Featured Books for 5+ readers

The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean
Alexander Mccall Smith
When Harriet turns nine, her father says, “Your aunts would like to hear about that!” Harriet had no idea that she had any aunts and suddenly she finds that she has five. Five aunts, all interesting, talented and, above all,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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Harriet Bean and the League of Cheats
Alexander Mccall Smith
This has huge appeal and great fun.  Harriet and her aunts undertake some serious detection in the world of horseracing.  But have they taken on more than they can handle?  McCall Smith portrays his characters quite brilliantly. This series of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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The Cowgirl Aunt of Harriet Bean
Alexander Mccall Smith
Having found her five aunts Harriet heads off on an adventure with two of them to catch some cattle thieves.  Brilliant detection and a whole load of fun on the way and larger than life characters in the form of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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Diggers and Dumpers
Valerie Wilding
This is a brilliant collection of 3 short linked stories that every boy who is mad about dumper trucks and diggers will devour on their own or with their parents.  Green Bananas make reading fun.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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Jack's Bed
Lynne Rickards
That ever re-occurring phrase  ‘I don’t want to go to bed’ is brilliantly resolved here through storytelling and it doesn’t take long for Jack to decide he likes to go to bed after all!! Green Bananas make reading fun.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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Jungle School
Elizabeth, Davison, Roz Laird
First day nerves at school are handled brilliantly here so that no child heading off on his or her first day will feel anything other than total confidence in themselves and come home at the end of the day very...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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Indie Kidd
Karen Mccombie
Indie Kids best (est) friend Fee is very sad because her cat was run over. So, she goes all out to ‘cheer up Fee’ – but what Indie Kid hasn’t got yet is that Fee needs sometime to be glum...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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Lucy Cat at the Beach: French and English Picture strip
Catherine Bruzzone
This is the ideal way to enjoy reading in a foreign language. Presents a bilingual French/English strip cartoon story for the young learner. The books have simple text in speech bubbles and captions, humorous pictures, motivating stories, as well as...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2006
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RSPB: My First Book of Garden Birds
Mike Unwin, Sarah Whittley
A delightfully illustrated picture book about garden birds that will appeal to families with young children. Each bird is introduced on a right-hand page in an illustration where it is partly obscured or turned away from the viewer. The text...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 25/04/2006
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Traction Man is Here
Mini Grey
Mini Grey has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Short listed for the Blue Peter Book Awards - Best Illustrated book to read aloud 2006. A very original tale told from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Dogbird and Other Mixed-up Tales
Paul Stewart
Three funny and fanciful stories about animals who have got just a little bit mixed-up. There’s Dogbird, a budgie who Woofs loud and long until he drives everyone round the bend. Dad says he must go but who would want...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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The Adventures of the Dish and the Spoon
Mini Grey
Mini Grey has been selected as one of The Big Picture campaign's Best New Illustrators in 2008. Winner of Greenaway Award 2007. Everybody knows that the Dish ran away with the Spoon but who knows why or what happened...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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The Questing Knights of the Faerie Queen
Geraldine Mccaughrean
A beautiful book, lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, this is an accessible prose re-telling of the story of the Faerie Queen, Spenser’s romantic poem first written for Queen Elizabeth 1. Full of adventure with knights and dragons, princesses...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Here Comes Eloise!
Kay Thompson
Eloise lives in the plaza hotel in New York, looked after by her nanny she sends everyone crazy with her love of ‘helping’ around the place whether it’s sorting parcels or lending a hand in the kitchen. The fact is...
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Format: Paperback Pop-up / Lift-the-flap Book - Released: 03/04/2006
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It Moved!
