Measuring 30cm x 27cm at the widest, this embossed silver tin has a dark blue lid featuring a happy moustachioed Santa with a massive bobbly white moustache and beard, red hat, outstretched little hands and surrounded by holly leaves. Inside the tin is a neat package containing six colour felt tip pens, six colouring pencils and one HB pencil, an eraser, a pencil sharpener with the same Santa design on top, a sticker book with black and white designs for colouring in and decorating with your colour stickers, a doodle pad which is a 32 page unlined notepad measuring 14cm x 20cm tall with a very pretty knitted fun family of robins decorating the borders, and last but not least, a colouring book of the same dimensions with outline drawings of a Christmas pud, Christmas crackers, snowmen, children, Christmas trees, a Christmas fairy, a snow globe with reindeer and more. 30 designs for mindful colouring. Ages 3+.

Follow directions on basic wizard's gear to make party robes, hats and other item including a Chinese wizard's robe, fairy wands and wings or a crystal crown. Learn about dragon wrestling, cabbage bowling, tealeaf reading, Egyptian dice and make special food and drink recipes such as Mandrake Cupcakes and Lavender Lemonade. Mix potions for an alchemists' gathering, make a throne for the realm for Merlin's birthday party, build a merry maypole for the welcome springtime fairy frolic or even make it 'snow' inside for a wizard's winter revels. We dare you to turn out the lights and read the tale of the Beheading Ball or hear Merlin's story about what really happened to King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone. Spell-catcher safety goggles, magic flowers, fairy rosewater, orange peel fireworks, magic chameleon eggs, Chinese lanterns, caramel apples, a genie bottle, a fairy wristlet, paper pyramids or an Egyptian fortune catcher, here are magical things to make and marvellous things to do plus feasting and gaming. 144 heavyweight beautifully decorated pages with runes and colour and line art for ages 8-12 years - this old wizard wants to share his magical secrets with eager apprentices. 21 x 22cm and bottle green bonded leather edition with gold embossed decoration.

Stay! Uncle's dog is clever. He does what he's told. 'Dogs should be like that' they said. No! My dog's not like that. He does what he likes. This little girl knows best and in a delightfully warm story about her unruly, loveable and furry best friend, we learn that some dogs are allowed to sleep on your bed all night, not bark at strangers but wag his tail and lick everyone and not run down the road all bouncy leaping and jumping, but rather waiting by the gate and waiting for me. "My dog loves me. He eats my dinner when no one's looking. Chomp!" 32 pages of sheer delight, huge colourful illustrations and simple very large text for ages 2-5 years. 25 x 21cm softback.

'Curled up in bed, my head full of thoughts, as night takes over from day. I toss and I turn, I wriggle and roll - but I just can't drift away. I CAN'T SLEEP! Perhaps I should try to count jumping sheep, or make up a silly rhyme? But that didn't work and I'm still wide awake! I'll try to count slower next time. OK. Give this a go. One. A sheep appears from under the bed and starts grazing on my rug. Two. Another falls down the chimney, where it was hiding safe and snug...' The Spanish artist and writer duo have created a beautiful big colourful picture book as we count down to take all sleepyheads to a dreamy place '...my eyes slowly close my mind floats away just as I reach number...' The little girl starts counting sheep and soon finds that these aren't your average sheep - they come to life and start exploring the house. 32 pages, 22 x 30cm, ages 2-5 years.

The town of Hamelin is infested with rats and the people are at their wits' end. Then a strange man arrives at the town gates and this Pied Piper promises to help rid the town of the rats. But will they keep their promise to pay him? Will they see their children again? This classic version of the traditional tale is beautifully brought to life by Maren Briswalter's gentle, charming colour illustrations, many in double page spreads across this large 32 page Floris publication.

Retold with soft illustrations by popular artist Maja Dusikova, the story begins: 'Once there was a man and a woman who wanted a child. After waiting many years, the woman became pregnant. A window in their house looked over a garden that was full of flowers and herbs and was surrounded by a high wall. No one ever went into the garden, because it belonged to a powerful enchantress. Standing at the window, the pregnant woman began to long for a leafy plant called rapunzel that she could see. Each day she grew paler, and she said to her husband, 'I am weak because I want rapunzel leaves so much.' Her husband loved her and decided he must go into the walled garden... the enchantress carried the baby away who grew up into a lovely girl with long, long golden hair and was named Rapunzel. She shut her in a tower with a high window but no stairs, deep in the forest and would call each day 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!' And the braid hung right to the ground and the old woman would climb up. One day, a King's son was riding through the forest... Beautifully abridged by Joy Cowley for ages 4-7, 32 pages.

A press out paper adventure illustrated by Quentin Blake no less proudly presenting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Mr Charlie Bucket, your chocolate-loving guide, and Mr Willy Wonka, the greatest magician the world has ever known and Augustus Gloop, a boy so fat he looks like he's been blown up by a pump. The Twits proudly presents Mr and Mrs Twit, Muggle-Wump an African monkey with a cunning plan and the Roly-Poly bird, a magnificent jungle bird with a fondness for travel. The BFG proudly presents Sophie your brave guide, the Big Friendly Giant with a fondness for sandals, the Queen of England known as Her Majester, and the man-eating giants, nine beastly brutes that guzzle human beans. And last but not least Matilda, your book-loving guide, and Mr and Mrs Wormwood, possibly the world's worst parents, Hortensia the brave crusader, Lavender, Matilda's gutsy best friend and Bruce Bogtrotter, a heroic boy who can't resist chocolate cake. A character spectacular with press-out parts on every colourful page revealing an extraordinary world of mayhem and fun. Store your press-out pieces in the white envelope inside the back cover. 64pp, ages six years and up, 19 x 24cm.

Make your own press-out easy to assemble four fantastic models of spacecrafts, without damaging the book and learn about the marvels of our solar system and explore the Milky Way through informative texts and vivid illustrations. The 3D models are assembled by tearing out the prepared cardboard pieces indicated by the dotted lines and in following the instructions like pasting the red flaps before placing the red cone over the engines or rolling the engines into a cylinder shape and paste them before attaching them to the stands. One huge and bright purple, one circular, one with a tripod stand and one your classic red coned space rocket, this is for all aeronauts ages 5-95. Extra large softback.

Boy meets girl and a modern love story emerges, complete with lots of gritty humour, bad language, sexual references and oh, to be young again! The two voices work really well, and you find yourself laughing out loud one minute then screaming at the book the next and sobbing your heart out in this very easy quick read, designed as young adult fiction. 'It's Leeds, I said, not Hollywood. You're not going to find a hero working down Kwikfit.' Matt and Sophia live in the same city but they come from the opposite side of the track. By rights they should never have met. They definitely should never have fallen in love at first sight, of all cliches. But to their great surprise they do and that's the easy part. It's what to do next that they struggle with. Family, friends and circumstances are mostly against them. They betray themselves and each other. It's true what they say - everybody hurts sometimes but sometimes too, the pain is worth it. Teenage to young adult fiction. 342pp, paperback.

This selection of Carroll's works includes 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and its sequel, 'Through the Looking-Glass', both containing the famous illustrations by Sir John Tenniel. The simple language, dreamlike atmosphere, and fantastical characters are as appealing to young readers today as ever they were. Through wordplay, parody and logical and philosophical puzzles, Carroll engenders a variety of sub-texts, teasing, ominous or melancholy. For all the surface playfulness there is meaning everywhere. 288pp. Paperback.