Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Good Night Like This Mary Murphy As every parent knows, a good ‘night night, snuggle down’ book is invaluable, and Good Night Like This is a particularly lovely take on the theme. It’s night-time and the baby animals are being tucked into bed, half page flaps ... 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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What a Wonderful World Bob Thiele, George David Weiss This is a book full of sunshine. Tim Hopgood has taken the lyrics from the song made famous by Louis Armstrong and turned them into a picture book. The lyrics are often pretty specific – ‘I see trees of green/ ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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Sophie Someone Hayley Long Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Children's Book Award - September 2015 Book of the Month Sophie Nieuwenleven’s story is shocking, so she tells it in the only way she can – in code, using random code worms to keep any ... Download free opening extract |
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Monster C.J. Skuse October 2015 Book of the Month In an isolated boarding school, a group of girls settle in for the holidays. Everyone else has gone home and there are rivalries and animosity between them – this definitely isn’t going to be ... 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 |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Blue Penguin Petr Horacek November 2015 Book of the Month There are some breathtakingly beautiful illustrations in Petr Horacek’s new picture book, and a story to bring a lump to the throat. Blue Penguin does the same things that the other penguins do but, ... Download free opening extract |
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Robin's Winter Song Suzanne Barton November 2015 Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month Beautifully illustrated, this buoyant and cheerful story captures Robin’s delight as the new season arrives! There’s a chill in the air and all of Robin’s friends are flying away to somewhere warmer. ... Download free opening extract |
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Is There a Dog in This Book? Viviane Schwarz Shortlisted for Children’s Book Award 2016, Books for Younger Children category With an irresistible story that directly involves the reader, this book's clever design and bright, gestural illustrations make for a LOT of fun for cat (and dog) lovers! It ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Tom's Sunflower Hilary Robinson Written and illustrated with warmth, humour and sensitivity, this excellent book, part of the Copper Tree Class series, tackles the subject of family break-up. Hana is confused and upset because her parents are going to live separately, and all the ... Download free opening extract |
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The Snow Beast Chris Judge December 2015 Book of the Month - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, October 2015 Chris Judge’s delightful Beast is back for a fresh adventure and this time he has a new friend! The Beast loves snow but, when he climbs ... Download free opening extract |
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Old Bear's Bedtime Stories Jane Hissey December 2015 Book of the Month Jane Hissey’s Old Bear stories make perfect bedtime reading: warm-hearted and so reassuring. Many of her best-loved characters feature in these stories and the more threadbare her bears and toys are, the more authentic ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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The What on Earth? Wallbook Timeline of Nature Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Skipworth November 2015 Book of the Month The most innovative approach to non-fiction since Horrible Histories, the What On Earth Wallbooks present information in a way guaranteed to inspire children’s curiosity and to stimulate real enthusiasm for learning. Each one contains ... Download free opening extract |
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Not Bad for a Bad Lad Michael, M. B. E. Morpurgo This wonderful story was inspired by a conversation that Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman had about a prison at Hollesley Bay in Suffolk that Michael Foreman remembered from growing up nearby. Into this Michael Morpurgo weaves his story of how ... 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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The Last of the Spirits Chris Priestley December 2015 Book of the Month What would Christmas be without a ghost story? Chris Priestley, master of the macabre, has written one that while it will send shivers down the spine can be enjoyed by all the family. His ... Download free opening extract |
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Clare and Her Captain Michael Morpurgo November 2015 Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month Award-winning Michael Morpurgo is always at his best when writing about the countryside and the animals in it. Here, in a story inspired by his wife’s childhood, he writes about young Clare, visiting ... Download free opening extract |
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Old School (Diary of a Wimpy Kid book 10) Jeff KinneyNovember 2015 Book of the Month Old School is number ten in the multi-million-selling Wimpy Kid series and author Jeff Kinney is on very good form. The generation gap is something of a theme in this episode: Greg doesn’t understand ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Island Nicky Singer December 2015 Book of the Month Island is a powerful and vivid new story from Nicky Singer, the prize-winning author of Feather Boy. London teenager Cameron is cast away on an uninhabited island in the Arctic with his scientist mother ... Download free opening extract |
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Pick Your Poison Lauren Child December 2015 Book of the Month You’ve got to be really smart to keep up with 13 year old secret agent Ruby Redfort, as her enemies know to their cost. There are multiple strands to her new adventure, which involves ... Download free opening extract |
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Young Bond: Shoot to Kill Steve Cole November 2015 Book of the Month Steve Cole steps into Ian Fleming’s, and latterly Charlie Higson’s shoes in this brand new adventure for the young James Bond, and finds them a very good fit. This is a clever piece of ... 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 - Shortlisted for 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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The Devil's Angel Kevin Brooks February 2015 Book of the Month - Interest Age Teen Reading Age 8 Award-winning Kevin Brooks tells a gripping and thoughtful story about the irresistible appeal of a dangerous friendship. Jack is cruising along in year 10; not part of ... Download free opening extract |
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The 5th Wave Rick Yancey This is 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 the end and long after it'll ... Download free opening extract |
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