This month's 'featured books'
Age 0 - 5 years
Harry And The Dinosaurs Make A Splash
Harry And The Dinosaurs Make A Splash
Ian Whybrow
Meet Harry and his bucket full of dinosaurs. They go for a splosh, a splash and a swim, with Nan...
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Lulu's Shoes
Lulu's Shoes
Camilla Reid
An utterly fabulous interactive book for shoe-obsessed toddlers. Guaranteed to keep toddlers engaged for hours with laces, velcro straps and...
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You Can Do It, Lola!
You Can Do It, Lola!
Lindsey Gardiner
Lola is adored by everyone, so much so that all the doggy tit-bits she’s given are making her very out...
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Scaredy Squirrel At The Beach
Scaredy Squirrel At The Beach
Melanie Watt
Scaredy Squirrel is back for a new adventure. This time, he tries to avoid a beach holiday. He knows the...
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Bog Baby
Bog Baby
Jeanne Willis
A tender story with a big message. Two sisters playing by the pond find a magical tiny being complete with...
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Whale Gets Stuck
Whale Gets Stuck
Karen Hayles
Whale’s playground is the icy seas and he is fearless as he ducks and dives among the waves. But, when...
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This month's 'featured books'
Age 11 - 13 Years
Spud
Spud
John Van De Ruit
There’s a warning attached to this book. It is side-splittingly funny and it will find you rolling around on the...
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Dragonfly Pool
Dragonfly Pool
Eva Ibbotson
A wonderful, magical adventure spins out of a school story with a difference. Tally doesn’t want to leave her father...
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Fly On The Wall
Fly On The Wall
Emily Lockhart
A fabulous and fun novel. Ever felt like wanting to be a ‘fly on the wall’ in order to glean...
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Dragonfly
Dragonfly
Julia Golding
Fun to read, Dragonfly is a sweeping story on an epic scale. Princess Tashi and Prince Rami are forced into...
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Steel Trapp
Steel Trapp
Ridley Pearson
A sharp, fast-paced thriller featuring a 14-year old whose photographic memory causes him to get embroiled in a complex puzzle...
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Iron Hand
Iron Hand
Charlie Fletcher
More London statues come to life in the thrilling second title in this adventure series that began with Stoneheart....
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This month's 'featured books'
NYR 2008
Don't Be Horrid, Henry! (Book and CD)
Don't Be Horrid, Henry! (Book and CD)
Francesca Simon
Horrid Henry reaches a younger generation of readers in this new picture storybook. It’s an amusing tale about brotherly love...
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Lullabyhullaballoo (Book and CD)
Lullabyhullaballoo (Book and CD)
Mick Inkpen
A bedtime story on a royal scale. The sun has set, the moon is up. Everyone wants to go to...
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Room On The Broom And Other Songs (Book and CD)
Room On The Broom And Other Songs (Book and CD)
Julia Donaldson
A book of nine songs and music together with an accompanying CD including her most famous Room on the Broom. ...
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
A book that requires no introduction as it is probably Dahl’s best-known and most read creation and deservedly so. The...
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The Princess And The Pea (Book and DVD)
The Princess And The Pea (Book and DVD)
Susanna Davidson
Two easy-to-read and entertaining stories to build confidence in new readers. Attractively presented in short chapters and with lots of...
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Once Upon A Time In The North
Once Upon A Time In The North
Philip Pullman
A wonderful tale from a master storyteller, giving us, just as Lyra’s Oxford did, more extraordinary insight into the...
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This month's 'featured books'
Green Reads
Zenith
Zenith
Julie Bertagna
Age 12+.  Zenith is the incredible story of three teenagers with the will to make their own beginnings in the...
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Kensuke's Kingdom
Kensuke's Kingdom
Michael Morpurgo
Age 9+.  Suffice to say the reading of this book will take you the reader through every emotion you can...
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Five Little Men In A Flying Saucer
Five Little Men In A Flying Saucer

