Action & Adventure

Be amazed by these ten thrilling adventures, featuring the bravest, strongest and silliest superheroes the world has ever seen, alongside more secret lairs, disguises and surprises than you will believe possible!

Dilly loved a good murder. Not a REAL murder. A made-up murder. One you would find in a murder mystery novel.

The brilliant follow-up to David Walliams' best seller The World's Worst Children! Ten more stories about a brand-new gang of hilariously horrible kids....

A collection of everybody's favourite stories from the creators of The Gruffalo, brought to life by Julia Donaldson....

Joe has a lot of reasons to be happy. About a billion of them, in fact. You see, Joe's rich. Really, really rich....

From the phenomenal number-one best seller David Walliams comes another collection of more hilariously horrible children....

Things are not looking good for Zoe. Her stepmother Sheila is so lazy she gets Zoe to pick her nose for her....

Sometimes, to save the people you love, you have to go overboard....

The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly, like a flower after a cold snap....

Fourth graders George Beard and Harold Hutchins are a couple of class clowns. The only thing they enjoy more than playing practical jokes is creating their own comic books....

George and Harold are fourth-grade buddies who love practical jokes. When their latest prank drives their science teacher over the edge, their clueless principal, Mr. Krupp, quickly hires a replacement: Professor Pippy P. Poopypants....

At the tender age of eight, chimney sweep Tom Appleby is convicted of stealing and sentenced to deportation to Botany Bay....

Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo....

This audio collection includes the first eight stories from The Magic Tree House series by Mary Pope Osborne....

George and Harold have played a trick or two on nearly everyone at Jerome Horwitz Elementary. When their latest prank causes the school’s cranky cafeteria ladies to quit, Mr. Krupp hires a trio of unusual replacements - who happen to look an awful lot like aliens! Listen for more....

In book five of her enthralling adventures, Nanny Piggins discovers some startling truths about the ruthless Ringmaster, provides counselling to a Molavadinian princess with pre-wedding jitters, wins a Nobel Prize while impersonating her sister and catches up with her favourite 4-tonne friend....

Justice served with extra chocolate sauce.

Join the legion of fans who have made Erin Hunter’s Warriors series a bestselling phenomenon. More thrilling adventures, epic action, and fierce warrior cats await in Warriors #3: Forest of Secrets.

Dave, Carl, and Spidroth continue their epic voyage across the ocean....

When we last saw our heroes, George and Harold, they had been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, post-apocalyptic planet for all eternity. But why, you might ask, didn't the amazing Captain Underpants save the boys from this frightening fate? Find out more....

When Michael is washed up on an island in the Pacific after falling from his parents’ yacht, he struggles to survive on his own....

The Princess in Black: Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when...Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Stopping monsters is no job for prim and perfect Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret....

In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle....

Nanny Piggins, the world's most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny....

Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods - all by himself....

Be amazed by these ten thrilling adventures, featuring the bravest, strongest and silliest superheroes the world has ever seen, alongside more secret lairs, disguises and surprises than you will believe possible!

Ka-tschau! Die besten Freunde Lightning McQueen und Hook fahren für die Hochzeit von Hooks Schwester quer durchs Land. Auf ihrem Weg dorthin stehen sie plötzlich vor der legendären Höhle der kristallenen Radkappe. Der Legende nach wird jeder, der sein Spiegelbild in der Radkappe sieht, zum glücklichsten Rennfahrer der Welt. Hook hält die Radkappe für das perfekte Hochzeitsgeschenk und sucht in der Höhle nach ihr. Doch echte Freunde lassen sich nicht im Stich, also begleitet Lightning ihn. Im Inneren der Höhle finden die beiden eine neue Freundin und helfen ihr aus der Klemme.

Kumandra’s first-ever Talent Showcase is only a week away, and Raya, her friend Boun and his siblings are determined to win the Grand Prize with their delicious new dishes! The key ingredient is the fabled dragon spice that makes everything taste magical. The only problem—no humans have ever found it. Raya and her friends set sail on the Shimporium in search of the mysterious spice. But will they survive their mission to find what the dragons have kept secret for centuries?

