Jeanne Willis

Flabby Cat and Slobby Dog were very lazy. They ate and ate and ate. And they slept and slept and slept. But when they woke up, they were most uncomfortable. The sofa had shrunk! Or so they liked to think...

This is the official novelisation of the amazing new movie story. Follow the action and fun as Paddington arrives in London, meets the Brown family and gets involved in lots of exciting adventures. The original story of the movie is retold by the brilliant children's author Jeanne Willis.

Is Bat batty—or does she just see things a little differently? The trouble begins when Bat moves into the neighborhood. All the animal children want to welcome her with a special gift—but then Bat shocks them by asking for an umbrella…to keep her feet dry! Soon, it’s clear to everyone, from little Lion Cub to tall Giraffe Calf, that she always gets things upside-down and wrong-way-round. Only whe...

Professor Xargle, the notorious alien who is learned in the ways of the planet Earth, discusses the stinkfumers that crowd the highways, the featherless silver flyingbird, and other ins and outs of Earth travel.

A monkey doesn't fit in with his relatives the apes, as he doesn't like bananas or swinging in the trees, so he goes off to find a new way to live. He discovers he can walk upright, he takes up residence in a cave, and he gives himself a very close shave. He is lonely on his own, but he amuses himself by inventing things like words and wheels and lawnmowers, by putting up a shelf, until ...

All the young wild animals think Bat is mad. How can she say a tree has the trunk at the top and the leaves at the bottom? Until, that is, they consult wise Owl who suggests that if they just try looking at things from Bat's point of view, they might see thing very differently.

The Bog Baby is a magical story by Jeanne Willis and Gwen Millward When two small sisters go fishing to the magic pond, they find something much better than a frog or a newt. They find a bog baby. Small and blue with wings like a dragon, the girls decide to make him their secret. I won't tell if you won't. But the bog baby is a wild thing, and when he becomes poorly, the girls decide they must ...