Books of the Month - May

No Such Thing As Dragons
Philip Reeve
This is the author’s first stand alone novel since the spectacular Here Lies Arthur, winner of the 2008 Carnegie Medal. Reeve’s brilliant imagination has conjured up a dragon story in the grand tradition of children’s fantasy fiction, but one that is spectacularly different...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Lies
Michael Grant
A compelling sequel to the best-selling Gone and Hunger, Lies is a dark, thrilling and thought-provoking adventure. It is set in a dystopian future where food is scarce and life is fragile; all those over fifteen have been annihilated leaving...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Flossie Crums 2: the Enchanted Cookie Tree A Flossie Crums Baking Adventure
Helen Nathan
Another brilliant baking adventure that combines  a great story featuring top cookie maker Flossie Crums with some fabulous cookie recipes, each one easy enough for children to do on their own with limited parental supervision.  The art of baking has...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Silent Night
Juliet Groom
One of the best-loved carols provides a warm basis for a gentle rhyming bedtime lullaby which encourages harmony and tenderness between all. Two bears, a big one and a little one, share joyful moments as they gambol against a beautiful...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Slog's Dad
David Almond
Award-winning author/ illustrator team David Almond and Dave McKean have followed up The Savage with an equally stunning new book told partly as a graphic novel and partly as a story. Full of the kind of mystery David Almond created...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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The Christmas Eve Ghost
Shirley Hughes
Shirley Hughes, who has created favourite picture book characters including Alfie and his little sister Annie Rose, goes back in time in this warm-hearted and evocative picture book. Life is hard for Bronwen and Dylan’s mum. She makes her living...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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The Bloomsbury Nursery Treasury
Patricia Borlenghi
Ten favourite stories including Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Ugly Ducking are prettily illustrated in this attractive gift book.  Lovely to read aloud, this is an ideal introduction to classic stories.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Almost True
Keren David
A thrilling adventure in which the stakes are dangerously high, Almost True is an emotional roller coaster. When someone is shot dead on the doorstep instead of him, fourteen year old Ty, already under police protection since witnessing a murder,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Chocolate Box Girls: Cherry Crush
Cathy Cassidy
All the teenage humours of romance, jealousy, friendship and sorrow rage freely in this brilliantly observed story of contemporary life. Cherry tells what it feels like to arrive in a new family. Her dad has fallen in love with an...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Eddie's Toolbox And How to Make and Mend Things
Sarah Garland
Fixing things has never been more fun than in this attractive story which also provides useful and practical guidance on helping children to use tools. When new neighbours arrive next door, Eddie is lucky that when Tom needs to fix...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Winnie in Space
Valerie Thomas
Favourite witch Winnie is back for a new adventure and this time she’s off into space! The problem is, while Winnie happily jumps aboard the space rocket and loves whizzing around the moon and the stars, Wilbur, her cat, is...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Great Rabbit Rescue
Katie Davies
The eagerly awaited sequel to the award winning The Great Hamster Massacre. Once again featuring 9 year old Anna and five year old Tom go on a quest for a pet. The Great Rabbit Rescue reunites its readers with the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Up and Down
Oliver Jeffers
A touching story of how two friends feel when they separate and try to manage without each other. Prize-winning illustrator Oliver Jeffers specialises in spare illustrations which are warm hearted but also capture the deep sadness of being alone in...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Playing with Phyre
Graham Marks
  When everything Haden Akatine has ever known is obliterated by the ruthless Sadar, all he seeks is vengeance.   What he finds is a conspiracy stretching across the Territories, to the Sadar’s mountain stronghold, Ghadra. Here, in the heart of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2010
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Iris and Isaac
Catherine Rayner
Prize-winning illustrator Catherine Rayner has produced a new outstanding title. Polar bears Iris and Isaac fall out over sharing their nest. Each stomps away in a Big Bear Huff but soon both find that they don’t enjoy anything half as...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2010
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Bob and Barry's Lunar Adventures 3: The Heartless Robots
Simon Bartram
