How to Train Your Dragon By Cressida Cowell Read by David Tennant Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, was a truly extraordinary Viking Hero. Warrior chieftain, awesome sword-fighter and amateur naturalist, he was known throughout Vikingdom as 'the Dragon Whisperer', on account of his amazing power over these terrifying beasts. But it wasn't always like …

Darcy Burdock By Laura Dockrill Read by Laura Dockrill Ten-year-old Darcy Burdock is one of life's noticers. Curious, smart-as-a-whip, funny and fiercely loyal, she sees the extraordinary in the everyday and the wonder in the world around her.In this first book, we are introduced to her family: Mum, who Darcy loves as much as her favourite fried eg…

Grandpa's Great Escape By David Walliams Read by David Walliams & Michael Gambon Jack’s Grandpa… *Wears his slippers to the supermarket*Serves up Spam a la Custard for dinner*and often doesn’t remember Jack’s name But he can still take to the skies in a speeding Spitfire and save the day…An exquisite portrait of the bond between a small boy and his…

Five Minute's Peace By Jill Murphy Illustrated by Jill Murphy Read by Miriam Margolyes A modern picture book classic– there's never a dull moment with the Large Family! A family picture book favourite, this is the story of Mrs Large the elephant – who just needs five minutes of peace and quiet away from her boisterous children! So, taking refuge in…

Where Are You Blue Kangaroo? By Emma Chichester Clark Read by Joanna Lumley Lily loves Blue Kangaroo, but sometimes he disappears and Lily says, “Where are you, Blue Kangaroo?”And Blue Kangaroo waits for Lily to find him…By A World of Stories Online in association with World Book Day

Murder Most Unladylike By Robin Stevens Read by Gemma Chan When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't.) Then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, M…

The Hueys in the New Jumper By Oliver Jeffers Read by Jarvis Cocker The things about the Hueys is that they are all the same. They all look the same, think the same and do the same things. Until one day, Rupert Knits himself a new jumper….How will the other Hueys react?A hilarious story about individuality.…

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief By Rick Riordan Read by Jesse Bernstein "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now…

George's Marvellous Medicine By Roald Dahl Read by Derek Jacobi George Kranky is eight years old and wondering what sort of mischief he might get into. George's Grandma is a grizzly old grouch and George wants to teach her a lesson.... And when Grandma's finished drinking George's marvellous medicine, she'll really have something to grumble about.…

Am I Normal Yet? By Holly Bourne Read by Charlie Sanderson First book of The Spinster Club series All Evie wants is to be normal. And now that she's almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows her as ‘the-girl-who-went-nuts,’ there's only one thing left to tick off her list... a boyfriend. But relationships can mess with anyone's he…

Skellig By David Almond Read by David Almond When a move to a new house coincides with his baby sister's illness, Michael's world seems suddenly lonely and uncertain. Then, one Sunday afternoon, he stumbles into the old, ramshackle garage of his new home, and finds something magical. A strange creature - part owl, part angel, a being who needs Mich…

Winnie and Wilbur: Winnie the Witch By Valerie Thomas Illustrations by Korky Paul Read by Berny Stringle Winnie the Witch lives in a black house. She has black chairs and black stairs, black floors and black doors. Winnie’s cat Wilbur is black, too. And that is how the trouble begins!By A World of Stories Online in association with World Book Day

The Lie Tree By Frances Hardinge Read by Emilia Fox Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for …

Hugless Douglas By David Melling Read by Alan Davies Hugless Douglas is a huggable, lovable young brown bear who wakes up one morning in need of a hug. He goes to try and find one but none of them seem quite right. Join Douglas on his search for the perfect bear hug!By A World of Stories Online in association with World Book Day

A Monster Calls By Patrick Ness Based on an original idea by Siobhan Dowd Read by Jason Isaacs Costa Award winner and Guardian Prize winning author, Patrick Ness delivers an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expec…

Marge in Charge By Isla Fisher Read by Isla Fisher Meet Marge, the mischievous babysitter with rainbow hair who loves to make a mess and bend the rules ... At dinnertime Chef Marge cooks up chocolate soup, and at school Marge the Musician conducts a chaotic concert in the playground! In these three stories, Jake and Jemima have brilliant fun with t…

The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins Read by Carolyn McCormick First in the ground-breaking Hunger Games trilogy. Set in a dark vision of the near future, a terrifying reality TV show is taking place. Twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live event called The Hunger Games. There is only one rule: kill or be killed. When sixteen-yea…

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat By Chris Riddell Read by Roni Ancona Introducing Miss Ottoline Brown, an exceptionally inquisitive Mistress of Disguise, and her partner in crime, Mr. Munroe. No puzzle is ever too tricky for the two of them to solve . . . Ottoline lives in a stylish apartment in Big City with a small hairy creature called Mr. Munroe. To…

Maggot Moon By Sally Gardner Read by Robert Madge A starkly original and heartbreaking tale of friendship and rebellion Winner of the Carnegie Medal and a 2012 Costa Award winner. Narrated against the backdrop of a ruthless regime determined to beat its enemies in the race to the moon, MAGGOT MOON is a starkly and heartbreaking tale of friendship a…

