Featured Books for 3+ readers

Ruby Flew Too!
Jonathan Emmett
A useful book about overcoming anxiety. A warm and reassuring story that encourages children to discover the world at their own pace. Heartbreakingly beautiful, this is a very special book.
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2005
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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.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2005
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The Dancing Tiger
Malachy Doyle
Luminous paintings convey a magical night time atmosphere full of dreams, hopes and possibilities and a sense of ‘forever’, even when things are changing. A little girl dances joyously through the seasons with a ‘quiet and gentle tiger’. They meet...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2005
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Mog The Forgetful Cat 40th anniversary edition
Judith Kerr
Many happy returns to Mog the Forgetful Cat who has been delighting readers for forty years. Brilliant author-illustrator Judith Kerr’s timeless stories about Mog, the cat who has a habit of forgetting everything, charm readers young and old. Toddlers adore...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2005
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Felix The Fast Tractor And The Coal Delivery
Catherine Cannon
Wonderful simple text interspersed with some bright bold illustrations as well as some useful fact wheels will provide hours of entertainment at any time of the day or night. When snow seems to get the better of a coal delivery,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/11/2004
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Hoppy Birthday, Jo-jo!
Pippa Goodhart
The perfect story for that young child who is not quite convinced that having a baby brother or sister is a good idea.  Reading this will change their mind immediately and provide a great deal of fun along the way as...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2004
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Green Bananas: Shout, Show and Tell!
Kate Agnew
Containing three related short stories in and around the classrom for first readers this book is ideal for children who are beginning to want to read longer stories than those in most picture books.  There is only a small amount...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2004
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What I Like!
Gervase Phinn
This engaging first poetry book is absolutely the best one for the very very young. It celebrates all those things closest to a young child’s heart from food and family to animals and play. Gervase Phinn has written a corker...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2004
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Squash And A Squeeze
Julia Donaldson
For my family and me this is still one of THE best picture books ever published. It was first published some 13 years ago, was Julia and Axel’s first collaboration and is now years later an absolute classic.  Simply told...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/06/2004
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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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Choo Choo Clickety Clack
Margaret Mayo
A busy book of vehicles. Trains toot, toot and whoo-hoo across the pages, cycles whiz, whiz, whiz and motor bikes roar, roar, roar. Bright bold pictures capture the action of each while the brief text provides the sounds and some...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 31/05/2004
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Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
Hilarious and with a memorable rhyming text, this is the perfect advocate for the adage, you don’t know if you like something until you’ve tried it. Sam won’t eat green eggs and ham. However they are disguised the list of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 19/04/2004
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The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark
Jill Tomlinson
Plop is a baby owl. Perfect in every way - except for one. He's afraid of the dark! But he soon discovers, through a variety of new friends, that dark can be fun and exciting and magical! This is a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2004
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Marvin Wanted More
Joseph Theobald
You can find brand new Marvin adventures in Marvin gets MAD!
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2004
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The Velveteen Rabbit
Margery Williams
Who says stuffed toys don’t have feelings?  This stuffed rabbit does when he’s laughed at for not being ‘real’ like the other rabbits.  So he sets off to prove that you can be real just by being loved by a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/02/2004
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Animal Lullabies
Mandy Ross
From cows, horses, dogs and cats to snails, worms, foxes and whales everyone needs their sleep and what better way to persuade your child to go to sleep than to join these lovely creatures in their quest for sleep. Quite...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/09/2003
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Snail and the Whale
Julia Donaldson
A useful book about the Environment. If bestsellers were decided upon by the number of prestigious awards a book had won then this one, with echoes of Edward Lear would be the blockbuster of all time.  Julia really is a past-master...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/09/2003
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Pumpkin Moon
Tim Preston
It’s Halloween in a small American town. As midnight strikes, a cast of creepy characters comes out to play. Witches, wizards, ghosts and ghouls soon take over the town, but what are they waiting for? Find out in this spectacularly...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2003
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The Sulky Vulture
Sally Grindley
This is a riotous story featuring Boris the vulture from brilliant storyteller Sally Grindley and the acclaimed master of animal characterisation and illustration, Michael Terry.  Boris is a very sulky vulture - nothing ever goes quite right for him! When...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 18/08/2003
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Wilbie - Footie Mad!
Sally Chambers
A World Cup Selection. A duck with a passion for football may not be the most obvious choice of character to include in our world cup promotion but Wilbie turns out to be a fantastic ambassador for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/07/2003
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Stanley, Flat Again!
Jeff Brown
Fun and extremely imaginative and perfect for boys in particular.  They’ll love the exciting escapades that Stanley gets up to but beware your children may end up wanting to join Stanley and become flat too.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2003
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The Cat in the Hat Comes Back
Dr. Seuss
Another madcap adventure, and this time it is a snowy one, when the Cat returns for a second visit. Sally and her brother have been set to work to clear the snow. When the Cat appears they know that another...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2003
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Miffy
Dick Bruna
Mr and Mrs Bunny have a little baby bunny. Her name is Miffy. All the animals come and look at her. At the end of the day little Miffy is tired. Miffy is the little girl bunny who has become a...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2003
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Little Rabbit Foo Foo
Michael Rosen
He's wild, he's wicked, he's Little Rabbit Foo-Foo! The bully-boy bunny likes nothing better than to ride through the forest bopping everyone on the head. Wriggly worms, tigers, no one is safe. But here comes the Good Fairy - and...
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Format: Big Book - Released: 07/04/2003
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An Island in the Sun
Stella Blackstone
This book is full of the most incredibly beautiful illustrations and stunning text beautifully laid out on the page.  It really is a work of art and every child will enjoy turning the pages time after time.Published by Barefoot Books...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2003
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Borka: The Adventure of a Goose with No Feathers
John Burningham
Greenaway winner in 1963. John Burningham's classic first picture book, Borka: The Adventures of a Goose with no Feathers is somewhat reminiscent of the Ugly Duckling story and like that story there is an eventual happy ending.  Together the illustrations...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/03/2003
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The Sheep-Pig
Dick King-smith
The magic of a special animal is perfectly captured in the heroic antics of Babe, a piglet with a difference. The runt of a litter, Babe arrives on the farm where is he trained by the sheep dog along with...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/02/2003
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Frog In Love
Max Velthuijs
The very first picture book to feature Max Velthuijs’ loveable amphibian. Frog is feeling most unwell. He keeps getting hot, then cold, and something inside his chest is going 'thump, thump'. Hare says it means he's in love! But who...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 23/01/2003
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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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Gorilla
Anthony Browne
Greenaway winner in 1983. Wonderfully inventive story and almost tear-jerking at times but with a happy ending.  The illustrations are both detailed and colourful and children will delight in them. I’m sure for some parents it really touches a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/10/2002
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