Showing titles in Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

On an ordinary summer's afternoon, Alice tumbles down a hole - and an extraordinary adventure begins. In a strange world with even stranger characters, she meets a rabbit with a pocket watch, joins a Mad Hatter's Tea Party, and plays croquet with the Queen! Lost in this fantasy land, Alice finds herself growing more and more curious by the minute.

One night, Geppetto the wood carver made a wish. He wished his puppet Pinocchio were a real boy! When the Blue Fairy brings Pinocchio to life, she tells the puppet he can become a real boy if he proves himself brave, truthful, and unselfish. Listen along as Pinocchio embarks on a journey of a lifetime!

Get ready for GIANT laughs with Tiny Hercules! Perfect for fans of Bunny vs Monkey and Dogman, Tiny Hercules is the hilarious children's audiobook adventure, packed with sound effects and music, from co-creators Jon Lock and Nich Angell. 'This was a blast! That Tiny Herc packs a powerful, and...

THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD AND EVIL is now a major motion picture from Netflix, starring Academy Award winner Charlize Theron, Kerry Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Michelle Yeoh, Cate Blanchett, and many more! It’s all happy ever after at the School for Good and Evil… or is it? The second title in...

The second instalment in the fairy-filled Thirteen Treasures trilogy, full of fairies, magic and pure adventure from Waterstones Children's Book Prize winner Michelle Harrison. When fairies stole her brother, Red vowed to get him back. Now trapped in the fairy realm, she begs an audience with...

Join the Octonauts in this third collection of exciting underwater adventures adapted from the popular children's television series! The Octonauts are a team of quirky and courageous undersea adventurers who are always ready to dive into action. The Octonauts' mission is to explore new underwater worlds, rescue amazing sea creatures and protect our oceans.

Jack and his mother are very poor and have only their cow, Milky-white, to help them survive. When the cow stops giving milk, Jack is sent to the market to sell her, but he ends up trading the cow for a handful of strange-looking beans. His mother is angry and throws the beans out the window, but by the next morning, a massive beanstalk has grown all the way into the sky! Jack climbs the beanstalk and discovers a giant house where a scary ogre lives.

Meet Phoebe. She's eleven years old and desperate to escape the boring island where she lives. Before Phoebe can think better of it, she boards the ship and stows away on the Argo. But the Argonauts have their work cut out. From attacking harpies to deadly whirlpools, giant sea monsters to skeleton armies, there is peril at every turn. Fortunately the Othernauts are on hand - though with Phoebe's unhelpful prophecies, Perry's unreliable shape-shifting skills and Cora the siren's headache-inducing singing, it's not quite clear exactly how much help these kids will be.

When a heartbroken sultan goes mad, a brave woman has a plan to stop him hurting innocent people. For a thousand and one nights, Scheherazade will use the magic of storytelling to bring the sultan back to his senses. In a story about forgiveness, a merchant angers a genie and faces death unless three strangers' tales of animal transformation can save him. Will Scheherazade's plan work? Or will she suffer the same fate as the donkey who took advice from an ox?

When Tim Baker breaks his mum's favourite vase, it's the least of his problems. The Greek hero he's released is in danger of doing far worse. Hercules is only trying to be helpful but he's just hopeless. It's time to send this dim demigod home before Tim becomes ancient history. Book 1 in the Hopeless Heroes series that takes readers on fun adventures back to Ancient Greece!

Book 3 in the Hopeless Heroes series that takes readers on fun adventures back to Ancient Greece! How do you bring a statue to life? Tim and Zoe think they know. If only Jason would help and someone didn't keep looking at them like flies in a web. Oh well, at least the time-travelling vase is in good hands.

Irmãos Grimm foram estudiosos e escritores alemães do século XIX, conhecidos por coletar e adaptar contos populares do folclore europeu. Suas histórias, marcadas por lições morais, fantasia e tradição oral, tornaram-se clássicos da literatura infantil e influenciaram gerações ao redor do mundo.

A história começa com um músico que viaja sozinho pela floresta. Durante sua jornada, ele se depara com uma série de sombras misteriosas que parecem persegui-lo. O músico, porém, não se intimida com as sombras e continua sua caminhada. No entanto, o músico, que é habilidoso e possui uma grande conexão com sua música, começa a tocar sua música encantadora. A melodia que ele toca acaba transformando a natureza ao seu redor. Ele consegue conquistar as sombras e afugentá-las com o poder de sua música, levando a floresta a se acalmar e dissipando a presença maligna das sombras.

Small in size… but full of pride. In The Darning Needle, Hans Christian Andersen crafts a clever and subtly humorous tale about a needle who believes itself far more important than it truly is. As the needle moves through the world, its vanity and self-importance lead to a series of ironic and...

A cold heart. A silent garden. And a lesson that will change everything. In The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde delivers one of the most moving and timeless fairy tales ever written. When a giant builds a wall to keep children out of his garden, winter settles in—and refuses to leave. But when one...

A single flower… and a journey filled with fate, courage, and quiet magic. In The Pink, a lesser-known yet captivating tale from Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, a simple blossom becomes the center of a mysterious and transformative journey. As the story unfolds, themes of loyalty, destiny, and...

In the quiet village of Sunnywood, while others keep their eyes fixed on the soil and the harvest, Cecilia looks up. To her, the sky isn’t just a backdrop of weather eddying within the thunderheads and swirling mists is a kingdom of literal wonder, hidden just out of reach of the “Ground-Dwellers.” When a shimmering golden feather falls from the heavens and hums with a magical pulse in her hand, Cecilia is drawn into a world beyond the clouds.

Sometimes the smallest life holds the greatest beauty. In The Daisy, Hans Christian Andersen tells a tender and deeply moving story about a simple flower growing quietly in the grass—unnoticed by the world, yet full of joy, kindness, and quiet wisdom. Through the daisy’s gentle perspective...

Deep in the heart of the Silverwood, the forest has fallen quiet. The Spark glows softer than ever, and the creatures who once sang together now struggle to find their voices. Beast, Lirien, Brinrose, and their friends must journey into the stillness to discover what has dimmed the forest’s song. But not every silence is empty. Some silences are waiting.

One hidden zipper. Three unlikely heroes. A world of imagination waiting to be unpacked. Donald never expected his hand-me-down backpack to be anything more than a place to store crumpled homework and stray pencils. But when he discovers a secret, velvet-lined compartment containing a golden compass that points toward “Adventure” instead of North, his boring school week takes a turn for the extraordinary.