Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Slug Needs a Hug Jeanne Willis Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, April 2016 Best-selling Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross have created many fabulous picture books together. Here, the weedy and whiny little slug is just longing for a hug! How can he make his mum ... Download free opening extract |
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Blown Away Rob Biddulph Winner of the 2015 Waterstones Children's Book Prize A brilliant adventure for a bold Penguin who gets swept up, up and away on a brand new kite on a windy day. Penguin’s original and richly-imagined adventure is beautifully told and ... Download free opening extract |
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What's the Opposite? Oliver Jeffers Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month, July 2015 Award-winning Oliver Jeffers’s endearingly simple Hueys are always asking interesting questions to help them find out more. This time they want to know more about opposites. Some opposites are easy. Everyone knows ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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Not If I See You First Eric Lindstrom May 2016 Debut of the Month 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 ... Download free opening extract |
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Chasing the Stars Malorie Blackman May 2016 Book of the Month An innovative, ambitious page-turner in which the inimitable Malorie Blackman has entwined two of her great passions - Shakespeare's Othello and science fiction - to create a thrilling outer-space-set epic that tingles with romance, ... Download free opening extract |
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The Outliers Kimberly McCreight May 2016 Debut of the Month The Outliers is one of those twisty thrillers that run on paranoia. It will send readers’ heartbeats soaring as their fears for the safety of central character Wylie increase, and they realise there is ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Supertato Veggies Assemble Sue Hendra May 2016 Book of the Month You won’t find a dafter or more entertaining picture book than this new outing for Supertato, the spud with super powers! It’s anarchy in the supermarket when the peas – evil to their core – ... Download free opening extract |
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The Bear and the Piano David Litchfield Shortlisted for the English Picture Book Award 2016 - Longlisted for the inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize, an important new illustration prize for children's books. Winner of the Illustrated category of The Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016. March 2016 Debut of the ... Download free opening extract |
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Storytime: The Extremely Greedy Dragon Jessica Barrah The village of Little Chiddling is in turmoil - there’s a sleeping dragon on the railway line! Young Georgie decides she’ll try and wake it, after all there’s a reward of £100 up for grabs. The dragon is hungry and ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Captain Pug Laura James Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month May 2016 A deliciously madcap doggy adventure for Pug, the pampered dog of the even more pampered Lady Miranda. When Lady Miranda determines that Pug will be the ship’s captain when they go ... Download free opening extract |
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The Mouse Who Reached the Sky Petr Horacek May 2016 Book of the Month Little Mouse has spotted something red and shiny hanging from a branch, and decides it’s a marble. She can’t reach it by herself so fetches first Mole – who thinks it’s a balloon – ... Download free opening extract |
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The Secret Pirate Elli Woollard Lil might look like an ordinary schoolgirl, but under her jumper and vest she’s a pirate! When the thoroughly rotten Stinkbeard arrives Lil flies into battle against him, because Lil is a pirate who’ll do what is right, if it ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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My Brother is a Superhero David Solomons Children’s Book of the Year, The British Book Industry Awards 2016 - Overall winner of Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016 - Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2016. July 2015 Debut of the Month Oh the anguish! Luke is a comic-reading ... Download free opening extract |
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Pugs of the Frozen North Philip Reeve May 2016 Book of the Month Award winning author partners Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre head north for their latest adventure. Shen the cabin boy is abandoned by his shipmates when their ship is stranded in the ice. He’s ... Download free opening extract |
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Dotty Detective Clara Vulliamy May 2016 Book of the Month Dot’s story is told in a unique diary format of hilarious Tweet-style observations, selfie pics (artworked by Clara), under the duvet moments back at ‘HQ’ (Dot’s bedroom) and clues that Dot finds and sticks ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Hidden Oracle Rick Riordan May 2016 Book of the Month In the hands of Rick Riordan, aka ‘Storyteller of the Gods’, Greek myths provide the starting points for the very best contemporary adventures. Apollo is star of this new series, though he’s not very godlike: ... 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 Tree That Sat Down Beverley Nichols Collins Modern Classics are relaunched with gorgeous new covers, bringing these timeless story to a new generation. ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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The Girl of Ink & Stars Kiran Millwood-Hargrave ‘Here be dragons’ it says on old maps, but Isabella finds creatures even more terrifying in the unchartered lands of Joya, the island that is her home. Joya is a place of limited horizons and hidden stories: the governor has ... Download free opening extract |
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House of Secrets Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini Hold onto your hats. Acclaimed film director, producer and screenwriter Chris Columbus has swapped the big screen for books with House of Secrets, the first book in a brand new trilogy, which he has co-written with Ned Vizzini of MTV’s ... Download free opening extract |
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Percy Jackson and the Greek Heroes Rick Riordan The fabulous Percy Jackson himself takes the reader back, to roughly 4,000 years ago and tells the stories of twelve Greek Heroes. This isn't about Percy, however his unique voice shines through as he tells the tales in his own ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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Alone D.J. Brazier Gosh, this is a full on adventurous tale about hope and survival! Then there’s the beautiful friendship between a boy and an otter cub which really gives this story heart and soul. Sam tells his own tale, after the small ... Download free opening extract |
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Off the Page Jodi Picoult, Samantha Van Leer May 2016 Book of the Month This companion novel to the bestselling Between the Lines also works wonderfully as a life-affirming standalone novel, and features a sprinkling of full-page colour illustrations that exude the feel-good nostalgic ambiance of traditional fairy ... Download free opening extract |
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North Face Matt Dickinson An adventurous rescue attempt out on the north face of Everest, sits alongside the tale of a Tibetan family as they flee for their lives. ‘North Face’ is the second in The Everest Files Series with 18 year old Ryan ... Download free opening extract |
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