Best Selling Books by Colin THOMPSON

A wise old man who visits the town dump every day moves into an abandoned train there and watches as nature gradually reclaims the polluted land. Suggested level : primary.

In September 2008, Colin Thompson visited Cambodia with Save the Children Fund, and was inspired to create this book. Featuring the illustrations of fourteen internationally acclaimed artists, including Quentin Blake, Tony Ross, Shaun Tan, Banksy and Freya Blackwood, this is a celebration of how much we can help others through simple acts of charity.

Despite decorating with cobwebs and eating slugs for breakfast, the Floods are generally a nice family with pleasant manners, thus when the grumpy Dents move in and put a damper on the cheeriness of the whole block, the Floods decide to use their magic to teach the nasty family a lesson they won''t soon forget! Reprint.

While the Floods were on holiday with their human friends the Hulberts, the Hearse Whisperer totally destroyed their home back in Acacia Avenue. So now they''re on the run again . . . To avoid detection they are, like, totally heavily disguised, man.

The Floods are back in their rightful place as rulers of Transylvania Waters and there is an enormous amount to do to bring the country out of the Dark Ages. But what does a country need to become part of the modern world? Well, it needs socks, PlayStations and seventy-three varieties of genetically modified sausage, but above all else it needs maps.

E second book in The Floods series about a family of witches and wizards who might be living in your town Look through the cobwebbed, murky arched window in deepest Patagonia, and this is what you might see. Every day five of the Flood children travel halfway round the world to Quicklime College, the ultimate school for witches and wizards. There''s no time for silly games flying around on broomsticks. Sports day is coming up, and before you even wonder how four-legged Satanella copes with the three-legged race, here''s a secret for you: Orkward Warlock, the vilest child in the school, and his sidekick, The Toad, hate the big, happy Floods family. And they''re plotting to kill the Floods--on sports day.

A wise old man who visits the town dump every day moves into an abandoned train there and watches as nature gradually reclaims the polluted land.

Three years ago, Stark Contrast volunteered his family to live on the moon. Since then, the reality TV show about their adventures has become the most popular show on earth and the Contrasts are mega famous. But three years inside a big plastic bubble is a long time, and the four of them - Stark, his wife, Laura, and their children, Crocus and Jack - are way beyond bored. They just want to go home. The trouble is, none of them know how to fly the spaceship, and it''s not programmed to take them home for another two years. In Watch This Space, with the help of the robot that was sent with them, the Contrast family manage to break into the spaceship and escape . . . except that instead of flying back to earth, the spaceship heads off into deep space.

Orkward, Quicklime College''s biggest bully, devises a horrid plot to get the better of the Floods, a family of witches and wizards, during the annual sports day competition.

It isn''t just humans who need time off. Wizards do too - and after all the wild adventures the Floods have been through, two weeks at the seaside with their friends the Hulberts is exactly what they all need.