Featured Books for 7+ readers

The Mapmaker's Monsters - Beware The Buffalogre!
Rob Stevens
The first in an upbeat adventure-fantasy series with character led humour that is perfect for boys.  Think Shrek meets Pirates of the Caribbean.  Hugo is an apprentice mapmaker with a knack for attracting the weirdest things to him.  So why is he so surprised...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2009
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Oxford Children's Dictionary
Robert Allen
8+ (Year 3-4, KS2).  The Oxford Children's Dictionary is illustrated in colour and aimed at readers at KS2, YR3-6 and P4-7 fo Scotland. There are 20,000 colour headwords, 150 colour illustrations, pronunciation guides for difficult words (eg. guerilla, ricochet), information...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/02/2003
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Insiders Alive: Ancient Egypt
Robert Coupe
To set the scene for this book, Egypt’s long and distinguished history is carefully laid out in a clear timeline which divides it into eight sections from before 3000BC to the present. The incredibly rich history and culture of the...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 18/11/2009
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Storlax: The Power of the Deep
Robert Jackson, Bubbi Morthens
This is an epic children’s story, told with great humour, optimism and warmth.  It will grip the reader not just because of the loveable fishy characters and exciting adventures but almost more so because it subtly shows us the impact...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2008
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Treasure Island (with an Introduction by Eoin Colfer)
Robert Louis Stevenson
This is a much-loved favourite classic - and here are the thoughts of no less than four of our favourite authors, who all selected it !  June 2011 Guest Editor Michael Morpurgo remembers: 'A terrifically exciting tale of a dead...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/02/2008
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson
This book helps you rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers. Here is a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/08/2008
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Michael Foreman's Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson, Michael Morpurgo
Michael Foreman’s stunning illustrations brilliantly capture the fast-paced action and drama of Stevenson’s classic, of high seas adventure, mysterious maps, peg-legged pirates and fabulous buried treasure that has sparked children’s imaginations for generations.  How difficult it must have been for...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 21/09/2009
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Christmas Spirit
Robert Westall
Robert Westall was without doubt one of the finest children's authors of the 20th century.  In this marvellous collection, his favourite themes come to the fore - cats, christmas and ghosts.  Beautifully illustrated by enormously respected John Lawrence, there is...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 31/10/2007
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The Tree Of Life
Rochelle Strauss
Age 5+. This is a dazzling introduction to the incredible variety of life on Earth for children of all ages. Packed with compelling facts about the world’s species, it also clearly explains that habitats are being destroyed and species are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/01/2008
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Giggler Treatment
Roddy Doyle
Parents may well not enjoy Doyle’s brilliant adventures about creatures that dream up devilish punishments to get back at adults, but rest-assured kids absolutely love it.  Highly amusing characters and tales that are full of mischief all add up to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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The Meanwhile Adventures
Roddy Doyle
Pure escapism for kids who have already picked up the reading habit as well as for children who, perhaps don’t enjoy reading but enjoy a great deal of fun, mad-cap adventure and probably have a warped sense of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Rover Saves Christmas
Roddy Doyle
With Rudolph on strike Rover comes to the rescue of Father Christmas but how can he possibly deliver all the presents with so little time left.  You’ll laugh your socks off with Doyle’s brilliant storyline and one-liners to boot.  This...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2007
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Roddy Doyle 3 in 1: The Giggler Treatment, Rover Saves Christmas, The Meanwhile Adventures
Roddy Doyle
Roddy Doyle’s writing will be enjoyed by even the most reluctant of readers. You may have anarchy in the house once the books have been read, for these stories don’t think much of adults but rest assured you’ll get some...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 05/11/2007
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How Nearly Everything Was Invented
Roger Bridgman
This is a fantastic who, when, why and where book devoted to the exciting world of inventors and inventions through time.  Successful inventions as well as failures are featured but best of all it’s a brilliant potted history on those...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2006
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100 Best Poems For Children
Roger Mcgough
Age 7+ 100s of poems chosen by school children all around the UK was the starting point for this collection. Roger McGough then paired the list down to just 100 contemporary and classic poems. January 2011 Guest Editor Jenny Downham: "I had...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/10/2002
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You Have Been Warned!
