This month's 'featured books'
Featured Author Sally Gardner
The Silver Blade
The Silver Blade
Sally Gardner
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009 The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the FrenchRevolution, which Sally...
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The Red Necklace
The Red Necklace
Sally Gardner
Set against the turbulent and drastically violent time of the French Revolution, this story is about a boy who is...
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Silver Blade (Audio)
Silver Blade (Audio)
Sally Gardner
CD Audio. The dramatic, horrific and sometimes romantic events of the FrenchRevolution, which Sally Gardner so brilliantly portrayed in The...
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The Red Necklace (Audio)
The Red Necklace (Audio)
Sally Gardner
CD Audio. Set against the turbulent and drastically violent time of the French Revolution, this story is about a boy who...
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Magical Children 3 in 1: Vol One (Audio)
Magical Children 3 in 1: Vol One (Audio)
Sally Gardner
Contains: The Strongest Girl in the World, The Invisible Boy, The Boy who could Fly.Each of the Magical Children...
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Magical Children 3 in 1: Vol Two (Audio)
Magical Children 3 in 1: Vol Two (Audio)
Sally Gardner
Contains: The Smallest Girl Ever, The Boy with the Magic Numbers, The Boy with the Magic FeetThree enchanting stories...
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This month's 'featured books'
Blue Peter Book Awards
Tail-end Charlie
Tail-end Charlie
Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. As a boy, Mick Manning listened to his father's...
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Cosmic
Cosmic
Frank Cottrell Boyce
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Comic and cosmic, this is a roller coaster...
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Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things
Dinkin Dings and the Frightening Things
Guy Bass
Winner of the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. Dinkin Dings is afraid of everything - not just...
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The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43
Harriet Goodwin
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' Award. Adventurous, charming and poignant by turns, The Boy...
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Frozen In Time
Frozen In Time
Ali Sparkes
Overall winnner of the 2010 Blue Peter Award 2010 and 'Book I Couldn't Put Down' category Award. A page-turning mystery-adventure with...
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Peter the Penguin Pioneer
Peter the Penguin Pioneer
Daren King
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. Hugely inventive and charmingly funny with laugh-out-loud zany humour...
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This month's 'featured books'
Debut Books
Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder
Jo Nesbo
Fuelled by farts, this is fast-paced and a delightfully ridiculous adventure. Newly moved into the neighbourhood, Nilly meets a strange...
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No and Me
No and Me
Delphine de Vigan
Deeply moving, this is the touching story of two teenagers from very different backgrounds whose friendship raises huge questions about...
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Luke and Jon
Luke and Jon
Robert Williams
This is a wonderfully original and arresting debut novel about friendship, grief and love.  Written with great power, warmth and...
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Tumbleweed
Tumbleweed
Jacquie Trajan
Tumbleweed is the story a wonderfully funny chicken but he has a problem. He only has one leg so the...
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The Queen Must Die: Chronicles of the Tempus
The Queen Must Die: Chronicles of the Tempus
K.A.S. Quinn
Completely gripping, this rollercoaster time travel adventure takes Katie, a contemporary New York teenager, back right into the heart of...
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Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide
Witchfinder: Dawn of the Demontide
William Hussey
Cleverly crafted, this is a masterful horror story that will chill readers to the bone as Jake Harker comes face...
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This month's 'featured books'
Oliver Jeffers - Illustrator
The Heart and the Bottle
The Heart and the Bottle
Oliver Jeffers
Award winning Oliver Jeffers’s latest book is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how...
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How to Catch a Star
How to Catch a Star
Oliver Jeffers
A prize winning illustrator with a reputation for spare illustrations which pack a huge emotional punch. A little boy so loves...
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How to Catch a Star
How to Catch a Star
Oliver Jeffers
A prize winning illustrator with a reputation for spare illustrations which pack a huge emotional punch. A little boy so...
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy (pop-up edition)
The Incredible Book Eating Boy (pop-up edition)
Oliver Jeffers
Delicious pop-up spreads bring an interactive version of this popular story about a boy who loves books so much that...
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The Incredible Book Eating Boy
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
Oliver Jeffers
Book and Audio CD. A brilliant picture book about a boy with an unusual attitude to books! Henry loves books but...
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Lost and Found: Board Book
Lost and Found: Board Book
Oliver Jeffers
Celebrating the value of friendship, this is an exquisitely illustrated picture book with a simple story line. Opening his door and...
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This month's 'featured books'
Guest Ed. Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Michael Foreman's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll, Michael Foreman
Lewis Carroll’s world favourite children’s classic, loved by generations for its limitless imagination, has been brought vividly to life by...
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Michael Foreman's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Michael Foreman's the Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L.Frank Baum
This is a beautifully illustrated collectable edition of the classic children's story. It is illustrated by one of today's best-loved children's illustrators....
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Michael Foreman's Peter Pan and Wendy
Michael Foreman's Peter Pan and Wendy
J.M. Barrie
Michael Foreman’s bright and beautiful illustrations vibrantly bring all the magical fun and adventure of Peter Pan’s world to life. ...
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Michael Foreman's Treasure Island
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,...
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After the War Was Over
After the War Was Over
Michael Foreman
Michael Foreman makes history such fun and this book in particular is so inspirational.  It tells the story of life...
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War Game
War Game
Michael Foreman
It was Christmas Day in the trenches in France during World War One and a remarkable football match took place....
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This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
Maskmaker
Maskmaker
Jane Johnson
There’s magic deep in the heart of this highly inventive story. Jamie’s life changes when he tries on the tiger...
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The Immortals: Blue Moon
The Immortals: Blue Moon
Alyson Noel
A second story about Ever, a girl whose special powers mean she can read auras. Still in love with Damen,...
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Drawing with Light
Drawing with Light
Julia Green
A touching and tender teenage novel of love and exploration this tells how sixteen-year-old Emily finds first love and also...
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Candle Man The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance
Candle Man The Society of Unrelenting Vigilance
Glenn Dakin
Dark powers and mysterious happenings lie at the heart of this story of an unnatural underworld and the secret societies...
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I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend
I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend
Cora Harrison
Rich in period detail and full of romance and fantasy, this is a delightful imaginary diary of Jenny Cooper which...
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Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Stage Fright
Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls: Stage Fright
Meg Cabot
A new title in this best-selling series full of appeal for all cool and clever girls who like to be...
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Who is Julia Eccleshare ?

JuliaJulia Eccleshare has spent her working life to date within children's books as a critic, an editor, an author and a commentator. Apart from her current role as Editorial contributor and advisor to Lovereading4kids, she is the children's editor of the Guardian.

She has co-edited and is the author of a number of books including the Rough Guide to Teenage Literature, the fascinating and insightful Beatrix Potter to Harry Potter: Portraits of Children's Writers, which is a celebration of a century of children's literature, as well as Treasure Islands: the Woman's Hour Guide to Children's Books. She also spent some considerable time as a children's fiction editor in UK publishing. She has been a selector to the Children's Books of the Year, a guide to the best books published annually, a member of the advisory board of a children's book club and for some while was children's books editor of The Bookseller. She regularly appears as a judge or Chair of judges on some of the major children's book prizes including the Whitbread (now called the Costa) and the Nestle among others.

From this engagement with the field she has encyclopaedic knowledge of what has been published for children over the last twenty five or thirty years, how fashions have changed, what has worked and how best to help children and their parents find the book that they will most enjoy. Julia was awarded the Eleanor Farjeon Prize in 2000 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to children's books. She is married with four children and lives in London.




















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