Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Nursery Rhyme Rainbow (board book) Alison Jay Beautiful illustrations with a delightful nostalgic feel bring to life the stories of a host of favourite nursery rhymes selected for their reference to different colours. Little Boy Blue dozes contentedly under a hay stack, the Owl and the Pussy ... Download free opening extract |
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Let's Take a Trip on Animal Airways Sally Hopgood, Andrea Petrlik The aeroplane in this book really does travel through the pages! This wonderful novelty format will help encourage counting, sequencing and recognition skills in any toddler. Turn the page and the brightly coloured aeroplane pops out on a flexible ribbon ... Download free opening extract |
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Baby Gym: Touch and Tickle Designed to stimulate the senses, this delightful board book that hooks into the baby’s first language – that of touch, is a book that will encourage interaction and bonding between parent and baby and thereby build a sense of security ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up Julia Eccleshare & Quentin Blake Fall down the rabbit hole, take flight into Neverland, or follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City; we all remember what it was like to disappear into the imaginary worlds of the most magical and fantastic type of ... Download free opening extract |
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The Tear Thief Carol Ann Duffy This is a warm, poignant and beautifully illustrated story set in a magical world where the tears of children arising from every emotion are of a different colour. An underlying thought-provoking message about emotions lies at its heart. The multi-coloured ... Download free opening extract |
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Where the Wild Things are Maurice Sendak When Max is sent to bed without any supper for making mischief, he sets off on an amazing adventure across the sea to the land where he meets the ‘wild things’. The wild things roar their terrible roar and gnash ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Spells Emily Gravett Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. The winner will be announced to coincide with World Book Day in March. A stunning new picture book from Emily Gravett, full of witchcraft, wizardry and magic. We meet a ... Download free opening extract |
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The Diary of a Killer Cat Anne Fine A cat’s eye view of the world is not exactly the same as a humans! Tuffy’s got no problems with the trail of delicious victims he brings into the house. A bird, a mouse – they are both delicious. In ... Download free opening extract |
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The Church Mouse Graham Oakley A brilliant picture book thankfully now back in print. The stunning, detailed and humorous illustrations tell the entertaining story of how Sampson the church cat and Arthur the church mouse take over the local church despite the reservations of the ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Peter the Penguin Pioneer Daren King Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. The winner will be announced to coincide with World Book Day in early March. Hugely inventive and charmingly funny with laugh out loud zany humour and wonderful illustrations throughout that ... Download free opening extract |
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The Great Hamster Massacre Katie Davies Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 An entertaining behind-the-scenes look at family life in all its intricacies as it revolves around pet ownership and the drama that surrounds it. Nine year old Anna tells how she and her younger brother ... Download free opening extract |
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Batpants! Jeremy Strong Loads of laughter for readers from comic master writer Jeremy Strong. Batpants is his new creation, a madcap story of high jinks as Finn, Zac and Tilly learn to live with a pet orang-utan. Batpants is just part of the ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 Harriet Goodwin Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. The winner will be announced to coincide with World Book Day in March. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 is a quirky ... Download free opening extract |
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Flyaway Lucy Christopher Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 Tender and touching, this is a delicate story about facing up to difficulties and finding a way through. When Isla’s father develops a serious heart condition he can no longer take her to see ... Download free opening extract |
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Frozen In Time Ali Sparkes Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. The winner will be announced to coincide with World Book Day in March. A page-turning mystery-adventure with a pleasingly old-fashioned feel as two children, frozen by cryonic suspension by ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Season of Secrets Sally Nicholls A haunting and unforgettable new novel From the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Season of Secrets weaves the tale of a heartbroken child and an age-old legend into beautiful story of love, healing and strange magic. Resonant of classics such as ... Download free opening extract |
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Auslander Paul Dowswell Shortlisted for the prestigious Teenage Book of the Year Award 2009. A tense and dramatic story of growing up in Berlin during World War Two. When Piotr’s parents are killed he is taking to an orphanage in Warsaw. But Piotr ... Download free opening extract |
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Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo One of our 'Must Reads'. It will seem odd when reading this book that the author enjoyed writing it the most of all the 90 or so he has written so far. That’s because it’s the one that most ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 14+ readers
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Savannah Grey: A Horror Story Cliff Mcnish If you're looking for a real page-turner that will have you gasping for breath then this is it. It's a horror story and a love story intertwined and 15 year old Savannah Grey is possibly the only person who can ... Download free opening extract |
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The Carbon Diaries 2017 Saci Lloyd Laura’s witty diary entries cleverly combine the important events in her own life – managing her boyfriend and dealing with her attempts to be in a successful band – with the major and serious issues of climate change in a ... Download free opening extract |
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My Love Lies Bleeding Alyxandra Harvey This is a teen romance to really get your teeth into. It’s an action-packed, urban fantasy full of Gothic seduction, teen angst, passion, wicked humour and adventure, all skilfully ignited by an age-old prophecy and a reluctant vampire princess that ... Download free opening extract |
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