The summer is here and to celebrate we have a fantastic selection of books that are guaranteed to bring out the sun! We have beach reads, back garden reads and brilliant bedtime reads. We've lots of fascinating non-fiction titles to keep your young ones interested and activity books perfect to keep kids occupied on a long journey.

The long holidays are also an ideal time to build on good reading habits, and foster a real life-long love of books away from the classroom. With a book there are no limits to how far their imagination can go.

For more inspiration, take a look through our Collections to find the perfect summer read for children interested in more focused themes from Eco Reads, to Verse Novels that are great for older readers.

Books that let kids Choose their Own Adventures are great to pack into a suitcase with endless possibilities to the storyline from just one book!

Our Graphic Novels & Comics section has had a refresh and now has an awesome selection of quality must-reads. And if your children prefer facts to novels, head over to our blog section for a round-up of the Great Information Books with titles with a wide range of titles from science to art to famous people, suitable for all ages from toddler to teen. 

Every year we cover the most important and influential Book Awards and this section is a great treasure trove to plunder for top quality books. We have the shortlists, and often the longlists too, of all the main children's book awards including The Week Junior Book Awards, the Branford Boase Award, the Carnegie Medals and UKLA Book Awards. It's worth a browse!

If you are looking to keep the kids entertained we have plenty of ideas!

Our Kids Zone has activities with a bookish theme to download including colouring in pages, puzzles and creative projects..and videos with draw-alongs, storywriting tips and author talks.

For those long journeys we have a special collection of our favourite summer inspired Activity Books.

Joanne Owen's Get Creative series is full of amazing suggestions, with top tips to keep kids busy over the holidays.

Or take a look at A World of Adventure: 50 Books to Inspire and our Forest School collection : try a micro-adventure and camp in your garden, take a nature walk, create a bug hotel, or hold a star-gazing night!

And if you are still searching for that perfect book, take a look at the Star Books category where you can find the top picks and favourite choices from our expert reviewers.

Scroll down for a list of books, in age order, to keep your young readers busy over the summer holidays.

We will keep adding books to this collection throughout the summer months so it will be well worth coming back to take a peek.

Happy browsing!