Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Baby's Very First Play Book Animal Words Fiona Watt There’s a great deal to spot and name in this bright, attractive book. Woodland creatures, minibeasts, underwater creatures, farm and jungle animals are all featured in vibrant illustrations and clearly labelled with their names and the noises they make too. ... Download free opening extract |
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Grrrrr! Rob Biddulph One of our Books of the Year 2015 -Andrea Reeces's Pick of the Year 2015 Rob Biddulph’s prize-winning picture book Blown Away is near perfect, and his new book Grrrrr! is too! It’s the story of Fred, who is champion ... Download free opening extract |
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Count with Maisy, Cheep, Cheep, Cheep! Lucy Cousins Smiling, cheerful, independent, no wonder toddlers everywhere love Maisy, and she makes all early learning experiences fun and exciting. This story sees her helping Mummy Hen find her ten chicks, who are hiding around the farm. There are flaps on ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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Not If I See You First Eric Lindstrom An incredibly uplifting, thought provoking and sharply beautiful debut. Once I started reading I couldn’t stop and when I turned the last page I could quite easily have turned back to the beginning and started all over again. The first ... Download free opening extract |
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The Red Abbey Chronicles: Maresi Maria Turtschaninoff January 2015 Debut of the Month What an unusual and powerful novel. The setting is an island in an unspecified fantasy world inhabited by a community of women who live separate from men, dedicating themselves to the worship of the ... Download free opening extract |
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The Dark Days Club Alison Goodman This first novel in a trilogy of deliciously dark, supernatural page-turners set in Regency England is packed with passion, period detail and devastating demons. London, 1812, and sharp-minded, strong-spirited Lady Helen Wrexhall is about to be presented to Queen Charlotte. Her ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Blue and Bertie Kristyna Litten January 2016 Book of the Month The adventures of giraffes Blue and Bertie make a comforting, humourous story that explores themes of friendship, independence and embracing the unexpected. Bertie is content to spend his days with his herd, crunching leaves, ... Download free opening extract |
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The Bus is for Us! Michael Rosen Former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen will delight all readers with this hugely enjoyable and easy to chant rhyming picture book. Riding a bike, going far in a car or, when it starts to rain going in the train are all ... Download free opening extract |
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The Rhyming Rabbit Julia Donaldson Award winning Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson has created a delightfully entertaining picture book that celebrates poems of all kinds. All the rabbits are sick of hearing the rhyming rabbit’s poems for every occasion. Forlornly, the rabbit sets off to find ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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How to Find Gold Viviane Schwarz January 2016 Book of the Month It has a publication date of January, yet How to Find Gold is already likely to top my list of picturebooks of 2016! Anna is a wonderful picturebook star: she’s eager to find gold ... Download free opening extract |
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10 Ten-Minute Stories Various Authors If your New Year resolution was to spend ten minutes a day reading to your children, then this attractive collection of fairy stories from around the world would be a very good book with which to start. It contains ten ... Download free opening extract |
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The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head Daisy Hirst Inventive and witty, this is a story that is full of ideas and imagining rather than neatly tying up loose ends. Told more through the pictures than the words, the story of Isabel’s happiness as she plays with her friend ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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The Dragonsitter to the Rescue Josh Lacey Josh Lacey’s Dragonsitter books pack really quite huge adventures as well as a lot of laughs into a very short extent, and are perfect for young readers. The Smith-Pickles are still baby-sitting Uncle Morton’s dragons and Eddie takes two, Ziggy ... Download free opening extract |
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Timmy Failure We Meet Again Stephan Pastis Loveable world-class detective Timmy Failure is back for a new adventure. And his business partner and side-kick Total, a.k.a. the polar bear is with him, too. Timmy’s problem is that not everyone – and certainly not those who try to ... Download free opening extract |
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I Believe in Unicorns Michael, M. B. E. Morpurgo Michael Morpurgo pulls on the heart strings in a short book into which he has packed a number of strands, richly woven together. Tomas lives for the outdoors: he hates books, reading and stories. But one day, his mother forces ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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How to Look for a Lost Dog Ann M. Martin January 2016 Book of the Month The heroine of Ann M Martin’s fine novel has a unique voice, and the story she tells is very touching. Rose (rows) has a diagnosis of autism and struggles to understand the unspoken social ... Download free opening extract |
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Hamish and the Neverpeople Danny Wallace Hamish and the Worldstoppers was one of my favourite kids’ books of 2015, and the follow up is even better. The world is in danger again, or should that be still, and the monsters Hamish and his friends defeated in ... 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 |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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The Icarus Show Sally Christie January 2016 Book of the Month There’s something appealing just about the format and feel of this book – a small hardback, it looks inviting and eminently readable. And it is just that. Alex is getting by at school through ... Download free opening extract |
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Beswitched Kate Saunders One minute Flora is dreaming on a train heading back to boarding school and the next a magic spell has spun Flora into the past. She’s mysteriously swapped lives with a schoolgirl in 1935! What a nightmare: no iPod, no ... Download free opening extract |
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An Island of Our Own Sally Nicholls Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Children's Book Award - Shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize From the winner of the Waterstones Children's Book prize comes a new novel about family and friendship. Jonathan, Holly and Davy have been ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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Never Evers Lucy Ivison, Tom Ellen January 2016 Book of the Month As warming as a cup of hot chocolate on a winter’s day, Never Evers is guaranteed to leave readers happy and smiling. The story of two groups of teenagers on a school ski trip ... Download free opening extract |
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The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Andrea Reeces's Pick of the Year 2015 - WINNER of the 2015 Costa Children's Book Award - Shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, May 2015 Award-winning Frances Hardinge is spellbinding is this ... Download free opening extract |
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A Song for Ella Grey David Almond Winner of the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize -Winner of the 2015 Peters Book of the Year 'Teen Fiction' Award Award-winning David Almond is at his lyrical best in this eloquent, tender and ultimately devastating contemporary teenage love story ... Download free opening extract |
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