Books for Babies and Toddlers
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I Spy With My Little Eye Edward Gibbs A simple I-spy with die-cut holes so little ones can spy through the page and guess the animal. Dramatic bold illustrations focus on a single colour and each page also includes a helpful factual clue about the animal. This is ... Download free opening extract |
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Dinosaur Rhyme TimeFavourite nursery rhymes- especially ones with actions to go with them – are nicely presented on the page in this pretty edition. A perfect gift for a new baby – and their parents who will be delighted to be reminded ... Download free opening extract |
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My First Elmer Collection David Mckee Multi-coloured Elmer is everyone’s favourite elephant! This first collection of four board books includes Elmer’s Weather, Elmer’s Friends, Elmer’s Day and Elmer’s Colours. Perfect as an introduction to each topic! ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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This is Not My Hat Jon Klassen Winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal 2014 - Winner of the UKLA Book Awards 3-6yrs 2014- Winner of the 2013 Caldecott Medal. One of Julia Eccleshare’s Stand-out Children’s Book of the Year 2012 Best-selling illustrator Jon Klassen follows up his ... Download free opening extract |
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Abigail Catherine Rayner Longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal 2014 Kate Greenaway winner Catherine Rayner’s gorgeous bold animals fill the pages perfectly in this entertaining counting book. Abigail the giraffe wants to count everything and anything she can. But counting is hard when ... Download free opening extract |
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Frances Dean Who Loved to Dance and Dance Birgitta Sif From a truly special new voice in picture books, the award-winning author-illustrator of Oliver comes a heart-warming story about finding strength in your friends, overcoming your fears and following your dreams! It glows from the inside out and is also ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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Twit Stephen Cole Poor little Twit is always having mean tricks played on him by his big brothers, Boggle, Bumf and Baffle. One trick too far and Twit is left stuck in a hole where Norma the vole comes to is rescue. The ... Download free opening extract |
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The Pirates' Picnic Angela Mcallister Join Jim on a pirates' picnic in this brand-new blue Early Reader by Kate Greenaway Medal-shortlisted author, Angela McAllister. Life is a bit glum on the bad ship Skullywag. Jim the cabin boy wants to cheer up the crew. So he ... Download free opening extract |
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Cudweed's Time Machine Marcus Sedgwick Meet Cudweed and his slightly – well, unusual family. One day, feeling bored and anxious for teatime to arrive, Cudweed decides to ‘borrow’ his dad’s time machine. Oh, his dad just happens to be an inventor by the way. However, ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Buckle and Squash and the Monstrous Moat-dragon Sarah Courtauld July 2014 Book of the Month Knights and princesses and swords and dragons all feature in this hugely entertaining story about two very different sisters, Eliza and Lavender. While Eliza dreams of being a hero, Lavender thinks only of being ... Download free opening extract |
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Borgon the Axeboy and the Dangerous Breakfast Kjartan Poskitt July 2014 Book of the Month Be careful where you read this savagely funny new series for 8+ year olds as you'll struggle to contain yourself! From the author of Agatha Parrot, Kjartan Poskitt and with illustrations by the one ... Download free opening extract |
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Charlotte's Web E. B. White How a wise spider saves a young pig from slaughter is the most touching of animal stories. Fern saves Wilbur, the runty little piglet of the litter from her father’s axe and promises to look after him. Fern finds Wilbur ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Wendy Quill is Full Up of Wrong Wendy Meddour Wendy seems to be a magnet for trouble! Back for a third set of adventures she is now riding a bike – rather dangerously – which is just one of the ways in which she gets full up of wrong! ... Download free opening extract |
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Billy's Blitz Barbara Mitchelhill Award-winning Barbara Mitchelhill brings Billy’s war-struck childhood vividly to life in this dramatic story of survival. Billy’s dad is away fighting and Billy’s mum thinks that the war will always be far away from their home in South London. As ... Download free opening extract |
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The Boy on the Porch Sharon Creech Award-winning Sharon Creech has an exceptional ability to write tenderly. In this touching modern fairy story she captures the rewards of love freely given to children. When John and Marta find a little boy asleep on their porch one morning ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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The Savage Kingdom Simon David Eden July 2014 Debut of the Month An epic fantasy adventure about loyalty, courage, hope, survival... and the awesome power of nature. Michelle Paver meets Michael Morpurgo meets Homeward Bound in this unforgettable story between a girl and her cat. ... Download free opening extract |
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No Going Back Alex Gutteridge A moving contemporary tale of family, love and loss from the author of Last Chance Angel. Laura's dad had died but why having moved into her grandmother's home does he appear ghostlike in the house and why does her mum ... Download free opening extract |
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Head Over Heart Colette Victor July 2014 Debut of the Month Boys, homework and family – Zeynab has all the usual concerns of any girl her age. But Zeynab has another thing to think about which is perhaps most important of all. Does she want ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 14+ readers
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She is Not Invisible Marcus Sedgwick Longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Book Award 2014 When sixteen-year-old Laureth’s father vanishes she is determined to track him down. So determined that she flies to New York to find him. But Laureth doesn’t go alone; she takes her ... Download free opening extract |
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Poppy Mary Hooper Women’s roles in the First World War need to be told as frequently as possible. Mary Hooper’s Poppy combines a brilliant insight into how utterly and dramatically the lives of women changed during the conflict as attitudes altered and old ... Download free opening extract |
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The Apple Tart of Hope Sarah Moore Fitzgerald A touching and funny story about being an outsider which is illuminated by touches of magic. Oscar and Meg are next-door-neighbours and best friends. But, when Meg moves away everything changes. Now Paloma Killealy lives next door and Oscar gets ... Download free opening extract |
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