Featured Books for 3+ readers

The Tiger-Skin Rug
Gerald Rose
Full of wit, this classic story tells how a tired old tiger cleverly swaps his dangerous life in the jungle for the easier lifestyle of the Rajah’s palace. Becoming a tiger skin rug is not so hard for the thin...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 18/04/2011
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The Tiger-Skin Rug
Gerald Rose
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. A welcome return of a deliciously witty classic. How an aging tiger, tired of hunting for his prey, manages to improve his life by disguising himself as a tiger skin rug...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2011
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Harry the Dirty Dog
Gene Zion
May 2010 Guest Editor Philip Ardagh has chosen this book: This is the simplest of everyday tales beautifully told, with well-chosen words and wonderfully straightforward - characterful - pictures. In essence, it's the story of a white dog with black spots...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 15/10/1992
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Douglas
G.N. Hargreaves
Douglas is a dog. Not just any old, run-of-the-mill everyday ordinary dog, but an extraordinary dog. A dog in a billion. Douglas can drive, read, ski and play chess. But there's one thing he can't do. One thing he desperately...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/03/2011
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Aesop's Fables
Fulvio Testa
This stunning edition of the classic Aesop's Fables, illustrated by the internationally revered artist Fulvio Testa, will make a fantastic gift. Over sixty of the most famous of Aesop's Fables have been updated and rewritten by the talented anthologist Fiona...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Ivy Loves to Give
Freya Blackwood
A touching sequence of pictures which delight in the pleasures of giving as Ivy hands out presents of all kinds. The jokes of the contrasts in the gifts and their recipients are nicely made in the cleverly designed pages and...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2009
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Whole World
Fred Penner
Age 0+. Celebrate the world through songs with this book that is supported by a CD. There are songs from mountains and valleys, songs for fish, birds and trees. Beautifully illustrated, the music is also supported by additional information which...
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Format: Mixed Media Product - Released: 01/07/2007
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Little Old Ladies
Franziska Kalch
Just what do a group of old ladies do when they get together?  Well they have a whole load of fun, tell tales and share ideas.  Here the author and illustrator brings these exhuberant old ladies to life in this...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2011
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My Two Grannies
Floella Benjamin
Full of affection, this is also a useful guide to how to resolve possible tensions between two grannies! Alvina loves both her grannies and she loves the different things they like doing. But, when the two grannies are left to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/06/2009
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Usborne Sing along Christmas Carols
Fiona Watt
This delightful tab board book that’s perfect for even the smallest toddler contains a selection of well-loved traditional carols from I Saw Three Ships and Away in a Manger to We Three kings and the all time favourite of We...
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Format: Mixed media product - Released: 25/09/2009
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That's Not My Elephant
Fiona Watt
Little fingers will love touching this book and laughing at all the things that show it is not an elephant! Ears that are too rough, a tail that is too tufty, toenails that are too bumpy. But what about the...
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Format: Board book - Released: 01/09/2011
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Lots of Things to Find and Colour: At Christmas
Fiona Watt
3+. This book is bustling with busy Christmas-themed pictures with lots of hidden things to spot and colour in, such as skating penguins, dancing elves, presents, snowflakes, decorations and Santa. Suitable for children, this book contains picture puzzles that include...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
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Lion's Lunch
Fiona Tierney
A little girl finds the courage to stand up to a bully with the help of a clever plan. About to become lunch for Lion, Sarah has to think fast to save herself. What can she do in the jungle...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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Chilly Milly Moo
Fiona Ross
Cows make milk, don’t they? All the cows make lovely milk except for Milly Moo who always seems to be too hot to be able to make the milk come. Milly fears for her future as a non-milk producing cow...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2011
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The Story Blanket
Ferida Wolff, Harriet May Savitz
A beautifully heart-warming story about generosity rewarded with stunning illustrations by the award-winning illustrator Elena Odriozola.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/10/2008
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The Story Blanket
Ferida Wolff, Harriet May Savitz
A beautifully heart-warming story about generosity rewarded with stunning illustrations by the award-winning illustrator Elena Odriozola.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Grow Your Own!
Esther Hall
A great introduction to the delights of fruit and vegetables. Sidney lives in a busy city and never bothers with anything fresh to eat. But a visit to his Granny soon turns all that around. Sidney learns to love eating...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2011
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Rainforest Wonders (A Sparkling Slide Book)
Erin Ranson and Hannah Wood
Pull out the sliders on each page to reveal a brightly coloured animal of the rainforest.  From a purple hummingbird to an orange-spotted gecko it will have lots of appeal and provide plenty of entertainment to children of 3+.  It’s...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2007
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Where's Spot?
Eric Hill
This is definitely one of those ‘essential experiences’ of childhood. Children identify brilliantly with the naughty little dog through some big bold illustrations, simple text and lots of flaps revealing Spot’s many friends. A real classic first published 25 years...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/10/1983
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
This is a much-loved classic but as relevant today as it was when first published over 40 years ago. Its vivid and colourful illustrations and cut back and die-cut pages together with some very simple text provide a wonderful story...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/11/2002
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Board Book)
Eric Carle
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. This is a much-loved classic, but as relevant today as it was when first published over 40 years ago. Now available in this board-book format, its vivid and colourful illustrations and cut back...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 29/09/1994
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The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
Eric Carle
Best-selling Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, brings his brilliant use of colour to the fore in these bold illustrations of brightly coloured animals. Carle’s blue horse, orange elephant, purple fox and the rest are a tangible...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2011
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar's Sound Book
Eric Carle
March 2012 Book of the Month. This is a much-loved classic, but as relevant today as it was when first published over 40 years ago. Now available in this sound-book format so you can actually listen to the Very Hungry Caterpillar as...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Toot Toot Beep Beep
Emma Garcia
Shortlisted for the Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   This is definitely one for little boys.  Featuring every car, van, bus and lorry honking and tooting and beeping their way through their exciting day until they too go to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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What Pet To Get?
Emma Dodd
Enjoy thinking of all the most outlandish pets – including a shark even! – in this witty picture book which shows how one smart boy gets round his distracted mother. Jack’s mother dismisses Jack’s suggestions of outlandish pets such as...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2006
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I Don't Want A Posh Dog
Emma Dodd
A lovely, bouncy rhyming story all about different kinds of dogs. A little girl is choosing a dog. She doesn’t want a posh dog, a handbag dog or a snappy dog. In fact, there are lots of kinds of dogs...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/03/2008
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I Don't Want A Posh Dog
Emma Dodd
Dog lovers everywhere will enjoy the inventive display of different dogs that prove to be unsuitable before at last, an acceptable one is found. A patterned dog, a jump-up-and-flatten dog and a handbag dog are all captured in witty illustrations...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Miaow Said The Cow
Emma Dodd
Shortlisted for the Pre-school Award, Early Year Awards 2009   One morning, the farm animals wake up to find something strange is going on.  Sheep are barking, ducks are neighing - no one knows quite what they're saying! Find out why in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2009
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I Don't Want a Cool Cat
Emma Dodd
The search for the perfect cat is a delight. A little girl thinks of all the kinds of cats she doesn’t want – a ‘treat-me-like-a-fool’ cat or a ‘looking-for-a-fight' cat, for example. And then the kind she really does want...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/02/2009
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Sometimes
Emma Dodd
Gorgeous illustrations capture all the different ways a baby elephant can behave but, whatever happens, its mother is there to love it. A perfect book for encouraging children to do what they want with the reassuring that they will still...
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Format: Board Book - Released: 01/04/2007
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