Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Elmer David Mckee Elmer, everyone's favourite patchwork elephant, is 25! Elmer the colourful patchwork elephant has been a nursery favourite since this first book was published in 1989. This is a special 25th Anniversary edition.Andersen Press invites YOU to join in with Elmer’s ... Download free opening extract |
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Tilly and Friends: Who's Hiding? Polly Dunbar Tilly and her Friends have lots of fun playing hide-and-seek behind the sturdy flaps on every page. The Tilly and Friends TV series, produced by Walker Productions and JAM Media and based on the picture books by Polly Dunbar, is currently airing ... Download free opening extract |
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Say hello like this! Mary Murphy Perfect for joining in, this is a delightfully noisy book celebrating all the different and special ways that animals say 'Hello'. Dogs are loud, cats are proud and the donkey is just plain silly. A bouncy rhyming text captures the ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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The Way to the Zoo John Burningham April 2014 Book of the Month Award-winning John Burningham tells a touching story of a little girl and the special friends she makes in the night time. When Sylvie finds a door in her bedroom she discovers a secret passage ... Download free opening extract |
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The Dark Lemony Snicket Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2014 - One of our Books of the Year 2013 Possibly destined to be THE TOP PICTURE BOOK of 2013. Bestselling Lemony Snicket gives an original, delightful and empowering take on the familiar theme of ... Download free opening extract |
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Big, Bad Owl Steve Smallman Big, Bad Owl is a fabulously funny, tongue-in-cheek picture book from bestselling author and master of comedy, Steve Smallman. Children will love the quirky illustrations of the various animals and birds who try to get owl out of a grump ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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The Ice Bear Jackie Morris Stunning illustrations capture the warm emotions of this magical story and juxtaposes them perfectly with the winter landscape of the white bears and the hunters who live in it. When Raven steals a white bear cub and delivers him to ... Download free opening extract |
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Bug Detective Amazing facts, myths and quirks of nature Maggie Li April 2014 Book of the Month Search high and low to discover interesting facts, track down odd information and dispel myths about the insect world. This interactive illustrated approach to nature guides suitable for 5 years upwards is packed full of ... Download free opening extract |
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Eddie's Kitchen And How to Make Good Things to Eat Sarah Garland A birthday party needs to be got ready in a hurry! Mum has forgotten that it is Grandad’s birthday but luckily Eddie is on hand to help. Eddie loves cooking and he knows exactly what Grandad likes best. Mum has ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon David Almond With his typical brilliance, award-winning David Almond weaves magic and reality together in this touching and inventive story about how Paul, a lonely boy living in a basement flat in a huge tower block, plans his great adventure. Paul believes ... Download free opening extract |
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Life Stinks! Peter Bently Packed with comical characters, battles, puns and poo, this hilarious new series from Peter Bently, a Roald Dahl Funny Prize winner, will be irresistible to boys and girls aged six to eight years. Knightmare, follows the misadventures of a trainee ... Download free opening extract |
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Landing On My Feet The Adventures of Poohka the Cat Adelaide Godwin Written by debut author Adelaide Godwin, it’s an odyssey of a feline kind, packed full of feline bravery, endurance and epic adventure that will delight early readers everywhere but equally a tremendous story for parents to share with their kids. ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Brave Wendy Constance April 2014 Debut of the Month - Winner of The Times/Chicken House Children's Fiction Competition 2013 Set some 17000 years ago where tribes fought tribes and rubbed shoulders with sabre-tooth cats and mammoths, there was danger at every turn, yet ... Download free opening extract |
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Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom William Sutcliffe A funny and fast-paced adventure with a brilliant cast of eccentric characters and a great setting in a circus. Adventurous Hannah lives in a very, very dull village with parents who think safety comes before excitement. When she meets Billy ... Download free opening extract |
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Scarlet Ibis Gill Lewis Award-winning children's author and nature writer Gill Lewis is back with her eagerly anticipated fourth novel, Scarlet Ibis. Beautifully written, it is the moving story of a young girl - Scarlet - struggling to hold her family together against the ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Rooftoppers Katherine Rundell Overall Winner and Winner of Fiction for 5-12's category 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize Winner of the Blue Peter Book of the Year 2014 - Best Story Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2014 Abandoned as a baby, Sophie’s determination to find ... Download free opening extract |
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Line of Fire Diary of an Unknown Soldier August - September 1914 Barroux Line of Fire is one of the most extraordinary - and beautiful - books about the First World War. This diary of an unknown French soldier tells of his experiences in the very early days of the fighting at the ... Download free opening extract |
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Brilliant Roddy Doyle A profound story about the effect of despair on society is touched with magic and humour by best-selling Roddy Doyle. When a black dog comes out of the clouds and settles itself in Dublin everyone’s family is affected in one ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 14+ readers
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We Were Liars E. Lockhart This is a truly special book that any teen, YA or adult reader will devour in a sitting. It will hook you in and the ending will surprise. We have all read good books but even with those there are ... Download free opening extract |
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Cuckoo Song Frances Hardinge Frances Hardinge creates a brilliant sense of menace in this chillingly dark fairy story . Something sinister, beyond just getting wet, happens to Triss when she falls into the Grimmer. Something that causes her to change in all kinds of ways ... Download free opening extract |
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The Year of the Rat Clare Furniss Heartbreak is made bearable by humour in this gripping and touching story of sixteen year old Pearl, struggling to keep going after the death of her mother. Pearl’s mum dies after giving birth to The Rat as Pearl designates her ... Download free opening extract |
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