Books for Babies and Toddlers

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 We're Going on a Bear Hunt Buggy Book We're Going on a Bear Hunt Buggy Book Michael Rosen You’re never too young for the brilliance of a book such as We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Walker Books have taken Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s classic picture book and condensed it into a chunky board book. The illustrations ... Download free opening extract
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 Count with Maisy, Cheep, Cheep, Cheep! 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 Five Minutes' Peace Jill Murphy Celebrate thirty years of the Large family in this stunning anniversary edition of a modern picture book classic. 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 ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for Young Adults

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 Not If I See You First 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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 Rebel of the Sands Rebel of the Sands Alwyn Hamilton February 2016 Debut of the Month  Smart-talking, sharpshooting Amani Al’Hiza is desperate to flee dead-end Dustwalk to make a better life for herself. While her prospects seem pretty much limited to being married off, the arrival of an enigmatic stranger ... Download free opening extract
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 Flawed Flawed Cecelia Ahern Set in a society in which those deemed ‘flawed’ are branded and ostracised, Celia Ahern’s debut YA novel will talk directly to its readers. Every teenager wants to be perfect, to fit in and look like they know what they’re ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 3+ readers

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 Blue and Bertie 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 King Cat The King Cat Marta Altes This is the perfect book for anyone who shares their house with a cat (or indeed a new sibling). In lively, varied double page spreads Cat describes his life as undisputed king of the house until – terrible day – ... Download free opening extract
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 Odd Socks 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

Featured Books for 5+ readers

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 How to Find Gold 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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 The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head 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
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 10 Ten-Minute Stories 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

Featured Books for 7+ readers

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 The Dragonsitter to the Rescue 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 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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 100 Science Experiments 100 Science Experiments Kate Knighton, Georgina Andrews Combine hands-on fun with scientific investigation using this action-packed collection of 100 simple science experiments. Use easily-sourced materials to make crystals, electrical circuits, kaleidoscopes, balloon rockets, and much more. Internet links go to specially selected websites with more activities, and ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 9+ readers

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 How to Look for a Lost Dog How to Look for a Lost Dog Ann M. Martin February 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 rules ... Download free opening extract
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 Hamish and the Neverpeople Hamish and the Neverpeople Danny Wallace February 2016 Book of the Month 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 ... Download free opening extract
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 Time Travelling with a Hamster 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

Featured Books for 11+ readers

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 Grandpa's Great Escape Grandpa's Great Escape David Walliams One of our Books of the Year 2015 - October 2015 Book of the Month  There’s no doubt that this will be at the top of the bestseller lists, at least until Christmas and probably well beyond. In a relatively ... Download free opening extract
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 The Icarus Show 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 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

Featured Books for 13+ readers

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 The Lie Tree The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge WINNER of the 2015 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR and Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award - Andrea Reeces's Pick of the Year 2015 - Shortlisted for the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the ... Download free opening extract
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 The Art of Being Normal The Art of Being Normal Lisa Williamson This is a sensitive, often funny and thoroughly engaging story of teenagers coming to terms with who they are. It’s easy to think in these liberal times that anything goes, but teens will be quick to point out that growing ... Download free opening extract
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 Spook's: The Dark Army Spook's: The Dark Army Joseph Delaney Following the shocking final events of A New Darkness, fans of the Spook’s series will be desperate to find out what happens next. The opening chapter is riveting as Tom Ward, slaughtered at the end of the previous book, is ... Download free opening extract