Brilliant Books Advent Calendar

When Tomas discovers a strange old tree at the bottom of his grandad's garden, he doesn't think much of it. ...

George has always wondered what it's like to be a dog. One night, a magical mix-up with an enchanted ...

Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of the bestselling magazine, The Penny Dreadful. Her masterly tales of the ...

It's bad enough having a mum dippy enough to name you Owl, but when you've got a dad you've never ...

Stardom beckons at Billie’s school when a fancy TV company wants to make an advert about school uniforms – but ...

Lana and her brother, Harrison, used to love playing together – until Harrison decided he was too old for games. ...

Have you ever had a really strange dream? Maya Clayton definitely has. Last night she dreamt that her dad, the ...

It’s the Christmas holidays and Thea is looking forward to spending them with her father. She can tell him all ...

Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one ...

Maggie has grown up distinctly neglected by her distracted father, who has a disturbing obsession. He’s consumed with the idea ...

When Addy sets out on an organised adventure holiday into the forests of North America with a group of other ...

You know about the Naughty List, right? Well, this year, the Christmasaurus is on a mission to track down children ...

The last thing Jack expected when he bungee-jumped at the fairground was to go plummeting right through the ground into ...

There used to be an empty chair at the back of my class, but now a new boy called Ahmet ...

Nothing extraordinary has ever happened to Billy Smith. In fact, every single thing about him is ordinary, including his name. ...

The Watcher of Wildsea has always been a Dark. But when Andrew Dark drowns, there is no obvious successor. His ...

Pete, Krish and Nancy are excited about their Year 8 geography field trip to Heathland Camp. They can’t wait to ...

In an Italian city ravaged by plague, Sofia's mother carves beautiful mementoes from the bones of loved ones. But one ...

Vetman lives in a cottage outside a sleepy English village, where nobody realises that he's saving animals in incredible, bionic ...

Julia and her parents have just left their home to spend the summer at a remote lighthouse, far away from ...

It's 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank busy running ...

All Tog wants to do is work in Santa's workshop and one wonderful day, the letter from Santa arrives: Tog ...

Leo and his best friend Sangeeta often feel like the odd ones out at school and in the small village ...

What if somewhere along the way we've all got the Santa story a bit wrong...? Join Blanche Claus and her ...