Books for Babies and Toddlers
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Technicolor Treasure Hunt Learn to Count with Nature Hvass & Hannibal A counting book, an introduction to colours, and a first word book, this is also a feast for the eye. Groups of natural objects are sorted by colour and illustrated in flamboyant style. The red pages bring together tomatoes, maple ... Download free opening extract |
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The World of Eric Carle: Big Box of Little Books Eric Carle A sturdy box contains nine small but satisfyingly chunky board books themed by setting – home, farm, sky, sea and so on. Each little book contains five of Eric Carle’s bright, bold, immediately recognisable animal illustrations. Even shrunk down to ... Download free opening extract |
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Counting Aino-Maija Metsola Lift the flaps to count from one to ten in this stylish book of numbers. Bold, eye-catching artwork and sturdy card lift-flaps throughout will make this a favourite with children and adults alike. And there's a equally bright and bold companion ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for Young Adults
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Flawed Cecelia Ahern Set in a society in which those deemed ‘flawed’ are branded and ostracised, Celia Ahern’s debut YA novel will talk directly to its readers. Every teenager wants to be perfect, to fit in and look like they know what they’re ... Download free opening extract |
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Lady Midnight Cassandra Clare March 2016 Book of the Month From the creator of the Mortal Instruments series and Infernal Devices trilogy comes this epic first instalment of the author’s highly anticipated The Dark Artifices series. Lady Midnight is populated with pretty much every kind ... Download free opening extract |
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Radio Silence Alice Oseman March 2016 Book of the Month Frances’ life has been mapped out since forever. She’s set on reading English Literature at Cambridge and getting a good job. That’s the path she believes will lead to a happy life. But academic ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 3+ readers
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Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise Sean Taylor Shortlisted for the Laugh-Out-Loud Book Awards 2016 -Picture Book Category Hoot Owl flies through the midnight air quick as a shooting star, wingtip pointing like some kind of avian superhero. When he spots a tasty rabbit he prepares to gobble ... Download free opening extract |
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? Leigh Hodgkinson March 2016 Book of the Month Leigh Hodgkinson’s picture book is a stylish investigation into how and where to read a book. Goldilocks-like, a young boy tries out a variety of chairs and reading locations. Not one of them suits: ... Download free opening extract |
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The Bear and the Piano David Litchfield Winner of the Illustrated category of The Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016. March 2016 Debut of the Month A young bear cub finds a piano in the forest and after a first hesitant ‘PLONK’, he returns to it every day for ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 5+ readers
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We are Not Frogs Michael Morpurgo March 2016 Book of the Month - A Dyslexia Friendly Picture Book for Parent and Child New on Barrington Stoke’s excellent Red Squirrel list We Are Not Frogs is a joyful exploration of frog, toad and human nature! Toads are not ... Download free opening extract |
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Vikings in the Supermarket Nick Sharratt Six bouncy poems each of which is richly illustrated by award-winning illustrator Nick Sharratt. Burt, Cora, Charlie, Selwin, Ida and Quentin are the six Vikings let loose on a delightful shopping spree in a supermarket in the title poem. More ... Download free opening extract |
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The Crow's Tale Naomi Howarth March 2015 Debut of the Month Inspired by a Lenape Native American myth, this beautiful debut picture book shows how courage and kindness are what really matter. ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 7+ readers
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Perijee & Me Ross Montgomery March 2016 Book of the Month You can rely on Ross Montgomery to put an unexpected twist and an extra helping of humanity into his stories, no matter how zany. Perijee is an alien Caitlin finds on the beach near ... Download free opening extract |
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The Best Birthday Bike Chris Hoy March 2016 Book of the Month For action-packed stories, combining real-life adventure with a touch of magic, Chris Hoy’s Flying Fergus series is hard to beat. He’s collaborated with accomplished children’s author Joanna Nadin, a writer who knows her way ... Download free opening extract |
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The Great Chocoplot Chris Callaghan March 2016 Debut of the Month Roald Dahl, a man who knew his way round a chocolate bar, would have approved of this book. Imagine how awful it would be if the world’s supplies of chocolate were threatened by an impending ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 9+ readers
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The Shadow Keeper Abi Elphinstone March 2016 Book of the Month Fabulous, feisty Moll returns with the ever faithful and courageous Gryff by her side in their quest to save the old magic and stop the Shadowmasks from destroying them. This is a tale of ... Download free opening extract |
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The Bolds to the Rescue Julian Clary March 2016 Book of the Month The Bolds are back, cause for celebration! Written by Julian Clary and illustrated with élan by the incomparable David Roberts, this is a book that will have children in stitches. For those that don’t ... Download free opening extract |
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The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling Mowgli, the little boy brought up in the jungle with the wolves, is one of the best-loved characters of fiction. His friends - and enemies – among the jungle animals include Baloo the sloth bear, Bagheera the panther, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 11+ readers
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The Astounding Broccoli Boy Frank Cottrell Boyce Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 Best Story - Andrea Reeces's Pick of the Year 2015 This is Frank Cottrell Boyce’s first standalone novel since Cosmic in 2008 and it’s been well worth the wait. The smallest and ... Download free opening extract |
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Listen to the Moon Michael Morpurgo Shortlisted for Children’s Book Award 2016, Books for Older Readers category - September 2015 Book of the Month A beautiful and captivating tour de force of family, love, war and forgiveness, this is a major new novel from the ... Download free opening extract |
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Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Best Book of the Decade & One of our 'Must Reads'. It will seem odd when reading this book that the author enjoyed writing it the most of all the 90 or so he has ... Download free opening extract |
Featured Books for 13+ readers
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The Everest Files Matt Dickinson June 2014 Book of the Month A thrilling journey to the dark side of Everest, it follows 18-year-old Ryan Hart, on a gap year adventure working for a charity in Nepal. Dark forces are at play on the lethal slopes ... Download free opening extract |
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The Lie Tree Frances Hardinge Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2016. WINNER of the 2015 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR and Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award Award-winning Frances Hardinge is spellbinding is this hugely entertaining and dramatic Victorian thriller. When Faith’s father dies ... Download free opening extract |
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The Nest Kenneth Oppel March 2016 Book of the Month A truly exceptional, uniquely unsettling work in which the stinging clarity and poignancy of Oppel’s writing is exquisitely echoed by Jon Klassen’s haunting illustrations. Steve's baby brother, Theo, is sick and doctors are struggling to ... Download free opening extract |
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