Kiddie monsters, soppy dragons, singing cats and fluffy baa-lambs feature in the latest children's books from Scholastic.

One Fluffy Baa-Lamb, Ten Hairy Caterpillars is a colour hardback for young children by illustrator Nick Sharratt.

It's a bright and cheerful take on Partridge in a Pear Tree with pop-up pictures and lots of flaps to lift.

In this one lambs race cars, dress up as Dracula, wear bras, play rock guitar, go into space and dance the can-can.

Tabby McTat, a delightful story by Gruffalo creators Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, is printed on paper for Christmas. The delightful story, told in rhyme, tells of a busker's cat who doesn't realise his owner has been taken into hospital.

They both become lonely, then Tabby finds a new home and a girlfriend and the pair have kittens.

All ends well as Tabby's son Sprat, who miaows too loudly to get a home, becomes the busker's new pet.

Zog is a new hardback tale from Donaldson and Scheffler, about an accident-prone young dagon who goes to school.

He faces lots of problems as he learns to roar, fly, breathe fire, capture a princess and fight a knight.

A happy ending is in store as dragon, knight and princess finally combine to start a flying doctor service.

Be a Little Monster is an activity book for children.

Games, jokes, puzzles and colouring feature in this book for budding little bog people, bigfoots and bogeymen.

Children can make cards, pizzas, fangs and gruesome disguises, and top them off with cut-out coloured monster mask.

Horrible Christmas, a spin-off from Terry Deary's popular Horrible Histories, is again reprinted this year.

The large colour paperback adopts the same silly and occasionally gruesome approach as other books in the series.

Terry's wide ranging exploration takes in carols, customs, cards, Santa, pudding and the whole Yuletide history.