Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A PUFFIN BOOK. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, listed below, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende is a classic fantasy adventure. Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux ...
A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a nightwatchman is unnerved as his reflect ion tries to take control of him; a couples relationship ...
Set in 1482, Victor Hugo''s powerful novel of ''imagination, caprice and fantasy'' is a meditation on love, fate, architecture and politics, as well as a compelling recreation of the medieval world at the dawn of the modern age. In a brilliant reworking of the tale of Beauty and the Beast, Hugo creates ...
The No.1 bestselling series from current Waterstones Children''s Laureate and author of How To Train Your Dragon, Cressida Cowell.Enter a land of wizards, warriors, mythical creatures and powerful Magic in an exciting fantasy adventure. Wish and Xar are outlaws on the run, hunted by Warriors, Wizards ...
''''A true genius.Roald Dahl is my hero'''' - David Walliams Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world''''s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake''''s inimitable artwork. The story of a little girl with magical powers. When someone makes her angry ...
The epic conclusion to Chris Colfer\''s No.1 New York Times bestselling series The Land of Stories! In the highly anticipated finale, Conner and Alex must brave the impossible. All of the Land of Stories fairy tale characters - heroes and villains - are no longer confined within their world! With mayhem ...
The eleventh title in the bestselling series, from the brilliantly talented Liz Pichon. Here''s my EXCELLENT PLAN to make MY band the BEST band in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD! How hard can it be? (Very.) Right now I''m going to: 1. Write more songs. (Not about teachers.) 2. Make a SPECTACULAR music video. (Easy.) ...
When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time,.
Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world''s No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake''s inimitable artwork. The Witches by Roald Dahl is the story of a detestable breed of Witches. Beware. Real witches dress in ordinary clothes and look like ordinary ...
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an ''ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. ...