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Learning to read provides the best opportunity for children to take off privately into worlds of their own.

Picture books and easy readers allow children to go solo while being read to gives a background of richer stories to further stimulate the imagination.



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Flossie Crums: The Fairies Cupcake Ball
Flossie Crums: The Fairies Cupcake Ball
Nathan, Helen
This is not just a wonderful story of Flossie Crums the Fairy, this is also a wonderful baking adventure too.  Simple mouth-watering recipes are woven into the story so that parents and children together can have fun baking alongside the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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Blueberry Girl
Blueberry Girl
Neil Gaiman
Feisty in its hopes and wishes for a modern baby girl, this is also an enchanting lullaby which is warmly illustrated. The hopes for the baby girl include, “let her have brave days and truth”, “trust and delight in her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Jonadab and Rita
Jonadab and Rita
Shirley Hughes
Steeped in magic, this is a wonderful story that demands to be read again and again. A bit old and a bit shabby, Jonadab is a donkey, just one of the many toys in Minnie’s toy box. Both he and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Dinosaur Cove: Clash of the Monster Crocs
Dinosaur Cove: Clash of the Monster Crocs
Rex Stone
The dinosaurs in Dinosaur Cove are unusual: they are ALIVE! Jamie, Tom and Wanna can slip back into the Triassic period where they are on the trail of an enormous prehistoric crocodile. The crocodile is a dangerous creature and it...
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Winnie Goes Batty
Winnie Goes Batty
Laura Owen
Well-loved Winnie the Witch is back in four new adventures each as madcap as the one before! Entranced by a visit to the circus, Winnie decides she’ll have a go herself. Inevitably, Wilbur the cat gets involved too and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/03/2010
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Why the Animals Came to Town
Why the Animals Came to Town
Michael Foreman
Prize-winning illustrator Michael Foreman sends an important message about taking care of our planet so that all the creatures that live in it can be kept safe in this stunning picture book. When a small boy wakes in the night...
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I Like Bugs (Petit Collage)
I Like Bugs (Petit Collage)
Lorena Siminovich
A delightful touchy-feely counting book that depicts numbers and bugs through collage.  Whilst looking at some wonderfully vibrant insects as your toddler progresses through the book he/she can also begin to learn to count the number of insects on each...
Format: Board book - Released: 01/03/2010
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Bob and Barry's Lunar Adventures 2: A Right Royal Disaster
Bob and Barry's Lunar Adventures 2: A Right Royal Disaster
Simon Bartram
Bob, the much loved Man on the Moon, is back in a wonderfully witty and crazy new extra-terrestrial adventure for beginner readers. As ever, bob doesn’t believe in aliens! But when it looks as if he might lose his head after...
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I Like Fruit (Petit Collage)
I Like Fruit (Petit Collage)
Lorena Siminovich
This is one of the most beautiful and touchy feely books I’ve seen for babies and toddlers for a while.  Each spread depicts a colour and a fruit; for example, a strawberry and alongside it, the words and pictures of...
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The Pain and the Great One: Going Going Gone
The Pain and the Great One: Going Going Gone
Judy Blume
The Pain (aka Jake Porter) is six years old. His sister, The Great One (aka Abigail Porter), is eight. Like any siblings, they drive each other mad but they have fun adventures. In funny, warm and characterful episodes, the Porter family comes to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2010
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Dinosaur Cove: Chasing the Tunnelling Trickster
Dinosaur Cove: Chasing the Tunnelling Trickster
Rex Stone
Another adventure with Jamie and Tom back in a world where dinosaurs really do exist. When a Lystrosaurus snatches Jamie’s backpack the boys find themselves in serious danger. Will they able to retrieve the backpack and get home safely? An...
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Don't Want to Go!
Don't Want to Go!
Shirley Hughes
In her warm and readily recognisable illustrations, award winning illustrator Shirley Hughes always captures the small but important details of how young children feel. When Mum is ill one day, Dad says Lily has to go to Melanie’s house, but Lily...
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The General
The General
Michael Foreman
As relevant as when it was first published, Michael Foreman’s very first book is beautifully reissued in this 50th anniversary edition. General Jodpur loves to train his soldiers making them the best fighting force in the world. But, one day,...
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The Nursery Alice (illustrated by Sir John Tenniel)
The Nursery Alice (illustrated by Sir John Tenniel)
Lewis Carroll
The first colour illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s classic story are stunningly reproduced in this edition. The Nursery Alice was adapted by Lewis Carroll himself to make a shorter and simpler version than the original for much younger readers. To the...
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Small Steps
Small Steps
Glenn Murphy
Attractively presented this is a clearly laid out guide to all the small ways in which everyone can make a difference to climate change. Packed full of information it shows what uses energy and ways of using less energy to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
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The Good Green Footprint: Crafts to Help Save the Planet
The Good Green Footprint: Crafts to Help Save the Planet
Christina Goodings
You and your children can make your everyday world good and green with this fantastic craft book.  Using natural, leftover and recyclable materials, give your creative talents an eco-makeover.  A great way to instil upon young children the fragility of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 22/01/2010
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Alice In Wonderland (slipcase edition)
Alice In Wonderland (slipcase edition)
Lewis Carroll
The story is timeless and can be read at so many different levels, but this lavish slipcased edition is quite simply stunning and will bring to the reader a very different Wonderland - even more fantastical and a little darker...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2008
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Princesses are Not Perfect
Princesses are Not Perfect
Kate Lum & Sue Hellard
Full of lively illustrations, this is an entertaining story about three princesses, each with a special talent but each of whom wants to be good at everything! Princess Allie can bake, Princess Mellie can garden and Princess Libby can build....
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The Church Mouse
The Church Mouse
Graham Oakley
A brilliant picture book thankfully now back in print. The stunning, detailed and humorous illustrations tell the entertaining story of how Sampson the church cat and Arthur the church mouse take over the local church despite the reservations of the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/10/2009
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The Little Ships: A Story of the Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk
The Little Ships: A Story of the Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk
Louise Borden, Michael Foreman
This is a wondrous book that has been unavailable for far too long.  At last though it’s back for a new generation of children to enjoy, and perhaps their parents too. Michael Foreman with Louise Borden have successfully brought to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Spells
Spells
Emily Gravett
Picture Books for kids that love Magic. Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. A stunning picture book from Emily Gravett, full of witchcraft, wizardry and magic. We meet a frog trying his utmost to turn...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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Greyfriars Bobby
Greyfriars Bobby
Richard Brassey
A new edition of the classic story of Scotland's most famous, best-loved dog. Everyone has heard the legend of Greyfriars Bobby, the Skye terrier who belonged to a policeman in Edinburgh more than one hundred and fifty years ago -...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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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 and wonderful illustrations throughout that will make you giggle and complement the text, this will be enjoyed equally by parents reading...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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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 hair-raising tales about life as an RAF airgunner during the Second World War. Now, years later, he has carefully recreated...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2009
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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 to lift, revealing beautiful buildings, exotic animals and fabulous sights.  Divided into the separate continents, each double page is crammed with...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/12/2009
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