Featured Books for 3+ readers

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...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/03/2003
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Bottoms Up!
Jeanne Willis
A brilliantly light hearted celebration of the bare bottie! Human toddlers protest against the wearing of nappies, knickers, pants, boxers, bloomers or briefs. After all, the human babies protest in the jaunty rhyming text whilst the entertaining illustrations which illustrate...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2009
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Bow-wow Bugs A Bug
Mark Newgarden
A charming and funny wordless picture book that gives great opportunities for story telling. A little dog sets out on an unexpected adventure when he follows a little dot. What is that dot? Dogs and bugs multiply as the witty...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2008
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Box of Tricks
Katie Cleminson
Winner of Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A truly magical debut from author/illustrator Katie Cleminson.  When Eva is given a box of tricks for her birthday she becomes a master magician. Conjuring up the best animal musicians, party...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Book Awards | Debuts of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Box of Tricks
Katie Cleminson
A wonderful story that celebrates make believe and imagination. Katie is given a cardboard box for her birthday. Jumping in she soon magics up all her favourite things including a wonderful birthday party and a great celebration. Can Katie put...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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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...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/10/2008
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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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Bridget Fidget
Joe Berger
Bridget Fidget never stops, she's a girl in a whirl all the time, especially when something arrives one morning in a big box. Just think how exhausting it is for both mum and dad to have a child that never...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Bright Stanley : Double Trouble
Matt Buckingham
Can Stanley keep his mischievous cousin Dennis out of trouble? Not if Dennis has anything to do with it. A delightful story with bright and bold pictures to share with toddlers. Click here for more by this author, including other...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/03/2012
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Bubble Trouble
Margaret Mahy
This fabulous and ridiculous bouncing story told in a rollicking rhyme charts the adventures of a baby who gets wafted away in a bubble. Over the heads of all bibble - bobbles the baby in the bubble while everyone wonders,...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/09/2008
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Bubble Trouble
Margaret Mahy
This fabulous and ridiculous bouncing story told in a rollicking rhyme charts the adventures of a baby who gets wafted away in a bubble. Over the heads of all bibble - bobbles the baby in the bubble while everyone wonders,...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Busy Day
Sally Grindley
A bright, boldly illustrated and action-packed picture book ideal for reading aloud on any kind of journey including the one to bed.  This story takes 5 kids on a bus to the sea.  There are speech bubbles throughout with simple...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2011
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Cake Girl
David Lucas
Tender and touching, Cake Girl is a delicious fantasy in which a lonely and unhappy witch is taught how to be kind and loving by the charming Cake Girl she creates. With no friends for her birthday, the witch makes...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2009
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Call Me Gorgeous
Giles Milton
Stunning illustrations show the most arresting features of all sorts of animals – the pointy teeth of a crocodile and the long curving neck of a flamingo – all of which are fitted together to create a wonderful invented creature. ...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Books of the Month
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/08/2009
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Can Anybody Hear Me?
Jessica Meserve
How to be heard by the family is Jack’s dilemma in this amusing story about a little boy who goes on a big adventure. Jack’s noisy family don’t ever seem to hear what he says so, when he takes off...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Can I Keep It?
Tony Ross
Full of humour, excitement and surprise, this is a must for any young girl.  Tony Ross has excelled once again.  Don’t forget to watch for the Little Princess elsewhere too as she’s now made it to the TV screen.
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2007
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Can You See Sassoon?
Sam Usher
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. This is Sassoon. He likes to hide. Can you find him? Look inside! Meet Sassoon the snake as he plays hide-and-seek with his friends. Filled with fun and silly things to...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2011
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Can't Catch Me!
Michael Foreman
No wonder Michael Foreman is one of our foremost writer’s and illustrator’s for young children.  Can’t Catch me is the perfect bedtime read as your young toddler will be taken on a delightful journey to all corners of the earth...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2005
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Captain Flinn and The Pirate Dinosaurs: Missing Treasure!
Giles Andreae
All aboard my hearties! Sail away on a rollicking pirate adventure as Flinn sets off to fight the Pirate Dinosaurs on the high seas! A wonderful imaginary adventure that transports Flinn and his friends from the classroom to the high...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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Captain Yellowbelly The Tale of the Terrible Pirate
Preston Rutt & Leo Timmers
This book will have you and your toddler roaring with laughter as dear old Captain Yellowbelly gets himself into more and more of a pickle in this swashbuckling-comical pirate tale. If it leaves your child with something more than a...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Debuts of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2007
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Cat in the Manger
Michael Foreman
A warm-hearted, beautifully told cat’s view of the Christmas story. The cat who lives in the manger is a cat with attitude, sometimes grumpy and often moaning but tonight it is looking forward to a quiet night with just the...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2009
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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.
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/1982
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Cat on the Mat and Friends
Brian Wildsmith
A bumper picture book made up of four best-selling classic stories by this award winning illustrator. The simplicity of Brian Wildsmith’s illustrations and the jokes that both the pictures and the stories tell make this a delight for young readers....
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month
Format: Paperback - Released: 12/04/2011
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