Featured Books for 3+ readers

Words: A world of words for a brighter start

This is a first words book to support early learning. In an exciting and colourful way it introduces the early learning concepts of numbers, colours, patterns, size, matching and shapes through the world around us. Interactive questions throughout help link spoken and written words.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2008
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Usborne Very First Reading Slipcase with Parents Notes

The objective of the 15 books in the Very First Reading series is to enthuse your child through rhyme to learn and to enjoy the art of reading and to read with confidence and enthusiasm, which in turn will result...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/03/2010
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Yes I Can! Help Save Our Planet

Age 4+.  Coming from a small publisher, Tango Books, is a book that we at Lovereading4kids rate very highly indeed in terms of getting the green agenda across to even the youngest toddler.  With loads of flaps to...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2007
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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 men from Outer Space who find a planet spoiled and neglected and aim to put it right.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2005
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Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar

Here is a collection of more than 80 poems and rhymes from a glittering galaxy of more than 50 poets. It is a delectable assortment of light, melt-in-the-mouth poems for the very young to dip into again and again.  They are the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Classics Illustrated Junior)

The most famous of the Brothers Grimm titles comes brilliantly to life in this retelling in comic strip format and recoloured for a new generation some 50 years on from its first publication.   A message from the publisher: Classics Illustrated...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Rupert Bear Annual

March 2010 Guest Editor Michael Foreman remembers: When I was a little boy, the only books we had at home were Ration books.  However, on my newspaper round I became a fan of the Rupert Bear comic strip in the Daily...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/09/2009
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100 Games to Play on Holiday

Inside this pack of cards are 100 fun games to play on holiday.  All you have to do is follow the instructions on each card and hours of entertainment will follow.  From musical statues on hopscotch to some lesser known...
Format: Cards - Released: 28/05/2010
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Winnie-the-Pooh Pooh's Snowy Day

It's a Snowy Day in the Hundred Acre Wood, and Winnie-the-Pooh and Piglet decide to build a house for Eeyore.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2011
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One Christmas Night
M. Christina Butler
This is the story of a little hedgehog who is more than a little disorganised.  It's almost Christmas and he's forgotten to decorate his house or buy any presents for his friends.  So with the help of his animals friends...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
A J Butcher
The classic story about the different ways of life in the town and the country is beautifully and simply revealed in delicate illustrations. When Town Mouse visits the country he finds it simple and rather dull. He tempts Country Mouse...
Format: Hardback - Released: 25/02/2011
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Conker And Nudge
Adria Meserve
Full of the warmth of brotherly love, Conker and Nudge tells how two anteaters play together - and survive together - but only because of Nudge's absolute devotion to his older brother.
Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2008
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That's Not Funny!
Adrian Johnson
This is a delightful cautionary tale for all those children who make fun of other people’s misfortune.  Brilliantly told with some imaginatively quirky illustrations to complement the text this is sure to put that slightly over exuberant child back, temporarily...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2007
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Cock-a-Doodle Quack! Quack!
Ailie, Baddiel, Ivor, Jubb, Sophie Busby
It’s Baby Cockerel’s job to wake everyone up in the morning but – he doesn’t know what to say! Baby Cockerel asks everyone what to say. Oink! Oink! Say the pigs; Moo! Moo! Say the cows; Quack! Quack! Say the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2006
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Operation Alphabet
Al MacCuish, Jim Bletsas
Operation Alphabet is the story of a little boy called Charlie Foxtrot. This entertaining and delightfully illustrated caper is an ideal way to introduce young children to the wonder of words and the magic of reading. Charlie has just started school...
Format: Hardback - Released: 19/09/2011
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Football Fever
Alan Durant
A Useful book about Families.   Every boy's dream will be fulfilled in this wonderful book, about a completely football-obsessed boy called William. If you know someone with the football bug then this could be the book for him....
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2006
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Billy Monster's Daymare
Alan Durant
A topsy-turvey story of scared monsters and scary children, pleasant night time and frightening daytime…Billy Monster can’t sleep even though Daddy Monster howls lullabies to him and makes him soothing cups of cold slime. What can be done to help...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Hoppy Ever After
Alan Durant & Sue Mason
Frog is happy and he wants to share his happiness with everyone else but when he hops off his lily pad to find someone to share it with no one is interested.  The birds ignore him, so do the bees...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Anteaters to Zebras
Alan Fletcher
Anteaters to Zebras, created the year before his untimely death in 2006, is the first children's book by Alan Fletcher to be published in the UK.  Alan Fletcher (1931 - 2006) was and remains so even after his untimely death...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/08/2011
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How Santa Really Works Pop-Up Edition
Alan Snow
This wonderful pop-up adventure reveals just how Father Christmas goes about his very important business and Christmas.  Children will love the pop-up engineering throughout the book that helps to tell Santa's story.  Have you ever wondered how Santa can pop...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/11/2010
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Tell Me the Day Backwards
Albert Lamb
In this delightful bedtime story, a young bear tells his mother all about his exciting day - in reverse - inspiring young listeners/readers to do the same.  This is a charming bedtime story with an interactive experience sure to have...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2011
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Tell Me the Day Backwards
Albert Lamb
Brilliantly simple and most effective, the device of telling a day backwards makes a perfect structure for a picture book. Mummy Bear is tucking Baby Bear up for the night; before falling asleep they recall the story of their incident-packed...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Big Book of Big Dinosaurs
Alex Frith
This is an enormous new book for kids (and probably their dads!!!) fascinated by gigantic dinosaurs. It's chock full of the biggest dinosaurs on land, in the sea and in the air.From the mighty Brachiosaurus to the fearsome Tyrannosaurus, children...
Format: Big book - Released: 26/03/2010
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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: 27/02/2008
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Ella
Alex T. Smith
Ella is a little ladybird with big dreams. Her ugly wasp stepsisters make her do all the housework, all of the time, and Ella feels very sad. Then one day the famous Parisian artist Pierre decides to throw a Grand...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Gigantic Turnip
Alexei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey
A delightfully funny tale that parents and toddlers can enjoy together from a young age just as much as 5-7 year olds will enjoy it reading alone.  The illustrations are stunning and complement the humorous text brilliantly.  Rest-assured children will...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/03/2006
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The Highwayman
Alfred Noyes
Greenaway winner in 1981. Each time I re-read this book I get shivers down my spine for the quality and beauty of the words – you name it, it has it, from startling adjectives and metaphors to alliteration and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/1999
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Fine As We Are
Algy Hall
In his first picture book, author and artist Algy Craig Hall has crafted a gentle, charming, and witty story that shows exactly what it means to be a good big brother. Thoroughly delightful illustrations - many featuring a deluge of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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The High Street
Alice Melvin
The combination of Alice Melvin's charming illustrations and delightful rhyming verses ensure The High Street is destined to be a children's classic.  It's the third book by celebrated British illustrator and designer Alice Melvin who was also winner of the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/08/2011
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Read Me a Story Everything You Need to Enjoy Books with Your Baby
Alison Davies
This delightful dip in book helps parents who want to give their baby the best start in life. It helps them pick the right type of board and picture books to enhance their baby's reading, writing and numeracy skills and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/07/2011
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