Top 3 books, by age range on Lovereading4kids 1 - 8 March 2015

Books for Babies and Toddlers

1		What's Your Favourite Animal? Eric Carle March 2015 Book of the Month Eric Carle, the world-famous creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, loves animals – especially cats. His cat Fiffi is the first favourite animal followed by Peter McCarty’s great big Bunny and Rosemary Wells rather ... Download free opening extract
2		Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney March 2015 Book of the Month Best-selling and glorious Guess How Much I love you has delighted children – and adults - for a quarter of a century. Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare want to tell each other just ... Download free opening extract
3		Baby's Very First Cloth Book Fiona Watt March 15 Book of the Month  Cloth books are the perfect thing to tuck into baby’s buggy or cot, a lovely way to introduce the very, very young to books, and perfect for sharing. Bright colours and silky soft pages ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 3+ readers

1		Hogs Hate Hugs! Tiziana Bendall-Brunello Can Little Hog avoid all the hugs that everyone wants to give him? And does he really want to?? As the smallest and most huggable creature in the forest, Little Hog gets Big Hugs, Slow Hugs, Hopping-Quick Hugs and sometimes, ... Download free opening extract
2		Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox Julia Donaldson Best-selling Julia Donaldson has created a new story for the popular Princess Mirror-Belle in this gorgeously glittery book. Ellen is covered in spots. She has chicken pox and is very itchy! She’s just about to scratch the nasty tickly spot ... Download free opening extract
3		Mr Super Poopy Pants Rebecca Elliott An older brother looks affectionately at his baby brother despite the fact that he is very far removed from the super-hero he is hoping for! Instead, this little one has only one skill – he can fill a nappy! ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 5+ readers

1		Creaturepedia Adrienne Barman March 2015 Book of the Month Beautifully illustrated, this is an original and entertaining introduction to the curious facts about 600 iconic and incredible creatures which live all around the world. Grouped under unusual heading such as ‘The masters of camouflage’, ... Download free opening extract
2		The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig Eugene Trivizas This much-loved picture book puts a comic and clever twist on the familiar fairytale. Three polite young wolves set off to make their way in the world and build themselves a charming little house in the country. But their rural ... Download free opening extract
3		The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head Daisy Hirst February 2015 Debut of the Month   Inventive and witty, this is a story that is full of ideas and imagining rather than neatly tying up loose ends. Told more through the pictures than the words, the story of Isabel’s happiness ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 7+ readers

1		Ultimate Explorer Guide for Kids Justin Miles March 15 Non-Fiction Book of the Month  There’s a huge amount of information, and inspiration, contained in this rucksack-pocket-sized guide. Author and real-life explorer Justin Miles covers all the basics, including essential kit and how to pack it, and the ... Download free opening extract
2		13-Storey Treehouse Andy Griffiths Best-selling Australian author/ illustrator Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton have created a fantastical treehouse which will tickle the imagination of all readers. It’s a house with everything – and if there is something it lacks, it can easily be created! ... Download free opening extract
3		Sedric and the Great Pig Rescue Angie Morgan March 2015 Debut of the Month The Dark Ages – ‘the bit of history that was left behind after the Romans left’ according to the author – provides the setting for a story of resourceful peasants up against villainous greedy ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 9+ readers

1		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
2		The Dreamsnatcher Abi Elphinstone March 2015 Debut of the Month   Abi Elphinstone’s debut novel plunges the reader into a world of magic and adventure. Twelve-year-old Moll lives in a gypsy camp in the Ancientwood.  She has no parents but the gypsies’ extended family take ... Download free opening extract
3		Smart A Mysterious Crime, a Different Detective Kim Slater Shortlisted for the Waterstones Best Fiction for Teens Award 2015  Kieran watches the world carefully. He’s good at noticing things that others don’t which makes him an excellent detective. Born with learning difficulties and living with a violent stepfather, Kieran ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 11+ readers

1		The Bell Between Worlds Ian Johnstone Debut-author Ian Johnstone offers his readers an enormous and richly created world to explore in this elaborately constructed fantasy. Sylas Tate steps into the unusual Shop of Things and, through his remarkable powers of imagination and his ability to do ... Download free opening extract
2		All That Glitters Holly Smale March 2015 Book of the Month  Welcome back Harriet Manners, self-confessed geek and the only supermodel in the world who repeats the entire periodic table when stressed. For those not in the know, this is the fourth book about Harriet, ... Download free opening extract
3		A Cage of Roots Matt Griffin March 2015 Debut of the Month An astonishingly different and chillingly striking tale that envelopes the pages in a cloak of darkness and mystery. The author hurls the reader straight into the middle of the story, waiting before making introductions ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for 13+ readers

1		The Glory Lauren St. John March 2015 Book of the Month  For a businessman Jonas B. Ellington is a romantic. That’s why, inspired by tales of the Old West, he comes up with the idea of The Glory, an endurance race for rider and horse ... Download free opening extract
2		Paper Towns John Green A special hardback edition of 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 in high school, at its heart is the powerful relationship between Quentin ... Download free opening extract
3		The Beneath S. C. Ransom An adrenaline fuelled opening plunges readers into a compelling and tense thriller. Lily is loitering on the platform of an underground station – with no signal it’s a refuge from her cyberbullies – when a girl comes running down the ... Download free opening extract

Featured Books for Young Adults

1		Grasshopper Jungle Andrew Smith Longlisted for the 2015 CILIP Carnegie Medal  - One of our Books of the Year 2014 - One of the Lovereading4kids Readers' Choice Books of the Year 2014 *** Suitable for 15+ due to explicit content   Across a huge canvass ... Download free opening extract
2		The Alex Crow Andrew Smith March 2015 Book of the Month  Andrew Smith’s novel Grasshopper Jungle, a wild and totally original adventure about giant killer bugs terrorizing a small US town, is on the longlist for the Carnegie Medal. Here again he puts adolescent boys ... Download free opening extract
3		Under My Skin James Dawson March 15 Book of the Month   A thoughtfully provocative and chillingly eerie tale that seizes your attention from the very first page and refuses to let go until the last. 17 year old Sally, quiet and careful good girl meets ... Download free opening extract