A baby girl has just been born to King Crispin and Queen Cedar. She is Catkin, the heir to the throne of Mistmantle. Everyone on the island gathers for the joyful celebration of the Naming Ceremony. But that night the princess mysteriously disappears. All clues point to her caretaker, Linty, a mother squirrel who had gone mad with grief because of a tragedy that occurred during Husk's evil reign. The islanders fall into crisis as a mysterious illness takes hold and begins to spread. Tensions mount as strange sightings are reported—could Husk still be alive?

Siblings Marlow and Zach Metzler are curious about EVERYTHING – asteroid-bound space probes, pirate ships in the woods, abandoned hotels hidden high in the mountains. Leo, a neighborhood cat, is curious about NOTHING – not pizza slices, not peacock feathers, not even laser pointers (especially not laser pointers).

König Richard ist mal wieder zu einer diplomatischen Mission unterwegs und Marian begleitet ihn. Da kommt Prinz John auf die Idee, Scarlett zu seiner persönlichen Dienerin zu machen. Er schikaniert sie solange, bis sie richtig sauer ist und sich bei Robin beschwert. Der will Prinz John daraufhin eine Lektion erteilen.

Skandinavienliebe zum Hören! Freue dich auf die schönsten Gute-Laune-Geschichten aus deinem Lieblingsland Schweden. Schwimmen, Boot fahren, Blaubeeren naschen und ein großes Mittsommerfest feiern. Hier erleben Lieblingscharaktere wie Pippi, Mama Muh, Pettersson und Findus und viele mehr kleine und große Abenteuer passend zur schönsten Zeit des Jahres. Ein Hörbuch voller warmherziger Geschichten und jeder Menge skandinavischen Traditionen.

In Nottingham finden die Fürstlichen Spiele statt. Die Oberhäupter der Grafschaften treten gegeneinander an. Da sich König Richard verletzt hat, wird er von Prinz John vertreten. Robin kam der Unfall von König Richard gleich seltsam vor und deshalb beobachtet er die Spiele sorgfältig.

One day, Bob finds a box, big enough to hide in. And from inside the box, Bob makes as much noise as he possibly can with anything that comes to hand, only falling silent to baffle any curious passersby. ​Packed with rhythm, sublime silliness and the mysteriously irresistible joy of a simple cardboard box, this hilarious book has terrific child appeal!​

Komm mit ins Geräuscheland! Kannst du brüllen wie ein Löwe, wie laut ist eine echte Feuerwehrsirene und wie klingt eigentlich der Frühling? Drei Geschichten erzählen von wilden Tieren, von der Feuerwehr und dem Lauf des Jahres. Hör Mal Klangreisen lädt dazu ein, die Ohren zu spitzen und aufmerksam zuzuhören. Dabei werden spielerisch die kindliche Wahrnehmung sowie Zuhör- und Sprachkompetenzen gefördert. Aufgelockert durch mini Mitmach-Spiele wird das Hören zum Abenteuer.

Benji McLaughlin is a visionary. He believes in things other people think are impossible, like that he and his brother Stanley will be happy living with their uncle, and that the Loch Lochy Monster is real, and that his parents will come home safely one day. So when he finds out that Uncle Hamish’s holiday business is struggling, Benji’s not worried. He has a visionary plan. Together with his new friends, Murdy and Mr Dog, he sets off to prove that the Loch Lochy Monster exists, and bring tourists flooding in. But Benji might have to confront different monsters to the one he expects.

Где-то на далеком Севере есть маленькая, уютная, но уже хорошо известная деревушка Котьма. Живут в ней коты да кошки веселые, дружные и очень самостоятельные. Среди них есть храбрые мореплаватели, которые совсем не боятся воды: они организовали команду «Котобоя» и теперь находят на свои хвосты самые невероятные приключения! И вот в Котьме подрастает новое поколение котят. Энергии у них не занимать! Чтобы детвора не бедокурила и не слонялась без дела, нужно направить их энтузиазм в правильное русло. У отважного экипажа «Котобоя» появился отличный план: открыть Школу юных моряков!

Arabella’s life was boring until strange things began to happen to her. One day, she is out eating pizza and then suddenly she finds herself with her brother, Tom, in the middle of the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 when the Knights of St. John showed great courage and fortitude in fighting off an invasion from the Turkish Empire. Will they join Grandmaster Valette in battle?

