Flossie Crums 2: the Enchanted Cookie Tree A Flossie Crums Baking Adventure
Helen Nathan
Another brilliant baking adventure that combines  a great story featuring top cookie maker Flossie Crums with some fabulous cookie recipes, each one easy enough for children to do on their own with limited parental supervision.  The art of baking has...
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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The Bloomsbury Nursery Treasury
Patricia Borlenghi
Ten favourite stories including Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and The Ugly Ducking are prettily illustrated in this attractive gift book.  Lovely to read aloud, this is an ideal introduction to classic stories.
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Mr Chicken Goes to Paris
Leigh Hobbs
Mr Chicken has left his safe world sets off on a global adventure. He's on a whistle-stop tour of Paris and, like a good tourist, he's doing all the famous sites, accompanied by his French friend, Yvette. But it's not...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2010
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The Three Little Witches Storybook (Early Reader)
Georgie Adams
Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with children, these Early Reader chapter books are punctuated by catchy rhymes and speech bubbles, and with their bright, funny pictures and lively design they are hugely appealing.  They’re perfect for children from 5-7. ...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
September 2010 Guest Editor Simon Bartram: 'The Giving Tree' is a simple and beautiful book. It tells the tale of the long relationship between a boy and a tree. In the beginning the boy's youthful exuberance is matched by the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/12/2010
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What Do People Do All Day?
Richard Scarry
Simon Bartram, September 2010 Guest Editor: This Richard Scarry book was etched into my memory at a very early age and I'm sure that, deep down, it has influenced my work to this day. I loved and still love the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2010
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Pippi Longstocking Gift Edition
Astrid Lindgren
Generations of children have fallen in love with Pippi Longstocking.  Readers are charmed by her sense of fun. This sumptuous slipcase edition of the hardback produced to celebrate the recent 50th anniversary of first publication has a sparkling new translation,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/09/2010
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My First Nursery Stories (Book and CD)
Tony Ross
Best loved, classic nursery stories are vividly brought to life in Tony Ross’s humorous and vigorous illustrations and now together with a CD. Follow the charmingly agile goats as they trip-trott over the bridge having dispatched the hairy troll SPLASH...
Format: Mixed media product - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Ice Bear
Jackie Morris
Stunning illustrations capture the warm emotions of this magical story and juxtaposes them perfectly with  the winter landscape of the white bears and the hunters who live in it.  When Raven steals a white bear cub and delivers him to...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Big Green Book
Fred Pearce
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Olivia Goes to Venice
Ian Falconer
Everyone’s favourite little pig is back in a brand new adventure in which Olivia goes off to Venice.  Hilariously funny with some beautifully rendered artwork.  Olivia takes Venice by storm, dodging pigeons in the Piazzo San Marco, eating an abundance...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2010
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My Favourite Fairy Tales
Tony Ross
Best-selling illustrator Tony Ross brings zest to this original mixture of familiar favourites and less well-known stories. In all, he celebrates how the good triumph over the mean-spirited and how kindness outshines trickery while through his entertaining illustrations he adds...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Mrs Noah's Vegetable Ark
Elena Pasquali
This lovely little picture book has an excellent environmental twist on a familiar tale.  While Noah organizes the animals on to the ark, Mrs Noah suddenly realizes she must load the ark with plants or there will be nothing to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/08/2010
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Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela, Chris van Wyk
Nelson Mandela’s inspirational life story has been adapted into a wonderfully child-friendly version. It tells of his childhood as an ordinary boy in a village and how his belief in democracy was already strongly developed while a student. Mandela’s fight...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/09/2010
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Dougal's Deep-sea Diary
Simon Bartram
Shortlisted for 2005 Kate Greenaway Medal. Meet Dougal, who’s off on holiday doing what he likes best – deep-sea diving. He’d really love to see a mermaid or find the Lost City of Atlantis, and he doesn’t mind helping out...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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Aesop's Fables
Fulvio Testa
This stunning edition of the classic Aesop's Fables, illustrated by the internationally revered artist Fulvio Testa, will make a fantastic gift. Over sixty of the most famous of Aesop's Fables have been updated and rewritten by the talented anthologist Fiona...
