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• The Woman Who Won Things Sophie Okonedo tells Allan Ahlberg's story of the Gaskitt family, their cats and a very mysterious supply teacher.
• The Last Polar Bears Martin Clunes tells Harry Horse's story of a journey to the North Pole with a penguin, a golf bag and Roo the dog to find the last polar bears.
• The King of Capri Holly Aird tells the Jeanette Winterson tale of a selfish king and the poor washer-woman he falls in love with.
• Bob and the House Elves Lee Cornes tells the story of Bob, whose house is invaded by elves, and Lily, the only person who knows how to get rid of them.
• The Bun Gun Amanda Abbington tells Jeremy Strong's wacky story of a pirate school and the pirate pupils attempts to raid the food cupboard.
• The Mousehole Cat Shobna Gulati tells Antonia Barber's classic tale of Mowser, a Cornish cat, and her battle to save the village of Mousehole from the Great Storm-Cat.
• King Arthur and the Mighty Contest Kris Marshall tells Tony Mitton's crazy tale of `King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table'. Will they find the Holy Grail?
• The Great Tug of War Don Gilet tells the story of a cheeky hare who persuades a hippo and an elephant to have a tug of war that neither can possibly win.
• The Princess and the Unicorn Daniela Nardini tells the tale of a princess and her quest to find a mysterious magical unicorn that will save her father the King.
• Crazy Camelot Capers Kris Marshall tells the crazy tale of `King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table'. Will they find the Holy Grail?
• Jack and the Beanstalk Nadine Marshall tells the classic fairytale of a boy, some magic beans and an evil Giant who lives in a castle in the clouds.
• Fig's Giant Art Malik reads Geraldine McCaughrean's re-telling of `Gulliver Travels' from the point of view of Fig, a little Lilliputican girl who befriends the giant.
• Ellie and the Cat Tisha Martin tells Malorie Blackman's classic story of a spoilt, spiteful girl who gets turned into a cat by her magical Grandma and learns a big lesson from a friendly mouse.
• Rastamouse - The Crucial Plan; Da Bag-a Bling In `The Crucial Plan', Rastamouse and the Easy Crew - members of his reggae band - set off to capture the thief who has stolen all the city's cheese. In `Da Bag-a Bling', Rastamouse traps the rapping reprobate who is hypnotising the city's orphans with his `real fly rough hip hop' music.
• The Gruffalo; The Room on the Broom In `The Gruffalo', a mouse travels into a deep, dark wood and encounters an owl, a snake and a hungry gruffalo, and in `In Room on the Broom', a witch and her cat happily fly through the air on a broomstick, until her hat blows away.
• Shampoozel A poor barber is caught stealing herbs from a witch's garden and is forced to give her his first-born daughter, Shampoozel.
• The Last Cowboys Martin Freeman tells the story of a dog called Roo's trip across America in search of his long-lost grandfather.
• Harold and the Duck Harold's world is turned upside down when a duck moves in to his house. Missing his regular cuddles and the warmth of the family kitchen he decides to leave home and seek a happier life elsewhere.
• The Monster Crisp Guzzler Mira discovers on her first day at school that Miss Porter, turns into a dragon every time she eats crisps. The headmistress is appalled and, fed up with her dragon antics, sacks Miss Potter.
• The Little Bear Stories In `Let's Go Home Little Bear', two bears walk home through the snow, and Little Bear keeps hearing strange noises all around him. In the second story, the two bears try to go to sleep in the bear cave.
• The Twelve Dancing Princesses Rupert Penry-Jones tells the classic tale of the mysterious nightly disappearance of 12 beautiful princesses.
• Dimity Dumpty; Jethro Byrde In `Dimity Dumpty' we learn the story of Humpty's lesser-known younger sister, Dimity, and in `Jethro Byrde', we meet a tiny fairy child and his family who are on their way to the Fairy Travellers Picnic.
• The Toad Prince Trevor the toad falls in love with Princess Petunia and manages to convince Wazp the magician to turn him into a Prince.
• The Snow Dragon Adrian Lester reads the story of a boy's attempt to save the world, by finding the last of the Snow Dragons. The power-crazy lord of the Fire Dragons wants to rule.
• Explorer Trauma Tamsin Grieg reads a story of the most embarrassing parents in the world, written by Sue Mongredian. Indiana's parents are explorers and always take him on dangerous holidays to faraway places, but Indiana would prefer a simpler life, with less embarrassing parents. When he wins the holiday of a lifetime to an ordinary British holiday camp he wonders how his parents will cope.
• The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark It's the story about a barn owl called Plop who is afraid of the dark. Through a series of meetings with different people Plop slowly comes to realise how varied, beautiful and important darkness is.
• Muddle Earth Narrated by John Sessions. Where would you find three moons, a floating lake and a perfumed bog that's filled with pink stinky hogs and exploding gas frogs? Welcome to Muddle Earth where the great warrior-hero, Joe the Barbarian, who is actually Joe Jefferson from normal Earth, prepares to do battle.
• Holly Aird tells the tale of a selfish king who loses his fortune, and the washer-woman he is in love with.
• Amanda Abbington tells the story of a pirate school, and the pirate pupils' attempts to raid the food cupboard.