Featured Books for 3+ readers

This Book Belongs to Aye-Aye
Richard Byrne
This is a perfect picture book for kids who are just heading off to school or in their first term at school or at a point where they're beginning to progress onto chapter or story books but still enjoy returning...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Wild Child
Jeanne Willis
Meet Wild Child! She's spirited and curious. She's fearless and free. She lives alone in a mystical, prehistoric world - the last child in a dramatic landscape, where anything could happen. Follow her through her day as she explores her...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Zoe and Beans: The Magic Hoop
Chloe Inkpen, Mick Inkpen
Favourite characters Zoe and Beans are back in this delightfully magical adventure. When Zoe tempts Beans to jump through the hoop with a handful of Choccy Bears she has no idea what will happen next! Poor Beans! The hoop is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Love Monster
Rachel Bright
No one likes a funny-looking monster with sticking-out teeth and staring, googly eyes – especially if he lives in Cutesville, the home of cuddly bunnies and fluffy kitties. Poor Monster! Will he find happiness? He just needs one person to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds: The Scrap Rocket and Other Stories
Julia Donaldson
The Children's Laureate and best-selling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson has carefully created the Songbirds Phonics series to support children who are learning to read. Julia Donaldson has captivated children all over the world with her lively and engaging...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds: Odd Pet and Other Stories
Julia Donaldson
The Children's Laureate and best-selling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson has carefully created the Songbirds Phonics series to support children who are learning to read. Julia Donaldson has captivated children all over the world with her lively and engaging...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds: The Ox and the Yak and Other Stories
Julia Donaldson
The Children's Laureate and best-selling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson has carefully created the Songbirds Phonics series to support children who are learning to read. Julia Donaldson has captivated children all over the world with her lively and engaging...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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My Green Day
Melanie Walsh
Tips for going green in everyday life are easily followed in this beautiful picture book introduction to conserving the world. Saving on fuels by making use of nature for things like drying clothes, composting, not wasting food, home cooking and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Monkey Red, Monkey Blue
Nicki Greenberg
Jolly chaos follows Monkey Red and Monkey Blue, the two bad monkeys who run amuck after bedtime. Together they create a riotous midnight feast; fruit salad, pancakes, popcorn - there’s food everywhere and it flies across the page in a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/01/2012
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Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes
Clare Beaton
Classic bedtime rhymes for small children, including favourites like ‘I See the Moon’, ‘Wee Willie Winkie’ and ‘Brahms’ Lullaby’. Soothing poems have been chosen to develop language and learning skills, while also encouraging peaceful and relaxing bedtimes. Click here for more by Clare...
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Format: Board book - Released: 01/01/2012
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Clare Beaton's Farmyard Rhymes
Clare Beaton
Full of life, the beautifully stitched pictures of familiar farm animals each perfectly matched with a rhyme makes a wonderful introduction to sheep, cows and horses. A wonderful book to read again and again at bedtime. Click here for more...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 01/01/2012
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Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Tale of the Terrible Secret
Kristina Stephenson
In the dead of night - when the wind is right - there comes a pitiful sobbing; out of the rumbling, grumbling castle and down the side of the hill...Who could it possibly be? And what is this terrible secret...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/11/2011
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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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Has Anyone Seen My Chihuahua?
Clare Wigfall
Playful, vibrant, highly entertaining and brilliantly innovative, this is an original debut picture book about a child's missing chihuahua. Clare's voice is contemporary, accessible and very funny and the words are written in dialogue with accessible yet entertaining language.  The...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2011
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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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The Three Sillies
Tony Ross
Silliness of all kinds is wittily celebrated in this delightful picture book. Sensible and handsome George is surprised by the silliness of Jess, the girl he falls in love with. In fact, he is so surprised that he decides he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2011
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This Book is Totally Christmassy (Maggie and Rose)
Maggie Bolger
An activity book that contains oodles of things to make and do throughout the Christmas season. It is packed with simple games, fun things to make and creative activities for young children. The Maggie & Rose team was set up in...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/11/2011
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The Scariest Thing of All
Debi Gliori
Prize-winning Debi Gliori has written an empowering story about very small people overcoming very big terrors. When Little Pip, a rabbit with the longest list of fears in the world, hears a terrible RARRR coming from all around him he...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 17/10/2011
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Again!
Emily Gravett
Prize-winning Emily Gravett has hit the jackpot again with a brilliant and original picture book that will delight adults as much as children. Everyone knows that the best bedtime stories can be read again and again and again... But sometimes,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
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Little Wizard
Kazuno Kohara
Simply told and illustrated, this is a touching story about a poor little wizard who can’t learn to fly.  Alone in the forest practicing his flying, the little wizard meets a dragon who promises to teach him how to do...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/10/2011
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The Big Book of Words and Pictures
Ole Konnecke
Nominated for the 2011 German Youth Literature Prize (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis). A gorgeously simple ‘naming’ book, this book lists loads of the familiar things a small child comes across at home and outdoors. Each of the attractive illustrations is small and instantly...
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Format: Board book - Released: 07/10/2011
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Zoe and Beans: Zoe's Christmas List
Mick Inkpen, Chloe Inkpen
Zoe knows exactly what she wants for Christmas, and to make sure Father Christmas does too, she and Beans take a trip across the Arctic all the way to the North Pole. But with a baby polar bear to rescue...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/10/2011
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Elmer and Papa Red
David Mckee
Elmer the multi-coloured elephant is one of the best-loved characters of children’s fiction. Now it is nearly time for the visit of the magical Papa Red and, always kind and thoughtful, this time Elmer helps to make Christmas magical for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011
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Sixes and Sevens
John Yeoman
Learning to count doesn’t get more delightful than this. Barnaby sits off on a simple journey on his raft. All he has to do is to pick up some passengers along the way…What can possibly go wrong? Clever Barnaby is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/10/2011
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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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The Cat and the Fiddle A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
Jackie Morris
With over forty traditional nursery rhymes, personally chosen by the illustrator and laid out in colour-drenched double spreads, this is a beautiful collection of rhymes that has the makings of a classic. The pictures contain lots of detail to pore...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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The Christmas Eve Ghost
Shirley Hughes
Best-selling illustrator Shirley Hughes has a rare gift for capturing the essence of childhood at any time. Set in her own childhood in Liverpool, this is a touching story of children growing up in hard times but surrounded by love and, in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
Jane Ray
Prize-winning Jane Ray is renowned for the beauty of her picture books. Here she celebrates the Twelve Days of Christmas is stunning, brightly coloured illustrations which capture the magic of the festive season while the fluttering of snow flakes in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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We're Going to a Party!
Jeanne Willis
Packed full of pop-up surprises this is a hilarious lift-the-flap book with an excellent joke at the end. Wonderful transformations of a host of animals are uncovered under every flap. But, someone isn’t in disguise. Who can be? Young readers...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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I Want My Hat Back
Jon Klassen
The bear's hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across. Each...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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