Grizzly Tales For Gruesome Kids

Emily Stiff mistreats her teddy bear and wishes she hadn't when she's turned into a stuffed toy herself, and is sold to another little girl with evil intent.

Gilbert is a show off with all the latest gadgets and toys.

Cherie Stone hasn't been to the loo for a year, because she never eats fruit.

To tease his little sister, Monty buys a python. But the snake eats everything it comes across, so Monty flushes it down the loo.

Savannah Slumberson is cursed by laziness.

In Scotland, in the Darnaway Forest, there is a legend that wild wolves eat babies.

Jack Frost is cruel to old people and is taught to appreciate how wicked the cold can be by The Weather Witch, who whips up an ice age and turns him into an ice sculpture.

Holly Hotlips is desperate for a kiss, but the boys tell her she looks too young. Luckily, The Two-Faced Fairy, a back-to-back good and bad fairy, has the answer - wear loads of make up to look older.

In his quest for the perfect conker, William will throw anything at a Horse Chestnut's branches (including the kitchen sink).

Dolores Bellicose has a very loud voice and she won't stop shouting. Dolly and Dot, the school librarians, contact an alchemist and stop up her mouth by turning her into a golden statue.

Mattie who was brought up in a cruel family that murders moles to save the back lawn, joins the mole mangling with gusto.

Calloway has long entertained an ambition to appear on the stage in Pinocchio, but his constant use of the word "can't" to everything he's asked to do at home proves to be his undoing.

When Poppy buys a new mobile phone and it has a camera in it she terrorises her school friends and family alike, using it to blackmail them, having photographed them in compromising situations.