Books for Babies and Toddlers
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A Great Big Cuddle Michael Rosen One of our Books of the Year 2015 - A Reader Review Panel Pick of the Year 2015 - chosen by Robyn Chorely, aged 5- Julia Eccleshare's Book of the Month, September 2015 Children’s Laureates Chris Riddell and Michael Rosen ... Download free opening extract |
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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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The Snowman and the Snowdog Pop-Up Picture Book Raymond Briggs A truly delightful pop-up picture book with stunning 3D spreads for all the family to enjoy and share with toddlers coupled with an enchanting story of The Snowman and an adorable new puppy-friend, the Snowdog. It pays a wonderful compliment ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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There Will be Lies Nick Lake Joanne Owen's Pick of the Year 2015 - January 2015 Book of the Month Award-winning Nick Lake tells a complex story fusing two strands of narrative into a richly woven single thread. Seventeen-year-old Shelby Cooper has always been very protected ... Download free opening extract |
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The Dark Days Club Alison Goodman This first novel in a trilogy of deliciously dark, supernatural page-turners set in Regency England is packed with passion, period detail and devastating demons. London, 1812, and sharp-minded, strong-spirited Lady Helen Wrexhall is about to be presented to Queen Charlotte. Her ... Download free opening extract |
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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 |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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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 |
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Fabulous Pie Gareth Edwards Shortlisted for Children’s Book Award 2016, Books for Younger Children category Fabulous Pie is shortlisted for the Children’s Book Award, the only children’s prize selected by children. In the story a bear calls out to the other inhabitants of the forest ... Download free opening extract |
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Blue Penguin Petr Horacek One of our Books of the Year 2015 - 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 ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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The Snow Beast Chris Judge One of our Books of the Year 2015 - A Staff Pick of the Year 2015 - chosen by Louise Weir - December 2015 Book of the Month - Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Month, October 2015 Chris Judge’s delightful Beast ... Download free opening extract |
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Imaginary Fred Eoin Colfer One of our Books of the Year 2015 -Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Year 2015 There are so many adjectives you could use to describe this book - extraordinary, dazzling, original, funny, irresistible, quirky, imaginative, clever, stunning - but ... Download free opening extract |
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Too Many Toys! Heidi Deedman How many toys is too many? It’s a question that’s bothers Lulu. She has had her teddy Jupiter since she was a baby and loves him very much, but as she grows up, she’s given more, and more, and more ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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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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Ghost for Sale Terry Deary Interest Age 8-12 Reading Age 7 A hilarious, riddling tale from the international bestselling author of Horrible Histories, Terry Deary. Without exception dyslexia-friendly books published by Barrington Stoke get off to an exciting start and maintain the impetus throughout, with a ... 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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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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Boy in the Tower Polly Ho-Yen Shortlisted for Children’s Book Award 2016, Books for Younger Readers category - Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Best Fiction for 5-12's Award 2015 - Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2015 Best Story From the seventeenth floor of the tower ... Download free opening extract |
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House of Robots: Robots Go Wild! James Patterson December 2015 Book of the Month Another helping of page-turning fun from James Patterson, ably assisted by Chris Grabenstein. Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez shares his home with robots – his mum is a robot scientist - and one of them, E, even ... 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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Winterkill Kate A. Boorman This is such a gloriously different and delightful read. The storyline sucks you in whole and clamours to be read as quickly as possible, while the beautifully bewitching writing encourages you to savour every word. Emmeline and her people rely ... Download free opening extract |
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Grandpa's Great Escape David Walliams October 2015 Book of the Month There’s no doubt that this will be at the top of the bestseller lists, at least until Christmas and probably well beyond. In a relatively short time David Walliams has built up a huge ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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One Sarah Crossan Julia Eccleshare's Pick of the Year 2015 - September 2015 Julia Eccleshare's Mega Book of the Month Award-winning Sarah Crossan tells an astonishing and difficult story with the surest of touches in this tender, funny and life affirming book. Grace ... Download free opening extract |
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Paper Towns John Green A special edition slipcase edition of John Green's Paper Towns, with pop-up paper town. Award winning author John Green’s fresh-voiced novel is an utterly gripping story that gives a roller-coaster, unputdownable read. Strongly set with all the details of life ... Download free opening extract |
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A Song for Ella Grey David Almond Winner of the 2015 Guardian Children's Book prize -Winner of the 2015 Peters Book of the Year 'Teen Fiction' Award Award-winning David Almond is at his lyrical best in this eloquent, tender and ultimately devastating contemporary teenage love story ... Download free opening extract |
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