A thrilling new adventure for Bob, the loveable man-on-the-moon. Bob’s happiest day comes when he wins the Inventions Competition. Soon, his Galaxobot 300 will bring order to the lives of every overworked spaceman. But Bob has no idea how angry...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2010
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Stories for a Fragile Planet
Kenneth Steven
Ten stories from different times and different places demonstrate the importance of looking after the earth and the creatures that live on it. Each story tells how mutual respect will lead us to have the planet we want and guide...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2010
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Return to the Lost World (Luke Challenger Book 1)
Steve Barlow, Steve Skidmore
A roller coaster adventure that will grab readers from the dramatic dare devil opening and hold them gripped throughout. Luke is only fourteen but he has an adult sized thirst for invention and exploration. Something about his reputation proceeds him...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2010
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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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Whisper My Name
Jane Eagland
This is an incredibly eerie and chilling story of 16 year old Meriel Garland who is trapped in her grandfather’s strict regime of study and silence.  It’s a narrow, solitary existence, yet Meriel doesn’t always feel alone for someone is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2010
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Edge of Nowhere
John E. Smelcer
This is an astonishing tale of survival 'with more psychological depth than Robinson Crusoe*'; very poignant and based on true events.  It delves deeper into its themes of survival and endurance than his previous novel The Great Death and...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Find Chaffy
Jamie Smart
Join in the search for the missing Chaffies! Ten loveable Chaffies have wandered off into the world and someone needs to set out and find where they are hiding! Join in the search for these delightful creatures among a graveyard...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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The Maze Runner
James Dashner
A cracking sci-fi post-apocalyptic adventure thriller for 11+ year olds that has already taken the US by storm and is set to achieve similar success globally. When Thomas wakes up, walks out of the lift he’s in he finds himself...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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On a Dark, Dark Night
Simon Prescott
A very simple story told with few words but wonderful images where shadows and dark shapes leap off the page as the mouse runs through the dark wood and into the streets, then into a house, down some dark, dark...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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Troubadour
Mary Hoffman
Shortlisted for the prestigious Costa Children's Book Award 2009 There’s romance, intrigue, religion and bloodshed all tightly interwoven in this historical thriller. Rather than marrying the old nobleman her father has chosen for her, Elinor determines to run away with Bertran...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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One Fluffy Baa-Lamb, Ten Hairy Caterpillars
Nick Sharratt
Open the flaps to find loads of jokes in this witty and surprising counting book which makes thinking about numbers fun! The lambs and the caterpillars get up to all kids of unexpected fun to entertain readers with their driving,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/08/2010
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Ruby Nettleship and the Ice Lolly Adventure
Thomas Docherty
This is a magical adventure in which a drab landscape is transformed into a place of beauty and delight. Ruby’s playground is rundown; nothing works except for one swing for which there is always a long queue. One day, Ruby...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2010
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When I Dream of ABC
Henry Fisher
Winner of the Children's Fiction Award at The People's Book Prize 2011, voted for by the public. Publisher Top That! and author Henry Fisher would like to extend their thanks to everyone who voted. Wonderfully dreamy and fantastical illustrations – opera...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2010
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Play the Shape Game
Anthony Browne
Take a shape and transform it into something new...Top names, including Jo Brand, Quentin Blake, Jacqueline Wilson, Phillip Pullman, Imelda Staunton, Anthony Horowitz, Sir Peter Blake, Linford Christie and Andrew Motion, have played Anthony Browne's Shape Game and left a new shape...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/07/2010
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The Good Green Lunchbox: Tasty, Healthy Lunches and Picnics
Jocelyn Miller
This is the book to help you and the children give what you eat an eco-makeover! It's a make-and-do book and contains 16 ideas for tasty and healthy lunches and picnics, which at the same time highlight a range of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2010
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