Books for Babies and Toddlers
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The Slightly Annoying Elephant David Walliams Best selling author and TV star David Walliams has a gift for great jokes. There’s a ring at the door and Sam finds an elephant demanding admittance. Sam does not want the outsize intruder in his house but it turns ... Download free opening extract |
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Again! Emily Gravett Prize-winning Emily Gravett has hit the jackpot again with a brilliant and original picture book that will delight adults as much as children. Everyone knows that the best bedtime stories can be read again and again and again... But sometimes, ... Download free opening extract |
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The Odd Egg Emily Gravett Winner of the 2009 Best Illustrated Book Awards. Board Book edition. Witty, stylish and surprising, The Odd Egg is a jewel of a book. All the birds have laid an egg – except for duck. How smug the chicken, the ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Soon Timothy Knapman Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, May 2015 Patrick Benson’s superb illustrations bring to life this touching adventure for a baby elephant. Early one morning the little elephant Raju sets off with his mother. On their way they see off ... Download free opening extract |
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What the Jackdaw Saw Julia Donaldson Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, May 2015 When Jackdaw tries to invite all his friends to his birthday party he can’t understand why first the octopus and then the horse, the cat and the squirrel are all touching their ... Download free opening extract |
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Monsters Love Underpants Claire Freedman May 2015 Book of the Month Best-selling underpants are back! It all began with Aliens who love underpants. Then the Dinosaurs and Pirates showed that they do too. And now it turns out that even though the Monsters come from all ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Don't Forget Tiggs! Michael Rosen May 2015 Book of the Month This tale of the busy Hurrys may well strike a chord with families everywhere. Mr and Mrs Hurry are always rushing, but especially in the mornings. One day they dash off to their respective jobs ... Download free opening extract |
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Have You Seen My Monster? Steve Light In the follow-up to Steve Light's Have You Seen My Dragon?, this gorgeously illustrated shape book, with fun search-and-find opportunities throughout will delight kids. In this one a little girl wanders through a country fair, searching for her monster friend. ... Download free opening extract |
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Fantastic Mr Fox Roald Dahl Ideal as an early introduction to Roald Dahl just as a child is starting to read alone because it’s a short story by comparison to some of his others. Filled with quirky black and white illustrations by the wonderful Quentin ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Pip Bartlett's Guide to Magical Creatures Maggie Stiefvater, Jackson Pearce May 2015 Book of the Month Pip Bartlett can talk to animals, which is impressive enough, but her world is full of magical creatures, meaning she’s conversing with unicorns, griffins, hobgrackles et al. Following an unfortunate incident with some unicorns ... Download free opening extract |
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23 Things to Do Before You are 11 1/2 Mike Warren May 2015 Book of the Month There’s a wide range of things to make in this fun book, from building your own toolbox – the first project, naturally – to making a wormery and a simple spinning motor. For each one ... Download free opening extract |
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Darkmouth Shane Hegarty May 2015 Debut of the Month Darkmouth might appear to be a normal seaside town, but it’s really not the kind of place you’d want to go on holiday. In fact Darkmouth is a Blighted Village, one of the last ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Imagination Box Martyn Ford May 2015 Debut of the Month Could this Imagination Box be the greatest toy on earth? Join 10 year old Timothy as he is given the chance to decide just this when he discovers the imagination box. It is a ... Download free opening extract |
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Haunters Thomas Taylor The dead and the living exist side by side in this thrilling time-travelling adventure. In David's recurrent dream, Eddie seems real and it seems like he's got something to tell David. That's scary enough but then David gets picked up ... Download free opening extract |
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The Magnificent Lizzie Brown and the Mysterious Phantom Vicki Lockwood May 2015 Book of the Month Young readers who like their mystery stories tinged with a bit of Victorian gothic are going to love this new detective series. Twelve year old Lizzie finally has enough of living with her brutish ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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We are All Made of Molecules Susin Nielsen May 2015 Debut of the Month Stewart and Ashley are about as different as it’s possible to be. He’s super smart, happy to use words like ‘plethora’ in everyday conversation, but socially a little inept. She’s queen of the popular ... Download free opening extract |
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Gone Michael Grant Gripping from the first moment, this is a scary, an unputdownable and a brilliantly plotted fantasy. One minute all the adults are there - next they're gone! Only the children remain and they are trapped, cut off from the outside ... Download free opening extract |
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The Magnificent Lizzie Brown and the Devil's Hound Vicki Lockwood Exploring the adventure and thrill of the Victorian circus setting, the series is exceptionally well written, leaving the reader hanging for every page, and desperate to see Lizzie triumph in the face of adversity. It’s got a rich mix of ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, May 2015 Another deliciously creepy novel from Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Plagued by an unspoken scandal, fourteen-year-old Faith Sunderly and her family are forced to flee their home ... Download free opening extract |
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Demons of Dunkirk Paul Nolan This is an unputdownable adventure story woven around the evacuation at Dunkirk and then the D-Day landings but from a different angle in that the boy in the story is a conscientious objector but can the help he brings to ... Download free opening extract |
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Bomber Paul Dowswell Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month May 2015 Young New York born US serviceman Harry Friedman signs up for the United States Army Air Force determined to fight for justice for fellow Jews. Still only 17 he is soon a ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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The Moonstone Legacy Trilogy Diana De Gunzburg, Tony Wild An action-packed adventurous tale for young adults with an added magical touch of the mystical dancing across the pages. A treat of three books in one, we follow brave and capable Lizzy from the age of 14 as she struggles ... Download free opening extract |
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Remix Non Pratt ****Non Pratt is appearing alongside fellow YA authors, James Dawson and Malorie Blackman in a special event at Hay Fever, sponsored by Lovereading4kids! An unmissable line-up of YA talent for your delectation. In this session, guaranteed to be lively and engaging, the ... Download free opening extract |
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A Monster Calls Patrick Ness Winner of the 2012 Carnegie Medal Rachel Levy chair of the 2012 CILIP Carnegie judging panel said: "A Monster Calls" is an exquisite piece of writing. It is a beautifully economical, structurally brilliant and lyrically descriptive account of a challenging ... Download free opening extract |
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