Bøker av Lou Treleaven

Everyone alive today can trace their ancestry back to just one woman. But what would her life have been like and what has happenedsince for her billions of descendants?In an all-encompassing tour through prehistory, history, and on tothe future, Shevolution spans 150,000 years, following the journeysof the female pioneers.

Nine is the number of worlds in Norse mythology, the number of lives that cats are supposed to have ... and it's the number of years you need to be before you open this book!

Eight is the number of tentacles on an octopus, the number of planets in our solar system ... and it's the number of years you need to be before you open this book!

Swish and play with the curly rainbow ribbon hair on every page as you read about a lion with an amazing rainbow mane. Rory the lion is king of all the plain. The reason for his royalty? His most amazing rainbow mane! With a funny rhyming story to read and curly rainbow ribbons to swish and play with, this novelty story book will keep children ente

Swish and play with the curly rainbow ribbon hair on every page as you read about a magical unicorn. With a funny rhyming story to read and curly rainbow ribbons to swish and play with, this novelty story book will keep children entertained for hours!

This interactive book is full of dinosaurs - big dinosaurs, loud dinosaurs, stinky dinosaurs, and silly dinosaurs - and each one is trying to show you that they are the roariest and greatest dinosaur, ever! But which one is the roariest? YOU decide! Push, pop, and count the soft, silicone stars to rank each dinosaur from 1 to 5, and choose!

This interactive book is full of unicorns - clever unicorns, dancing unicorns, leaping unicorns, and speedy unicorns - and each one trying to show you that they are the sparkliest and greatest unicorn, ever! But which one is the sparkliest? YOU decide! Push, pop, and count the soft, silicone stars to rank each unicorn from 1 to 5, and choose!

Tangled Tales are a new innovative junior fiction format which involves two stories in one book. Each side follows a different character in the same story, which aims to encourage children to see that not everything is always what it seems. Whether it''s a gang of ghost-hunting kids and the ghost they''re convinced isn''t there or a vegetarian vampire and a struggling fairy actress, these books are sure to get everyone giggling and thinking.Undercover OverlordOtis Vile is set to take over his dastardly grandmother's even more dastardly galactic corporation, E.V.I.L. (Extremely Vile Industries Limited). But first he must go undercover in their factories to root out anyone 'nice' once and for all. But is that all Otis will find along the way?Meddling UnderlingPlib and her family have spent years battling E.V.I.L. (Extremely Vile Industries Limited) but now their home is threatened. To save them, Plib will have to work for the enemy... but can she change things for the better from the inside?

Anna and Dad go to see Magic Bill perform. But Magic Bill has lost his spell book. What will happen next?

Clemmy, Mabel and Eva are three sisters who live their Aunt Spyte, an evil witch. That is, until one of Aunt SpyteΓÇÖs terrible spells goes wrong and she vanishes. Poof! Can Clemmy, Mabel and Eva find a new, better way to live that doesnΓÇÖt involve bad magic? Or will they resort to Aunt SpyteΓÇÖs old potions to get them through?

A family of giants drop a crumb of Christmas Pudding ΓÇô but one crumb doesnΓÇÖt matter, does it? Join Pip and his mother, the mice and the ants as everyone benefits from this giant Christmas bonanza and learns that what might be a little thing for you can turn out to be a big thing for someone else.

Maddy the Springer Spaniel finds herself playing detective when the local Dog Show winner, Brutus the boxer, asks her to investigate rumours of a celebrity dog entering this year¿s show. But who is this celebrity dog and why is she coming to the Dog Show? Can Maddy stop Brutus turning nasty? And why is Hamlet the cat obsessed with cleaning the toilet?

The Knight Who Might tries really hard to be a knight but things don¿t always go to plan ¿ even with a magic horse, sword and helmet! However, when The Knight Who Might spots a knight competition advertised, he sees his chance to show the world what a positive attitude can do!This laugh out loud story is all about positive attitude and giving it a go, even when you are bound to fail! Written by prolific author, Lou Treleaven and illustrated by Kyle Beckett.

''''Last month I found out I was an alien. I also found out that my real parents are slugs and that I''m the rightful heir to a planet full of green slime. This month, things have got really weird. ''''JasperΓÇÖs settling into life with two sets of parents and without two sets of pocket money. Oh, and being an alien. It seems everythingΓÇÖs gone back to normal (well, as normal as normal can be) until Holly drags him to a Harry Handsome concert... and thatΓÇÖs not the worst part. This devious popstar slash alien secret agent seems to be up to something, and it involves brainwashing the entire planet!

Everyone is scared of Narky Sharky. She is grumpy and snappy. Why is she so narky?

Stomp has lots of wellies. He loves to wear them every day. He wishes he could use all his wellies at the same time...

Jasper thinks his life is as normal as can be (green hair aside) until he discovers his foster parents have been witholding a pretty huge secret from him. His green hair isn't just a perculiarity but a trait of a Prince of Glooop, a slime-covered planet in the Triangulum Galaxy. When Earth is under threat from the Emperor Iko Iko Iko, Jasper and his foster sister, Holly, get pulled into a rather crazy adventure in space. Things get even crazier when he discovers he has a superpower... but not super strength or super speed ... nope, he can turn into a slug. He just wants to liberate his home planet, foster galaxy and save his parents.

"Professor McQuark had a very big brain. She loved inventing things."

Suzy the slug has big dreams about meeting an alien, but the other slugs laugh at her. Suzy is determined to give it her best shot.

When a storm causes a parrot figurine to hit this pirate on the head, he suddenly forgets his name! He goes on a journey to find it by visiting his many, unique pirate friends but he just can't seem to find any trace of his name. Downcast, he goes to buy some seeds for his parrot and is told he left his membership card there... and there on the card is his name: Captain Squawk! A laugh-out-loud tale for all pirate lovers. Illustrated by Genie Espinosa.

Sid was a snake who found it hard to make friends. HeΓÇÖs just too scary!

This red early reader includes two fun and simple stories about a girl and her grandad as they spend time with each other in the kitchen and in the garden.

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Fast Fox and Slow Snail go on a woodland walk together. Fast Fox loves to go fast so she runs ahead and leaves Slow Snail behind. She does not see the flower, the bee and the log that Slow Snail encounters on his walk in the wood. When Fast Fox finally finds Slow Snail again, she sees everything she missed and decides to go slow with Slow Snail.

Mrs Hall says we have to keep writing, it is a dying art. "Good, let it die," I said, and then she said, "You are staying in at break Jon Fisher. " Jon's teacher has started an interplanetary penpal programme. Much to Jon's annoyance, his penpal, Straxi, is from Pluto, the most boring, smelliest and far away place possible. And if that wasn't bad enough, she's a girl!