An underwater trickster tale is found in this rhyming picture book romp. A clever little girl "with a net for catching pearls" meets a shark who wants nothing more than to eat her for dinner. Listeners will find nothing short of a classic tale: a bully being shown up by his weaker and far more clever adversary! An ebullient and unabashedly entertaining story—One Day at the Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea has enough bite to excite listeners of all ages.

Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines . . . until now. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer: she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in a single summer.

Cranky, crabby Crow does not want to play with Squirrel or do loop-de-loops with Hummingbird. He doesn’t have time for Rat or Bat. From high atop a telephone pole, Cat warns Crow that he will soon be all alone if he turns his friends away with his very cranky “kaw!” one more time. But, unbeknownst to all, Crow has bigger, world-saving fish to fry—he must protect planet Earth from an asteroid headed our way!

Peter der Hartherzige ist inzwischen als Stallbursche im königlichen Stall gelandet und trägt den hässlichen Spitznamen Peter der Mistherzige, den ihm Robin im Spaß verpasst hat. Dementsprechend sauer ist er auf Robin und so lässt er sich von Prinz John aufstacheln, Robin in einer großen Show vor dem König und den Dorfbewohnern zu blamieren.

Join Clara the Caterpillar on an enchanting journey through the vibrant world of the garden in "Why Clara the Caterpillar Spun Silk." In this delightful collection of short stories, young readers will embark on a colorful adventure filled with curiosity, courage, and the magic of transformation. In the first chapter, "The Curious Caterpillar," meet Clara, a bright-eyed and inquisitive caterpillar whose insatiable curiosity leads her on a quest to discover the wonders of her surroundings.

When Tyler, Aiden, and Diego's parents decide to move their family from Greenville Spires to the bustling city of Everleaf, the three young pine cones have to learn to roll with the punches. Everything changes. A new school, new friends, a new house, a new pet slug. A new super villain.

Pippi Calzaslargas vive sola en Villa Villekulla con su caballo y su mono. También tiene una maleta llena de monedas de oro y por eso puede comprar todos los caramelos y juguetes que quiera. Además de lista, generosa, divertida, independiente e imaginativa, es la niña más fuerte del mundo y jamás permite que nada, ni nadie, socave su confianza en sí misma, ni que ningún abusón se salga con la suya.

Best friends Bear and Deer grew up on the North side of a beautiful Appalachian gorge. In the time of their grandparents, animals could travel freely on either side of a fast-flowing river, but now the dangerous Human Highway divides their home range into the North and South sides. On the night of a full moon, two strangers arrive from the South with news that will lead to tough decisions, a life-changing adventure, and new friends joining in a search for safe passage.

Naeli longs to know her English father but all she has is his name – and his precious violin. Her chance comes when a ticket to England arrives. Leaving behind her beloved India, Naeli embarks on an adventure that will take her from the streets of Victorian London to the wilds of Northumberland to discover the truth of her musical inheritance.

Take a fantastical trip to a magical world and meet four tiny sprites with attitude! In between heavy metal practice sessions and cheeky pranks, Talia, Lily, Marri, and Dawn get caught up in some scary adventures. When Lily suddenly disappears, her sprite siblings fear the worst. Who can they trust? Winston the rainbow trout? Rocket the magpie? Who is friend, and who is foe? With a clever plan and a few tricks up their sleeves, the sprites bravely face up to the dangers and risk themselves to save each other. But are they too late?

Neues Zuhause, neue Freunde – das erste Abenteuer von Jakob und Schisser! Der zehnjährige Jakob zieht mit seiner Familie ins idyllische Feuerviertel. Keine Autos, dafür viel Natur, jede Menge Platz zum Herumtoben und sogar eine geheime Kinderbande! Für Jakob klingt das ziemlich gut – aber auch sehr aufregend. Zum Glück hat er Schisser dabei, seinen alten Stoffhasen, der ihm in jeder Lage beisteht. Und das ist auch wirklich nötig! Denn um in die Phönix-Bande aufgenommen zu werden, soll Jakob eine Mutprobe bestehen. Na, das kann ja heiter werden!

"Elwis and the Sunny Spanish Adventure" is a heartwarming journey of cultural exploration, friendship, and joyful discovery under the radiant Spanish sun! Follow Elwis, the spirited boy with the magical thumb, as he explores Spain’s vibrant traditions, colorful towns, and delicious foods. Along the way, he makes new friends, learns a few Spanish phrases, and discovers the beauty of embracing different cultures.