Hodder Children's Books

Title : Stinky Finger's House of Fun
Author: Jon Blake
Illustrator: David Roberts

The world is not as we know it the aliens have come down and taken all the grown-ups away, and left Blue Soup to run everything. Stinky Finger and Icky Bats wander around doing exactly as they please, like all the other children. Along with Bryan Brain, they head off to Uncle Nero's House of Fun. Uncle Neros head is still living in the mailbox outside. Before it goes off into ultra-slumber, it asks Stinky to guard the house. So the three great mates go in and explore: the Time Travel Garage, the Outer Space Garden, the Attic of Horrors, the Living Living Room ...

Then a huge explosion ... they're being besieged by an army of huge pigs who want to make people pies! In order to defeat them, they'll have to make the most of the house's surreal and limitless insides ...

Title : 01: Stone Goblins
Author: David Melling

The land of the goblins is hidden, but not so far away. If you look carefully, you might just find it …

Saggypant and Seepage are Stone Goblins - but they're not much good at collecting stones! So imagine how they cope with a dragon's tail …

Title : Mammoth Academy
Author: Neal Layton

There comes a point in every young mammoth's life when it's time to grow up a bit and join the Mammoth Academy. Arabella loves school, but Oscar is finding it a little more difficult to get used to. Especially as he is accused of stealing the school's oranges. He is sure it was humans - the most dangerous animals in all of the Mammoth Lands! With the help of his new friend Fox, who has decided not to wash for 2 months so his fur will begin to self-clean, Oscar sets out to prove that humans are in the valley and at the same time stumbles across more trouble than he'd thought!

Title : 01 The Wooden Mile
Author: Chris Mould

Crampton Rock seems the perfect place to spend a long summer holiday. But there’s always something to go and spoil it all, isn’t there? Why are all the dogs three-legged? Is there really a werewolf on the loose? And what do the pirates want with Stanley Buggles …?

Title : 09: The Whisperer
Author: Nick Shadow

In this title, Rachael finds that her newspaper column is beginning to predict the future, with terrible consequences, Jake finds he's getting older rather faster than he'd wished for, and Samantha meets something even scarier than a vampire ...

Title : 1: Tiger
Author: Jeff Stone

Fu manages to escape the attack on his temple. Later he returns to the burning temple grounds alone, and takes a set of secret Dragon Scrolls from Tonglong, not realising the chain of events he is unleashing. He then disappears into the forest, eventually crossing paths with a group of hunters who are about to kill a tiger and her cub. Fu viciously attacks the hunters and a young boy traveling with them, but when he later tracks them down to apologise, he is imprisoned in a village where a man who may be his father is living. Fu is given up to Ying's soldiers who are just as interested in the Dragon scrolls as they are. The young monk, Malao, the monkey, tries to rescue Fu but ends up captured as well and both are sent off to be executed along with their brother Hok who is also captive.

Title : The Dark Portal
Author: Robin Jarvis

The first story in the breathtakingly original and utterly captivating Deptford Mice trilogy.

In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence which fills the tunnels with fear: Jupiter, an evil being who aims to take over the world. Worshipped by the fearsome rats, Jupiter’s dreams could well come true.

Can the mice ever survive against such evil? Or have they lost the comfortable world they once knew for ever ...

This stunning trilogy commences with The Dark Portal, in which Albert Mouse squeezes through the Grill and disappears. Realising that he has been captured by the rats of the sewers, Albert’s children, Audrey and Arthur, embark on a treacherous journey to find him.