Featured Books for 5+ readers

The Purrfect Pawse
Avril McDonald
In The Purrfect Pawse: A little book to help children pause, stretch and be grateful, Avril McDonald returns with some of the colourful, lovable characters from her Feel Brave series to help nurture young children's physical and mental well-being through... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 31/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Princess Swashbuckle
Hollie Hughes
August 2018 Book of the Month | This swashbuckling, delightfully illustrated adventure is great fun, but has some important messages for readers too. It starts in the most traditional of ways: Once upon a time… but then this tale of a frog princess... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 09/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Best Sound in the World
Cindy Wume
Beautiful debut picture book about a lion who looks for the best sound in the world and finds friendship. Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 29/08/2018 Info Extract Buy

Greatest Magical Stories, chosen by Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo
Cinderella, Rumpelstilstskin, Sleeping Beauty, Jack and the Beanstalk: these stories are in our DNA, says Michael Morpurgo in his introduction to this gorgeous new collection. They are told by some of our best authors for children and each story is... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback / softback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Elvis the Squirrel: A Bloomsbury Young Reader
Tony Bradman
Tony Bradman packs a great deal of adventure and humour into this little book, all presented in a way to make it ideal for new readers. Elvis is an impetuous young squirrel, and persuades his friend Chuck to leap onto... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Plastic Pollution on Land and in the Oceans Let's Investigate
Ruth Owen
Plastic pollution is one of the most damaging environmental issues that we face today. And no one is more passionate about solving this problem and protecting our world than kids! This new tile in the best selling Fundamental Science series... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers | 9+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 30/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Christmas Extravaganza Hotel
Tracey Corderoy
This funny, heart-warming picture book will put everyone in the right mood for Christmas. Bear's plans for a nice, simple festive season are interrupted by the arrival of Frog. Frog thinks he's come to the Christmas Extravaganza Hotel and is... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

I Went Trick-or-Treating
Paul Howard
As much a game as a book, this is lots of fun to read, and lots of fun to look at too. Two little children, a boy and a girl, are all dressed up and ready to go trick or... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

We Are Together
Britta Teckentrup
Illustrated by Britta Teckentrup with typically vibrant colours and eye-catching compositions, We Are Together is a beautiful book. On each page children stand in different scenes, some are there on the page, others we glimpse through carefully-placed cut-outs. More and... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Space Train
Maudie Powell-Tuck
Jakob has found the long-lost Space Train! But it's old, battered and broken. With the help of Granny and Derek the robot chicken, can Jakob fix the train? Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Last Stop on the Reindeer Express
Maudie Powell-Tuck
There's a real feel of Christmas magic to this delightful picture book. Like many children, Mia's parents live apart and as Christmas approaches she's really missing her daddy. Then she spots a mysterious post-box – turning the knob on the... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Itchy, Scritchy, Scratchy Pants
Steve Smallman
Well, here's a book that ticks some absolute favourite first reader boxes: Vikings – tick; bare bottoms – tick; knickers – tick; a bouncy rhyming text just right for reading aloud – tick; lively, action-packed illustrations – tick, tick, tick!... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Princess in Black
Shannon Hale, Dean Hale
In a nutshell: princesses can be masked avengers too! | Princess Magnolia is neat, polite and very, very sweet, but when she gets a call on her monster-alarm she changes in an instant to become the Princess in Black, more... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 06/07/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Real Boat
Marina Aromshtam
Highly Commended, 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize | There are absolutely beautiful illustrations within the book, some of them exquisitely good, and the judges are excited to see what Semyinka will do next. They particularly admire the skilful change of scale... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 05/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

Curiosity The Story of a Mars Rover
Markus Motum
Shortlisted for the 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize | Motum is definitely an illustrator to watch. Though this is an information book, you feel there is a story being told, with pace and animation. His work reminded the Klaus Flugge judges... Featured in: 7+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 01/10/2017 Info Extract Buy

The Night Box
Louise Greig
Shortlisted for the 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize | Max has a key and a box of midnight blue. When he turns the key in the lock - WHOOSH! Day slips inside as Night sweeps out. Darkness tumbles into the air.... Featured in: 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 29/06/2017 Info Extract Buy

My Name is Not Refugee
Kate Milner
Winner of the 2018 Klaus Flugge Prize | Longlisted for the UKLA 2018 Book Award June 2017 Book of the Month Simple enough for the youngest child to understand and certain to prompt feelings of empathy in readers of all... Featured in: 7+ readers | 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 04/05/2017 Info Extract Buy

Santa Claus vs The Easter Bunny
Fred Blunt
Get a peek behind the scenes and find out how the holidays REALLY happen in this hilarious picture book from rising star Fred Blunt. ** Are you #TEAMSANTACLAUS or #TEAMEASTERBUNNY? Let us know on social media! Tag @AndersenPress Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Frights and Bites Fangs! Scream! Zombie!
Alan MacDonald
A Dirty Bertie collection to delight his legions of fans who revel in his revolting ways! Featuring nine stories from Fangs!, Scream! and Zombie! A review for Fangs! - Disgusting Dirty Bertie is back for a new set of mucky... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback / softback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Happy: A Children's Book of Mindfulness
Nicola Edwards
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | As befits its subtitle ‘A Children's Book of Mindfulness', Happy is a sensitive and calming introduction for young readers on how to engage with the beauty of the world to... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

The Giant Jumperee
Julia Donaldson
A Julia Eccleshare Pick of the Month September 2018 | Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury bring the very best of their award-winning The Gruffalo and We're Going on a Bear Hunt respectively to this glorious new picture book which will... Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 20/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

AL's Awesome Science: Splash Down
Jane Clarke
Al's experiments have the most unexpected and messy consequences. Al is experimenting to find out what kind of covering his time machine will need to survive its Splash Down! back to Earth. Water experiments have a habit of making things... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 17/05/2018 Info Extract Buy

Martha Mayhem and the Barmy Birthday
Joanne Owen
Hilarity and magic on Martha's birthday in the third book in this young series by Carnegie and Branford Boase long-listed author Joanne Owen. Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 12/07/2018 Info Extract Buy

Once Upon a Raindrop The Story of Water
James Carter
Via simple but elegant illustrations, and a gentle sometimes playful rhyming text, this picture book passes on all sorts of information about water and its importance, while never losing the sense of the beauty of this essential element. Words and... Featured in: 5+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Hardback | Released 06/09/2018 Info Extract Buy

Fantastically Great Women Who Made History Activity Book
Kate Pankhurst
August 2018 Book of the Month | Kate Pankhurst inspires thousands of young readers with her books about the fantastically great women who made history. This book reunites us with those women, including astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, dancer Josephine Baker, and code... Featured in: 5+ readers | 3+ readers | 7+ readers
Format: Paperback | Released 09/08/2018 Info Extract Buy