Flying Fergus: The Best Birthday Bike By Chris Hoy Read by Chris Hoy The first in a fantastically fun, magical cycling adventure series from Sir Chris Hoy. Fergus Hamilton, a boy who always dreams big, gets a rusty old bike for his ninth birthday from his mum and granddad. It's not the flashy Sullivan Swift he'd longed for - but when it's all clean…

Mortal Instruments: City of Bones By Cassandra Clare Read by Ari Graynor Clary Fray is seeing things: vampires in Brooklyn and werewolves in Manhattan. Irresistably drawn towards a group of sexy demon hunters, Clary encounters the dark side of New York City – and the dangers of forbidden love.By A World of Stories Online in association with World Book Day

Paddington Takes the Test By Michael Bond Read by Hugh Bonneville ‘ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS!’Paddington read on the glossy leaflet showing a large, sleek, silver-grey car. It took him a long time to eat fifteen packets of currants in order to enter the competition. And the Rolls-Royce he’d expected to win turned out to be one of ten thousand consola…

The Famous Five: Five on a Treasure Island By Enid Blyton Read by Jan Francis Julian, Dick and Anne are spending the holidays with their tomboy cousin George and her dog, Timothy. One day, George takes them to explore nearby Kirrin Island, with its rocky little coast and old ruined castle on the top. Over on the island, they make a thrilling discov…

CHERUB: The Recruit By Robert Muchamore Read by Simon Scardifield A terrorist doesn't let strangers in her flat because they might be undercover police or intelligence agents, but her children bring their mates home and they run all over the place. The terrorist doesn't know that a kid has bugged every room in her house, cloned the hard drive on he…

The Diary of Dennis the Menace By Steven Butler Read by Steven Butler The Diary of Dennis the Menace gives listeners the inside story on every cheeky trick and prank played by the star of The Beano. Written and read by Roald Dahl Funny Prize-shortlisted author of The Wrong Pong series, Steven Butler, this hilarious book will delight Beano fans. Mee…

Geek Girl By Holly Smale Read by Kate Sobey “My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek.”Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a “jiffy” lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. …

Half Bad By Sally Green Read by Carl Prekopp A debut novel about one boy's struggle for survival in a hidden society of witches. You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were fourteen. All …

How I Live Now By Meg Rossoff Read by Amber Sealey Meg Rosoff's charming coming-of-age novel, How I Live Now is set over a summer of love and destruction. American girl Daisy has had a troubled background, and is sent from New York to stay with her charmingly shambolic family of British cousins, who she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert…

The Worst Witch By Jill Murphy Read by Gemma Arterton Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem! Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teache…

Noughts and Crosses By Malorie Blackman Read by Paul Chequer Sephy is a Cross - a member of the dark-skinned ruling class. Callum is a nought - a 'colourless' member of the underclass who were once slaves to the Crosses. The two have been friends since early childhood. But that's as far as it can go. Until the first steps are taken towards more soc…

The Bolds By Julian Clary Read by Julian Clary Mr and Mrs Bold are just like you and me: they live in a nice house, they have jobs and they love to have a giggle. One slight difference: they're hyenas. That's right - covered in fur, tails tucked into their trousers, and they really like to laugh. So far, the Bolds have managed to keep things under …

Rooftoppers By Katherine Rundell Read by Gordon Griffin Winner of the Blue Peter Book Award and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, Rooftoppers is a charming novel. Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. Found floating in a cello case, she is the only recorded female survivor of a shipwreck on the English Channel. But Sophie remembers seeing …

Revolting Rhymes By Roald Dahl Read by Tamsin Greig You can think again if you thought you knew the stories of some of the most popular fairy tales. Here are six of the best known retold, with more than a twist or two, by the master of the comic and the blood-curdling.By A World of Stories Online in association with World Book Day

The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog By Jeremy Strong Read by Martin Clunes Streaker is a mixed-up kind of dog . . .with quite a bit of Ferrari and a large chunk of whirlwind . Trevor's mum has offered him £30 to walk the dog every day of the holidays. But Streaker is no ordinary dog; she's a rocket on four legs with a woof attached! Trevor enlists the hel…

Meerkat Mail By Emily Gravett Illustrated by Emily Gravett Read by John Sessions Sunny the meerkat lives with his enormous family in the Kalahari desert. They are all very close . . . so close, in fact, that one day Sunny decides it's just too crowded and packs his bags. He's off to visit his mongoose cousins. But from the watery world of the Marsh…

The Giant of Jum By Elli Woollard Illustrated by Benji Davies Read by Stephen Mangan "Fee!" he said, and "Fi!" he said, and "Fo!" he said and "Fum!" Look out children, the Giant of Jum is grumpy and hungry and he's off in search of a tasty snack. And the tastiest of all is a boy called Jack! But Jack and his friends don't see a scary giant, they se…

Aliens Love Underpants By Claire Freedman Illustrated by Ben Cort Read by Rik Mayall Aliens love underpants, in every shape and size! First published in 2007, Claire Freedman and Ben Cort’s tale of knicker-snatching aliens was an instant hit and now this zany, hilarious tale is delightfully brought to life with an audio reading by the late, great R…

Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit Book BurglarBy Emily MacKenzieRead by Lenny Henry Meet Ralfy, a very unusual rabbit, with a passion for . . . books! Some rabbits dream about lettuces and carrots, others dream of flowering meadows and juicy dandelions, but Ralfy dreams only of books. In fact, he doesn’t just dream about them, he wants to read them ALL THE TIME…