Featured Books for 5+ readers

The Bloomsbury Christmas Treasury
Sally Grindley
Savour the excitement of Christmas with this perfect family treasury.  A bright and irresistible bedtime collection for young children with original stories by the brilliantly imaginative Sally Grindley and illustrated by a plethora of fine contemporary illustrators including among others...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/11/2009
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The Bloomsbury Christmas Treasury
Sally Grindley
Savour the excitement of Christmas with this perfect family treasury.  A bright and irresistible bedtime collection for young children with original stories by the brilliantly imaginative Sally Grindley and illustrated by a plethora of fine contemporary illustrators including among others...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/11/2008
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The Biggest Thing in the World
Kenneth Steven
An endearing picture book which tells us that love is the biggest thing in the world. This heart-warming picture story - now available in a board book - stars an adorable cast of wide-eyed animals which are sure to appeal...
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Format: Board book - Released: 18/04/2012
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The Big Sticky Bun (Early Reader)
Vivian French
Three short stories will delight early readers as they capture incidents from Jason and Daisy’s childhood which will strike a familiar chord.  Jason’s good behaviour earns him the bun he wants while his attempts to get Daisy to grow by...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2012
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/10/2011
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The Big Green Book
Fred Pearce
Pull the tabs, lift the flaps and open up the amazing pops and discover the answers to lots of questions about being green and find out what you can do to help our planet stay green.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The BFG 30th Anniversary Edition
Roald Dahl
This is a delightful, funny and exciting story about a special friendship between two people from different worlds – a giant and a child. As the story develops it shows how trust and love develops between them. It also shows...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The BFG
Roald Dahl
This is a delightful, funny and exciting story about a special friendship between two people from different worlds – a giant and a child. As the story develops it shows how trust and love develops between them. It also shows...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2007
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The Best of Times
Michael Morpurgo
Beautifully told and exquisitely illustrated, this is a gem of a book. Michael Morpurgo weaves a magical story about the unusual way a prince finds to make his princess happy and so to save her life. Emma Chichester Clark’s illustrations capture the subtle...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/10/2009
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The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree
Stan, Berenstain, Jan Berenstain
The small Berenstain Bears go out on a daring nighttime adventure in THE SPOOKY OLD TREE and find thrills and shivers in just the right measure before returning to the safety of home. Four- and five-year olds will enjoy...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/08/1982
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The Bear's Water Picnic
John Yeoman
Best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake brings to life this lyrical, watery story. Pig, squirrel, hedgehog and hen are excited to join bear for his water picnic. They all love the quiet of the lake until they meet the noisy frogs! Searching...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales
Dawn Casey
This stunning collection of stories from around the world, which celebrate the importance of the world we live in, is supported by inspiring hands-on activities to encourage all to protect and preserve our world as much as we are able....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2013
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The Banana Bunch
Dawn Carroll
This is a delightful picture book for everyone - to be shared with children and will be enjoyed equally by the adults who share it with them. Full of humour it features a cast of monkeys whose mishaps and mischievous...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2012
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The Awesome Adventure
Rex Stone
In 'Flight of the Winged Serpent' Jamie and Tom have to save their dino friend, Wanna, when an enormous flying quetzalcoatlus mistakes him for one of its chicks. In 'Stampede of the Giant Reptiles' a meteor hits the earth causing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2011
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The Art Book For Children
Ruggi Gilda Williams
This children's edition - The Art Book for Children Book One (The White Book) -of Phaidon's 'The Art Book', presents 30 of the most significant artists and engaging works of art from all periods - each artist featured on a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 20/09/2005
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The Animals' Christmas
Elena Pasquali
A retelling of the Nativity story, in which wild animals gather in peace around the manger, thereby providing an original slant on the nativity story and told with winsome illustrations and biblical spirit.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/09/2011
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The Aesop's Fables for the Very Young: The Hare and the Tortoise
Sally Grindley
This is a perfect book for reading at bedtime for children of 3+.  It features a collection of Aesop’s fables retold with plenty of dialogue by the award-winning Sally Grindley.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/05/2000
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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 Adventures of Mrs Pepperpot
Alf Proysen
Mrs Pepperpot has a problem - a huge problem - she shrinks! And when she shrinks she finds herself in all sorts of trouble...Mrs Pepperpot is determined to practise her swimming, so when all the village children go for a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Adventures of Captain Underpants
Dav Pilkey
George and Harold create the greatest super-hero in their school's history and now they're about to bring him to life. Meet Captain Underpants. His identity is so secret, even he doesn't know who he is. The novel introduces "flip-o-rama" -...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/03/2000
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Ted Ted Trouble in Tokyo
Alexandra Carey
A beautiful hardback storybook which follows the adventures of Ted Ted in Japan where the much-loved (but smelly) English teddy bear gets into all sorts of scrapes including encounters with a Sumo wrestler on the subway, Nasty Noriko and a...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2012
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Ted Ted and the Dhobi Ghats
Alexandra Carey
A beautiful hardback book suitable for children aged 5 to 10. Ted Ted and the Dhobi Ghats follows the adventures (and misadventures) of a much-loved English teddy bear in Mumbai, India's biggest city. Ted Ted, his friend Tilly and the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 26/10/2010
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Team Trouble
Sophie Smiley
For football mad families this is essential reading as are the previous two stories featuring Charlie and his little brother Bobby. Their mum is so footie mad that she gives yellow cards instead of a ticking off when her children...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2007
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Tamara Small and the Monster's Ball
Giles Paley-Phillips
This beautiful and progressive picture book is perfect for Halloween. Through clever pictures and story Giles Paley-Philips turns fear into laughter and lets your children see that when they fear the unknown, more often than not, their fears are unfounded....
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/09/2012
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Talullah The Tuesday Fairy
Daisy Meadows
An absolutely delightful series to get all young girls hooked on reading. And to celebrate Rainbow Magic Day on Saturday 2nd September, we’ve got 3 sets of Rainbow Magic: The Fun Day Fairies goody bags to give away, courtesy of Orchard...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2006
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Tale Of Tales
Tony Mitton
Tony Mitton is an award-winning poet and this delightful collection of poems has been universally admired by all areas of the media.  We absolutely loved the collection too.  A magical quality pervades each and every poem with a dash of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/01/2007
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Tail-end Charlie
Mick Manning, Brita Granstrom
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2010. As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father's hair-raising tales about life as an RAF airgunner during the Second World War. Now, years...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/09/2009
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Swallows and Spiders : Follow the Swallow and Spinderella
Julia Donaldson
Two stories in one! - Follow the Swallow and Spinderella - in this great bind-up of two titles, perfect for children bridging the gap between picture books and chapter books.  It's part of Egmont's highly sought after and hugely respected...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2012
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Superfrog and the Big Stink
Michael Foreman
February 2013  Debut of the Month A delightful series of detailed pictures tell the eco-tale of Frank the Superfrog who is determined to prevent the rubbish building up in his favourite pond.  He bounds into action using a unique form of...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/02/2013
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Superfly Pest (Jack Splat)
Lou Kuenzler
This is a hilarious new series, told from the fly-on-the-wall perspective of our death-defying hero Jack Splat as he goes about his daily business - landing on tasty bits of food and spreading germs. But there is danger everywhere for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2011
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