Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Elmer and the Rainbow David Mckee A story about Elmer, everyone's favourite patchwork elephant, now available as a sturdy, paddedboard book to delight his many fans. This one is a classic story about sharing and giving. Books featuring Elmer and his friends are universally acknowledged as essential ... Download free opening extract |
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Mog and Me and Other Stories Judith Kerr Mog is made for board books. Judith Kerr’s illustrations look particularly attractive on the square white boards, and toddlers will love these four little stories of ordinary, everyday adventures. Mog and the little boy have fun together playing in the ... Download free opening extract |
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I Want a Bedtime Story Tony Ross After all these years the Little Princess still rules the palace and its inhabitants – including the queen, the admiral and the prime minister. The king is away and she wants a bedtime story, but none of the grown-ups’ stories ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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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 |
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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 |
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 First Hippo on the Moon David Walliams May 2016 Book of the Month Best-selling David Walliams and Tony Ross have teamed up for a great hippo space adventure. Sheila is a hippo with BIG ideas. Specifically, she is determined to be the first hippo on the Moon. ... Download free opening extract |
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A Brave Bear Sean Taylor April 2016 Book of the Month The characters may be bears, but the parent/child relationship depicted in this lovely picture book will be familiar to all readers. It’s hot so a little bear suggests to his dad that they should ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Captain Pug Laura James May 2016 Book of the Month 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 for an outing on ... 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 |
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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 |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Flyboy Tom Palmer April 2016 Book of the Month Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 8+ Tom Palmer’s new story starts on a football pitch and then, via a clever bit of ghost story, gives readers the experience of the skill and bravery required to ... Download free opening extract |
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My Brother is a Superhero David Solomons Shortlisted for The Branford Boase Award 2016. Overall winner of Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016. July 2015 Debut of the Month Oh the anguish! Luke is a comic-reading super-hero expert, but he’s gone for a wee at the crucial moment when ... Download free opening extract |
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The Amazing Dinosaur Detectives Maggie Li May 2016 Book of the Month Attractive, friendly illustrations and an interactive approach make this a fun introduction to dinosaurs. In the company of a group of ‘dinosaur detectives’ readers can explore the world of dinosaurs and pick up a ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Knights of the Borrowed Dark Dave Rudden April 2016 Book of the Month Move over Harry Potter, there’s a new orphan on the block, ready to take on monsters and stand up for what’s right and decent. Until he’s 13, Denizen Hardwick (full marks to the author for ... 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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A Seven Letter Word Kim Slater April 2016 Book of the Month Finlay is articulate, an excellent Scrabble player, which makes it so frustrating that the seven letter word that defines him is stammer. He’s always found it hard to speak, but since his mum suddenly ... Download free opening extract |
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Half a Creature from the Sea David Almond An anthology of dark, powerful and moving short stories from master storyteller and author of the internationally award-winning Skellig, David Almond, inspired by his childhood in the North-East of England. It features coming of age stories on the theme of ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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The Bombs That Brought Us Together Brian Conaghan Set in a bleak world and reminiscent of Orwell’s 1984, The Bombs That Brought Us Together is nonetheless a funny, tender, surprising and uplifting novel. Charlie’s life should be pretty miserable: he lives in Little Town, where everyone spies on everyone ... Download free opening extract |
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The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Shortlisted for the UKLA 2016 Book Award in the 12 - 16 year old category. WINNER of the 2015 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR and Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award Award-winning Frances Hardinge is spellbinding is this hugely entertaining ... Download free opening extract |
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Alien Rain Ruth Morgan Alien Rain is an incredibly gripping adventure thriller that 10+ year olds will devour. Bree, the main protagonist is a teen girl who is hugely brave and yet the insecurities that all teens feel is also at the fore. The ... Download free opening extract |
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