Layla the Inventor wasn\"t tired enough for bed. So she sat up in her science lab, inventing things instead! What does Layla invent? A robot, of course! It\"s so much fun to do the robot dance together! And it\"ll be even MORE fun with another robot - so Lola and her new friend decide to make one....

A hilarious, flawlessly rhyming adventure from award-winning Michelle Robinson, author of She Rex and The World Made a Rainbow Meet Hector Voltaire: a young explorer who can\"t wait to discover all the wonders of the wide world. First up: a magical, mythical creature called the THUNK....

\\\"Goodnight tractor, time to sleep.\\\" Join a little boy, as he says goodnight to all of his toys in this playful and soothing story. Sending little ones to sleep for generations, this beloved story is packed with delightful illustrations, large easy-to-read text and gentle rhymes....

From the Orange Prize winning author of Home and Gilead. Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives, the sisters find themselves in the care of Sylvie, the remote and enigmatic sister of their dead mother....

Lila, homeless and alone after years of roaming the countryside, steps inside a small-town Iowa church - the only available shelter from the rain - and ignites a romance and a debate that will reshape her life....

In 1956, towards the end of Reverend John Ames’s life, he begins a letter to his young son: ‘I told you last night that I might be gone sometime . . . You reached up and put your fingers on my lips and gave me that look I never in my life saw on any other face besides your mother’s. It’s a kind of furious pride, very passionate and stern....

Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction....

Grace has proved to the kingdom of Wondermere that when it comes to courage, determination, playing troll-o on unicorn-back and being a brave knight, she\"s just as good as any boy! But now Wondermere is expecting a very important visitor: the mermaid queen of the Outer Ocean....

Let\"s paint a big rainbow to put on display. When people pass by it and see it, they\"ll say … \"All rainstorms must end, and this rainstorm will too.\" And they\"ll feel a bit happier, all thanks to you. Light can\"t shine without dark. Rainbows can\"t colour the sky without rain....

Maisy\"s brother\"s Ed won\"t let her play with his toys. He says, \"Dinos are for boys!\" But Ed hasn\"t met T. Rex\"s bigger sister … She Rex is a big and burly, multi-coloured dino girly. And Maisy is about to show her brother that stomping, chomping She Rex is as fierce and as loud as any boy dinosaur....

Two intrepid girls go from ladies-in-waiting to knights-in-action when they rip up the rule book and go searching for adventure! Wondermere is the luckiest kingdom in the land, all thanks to the dragons that nest on top of the castle....

Holding her first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would share the planet with more than nine billion people – people battling for food, water, and shelter in an increasingly volatile climate....

Inspired by ESA astronaut Tim Peake and his sons, and featuring an introduction from Tim, this is the perfect bedtime book! Two space-mad little boys get ready for bed and say goodnight to their toy rockets, launch pads and planet mobiles, before being whisked away into space on an adventure beyond their wildest dreams . . ....