This month's 'featured books'
Blue Peter Book Awards
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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Spells
Spells
Emily Gravett
Shortlisted for the 2010 Blue Peter 'Most Fun with Pictures' Award. A stunning new picture book from Emily Gravett, full...
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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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Why Eating Bogeys Is Good For You
Why Eating Bogeys Is Good For You
Mitchell Symons
Winner of the 2010 Blue Peter 'Best Book with Facts' Award. Why can’t you tickle yourself? What is the best...
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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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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'
Debut Books
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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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The Smallest Girl Ever
The Smallest Girl Ever
Sally Gardner
Another fantastic book in the Sally Gardner’s Magical Children Series, about children empowered by special gifts. Once again it’s utterly charming full...
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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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War Boy A Wartime Childhood
War Boy A Wartime Childhood
Michael Foreman
Brilliantly observed in words and pictures, War Boy is a first hand, eye-witness view of growing up in World War...
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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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This month's 'featured books'
Books of the Month
Hold on Tight, Stripy Horse!
Hold on Tight, Stripy Horse!
Jim Helmore, Karen Wall
A prize-winning author/illustrator team bring back the loveable Stripy Horse. This time Stripy Horse and his friends in the junk...
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The Big Sneeze
The Big Sneeze
Ruth Brown
This is a wonderful new edition of a Ruth Brown classic, in which a chain reaction is set off when...
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Caterpillar Dreams
Caterpillar Dreams
Jeanne Willis
This is a magical picture book from what you could call the dream team of Jeanne Willis (who writes the...
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Tiggy
Tiggy
Jacquie Trajan
A delightful picture book written and illustrated by a newcomer to the world of picture books. Tiggy is the story...
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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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Percy Jackson: The Ultimate Guide
Percy Jackson: The Ultimate Guide
Rick Riordan
For fans of Percy Jackson, the chances are you’ll know that he didn't want to be a half-blood and never...
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  3. Dinosaur Cove: Clash of the Monster Crocs - by Rex Stone

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  1. Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder - by Jo Nesbo
  2. Raven Mysteries 3: Lunatics and Luck - by Marcus Sedgwick
  3. The Great Hamster Massacre - by Katie Davies

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  1. Little Darlings - by Jacqueline Wilson
  2. The Queen Must Die: Chronicles of the Tempus - by K.A.S. Quinn
  3. The Boy Who Fell Down Exit 43 - by Harriet Goodwin

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  1. I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend - by Cora Harrison
  2. Luke and Jon - by Robert Williams
  3. This Book is Not Good for You - by Pseudonymous Bosch

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  2. The Facts of Life - by Joanna Nadin
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