Books for Babies and Toddlers
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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 |
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Five Minutes' Peace Jill Murphy There can’t be a mum in the country who doesn’t identify with Mrs Large, wrapped in her comfortable dressing gown, doing her best to get away from her children for just five minutes peace (and managing a scant three minutes ... 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 |
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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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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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 |
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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Odd Socks Michelle Robinson Everyone will enjoy this epic tale of true love and steadfastness, no less heroic or inspiring for starring a pair of woolly socks! Sosh and Suki are made for one another and their life on a fresh pair of feet ... 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 |
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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The Adventures of Miss Petitfour Anne Michaels One of our Books of the Year 2015 - A Staff Pick of the Year 2015, chosen by Shelley Fallows - December 2015 Debut of the Month There is something quite wonderful about indulging in your favourite cake, beautifully decorated ... 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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Time Travelling with a Hamster Ross Welford January 2016 Debut of the Month This clever, touching time travel adventure owes as much to The Railway Children as it does to Back to the Future! Al (for Albert, after Einstein) Chaudhury’s dad is dead but – and here’s ... 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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The 5th Wave Rick Yancey A film tie-in version of The 5th Wave, a novel that packs a punch on every page with hope and despair in equal measure alongside life and death. It will leave you gasping for breath and keep you hooked to ... 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 |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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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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Spook's: A New Darkness Joseph Delaney Dreadful monsters abound in this new chapter of the Spook’s saga and as ever Delaney’s storytelling will catch many readers. Tom Ward is now the County’s Spook and when reports come in of a series of horrible murders it’s his ... Download free opening extract |
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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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