This month's 'featured books'
Debut Books
Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed
Jacquie Trajan
Tumbleweed is the story a wonderfully funny chicken but he has a problem. He only has one leg so the...
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Pretty Bad Things
Pretty Bad Things
C.J. Skuse
Although not the target audience for this debut novel, Pretty Bad Things arrived on my desk at about the time...
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Luke and Jon
Luke and Jon
Robert Williams
This is a wonderfully original and arresting debut novel about friendship, grief and love.  Written with great power, warmth and...
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Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide
Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide
William Hussey
Cleverly crafted, this is a masterful horror story that will chill readers to the bone as Jake Harker comes face...
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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
Jo Nesbo
Fuelled by farts, this is fast-paced and a delightfully ridiculous adventure. Newly moved into the neighbourhood, Nilly meets a strange...
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No and Me
No and Me
Delphine de Vigan
Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about...
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This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
Pretty Bad Things
Pretty Bad Things
C.J. Skuse
Although not the target audience for this debut novel, Pretty Bad Things arrived on my desk at about the time...
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The Immortals: Blue Moon
The Immortals: Blue Moon
Alyson Noel
A second story about Ever, a girl whose special powers mean she can read auras. Still in love with Damen,...
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Playtime (Slip and Slide Book)
Playtime (Slip and Slide Book)
Maureen Roffey
This is a lovely book for little hands.  Slip and slide the tab to make the pages come alive in...
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You Can't Eat a Princess!
You Can't Eat a Princess!
Gillian Rogerson
This deliciously greedy story tells how Princess Spaghetti blasts off into space to rescue her father, the King, when he...
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Candle Man The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance
Candle Man The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance
Glenn Dakin
Dark powers and mysterious happenings lie at the heart of this story of an unnatural underworld and the secret societies...
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Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Stage Fright
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Stage Fright
Meg Cabot
A new title in this best-selling series full of appeal for all cool and clever girls who like to be...
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This month's 'featured books'
Oliver Jeffers - Illustrator
The Heart and the Bottle
The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers
Award winning Oliver Jeffers’s latest book is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how...
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How to Catch a Star
How to Catch a Star
Oliver Jeffers
A prize winning illustrator with a reputation for spare illustrations which pack a huge emotional punch. A little boy so loves...
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How to Catch a Star
How to Catch a Star
Oliver Jeffers
A prize winning illustrator with a reputation for spare illustrations which pack a huge emotional punch. A little boy so...
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Oliver Jeffers
Book and Audio CD. A brilliant picture book about a boy with an unusual attitude to books! Henry loves books but...
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy (pop-up edition)
The Incredible Book Eating Boy (pop-up edition)
Oliver Jeffers
Delicious pop-up spreads bring an interactive version of this popular story about a boy who loves books so much that...
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Lost and Found: Board Book
Lost and Found: Board Book
Oliver Jeffers
Celebrating the value of friendship, this is an exquisitely illustrated picture book with a simple story line. Opening his door and...
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This month's 'featured books'
Guest Ed. Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Michael Foreman's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, Michael Foreman
Lewis Carroll’s world favourite children’s classic, loved by generations for its limitless imagination, has been brought vividly to life by...
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Michael Foreman's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Michael Foreman's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L.Frank Baum
This is a beautifully illustrated collectable edition of the classic children's story. It is illustrated by one of today's best-loved children's illustrators....
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Michael Foreman's Peter Pan and Wendy
Michael Foreman's Peter Pan and Wendy
J.M. Barrie
Michael Foreman’s bright and beautiful illustrations vibrantly bring all the magical fun and adventure of Peter Pan’s world to life. ...
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Michael Foreman's Treasure Island
Michael Foreman's Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson, Michael Morpurgo
Michael Foreman’s stunning illustrations brilliantly capture the fast-paced action and drama of Stevenson’s classic, of high seas adventure, mysterious maps,...
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War Boy A Wartime Childhood
War Boy A Wartime Childhood
Michael Foreman
Brilliantly observed in words and pictures, War Boy is a first hand, eye-witness view of growing up in World War...
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The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure
The Littlest Dinosaur's Big Adventure
Michael Foreman
An awfully big adventure for the Littlest Dinosaur when a little walk turns into a night time drama. Alone in...
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This month's 'featured books'
Blue Peter Book Awards
Peter the Penguin Pioneer
Peter the Penguin Pioneer
Daren King
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. Hugely inventive and charmingly funny with laugh-out-loud zany humour...
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Cosmic
Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Comic and cosmic, this is a roller coaster...
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Usborne Lift the Flap Picture Atlas
Usborne Lift the Flap Picture Atlas
Alex Frith, Kate Leake
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. An original, innovative and interactive atlas full of flaps...
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The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
Harriet Goodwin
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, The Boy...
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Tail-end Charlie
Tail-end Charlie
Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father's...
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Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things
Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things
Guy Bass
Winner of the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. Dinkin Dings is afraid of everything - not just...
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This month's 'featured books'
Featured Author Sally Gardner
The Silver Blade
The Silver Blade
Sally Gardner
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the FrenchRevolution, which Sally...
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The Red Necklace
The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner
Set against the turbulent and drastically violent time of the French Revolution, this story is about a boy who is...
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Silver Blade (Audio)
Silver Blade (Audio)
Sally Gardner
CD Audio. The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the FrenchRevolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The...
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The Red Necklace (Audio)
The Red Necklace (Audio)
Sally Gardner
CD Audio. Set against the turbulent and drastically violent time of the French Revolution, this story is about a boy who...
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The Smallest Girl Ever
The Smallest Girl Ever
Sally Gardner
Another fantastic book in the Sally Gardner’s Magical Children Series, about children empowered by special gifts. Once again it’s utterly charming full...
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Magical Children 3 in 1: Vol One (Audio)
Magical Children 3 in 1: Vol One (Audio)
Sally Gardner
Contains: The Strongest Girl in the World, The Invisible Boy, The Boy who could Fly.Each of the Magical Children...
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  1. How to Catch a Star - by Oliver Jeffers
  2. I Like Fruit (Petit Collage) - by Lorena Siminovich
  3. Never Shake a Rattlesnake - by Michaela Morgan

3+ readers

  1. The Heart and the Bottle - by Oliver Jeffers
  2. You Can't Eat a Princess! - by Gillian Rogerson
  3. Tiggy - by Jacquie Trajan

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  1. Flossie Crums: The Fairies Cupcake Ball - by Nathan, Helen
  2. Dinosaur Cove: Clash of the Monster Crocs - by Rex Stone
  3. Winnie Goes Batty - by Laura Owen

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  1. Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck - by Marcus Sedgwick
  2. The Great Hamster Massacre - by Katie Davies
  3. Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Stage Fright - by Meg Cabot

9+ readers

  1. Little Darlings - by Jacqueline Wilson
  2. The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 - by Harriet Goodwin
  3. The Silver Blade - by Sally Gardner

11+ readers

  1. Luke and Jon - by Robert Williams
  2. I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend - by Cora Harrison
  3. This Book is Not Good for You - by Pseudonymous Bosch

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  1. No and Me - by Delphine de Vigan
  2. The Facts of Life - by Joanna Nadin
  3. Drawing with Light - by Julia Green



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