Getting lost in a book is one of the great delights of childhood.
All children aspire to read chapter books in order to experience the full range of characters and situations. But some help is also appreciated hence the particular role of novels with pictures.
Click here to read some helpful tips from top childrens' publisher Egmont.
You could also check out our latest highlights such as our 'prizewinners' section where we can help you and your child discover authors currently in contention for and/or winners of the most prestigious awards. Or some wonderful graphic novel adaptations of literary classics from 'Classical Comics' and finally, a brilliant range of titles that are sure to get even the most reluctant reader wanting to read more. Just take a look at 'Ology World'.

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Victoria Eveleigh
How Katy discovers a newborn Exmoor foal on her birthday and persuades her family that she can look after it launches a tender and convincing story of one girl’s passion for ponies. Victoria Eveleigh gives enough details of pony care...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Francesca Simon
Packed with freaky facts and random trivia, this is the perfect guide to everything you ever wanted to know (and lots of things you might never have wanted to know) about the world of sport - Horrid Henry style!
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Brian Moses, Roger Stevens
All the excitement of the big games – and smaller ones too – is captured in this anthology of poems devoted to different aspects of sport and sporting events. There’s boasting and imagination in I am the Fastest, an understanding...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
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Timothy Knapman
Foulpest returns - our unlikely hero in the form of an ogre! Welcome back to Wally’s world - a hilarious offering of ogre uncles, evil weevils and more! My Uncle Foulpest: Dinosaur Disaster is the hilarious second instalment in the series by Timothy Knapman....
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
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Jeanne Willis
Daft dinosaurs create delightfully madcap fun in this hilarious family saga with a difference. When gang warfare between Darwin the stegosaurus and T Rex Flint Beastwood breaks out, the exuberant mayor Boris comes up with a great plan. Why not...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/02/2012
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Ali Sparkes
Sizzling adventures happen when twins Josh and Danny swap places with a host of fascinating animals. Armed with the secret spray given to them by Petty Potts, the brilliant and eccentric scientist, Josh and Danny can get out of all...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Ali Sparkes
Sizzling adventures happen when twins Josh and Danny swap places with a host of fascinating animals. Armed with the secret spray given to them by Petty Potts, the brilliant and eccentric scientist, Josh and Danny can get out of all...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Ali Sparkes
Sizzling adventures happen when twins Josh and Danny swap places with a host of fascinating animals. Armed with the secret spray given to them by Petty Potts, the brilliant and eccentric scientist, Josh and Danny can get out of all...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Michael Morpurgo
If you loved War Horse, you'll love this... This wonderful story was inspired by a conversation that Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman had about a prison at Hollesley Bay in Suffolk that Michael Foreman remembered from growing up nearby. Into this...
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/02/2012
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Victoria Eveleigh
Pony mad Katy is growing in confidence and ambition. Despite changes at Barton Farm and losing both her best-friend and her knowledgeable aunt, Katy is determined to train her pony Trifle to be a champion. It’s a much harder task...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Dick King-smith
This is an absolutely charming modern classic from one of Britain’s all-time favourite authors. There is no one more impressive when it comes to animal stories than Dick King-Smith and this one is our favourite. The Hodegheg has everything –...
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/06/2010
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Anna Wilson
Welcome to the Pooch Parlour: where pampered pet salon meets canine detective agency! First in the Pooch Parlour series.
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2012
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Jocelyn Miller
A keep-busy book for children at Easter with a distinctive cut-out handle.
