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Pigling Bland is a serious little pig who gets lost on his way to the market and finds himself trapped in a strange hen-house. There, he meets a girl pig named Pig-wig, and together they must find a way to escape to the blue hills.

Mrs. Tabitha Twitchit dresses her three kittens in their finest clothes for a fancy tea party. However, the kittens can't stay out of trouble and quickly lose their elegant outfits to a group of passing ducks!

A heavy snowstorm takes everyone by surprise on and around Gosling Farm. Stan checks that all the animals are safe and fed, before setting off in Little Red Tractor to help his neighbours. With all the extra work, Stan forgets to do his Christmas shopping, but his grateful friends rally round to make sure he has all he could wish for on Christmas Day.

It's a cold, icy morning. A fox is on the prowl and Stan needs more crushed barley to feed the cows. Dudley the postman is finding it difficult to drive on the slippery roads, so Stan offers to take Mrs Turvey's letters across the fields in Little Red Tractor for him. But while they're away the fox visits Gosling Farm. Patch drives the fox away. Dudley has an accident. And the fox has an unexpected and tasty supper!

The moles are active on Gosling Farm and Patch won't stop digging. Mrs Turbey is worried about her lawn, so Stan and Little Red Stactor take Maurice the mole man across the fields to Blackthorn Cottage, where he devises a colourful and humane way to keep the moles at bay. A grateful Mrs Turvey gives Stan an oak sapling. Stan thinks about replacing the dead oak in Five Oaks Field, but when he looks at all the creatures that use the old tree as their home, he changes his mind.

Auntie Ellie is a large sheep. She loves lying down by the river, watching over the lambs as they play. On a hot June day, whilst Stan and Little Red Tractor are haymaking, Auntie Ellie goes into the river to cool off and gets stuck in the mud! Auntie Ellie is much too heavy for Stan to lift, so he has to use Little Red Tractor to take the strain.

On a hot day in August, Stan sits on Little Red Tractor's front wheel to cool off. He listens to all the familiar country sounds, but amongst them he hears a call for help. A small boat has broken down in the river, with a young man and two children on board. Stan, Patch and Little Red Tractor go to the rescue.

Stan and Little Red Tractor have been helping Mr Jones with the potato harvest of Beech Farm, but the work gives Stan a backache. The following day, they harvest the potatoes on Gosling Farm, but it is not until the last potato is lifted, that "Puppy" finds the cause of Stan's backache and his own name.

It's a sunny Saturday morning in May. Patch is too tired to join in as Stan and Little Red Tractor do all the jobs around Gosling Farm, but when they answer an urgent call to cut the grass for Wrigglesworth Cricket Club, she can't resist going along. The grateful cricketers invite Stan to stay for Elsie's famous cricket tea. Afterwards, Patch is found in an old cricket bag, where she provides the biggest surprise of the day - five beautiful puppies!

Join the much-loved Little Red Tractor and his friends for ten delightful countryside adventures filled with friendship, teamwork, and gentle life lessons. Set in a charming rural community, each episode brings warm-hearted storytelling, playful mishaps, and the simple joys of farm life. Beautifully narrated by Brian Glover and Richard Briers, this collection is perfect for young listeners and families to enjoy together, capturing the timeless magic of these classic tales in one enchanting audiobook.

Little Red Tractor pulls the trailer for the combine at harvest time on Gosling Farm. He then takes the grain to Stumpy's windmill to be ground into flour where Stan takes an unexpected ride on the sails.

When Little Red Tractor and Stan go to the market they come back with Jeremy, an old cart horse....

Stan and Little Red Tractor help Mr. Jones of neighbouring Beech Farm when his brand new tractor Big Fred runs into trouble.

Island life can be deadly. For Ollie Arias, owning an island in Micronesia is beyond his wildest dreams. Moving his best friends from college to share his dream…priceless. A little urban exploration of the abandoned military lab unearths strange, dark secrets. And awakens a slumbering beast...

Read by the author and poet, Brian Bilston. Why do we write poetry? Who should write it? And where do you even start? Well, Brian Bilston, one of the UK’s most hilarious and best-loved poets, is here to take us through the hows, whys and whats of reading, writing and enjoying poetry every day...

Rulers of old nearly destroyed the planet. And the new "boss" may finish the job. Any day now, The Monitor will unleash his deadly secret upon a war-addled planet. What brutal dictator worth his salt would pass up the chance to annihilate an entire competing population? But he didn't count on interference from Anton Takk, the guilt-ridden escapee from a northern labor camp. Or from Rosenthal Webb, the aging Revolutionary burrowed in a mountain hideout.

An enticing new world awaits - but getting there is half the battle. Destroying a ruthless dictator, it turns out, was easy by comparison. Merqua's revolutionaries find themselves landlocked, and the only hope for civilization lies beyond a wild and perilous ocean. Only one shipyard can produce a vessel that is up to the crossing. But how do you negotiate with - or trust - slavers, powder-snorting pirates, and cannibals?

In rural Wisconsin, wonder clashes dangerously with corporate greed when an alien visitor opens up a gateway through time into a breathtaking prehistoric lost world. On sabbatical from teaching at a small university, paleontologist Asa Steele is content to relax amid the pastoral splendor of his Wisconsin farm. That is until his dog starts bringing home unrecognizable artifacts and, strangest of all, fresh dinosaur bones.

In Edward Whittemore’s masterful and surreal alternate history, a man’s search for answers about his vanished parents propels him on an odyssey from the present into the past, from a bar in the Bronx to Tokyo and Shanghai during the Second World War. Quin, born in China and raised in the Bronx, is orphaned in the closing days of the Second World War when his parents go missing and are presumed dead in Shanghai.

Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet, is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space. In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial.