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Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit's Bad Habits
Thoroughly loveable and warmly funny, Gough's cautionary tale of a rabbit, a bear, a predatory wolf and competitive snowman building teaches children about friendship, compromise and confronting bad behaviour.
'"It's the end of the world," said a gloomy voice.
Bear looked all around. "No it isn't," said Bear cautiously. "It's a lovely sunny day."'
In this laugh-out-loud funny story, a rabbit and bear discover that things are always better when they're shared with a friend.
Bear wakes up early from hibernation. If she can't sleep, then at least she can make a snowman. Rabbit has never made a snowman, but he definitely wants to make one that's better than Bear's. However, with an avalanche and a hungry wolf heading his way, Rabbit soon realises that it might be nice to have a friend on your side. Especially when it comes to building snowmen.
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Stig of the Dump: 60th Anniversary Edition
A rightly revered children's classic, King's timeless tale of a live stone age boy discovered at the bottom of a twentieth-century chalk pit is wonderfully warm and engaging escapism of the highest order.
Clive King's Stig of the Dump is a much-loved modern classic, since it was first published in 1986 it has never been out of print and has sold more than two-million copies. A favourite with children for generations, it remains one of Waterstones favourite children’s stories.
Stig of the Dump is the story of Barney and his best friend, cave-man Stig.
Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the edge of a disused chalk-pit when it gives way and he lands in a sort of cave. Here he meets 'somebody with a lot of shaggy hair and two bright black eyes' wearing a rabbit skin and speaking in grunts. He names him Stig.
Of course nobody believes Barney when he tells his family all about Stig, but for Barney cave-man Stig is totally real. They become great friends, learning each other’s ways and embarking on a series of unforgettable adventures.
‘The book's depiction of the vivid interior life and imagination of a child, the delight of roaming free, making shelters and dens away from the grown-ups, as well as ideas such as the universal language of friendship - and even the importance of recycling - feel as fresh and relevant today as they did when Puffin first published it in 1963.’ - Francesca Dow, MD of Penguin Random House Children's
A Puffin Book - stories that last a lifetime. Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo: A Puffin Book. There are 20 titles to collect in the series, all with exciting new covers and fun-filled endnotes.
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