Item category 2: SRC16

Covering such diverse subjects as toilets, bread, Braille, parachutes and jeans, this title explains how, when and why the ingenious inventions which surround us were created, from simple spectacles to complex computers.

You can't take an elephant on the bus - it would simply cause a terrible fuss! Never put a camel in a sailing boat, or a tiger on a train, and don't even THINK about asking a whale to ride a bike. This riotous picture book is filled with animals causing total disaster as they try to travel in the...

When Mum and Dad go away for the night, Aunt Amelia comes to look after one very cross little girl and boy. They do not want to be looked after and, even worse, Mum has left a list of boring instructions. But Aunt Amelia turns out to be rather different from expected - and a lot more fun!

Find out the mysterious rules of Werewolf Club, how to look like a rainbow, what happens when puppies fall in love - and how to fold up your gran!

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have swapped a life of crime for baking cakes in their café. But now there's a new robber in town - the infamous Kitty-le-Claw! When there's a midnight robbery at the bank, can the two baker dogs save the day?

A poignant story about dealing with grief through the magic of reading and friendship. Calypso's mum died a few years ago and her emotionally incompetent Dad can't, or won't, talk about Mum at all. Instead he throws himself into writing his book, 'A History of the Lemon'. Meanwhile the house is d...

This is a story about a little Viking who cannot fit in. Unlike his dad, Stoick the Vast, Hiccup is tiny, thoughtful and polite and scared of almost everything - especially of going to sea for the very first time. But go he must. So who will save the day when everything goes wrong aboard ship and...

Have you ever wondered whether pirates wear pyjamas when it's time to say goodnight? Well leap aboard the Leaky Parrot to find out! Captain Grotbeard and his crew love nothing better than bubble baths, jim-jams and pillow fights! So if you want to be a pirate you don't need a patch or sword - jus...

My name is Amelie Day and I live to bake. Cupcakes, biscuits, bread, tarts and muffins - flour power! Now I've got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win the Teen Baker of the Year award. But it looks like my stupid cystic fibrosis might get in the way. Will my mum let me go to London to compete?

Pete and his faithful companion, Blob the Basset Hound, love to go a-wandering in the pitch-dark night. But they get more than they bargain for when they stumble across a van-load of vampires, a weirdness of werewolves, a herd of horrible hell-hounds, a bangity-banging bwca and finally end up at ...