Roger Mcgough
Age 7+. A deliciously macabre collection of cautionary poems in which gruesome and grisly children are taught the errors of their ways. McGough’s own poem ‘Cautionary Tales’ entertainingly describes the fate that befalls Josephine whose lack of application at school...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/08/2008
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An Imaginary Menagerie
Roger Mcgough
Age 5+. A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Reviewed and selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin: Roger McGough is one of the most well-liked and revered poets we have today and his children’s poetry is always imaginative...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Dotty Inventions And Some Real Ones Too
Roger Mcgough
May 2012 Book of the Month.  Best-selling poet Roger McGough hits some real Eureka! moments in this cheerfully wacky picture book full of fabulously ingenious inventions. Professor Dotty Dabble is a great inventor so is sure she’ll win the National...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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Lucky
Roger Mcgough
5+. A fabulous collection of poems from one of the UK's best-loved poets. Deliciously witty, each of the fifty poems is a little firecracker of delight delivering knowledge and insights in a light and humorous way. Many are about animals...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2012
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The Jumble Book
Roger Stevens
Published in aid of Dyslexia Action, this splendid jumble of short poems contains a little bit of everything from a mighty assortment of poets, including Roger Stevens, Brian Moses, John Foster, Michael Rosen, Paul Cookson, and Kit Wright.  It is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2009
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Fibby Libby
Ros Asquith
Lovereading review to appear soon...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2008
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Letters from an Alien Schoolboy
Ros Asquith
Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 and described as “a child’s version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”.  Piccadilly Press MD Brenda Gardner says, “We are delighted that Ros is on the shortlist for the Roald Dahl...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 20/08/2010
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Letters from an Alien Schoolboy 2 : Cosmic Custard
Ros Asquith
This new adventure of the Alien Schoolboy is packed full of excellent jokes that will delight fans of the original title. Flowkwee is on a mission back to the freezing, grumpy, spaceblob called earth – often referred to as the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2011
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Letters from an Alien Schoolboy: Galactic Poodle
Ros Asquith
Third in the series. The first book, Letters from an Alien Schoolboy, was shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011. It was described by Michael Rosen as “Inventive, clever, warm … a short course in learning how to laugh.”...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2012
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Alien Schoolboy's Z-A Guide to Earthlings
Ros Asquith
November 2012 Book of the Month & Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, this hilarious series goes from strength to strength. In this forth title, The Aliens exploration of earthlings’ speech reveals the foibles of the English language - capturing...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2012
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Green Smoke
Rosemary Manning
A touching and magical adventure story, Green Smoke tells how Susan meets a very special dragon while on her summer holiday in Cornwall. R. Dragon is 1,500 years old. He’s green and scaly and has two golden-yellow horns but he’s...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/04/2008
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Famous Paintings
Rosie Dickins
This title is part of the absolutely excellent MY VERY FIRST ART series from Usborne.  This title and its sister titles in the series are a great introduction for young children to art and this one is particuarly good in...
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Format: Spiral bound - Released: 01/04/2013
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Cheesemares
Ross Collins
Interest Age 5-8+ Reading age 6+ Hal’s cheesy nightmares have become impossible and he is determined to find out why. With his fat dog Rufus, Hal goes on the hunt to find out and finds himself having to deal with some...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/02/2013
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The Jungle Book (Illustrated by Robert Ingpen)
Rudyard Kipling
This classic of which we are all familiar – the story of Mowgli the boy rescued and brought up in the jungle by wolves, of Rikki Tikki Tavi the mongoose amongst a number of other jungle stories – has been...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2006
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The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Probably one of the best known and best-loved classics has to be The Jungle Book. This Oxford edition is the original story. The unforgettable story of Mowgli, the man-cub, his jungle friends Baloo the Bear, Kaa the python and his...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2007
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