There are six of them in the pet shop window - five pedigree puppies and a scruffy little mongrel with a grand ambition - to be a guard dog. The others laugh at him. How can he ever hope to be bought to guard someone's home? Dick King-Smith was named Children's Author of the Year in 1991.

A young girl's life with her father on their farm in England is changed when she befriends a talking hare that is really a shape-changing alien.

Named after a piece of music, Wolfgang is a very unusual mouse. For one thing, he can sing...