Twelve amazing new Christmas stories from the worlds of Roald Dahl. Written by the very best and biggest children's authors.

Basil Beedon and Terry Clegg are once again reading from The Complete Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm, but this time nothing comes shooting out of the pages. Instead, words— well, chickens—are disappearing! 

Realising their friends are in grave danger of being sucked into oblivion by the plot holes, the boys don’t hesitate before diving right back into the fairytale world to warn them.

But what they discover there is not what they expected and it’s up to the boys to find out what is going on with the chickens, what’s up with this new secret Yunion, SAD EGGS, and how to stop all the plot holes from destroying everything—including their way home.

Hex never meant for the girl to follow him and his friend Tommo into the woods. He never meant for her to fall off the rope swing and break her arm. When the finger of blame is pointed at him, Hex runs deep into the woods and his fierce sense of injustice leads him to a strange clearing in the woods - a clearing that has never been there before - where an old lady in a cottage offers him a deal. She'll rid the world of those who wronged him and Hex can carry on his life with them all forgotten and as if nothing ever happened. But what Hex doesn't know is someone else has been offered the same deal.

When Hex's best friend Tommo wakes up the next day, he is in a completely different world but he only has murmurs of memories of the world before. Moments of deja vu that feel like Tommo's lived this day before.

Can Tommo put the world right again? Back to how it was? Or can he find a way to make a new world that could be better for them all?

Within the pages of a stolen diary, Melati discovers a coded cry for help – the diary belongs to Devi, an Indonesian teenager who is being held by traffickers. Mel races across the island of Java and against the clock to work out Devi’s identity and where she's being held. Before long the pieces fall into place and Mel must put her own life on the line to save a girl she’s never met.

A tender and funny journey through the toddler years, that never-ending but also gone-in-

a-flash time when both love and mayhem reign supreme.

This heartwarming and vibrantly illustrated story is a love letter from a child, written almost entirely in idioms, to someone who means the world to them. An idiom is a phrase whose individual words have little or no logical link to its actual accepted meaning. The English language is rich in idioms, and it can be very difficult for children to wrap their heads around them. This book is an extremely engaging and memorable way for children to learn all about idioms and some of the more common examples.