Anne Fine
Clever Lily! There’s nothing interesting for her to take for Show and Tell which won’t get broken so she takes in a stone. It looks just like any other stone. You can’t just bring a stone, her friends tell her...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/04/2006
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Tim and Charlotte
Edward Ardizzone
Edward Ardizzone’s classic picture books about Tim deserve to be made freshly available to every new generation. This handsome edition does exactly that. When Tim rescues Charlotte from the sea after she’s been washed overboard while on a trip with...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2006
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Tim All Alone
Edward Ardizzone
Chosen by Quentin Blake. Ardizzone’s illustrations may seem a little dated now, but that’s the real joy of this one and the various other Tim stories.  It’s a fantastic story that’s also wonderfully satisfying for parent and child alike. It...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2006
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Gigantic Turnip
Alexei Tolstoy and Niamh Sharkey
A delightfully funny tale that parents and toddlers can enjoy together from a young age just as much as 5-7 year olds will enjoy it reading alone.  The illustrations are stunning and complement the humorous text brilliantly.  Rest-assured children will...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/03/2006
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Shakespeare's Storybook
Patrick Ryan
Shakespeare was a brilliant storyteller and he knew a good story when he heard one.  Here in this wonderfully atmospheric book we discover the stories from which some of his best-known plays took their inspiration. ‘A Bargain is a Bargain’...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/03/2006
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Jack And The Beanstalk
Richard Walker
This is without doubt one of the loveliest retellings of Jack and the Beanstalk.  Both the text and illustrations complement each other quite brilliantly and as usual Barefoot have designed the pages in a quirky, innovative and inspirational...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2006
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Magic Pony Carousel: Sparkle
Poppy Shire
For all pony mad children this series is an absolutely brilliant way of enticing perhaps reluctant readers to enjoy reading.  Imaginations will run wild and there’s plenty of adventure to keep them turning the pages.  My...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2006
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Double Trouble
Kes Gray
Two fantastic stories about Daisy – a little girl who isn’t always as good as gold….In Really, really Daisy tells her new babysitter that she always has ice-cream and chips for tea; she tells her that she never goes to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2006
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Katie Morag and the Birthdays
Mairi Hedderwick
Everyone loves birthdays – especially Katie Morag. She loves making presents and she loves celebrating other people’s birthdays but, best of all, she loves her own birthday. Join Katie Morag at all the birthday parties on the Isle of Stuay....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2006
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Oscar Wilde Stories for Children
Oscar Wilde
Beautiful illustrations capture the anguish and joy of Oscar Wilde’s classic fairy stories for children. The Selfish Giant who won’t let any children play in his garden finds only the winter can exist in his garden. Snow, hail and frost...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 02/03/2006
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Igor, The Bird Who Couldn't Sing
Satoshi Kitamura
An extraordinary picture book about expressing yourself, by award-winning picture book creator Satoshi Kitamura. Igor loves to sing, unfortunately without tune or rhythm! However, eventually he manages to find an unexpected, but appreciative audience.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/03/2006
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Eddie's Garden and How to Make Things Grow
Sarah Garland
Clearly and delightfully told, this gentle story with lively characters and colourful illustrations is also packed full of information on how to grow a garden like Eddie's for yourself.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2006
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Grandpa Chatterji's Third Eye
Jamila Gavin
The wisdom of the elderly is affectionately shown in these three delightful stories about the impact a visit from Grandpa from India has on his grandchildren’s lives. Grandpa’s commitment to a simple life as represented by the tiny bundle he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/02/2006
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Where Willy Went
Nicholas Allan
A funny and warm-spirited story of that difficult-to-answer question – how are babies made? Willy is just one sperm among many. He’s hopeless at sums but very good at swimming. Willy practices and practices for the Great Swimming Race because...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2006
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All Because of Jackson
Dick King-smith
Attractively packaged for emerging readers, All Because of Jackson is the story of a most unusual rabbit. While his friends burrow and play, Jackson sits of the cliff side watching the tall ships coming and going. All he wants to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2006
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The Littlest Pirate
Sherryl Clark
Little boys and girls who have just learned to read will absolutely adore The Littlest Pirate for it’s a story with a huge amount of fun and adventure broken down into short chapters and some terrific illustrations.  Watch...
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Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 01/02/2006
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