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2012
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Jeff Kinney
The Diary of a Wimpy Kid continues to be a worldwide phenomenon with global sales of over 27 million so if you know of a 7+ year old who has yet to meet the hapless Greg Heffley as he navigates...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
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Wendy Meddour
Witty and warm-hearted, this is a delightful family story spiced with adventure. Everything is distinctly not normal in Ramzi’s house. While mum’s away studying Domes of the East for her architecture course, dad starts waking in the night to do...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Pippa Funnell
On safari Tilly helps rescue an abandoned zebra foal in Pippa Funnell's seventeenth pony tale. For every girl who has ever longed for a pony of her own, these delightful, warm and engaging stories are packed with Pippa Funnell's expert...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Jacqueline Wilson
Amy, Bella, Chloe, Daisy and Emily are friends at school and have their own Alphabet Club (just look at their initials!). Daisy is the newest member and is desperate to fit in, even though Chloe is distinctly unfriendly to her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/03/2008
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Alexander Mccall Smith
Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency, as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here, in this delightful, enchanting tale for children, we find out just who has been stealing her schoolfriends' snacks and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/02/2012
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Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom
The eventful ups and downs of the life of Charles Dickens, the best-selling author of his day, are told in words and pictures in this excellent introduction to the man and his works. Many of the scenes that Dickens includes...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2011
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Noel Streatfeild
February 2012 Guest Editor, Jacqueline Wilson: "This was one of my childhood favourites - and although it's dated in many ways I think many girls will still love this story of three orphans brought up together and sent to stage school so...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2011
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Stewart Ross
Winner of the 2011 Educational Writers’ Award. One of the greatest events of the twentieth century, the unforgettable moment of man’s first landing on the Moon provides the perfect platform for this wide ranging introduction to many different aspects of the...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Maudie Smith
When a strange new girl who claims to be an alien arrives unexpectedly in the street Martha is determined not to have anything to do with her. After all, she’s just given up friends For Ever after her disastrous experience...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Janet Foxley
A welcome return of a delightfully tiny giant. Everything has changed on Mount Grumble as the Smallings – or humans - have gone. But, while all the other giants celebrate, Muncle Trogg worries that something is going badly wrong… Luckily...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Gareth P. Jones
The Clan of the Scorpion are escorting their mentor, Grandmaster One Eye, to a Kung Fu Grandmaster Meet deep in the mountains of Chile, when they are ambushed by a horde of enormous spiders - the Trained Tarantulas of Santiago!...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/01/2012
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David Almond
Award-winning author/ illustrator team David Almond and Dave McKean have followed up The Savage with an equally stunning new book told partly as a graphic novel and partly as a story. Full of the kind of mystery David Almond created...
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Christiane Dorion
Winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Click here to see How the Weather Works by the same author. A fully interactive guide to different aspects of the workings of the world. The story of the water cycle pops up in...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2010
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Tove Jansson
'I decided to run away. There simply wasn't anything else to do.' Here at last is Moominpappa's promised life story - from the days when he was abandoned in a newspaper parcel on the doorstep of a Moomin orphanage, to...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Timothy Knapman
Wally just wants to be an ordinary, normal boy living an ordinary, normal life - then his uncle Foulpest comes to look after him. Foulpest is an ogre, and he has other ideas. Foulpest means well, but he just can't...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/07/2011
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Dave Shelton
A boy and a bear go to sea. Will the Harriet, their trusted vessel, withstand the violent lashings of the salty waves? And will anyone ever answer their message in a bottle? Brilliantly funny and tender, this beautiful book maps...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Karen Mccombie
"I never expected to be friends with a Thing. Well, you don't, do you? You usually think of friends being either boys or girls, or maybe even cute yappy dogs. Well, Thing certainly doesn't fit into any of those categories....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2011
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Karen Mccombie
"Want to know a secret? There is something very, very strange living in the trees behind my house. If you tiptoe slowly and quietly (ssh!) to the bottom of my garden, you might hear it rustling and rootling and 'peh!'ing...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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James Carter
Selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin: James Carter's third collection for children is a real treat packed with gorgeous thoughts, dreams and moments. Sneak a peek into his brain in this brilliant collection of poems.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Andy Stanton
Reading age 8+, interest age 9+. Creator of the best-selling Mr Gum series, Andy Stanton delights again is this story of the importance of self-belief. 10 year old Matthew Buzzington badly needs some special powers when his family suddenly relocates to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/11/2011
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Graham Denton
Selected by our poetry expert, Liam Parkin: When Granny Won Olympic Gold is a lively, humorous collection of medal-winning sports poems that children aged 7 or 8+ will love. It includes plenty of humorous rhymes along with some moving and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Tony Frais
Inspired by the biblical story of Noah’s Ark this is an action-packed modern day rendition with plenty of twists and turns. Poor Noah appears to have been asked to do the impossible for every time he tries to build a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/09/2004
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Michael Morpurgo
Michael Morpurgo’s name is almost synonymous with the little islands off the toe of Cornwall called The Isles of Scilly for a considerable number of his books are set there. The Wreck of the Zanzibar is no exception. Here the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2007
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Rex Stone
The friends are on the hunt for a dimetrodon to find out what it used the huge sail on its back for. They discover lots of amazing things about this Permian carnivore, but as they creep around trying to get...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/05/2011
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Rex Stone
Are you ready for the best adventure ever? It's a deafening sunrise in the Triassic, but one sound is louder than everything-the shriek of a pack of eohraptors. These noisy creatures take a shine to Wanna and before the boys...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2011
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Rex Stone
Are you ready for the best adventure ever? Jamie and Tom are caught up in a terrifying prehistoric storm! As the Triassic landscape floods around them the friends find shelter in a nearby cave. But as their eyes adjust to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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