Featured Books for 3+ readers

How Do You Feel?
Anthony Browne
Former Children’s Laureate Anthony Browne’s characteristic and affecting illustrations are skilful in capturing simple emotions. Happy, sad, lonely, guilty, confident and shy – all these and more are eloquently expressed on the faces of Browne’s endearing chimpanzees.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Picture Book Picnic
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2011
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Santa's Littlest Helper Travels The World
Anu Stohner
Curl up on those cold starry winter nights and enjoy a magical Christmas story with Santa's littlest helper who saves the day when everyone around him gets ill.  It's a Christmas story with a twist and with some stunningly colourful...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2008
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Charlotte and the Wolves
Anu Stohner
A delightfully witty story about a very unusual sheep. While most sheep are frightened of everything, Charlotte is surprisingly brave. When the flock hear the howling of the wolves they know someone must scare them off. Who will it be?...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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The Frog and Toad Collection Box Set
Arnold Lobel
Anne Fine, July 2011 Guest Editor: "It’s hard to believe the Frog and Toad books were originally designed as first readers. They’re so good and human and funny. I’ve yet to find the child who doesn’t love the whole set....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2004
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Pip and Posy: The Big Balloon
Axel Scheffler
April 2012 Book of the Month. Best known for creating the pictures for the Gruffalo, Axel Scheffler has created a perfect story for pre-school. How can Pip’s friends cheer him up when his beautiful red balloon goes POP! ? Luckily Posy...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month | Free Prize Draws | Nosy Crow
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/04/2012
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If I were you
Babette Cole
Shortlisted for the Pre-School Award, Early Year Awards 2009   This book is completely wacky but kids, both girls and boys, and parents too, will delight in Babette Cole’s humorous illustrations and Richard Hamilton’s lively text. Daisy and her father swap their...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
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The Chicken Thief
Beatrice Rodriguez
An entertainingly illustrated wordless picture book story which will be loved by all ages. When the daring fox comes by and steals the chicken away from under the noses of her friends Bear and Rabbit, he sets off a dramatic...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 17/04/2009
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The Tale of Two Bad Mice
Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Two Bad Mice is as lively and funny today as it was when it was first written. See the chaos that ensues when Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca, two naughty little mice, creep into Lucinda and Jane's...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/03/2002
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The Dragon Tamer's Castle
Ben Cort
This amazing book contains everything you need to create your own dragon tamer's castle, plus there's an exciting storybook to read again and again.  So read the book, build the castle and let the adventure begin.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Three Fishing Brothers Gruff
Ben Galbraith
Based loosely on ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’ this retelling is brilliantly conceived and is packed with humour and passion.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/04/2007
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My Mum!
Beth Shoshan
From the same illustrator that brought us the charmingly funny My Dad! - we now have My Mum! - who is rather silly but simply lovely. Guarenteed to put a smile on your child's face.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2009
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If Big Can... I Can
Beth Shoshan and Petra Brown
0-5 years. Short listed for the Early Years - Best New Illustrator award. This is a charming tale of friendship and rivalry that will have huge appeal to children.  A book that will inspire confidence in even the most...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2006
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If You Can... We Can
Beth Shoshan and Petra Brown
This touching tale involving two rabbits contains a very positive message on the subject of friendship. ‘Let’s be friends forever’ they agree and why not? They sing songs, giggle and run around, always together. The text is complimented with bouncy...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2008
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How to Heal a Broken Wing
Bob Graham
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. A story of hope and compassion in a big city -- from Australian picture book master, Bob Graham.   What the Kate Greenaway Award judges said: 'A beautifully understated book which makes fantastic use of perspective...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/06/2008
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How to Heal a Broken Wing
Bob Graham
Shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award 2009. A story of hope and compassion in a big city - from Australian picture book master, Bob Graham. What the Kate Greenaway Award judges said: 'A beautifully understated book which makes fantastic use of perspective and of a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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A Bus Called Heaven
Bob Graham
Prize-winning illustrator/ author Bob Graham creates a magical story of how a community is changed by the arrival of a broken down old bus. Led by Stella, everyone gets involved in smartening up the bus and everyone has a smile...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Picture Book Picnic
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Home For A Tiger, Home For A Bear
Brenda Williams
This is a double delight for this is both an absolutely stunning picture book as well as being a wonderful story of animals and their habitats.  Travelling around the world in rhyme you’ll meet all sorts of creatures swinging in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2007
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The Real Princess: A Mathemagical Tale
Brenda Williams
This delightful twist on a traditional nursery story will make counting great fun for any toddler. In this mathemagical tale you’ll get to meet 1 butler, 2 footmen, 3 maids, 4 horses, 5 grooms, 6 dogs, 7 gardeners, 8 chimney...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2009
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The Big Snuggle-up
Brian Patten
Age: Baby +. On a cold winter's night one animal after another invites himself into a house and by the time it's bedtime there's all manner of animals and scarecrow tucked up by the fire. Some delightful close-up and colourful...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month | Poetry
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Brian Wildsmith's Animal Gallery
Brian Wildsmith
In this stunning visual introduction to all kinds of animal families Brian Wildsmith’s jewel-bright...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Brian Wildsmith's Favourite Nursery Rhymes
Brian Wildsmith
Age 3+. Prize-winning illustrator Brian Wildsmith’s distinctive illustration bring this collection of best-loved nursery rhymes beautifully to life. There’s a gorgeously fat cow jumping over the moon while the cat fiddles below, a delightfully merry King Cole relishing his fiddlers...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Poetry
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Brian Wildsmith's Animal Gallery
Brian Wildsmith
In this stunning visual introduction to all kinds of animal families Brian Wildsmith’s jewel-bright illustrations give a snapshot of everything from a pride of lions...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Brian Wildsmith's Favourite Fables
Brian Wildsmith
A lovely collection of five well-loved fables for parents and children to share simply retold and sumptuously illustrated by Brian Wildsmith, the internationally acclaimed picture-book writer and artist. We meet a boastful hare as he challenges a slow-and-steady tortoise to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Miller, the Boy and the Donkey
Brian Wildsmith
A timeless fable made immediate and fresh for the youngest readers. Its simple message is best to make your own decisions and not be swayed by conflicting advice is gloriously told in this lovely picture book from Brian Wildsmith, an...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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The Lion and the Rat
Brian Wildsmith
The simple messages of this La Fontaine fable - that acts of kindness will always be returned and that even the strongest and mightiest sometimes need the help of the smallest and weakest - are gloriously told in this lovely...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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The Rich Man and the Shoemaker
Brian Wildsmith
A happy shoemaker - who sings beautifully while he works - is stopping his wealthy but miserable neighbour from sleeping. So the rich man hatches a plan to put an end to the shoemaker's sunny disposition. But how can a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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The North Wind and the Sun
Brian Wildsmith
The North Wind blew with all his might, but it was no use. The North Wind is sure that he is powerful enough to blow the cloak from the shoulders of a passing horseman. But will his furious strength be...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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The Hare and the Tortoise
Brian Wildsmith
'I am sure to win, but we will race if you like.' So laughs the hare when a slow tortoise challenges him to run all the way to the old cart. His speed is never in doubt but perhaps it...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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Cat on the Mat
Brian Wildsmith
Wildsmith’s hallmark of dazzlingly colourful illustrations coupled with the briefest of text that’s repeated throughout this picture book has plenty of humour and children will pore over each illustration and each time will find something new within them.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/1982
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A Christmas Journey
Brian Wildsmith
The story of the Nativity is beautifully captured in Brian Wildsmith’s illustrations which are wholly accessible to a contemporary audience while also being firmly set in the past. Full of awe and wonder, the story of Mary and Joseph’s journey...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 09/09/2010
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