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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Bambert's Book Of Missing Stories
Reinhardt Jung
This imaginative treat follows the eleven stories that an author floats out into the world to find their own true settings. Attached to paper balloons, each takes a different course as they fly across the countryside to find their own...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/09/2010
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Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Circus Adventure
Emily Bearn
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2010
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Pumpkin Moon
Tim Preston
It’s Halloween in a small American town. As midnight strikes, a cast of creepy characters comes out to play. Witches, wizards, ghosts and ghouls soon take over the town, but what are they waiting for? Find out in this spectacularly...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2003
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Find Chaffy
Jamie Smart
Join in the search for the missing Chaffies! Ten loveable Chaffies have wandered off into the world and someone needs to set out and find where they are hiding! Join in the search for these delightful creatures among a graveyard...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Play the Shape Game
Anthony Browne
Take a shape and transform it into something new...Top names, including Jo Brand, Quentin Blake, Jacqueline Wilson, Phillip Pullman, Imelda Staunton, Anthony Horowitz, Sir Peter Blake, Linford Christie and Andrew Motion, have played Anthony Browne's Shape Game and left a new shape...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/07/2010
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Ruby Nettleship and the Ice Lolly Adventure
Thomas Docherty
This is a magical adventure in which a drab landscape is transformed into a place of beauty and delight. Ruby’s playground is rundown; nothing works except for one swing for which there is always a long queue. One day, Ruby...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2010
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Vile A Cautionary Tale for Little Monsters
Mark Robinson
This is a terrific Cautionary Tale for mischievous kids demonstrating as it does that perhaps life’s not so great when spent solely in the pursuit of vileness  And when two of the pupils of the University of Vile discover that...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/07/2010
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The Rabbit Problem
Emily Gravett
A Useful book about Families.   An outstandingly original and entertaining book packed full of rabbitty details and a feast of novelty features that makes it all the more fun to read again and again and again. The Rabbit Problem...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2010
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Henry's House: Space
Philip Ardagh
Henry’s house is full of very unexpected things. This time, the house is packed with all things Roman. There are gladiators, citizens, slaves and schoolboys. Find out all the details of how Romans lived their lives in this witty part...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Henry's House: Romans
Philip Ardagh
Meet Henry, an ordinary boy in an extraordinary house that’s jam-packed full...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2010
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Henry's House: Knights and Castles
Philip Ardagh
Follow Henry as he tells you all about life in a castle.  Learn how to make a bow and arrow, why did knights have coats of arms?,  what life was like in the Great Hall as well as life down...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Stan and Mabel
Jason Chapman
Brilliantly told in words and pictures, this is the entertaining adventure of best friends Stan and Mabel, a dog and a cat, who share a passion for music. Teaming up with their animal friends the two indulge their passion and...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2010
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Dinosaur Cove 16: Haunting of the Ghost Runners
Rex Stone
More exciting Dinosaur adventures for Jamie and his best friend Tom in this new story set in the magical Dinosaur Cove. The two boys are used to meeting some unusual creatures but both are truly terrified first by the croaking...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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Daisy and the Trouble with Maggots
Kes Gray
A hilarious and action-packed mini-adventure perfectly pitched for young readers. Daisy knows she’s going to love going on a fishing trip with her uncle even if she knows absolutely nothing about fishing! Daisy’s uncle makes sure she has her own...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/07/2010
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Her Mother's Face
Roddy Doyle
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. The first picture book...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Farther
Grahame Baker-Smith
Graham Baker-Smith’s debut Leon and the Place Between was shortlisted for the prestigious Greenaway Medal in 2010. Farther is the first book that he’s written and illustrated himself and it’s utterly captivating.  The text is so beautifully placed and inextricably...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010
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The Troll
Julia Donaldson
A picture book for kids that love Adventure.  An original and witty version of a traditional tale which shows what happens when two stories get blended into one. The Troll lives under the bridge – which is where he...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/06/2010
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Are We There Yet? Great Car Games to Keep Families Sane !
Jo Pink
This is a book that is guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment and hilarity on long journeys.  From Spotting Games, Guessing Games, Action Games and Word Games, to Imagination Games and General Knowledge Games there is something her to appeal to every age.  With...
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/05/2010
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The Bear's Water Picnic
John Yeoman
Best-loved illustrator Quentin Blake brings to life this lyrical, watery story. Pig, squirrel, hedgehog and hen are excited to join bear for his water picnic. They all love the quiet of the lake until they meet the noisy frogs! Searching...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/07/2010
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The Grunt and the Grouch: Big Splash
Tracey Corderoy
Grunt and Grouch are well known characters in picture books and now they’re available for slightly older readers who are just beginning to read chapter books rather than just picture books.  Grunt is the grumpiest troll around until he meets...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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First Russian Words
David Melling
5+ (Year 1, KS 1).  Whether your child is learning English or Russian, Oxford First Russian Words gives your child a head start in learning another language by taking a picture-book journey through a day, with familiar settings, everyday things,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2009
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First Polish Words
David Melling
5+(Year 1, KS 1).  Whether your child is learning English or Polish, Oxford First Polish Words gives your child a head start in learning another language by taking a picture-book journey through a day, with familiar settings, everyday things, and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2009
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First Italian Words
David Melling
5+ (Year 1, KS 1).  Oxford’s First Italian Words is a thematic bilingual picture book.  Whether your child is learning English or Italian, Oxford First Italian Words gives your child a head start in learning another language by taking a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2009
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First Chinese Words
David Melling
5+(Year 1-2 +, KS1).  Oxford’s First Chinese Words is a thematic bilingual picture book.  Whether your child is learning English or Chinese, Oxford First Chinese Words gives your child a head start in learning another language by taking a picture-book...
Format: Paperback - Released: 23/04/2009
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First Arabic Words
David Melling
5+(Year 1-2, KS 1).  Oxford’s First Arabic Words is a thematic bilingual picture book.  Whether your child is learning English or Arabic, Oxford First Arabic Words gives your child a head start in learning another language by taking a picture-book...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2009
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Dinosaur Cove Backpack
Rex Stone
A great summer treat for 5+ year olds.  Packed in a sturdy backpack perfect for little children to carry are four Dinosaur Cove titles, Flight of the Winged Serpent, Stampede of the Giant Reptiles, Rescuing the Plated Lizard and Swimming...
Format: Quantity pack - Released: 01/04/2010
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Brownies: Circus Camp
Caroline Plaisted
Perfect for summer reading for all those Brownie mad children as a group of Brownies go off on a circus themed camping weekend. They get up to all sorts of adventures, enjoy themselves enormously.  Perfect material to enthuse young girls...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010
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Horrid Henry's Dreadful Deeds
Francesca Simon
10 of Horrid Henry’s most dreadful deeds all in one wonderful volume, and perfect for every boy and girl aged 5+.  Whether it’s sabotaging his parents’ dinner party, plotting revenge on everyone by writing his will or just generally being...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010
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Tumtum and Nutmeg: A Seaside Adventure
Emily Bearn
Widely loved for their charming nature and warm-hearted adventures, Tumtum and Nutmeg embark on their most daring trip yet. This time the two little mice are off to the seaside. They are going to keep an eye on Arthur and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/04/2010
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