Shark Quest By:Cath Ard and Deborah Kespert

Most sharks keep moving all their lives-otherwise they stop breathing. Sharks don't really take a nap,but they will do chill out for a while.It's a bit like when you daydream!

Shark Quest By:Cath Ard and Deborah Kespert

All sharks live in the sea but one,the bull shark,also swims upriver near towns and forests.Animals had better watch out because antelopes,dogs ,sloths and cattle have all been found in bull shark's stomach!

Totally Amazing Spider By:Golden Books

A nighttime hunter like this spider just loves wood lice.The spider pierces the wood louse's tough exoskeleton with it's enormously long fangs,so that it can get at juicy body inside.

Totally Amazing Spiders By:Golden Books

A banana spider's favourite food isn't bananas,it's the cockroaches that live on the bananas.The banana spider eats a little else,so people use it to help keep down the cockroach population.

The Greek who stole Christmas By:Anthony Horowitz

Tim was the worst private detective in England.I mean...he'd just spent two weeks working in a big department stall in the WestEnd.He was supposed to be looking out for shoplifters but I don't think he'd kept an eye on the ball.In fact,the ball was the first thing that got stolen.After that,things went from bad to worse.The stall had twenty-three departments when he started but only sixteen when he left.He was fired,of course.The dummies in the window probably had a higher IQ than Tim. He was lucky he had me.I sloved the crimes,Tim got the credit.That was how it worked.If you've read my other stories,you 'll know what I'm talking about.If you haven't,go out and buy the books.If you like,I'll even sell you a ten-quid book token.You can have it for nine-quid.

Jack and the dragon's tooth By:Lily Hyde

The whale's belly was as big as inside a castle,and it was full of riches and rubbish from the bottom of the sea.When the whale gulped down a ship full of oranges and peanuts,Jack lived on oranges and peanutsfor a month.When the whalegulped down a cart full of ham,Jack ate ham for three months.At last the whale gulped down a fishing boat down.Inside it Jack found a pipe,a flint and a bag of tabacco.He filled the pipe with tabacco and lit it wiht a spark from the flint.He smoked three pipes one after another.The whale felt so dizzy and dozy from the smoke that it swam to a beach and fell asleep.

Treasure Island By:Robert Louis Stevenson

And,indeed,bad as his clothes were,and coarsely as he spoke,he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast;but seemed like a mate or skipper,accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.The man who came with the barrow told us the mail had set him down the morning before at the 'Royal George';that he had inquried what inns there were along the coast,and hearing ours well spoken of,I supppose, and described as lonely,had chosen it from the others for his place of residence.And that wass all we could learn of our guest.