A wonderfully simple story that conveys an important message to the toddler through the arrival on earth  of five little...
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Journey to the River Sea
Journey to the River Sea
Eva Ibbotson
Must have paperback 2006. A charming and magical adventure story that is full of wisdom, warmth and understanding. Orphaned Maia...
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Dragonfly Pool
Dragonfly Pool
Eva Ibbotson
A wonderful, magical adventure spins out of a school story with a difference. Tally doesn’t want to leave her father...
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You Can Save The Planet
You Can Save The Planet
Jacquie Wines
Age 9+.  This is the best book we've seen for kids on how a whole family can make a difference...
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This month's 'featured books'
Age 9 - 11 Years
Grk Smells A Rat
Grk Smells A Rat
Joshua Doder
Grk, the loveable doggy star of four previous adventures, is back with a thirst for something new. A great boys-own...
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Septimus Heap: Queste
Septimus Heap: Queste
Angie Sage
Utterly spellbinding, fast-paced and brilliantly plotted, this is the fourth in the Septimus Heap series, the fantastical adventure that is...
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Monster Blood Tattoo
Monster Blood Tattoo
D M Cornish
Prepared to be scared by this rollercoaster fantasy and the cast of brilliantly conceived and depicted monsters who inhabit it!...
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Tiger's Egg
Tiger's Egg
Jon Berkeley
The story of Miles, the boy whose home was in a barrel and the only person to see a magical...
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101 Things You Wish You'd Invented And Some You Wish No One Had
101 Things You Wish You'd Invented And Some You Wish No One Had
Richard Horne, Tracey Turner
Expand your knowledge of man’s accomplishments in the most compelling and irreverent way possible. Discover about some of the most...
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From Ostia To Alexandria With Flavia Gemina
From Ostia To Alexandria With Flavia Gemina
Caroline Lawrence
A wondrous behind-the-scenes tour of the exotic locations which have inspired the phenomenally successful Roman Mysteries by the same author....
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This month's 'featured books'
Age 5 - 7 Years
Dilly's Bumper Book Of Stories
Dilly's Bumper Book Of Stories
Tony Bradman
Dilly the Dinosaur, famous for his exceptionally loud, 150 mile-an-hour scream when he doesn’t get what he wants, is here...
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Jamie And Angus Together
Jamie And Angus Together
Anne Fine
This is a touching collection of stories about a boy Jamie and his very best friend Angus. Angus is a...
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The Practical Princess
The Practical Princess
Rebecca Lisle
This entertaining and enormously funny story tells how a modern day Cinderella may find her Prince Charming. When the Royal...
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Crystal Coldwater
Crystal Coldwater
Emerald Everhart
Five beautiful and enchanting books each starring one Ballerina-in-Training, so take a trip to a miniature magical kingdom, the Kingdom of the...
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Beryl Goes Wild
Beryl Goes Wild
Jane Simmons
A touching story of piggy survival. Daring piglet Beryl escapes from the van on its way to the abattoir. Anything...
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Laura-bella Bergamotta
Laura-bella Bergamotta
Emerald Everhart
Five beautiful and enchanting books each starring one Ballerina-in-Training, so take a trip to a miniature magical kingdom, the Kingdom of the...
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This month's 'featured books'
Featured Author
Goodnight Mister Tom
Goodnight Mister Tom
Michelle Magorian
A wonderful debut novel from an author who is now widely acknowledged as one of the great children’s novelists of...
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Just Henry
Just Henry
Michelle Magorian
Warmhearted and full of period detail, Just Henry is a wonderful story of growing up and seizing life’s opportunities. It’s...
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Cuckoo In The Nest
Cuckoo In The Nest
Michelle Magorian
The lure of the theatre draws Ralph but acting is not what his family wants for him. Can he persuade...
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A Spoonful Of Jam
A Spoonful Of Jam
Michelle Magorian
A scholarship girl at the grammar school, Elsie has a lot of prove as she stands up for herself against...
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A Little Love Song
A Little Love Song
Michelle Magorian
A tender love story and coming of age novel set against a backdrop of wartime uncertainty and it tells how...
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This month's 'featured books'
Age 7 - 9 Years
Ordinary Basil and The Island of the Volcano Monkeys
