect him, leaving Flotsam, Jetsam and Sainsbury alone on their tiny beach.

Resourceful and entertaining, Flotsam and Jetsam are the Borrowers of the seashore.Flotsam and Jetsam live on a tiny secluded beach. Every day the sea brings them a new adventure: a huge heap of bedraggled feathers that turns out to be a shelduck; an umbrella that becomes a summer house; and a very special surprise!