Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Too Noisy! Malachy Doyle 'Biscuits and cakes!' or 'Spiders and Snakes!' All readers will love way they can change the pictures in this clever picture book. On every spread there's a flap which can be opened to reveal some nice or something disgusting. Every ... Download free opening extract |
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I Want a Pet Lauren Child Charlie and Lola’s award-winning author creates some wonderful scenes in her witty story about a child who wants a pet. Mum, Dad, Grandma and Grandpa all have very strong views about pets. Together, and for different reasons, they dismiss the ... Download free opening extract |
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Mayfly Day Jeanne Willis September 2012 Book of the Month. Its message is one to treasure. Mayfly lives for only one day. Is she sad? No, everything about that one day is to be celebrated. Mayfly sees buds burst open, she sees babies being ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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The Man from the Land of Fandango Margaret Mahy September 2012 Book of the Month. Award-winning Margaret Mahy’s deliciously original creation cavorts across the pages of this exuberant picture book. Told in rhyming a text, the story is set in the wonderful land of Fandango where there’s dancing and ... Download free opening extract |
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What's the Time, Mr Wolf? Debi Gliori September 2012 Book of the Month. This enchantingly original story inspired by the well-known playground tag game, this is also perfect for practising telling the time. Mr Wolf is revealed to be not so big and not so bad as ... Download free opening extract |
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Room on the Broom Sound Book Julia Donaldson September 2012 Book of the Month. The witch and her cat are a delightful duo and their cheerful story is given terrific additionality by the wonderful sounds that accompany them in this edition. Listen to the cat purr, the wand ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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The BFG 30th Anniversary Edition Roald Dahl This is a delightful, funny and exciting story about a special friendship between two people from different worlds – a giant and a child. As the story develops it shows how trust and love develops between them. It also shows ... Download free opening extract |
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Superworm Julia Donaldson September 2012 Book of the Month. Award-winning Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo, tell a romping story of Superworm, a new hero on the block. Good old Superworm! Using his special superpowers, he can rescue Beetle when ... Download free opening extract |
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The Further Tale of Peter Rabbit Emma Thompson September 2012 Book of the Month. Emma Thompson, Oscar-winning actress and screen writer, is a long time admirer of Beatrix Potter's tales and this title is inspired by the original title. Thompson has a talent for creating engaging narratives with ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Where My Wellies Take Me Michael Morpurgo, Clare Morpurgo September 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. Best-selling author Michael Morpurgo’s touching story of a young girl’s exploration of the countryside provides a lyrical link for this rich and varied collection of poems about the countryside which have been selected ... Download free opening extract |
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The Odds Adam Perrott September 2012 Book of the Month. The Odd family delight in making mischief, and playing tricks on each other, or on the unsuspecting residents of the town of Trott. But they meet their match in the Plopwells - a seemingly ... Download free opening extract |
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Pippi Longstocking Astrid Lindgren September 2012 Book of the Month. Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren's nine-year-old heroine, burst onto the bookshelf in 1945 and has remained a firm favourite with children the world over. Here her story is illustrated with flair and humour by Lauren ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Grunts In Trouble Philip Ardagh September 2012 Book of the Month. Meet the Grunts! Mr and Mrs, their cat Ginger Biscuit, two donkeys Clip and Clop and Sunny, a child Mr Grunt stole off a washing line as a present for Mrs Grunt. The Grunts ... Download free opening extract |
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Ribblestrop Forever! Andy Mulligan September 2012 Book of the Month. The school where hilarious things happen, is back. Not surprisingly, there are some pretty hair-raising adventures as a result and the setting provides an unusual vision of school and the activities that go on ... Download free opening extract |
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Shrunk! F. R. Hitchcock September 2012 Debut of the Month. With Jupiter in one pocket and a meteorite in the other, both shrunk by him, Tom knows he has a strange power which produces some surprising and dramatic results. How Tom, who already lives ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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Gods and Warriors Michelle Paver September 2012 MEGA Book of the Month. By the best-selling author of Wolf Brother, Gods and Warriors is this year's most hotly anticipated children's novel. The first book in a breathtaking adventure series set in the Greek Bronze Age: a ... Download free opening extract |
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100 Ways for Every Girl to Look and Feel Fantastic Alice Hart-Davis, Beth Hindhaugh Beauty journalist Alice Hart-Davis, and daughter Beth, share their 100 top tips for young teens in this new beauty bible. It will appeal to any teenage girl (or parent) who has been left baffled by amount of beauty advice on ... Download free opening extract |
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War Horse Film tie-in Edition Michael Morpurgo Best-selling War Horse, a magnificent First World War story of human and animal courage on the battle field in the face of deadly danger will shortly be a film following its sell-out adaptation as a play. This film tie-in edition ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 14+ readers
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Missing Me Sophie Mckenzie September 2012 Book of the Month. Sophie McKenzie's ability to tap into the teen pysche is second to none and here yet again in this the third in her Missing series (the first and second were Girl, Missing and Sister, ... Download free opening extract |
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Maggot Moon Sally Gardner September 2012 Book of the Month. Sally Gardner tells a story that is rich in drama and ideas as Standish Treadwell, an unlikely hero, takes on the vicious forces of the repressive motherland in a novel set in a bleak ... Download free opening extract |
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Another Life Keren David A roller-coaster, first-person teenage thriller tells the third part of Keren David's story about teens caught up in the world of crime. Having been expelled from the boarding school he hates, Archie is delighted to be back in London where he ... Download free opening extract |
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