Ordinary Basil and The Island of the Volcano Monkeys
Wiley Miller
Ordinary Basil is an indomitable character who gives up at nothing and here sets off on another action-packed adventure to...
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Foul Play
Foul Play
Tom Palmer
Football mad boys and girls will devour this all-action adventure novel, virtually in a sitting. Hopefully, even the most reluctant...
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Here Be Monsters, Pants Ahoy!
Here Be Monsters, Pants Ahoy!
Alan Snow
The first in the enormously inventive, endlessly entertaining, overwhelmingly original and astonishingly illustrated ‘Here be Monsters’ series set in the...
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Lotta Says 'no!'
Lotta Says 'no!'
Astrid Lindgren
These Lotta stories are charming, funny and convincing. Lotta is a little sister who never seems to be far from trouble. In this story Lotta...
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Fibby Libby
Fibby Libby
Ros Asquith
Lovereading review to appear soon...
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Fairy Secrets
Fairy Secrets
Gwyneth Rees
Do you believe in fairies? You will when you’ve read Fairy Secrets. Ellie and her brother David are spending their...
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This month's 'featured books'
Carnegie/Greenaway
Crusade
Crusade
Elizabeth Laird
Two boys, Adam and Salim, come face to face when they find themselves on opposing sides in a Holy war....
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What I Was
What I Was
Meg Rosoff
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2007. Haunting, intense and with an incredible twist...
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Gatty's Tale
Gatty's Tale
Kevin Crossley-holland
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. A gripping historical adventure that is dramatic, touching and compelling. Servant girl Gatty has...
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Apache
Apache
Tanya Landman
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. An inspiring story of survival against a background of bloodshed. The fourteen year old...
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Ruby Red
Ruby Red
Linzi Glass
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. A touching love story set against the turbulence and danger of a world divided...
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Here Lies Arthur
Here Lies Arthur
Philip Reeve
Shortlisted for the prestigious 2008 Carnegie. Winner of the 9-11 Nestle Bronze Award 2007. Shortlisted for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2007.Prize-winning author Philip Reeve...
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This month's 'featured books'
Age 14+ Years
Blade: Playing Dead
Blade: Playing Dead
Tim Bowler
Totally gripping teens thriller written in a direct and compelling style. Tough kid Blade wants no one to know him....
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Shooting The Moon
Shooting The Moon
V M Jones
A coming-of-age novel of a young man whose life is a balancing act between his passion – rock climbing -...
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Waves
Waves
Sharon Dogar
This is an incredibly thought-provoking, lyrically written debut, which astounded me time after time with each new page. Sharon has...
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The Truth About Forever
The Truth About Forever
Sarah Dessen
A kind-hearted and intuitive account of a young woman dealing with the private issues in her life, chiefly the death...
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The Amethyst Child
The Amethyst Child
Sarah Singleton
A gripping and thoughtful story about the power of a cult leader on young people. When conventional Amber meets Dowdie...
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Hundred-towered City
Hundred-towered City
Garry Douglas Kilworth
Nail biting adventure powers this time slip story in which three young people are transported back in time to search...
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Top downloads on Lovereading4kids

0 - 5 years

  1. Mr Peek And The Misunderstanding At The Zoo - by Kevin Waldron
  2. Lulu's Shoes - by Camilla Reid
  3. Scaredy Squirrel At The Beach - by Melanie Watt

5 - 7 Years

  1. Jamie And Angus Together - by Anne Fine
  2. Beryl Goes Wild - by Jane Simmons
  3. The Diary of a Killer Cat - by Anne Fine

7 - 9 Years

  1. Foul Play - by Tom Palmer
  2. Here Be Monsters, Pants Ahoy! - by Alan Snow
  3. My Brother's Famous Bottom Goes Camping - by Jeremy Strong

9 - 11 Years

  1. Grk Smells A Rat - by Joshua Doder
  2. Deeper - by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
  3. Tiger's Egg - by Jon Berkeley

11 - 13 Years

  1. Just Henry - by Michelle Magorian
  2. Dragonfly - by Julia Golding
  3. Dragonfly Pool - by Eva Ibbotson

14+ Years

  1. Blade: Playing Dead - by Tim Bowler
  2. Waves - by Sharon Dogar
  3. The Declaration - by Gemma Malley



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