Featured Books for 3+ readers

The Sheep-Pig
Dick King-smith
The magic of a special animal is perfectly captured in the heroic antics of Babe, a piglet with a difference. The runt of a litter, Babe arrives on the farm where is he trained by the sheep dog along with...
Featured in: 3+ readers
Format: Paperback (b Format) - Released: 06/02/2003
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The Shape of My Heart
Mark Sperring
January 2013 Picture Book of the Month   Bright images offer loads to look at for young readers to think about the shape of all the things around them in the world. Birds have a shape and so does food. But what...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 17/01/2013
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The Selfish Crocodile Jigsaw Book
Faustin Charles
Jigsaw board book edition of the bestselling The Selfish Crocodile with six fun jigsaw puzzles. This fantastic jigsaw storybook includes six puzzles with press-out pieces that neatly fit back into the book to be used again and again.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 13/09/2012
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The Selfish Crocodile Book of Colours
Faustin Charles
The popular Selfish Crocodile introduces favourite colours by pointing out the colours of animals and places on his own safari. There are the black and white zebras, the grey hippos, the crocodile’s own green and the beautiful blue of the...
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Format: Board book - Released: 03/01/2013
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The Scariest Thing of All
Debi Gliori
A perfect story to settle all anxieties and reassure all fears. Witty, tender and beautifully illustrated, this story of Pip, a very small creature with a very big list of things that are scary, is a joy to read. Pip...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 17/10/2011
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The Sandcastle
M P Robertson
When I first saw the cover of this title it evoked many happy memories of beach holidays and of building sandcastles.  August is the perfect time of year for such happy times and this story is so cleverly yet simply...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2002
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The Royal Baby
Tony Bradman
The whole Kingdom is very excited - there's going to be a new royal baby! This is a charming story that captures the joy and excitement of a new baby (whether they're royal or not!).
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2013
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The Rich Man and the Shoemaker
Brian Wildsmith
A happy shoemaker - who sings beautifully while he works - is stopping his wealthy but miserable neighbour from sleeping. So the rich man hatches a plan to put an end to the shoemaker's sunny disposition. But how can a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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The Rhyming Rabbit
Julia Donaldson
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Award winning Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson has created a delightfully entertaining picture book that celebrates poems of all kinds. All the rabbits are sick of hearing the rhyming rabbit’s poems for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
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The Rhyming Rabbit
Julia Donaldson
A Lovereading4kids 'Great Read' you may have missed 2011 selection. Award winning Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson has created a delightfully entertaining picture book that celebrates poems of all kinds. All the rabbits are sick of hearing the rhyming rabbit’s poems for...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 03/06/2011
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The Really, Really, Really Big Dinosaur
Richard Byrne
How a big and very boastful dinosaur is taught to be humble and to share is a nicely taught lesson with some humorous touches. Richard Byrne’s illustrations capture the playful nature of the dinosaur world perfectly
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/08/2012
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The Real Princess: A Mathemagical Tale
Brenda Williams
This delightful twist on a traditional nursery story will make counting great fun for any toddler. In this mathemagical tale you’ll get to meet 1 butler, 2 footmen, 3 maids, 4 horses, 5 grooms, 6 dogs, 7 gardeners, 8 chimney...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2009
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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...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/08/2010
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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...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/08/2009
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The Queen's Knickers
Nicholas Allan
It's a busy year for the Queen - she has lots of important events to attend. Meanwhile, a little girl is wondering what knickers. Her Majesty will choose to wear on a school visit! Will they be her at home...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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The Puffin Mother Goose Treasury
Raymond Briggs
The welcome return of a modern classic, this Treasury should be a gift for every newborn. Prize-winning illustrator Raymond Briggs’ wonderful illustrations capture the humour, pathos, poignancy and downright silliness of some of the best known nursery rhymes and riddles...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2010
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The Princess and the Sleep Stealer
Elissa Elwick
A magical tale of fantasy and adventure perfect for bedtime with sleep-stealing pirates, a friendly dragon and a heroic princess, not to mention a moonlit race over sugar mountains and through liquorice trees, this book has all the ingredients for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2011
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The Princess and the Peas
Sarah Warburton
A brilliantly fresh take with the traditional tale of the Princess and the Pea at its heart, this will entertain girls everywhere – and their fathers! Dad tries everything to disguise the peas he cooks but even the faintest hint...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2013
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The Princess and the Pea
Hans Christian Andersen
A young girl claiming to be a princess is put to the test: will she feel the pea underneath the pile of mattresses? A classic fairy tale with beautiful, soft illustrations.
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Format: Hardback - Released: 19/01/2012
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The Pink Cricket (World of Happy)
Giles Andreae
An important thing for kids to learn from an early age is that being different is good and here in this wonderful story we see a pink cricket (who should of course be green) follow his dreams just as you...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2011
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The Pied Piper (Classics Illustrated Junior)
Robert Browning
One of a range of marvellous comic books created in the '50s and '60s now with artwork re-coloured and covers digitally enhanced for a new generation. Perfectly bound at a terrifically good value price.   A message from the publisher: Classics...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 25/12/2008
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The Perfect Hug
Joanna Walsh
A gem of a book! How the panda finds the perfect hug is told in sparkling rhyming couplets which describe hugs of all sorts including ‘hugs for wrigglers and hugs for gigglers,/ Hugs that are tickly and hugs that are...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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The Perfect Baby
Tony Bradman
A wonderfully quirky story by Tony Bradman about a little girl who is not happy with the arrival of a little brother into the world is complemented brilliantly by some illustrations that are sure to get the smallest little child giggling away!
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2008
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The Penguin Who Wanted to Find Out
Jill Tomlinson
This is a perfect story for animal lovers young and old, filled with tenderness and love combined with a subtle humour.  Soft focus illustrations take readers right into the cold world of the penguins living in Antarctica. The beautiful pictures...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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The Pencil
Allan Ahlberg
Shortlisted for Roald Dahl's Funny Prize 2009. This book is an hilarious and unmissable treat! One day there is just a lonely pencil…It begins to draw – a boy, a dog, a cat and then a house and streets for them to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/09/2009
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The Pencil
Allan Ahlberg
Winner of the Younger Children category - Red House Book Award 2009. This book is an hilarious and unmissable treat! One day there is just a lonely pencil…It begins to draw – a boy, a dog, a cat and then...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/09/2008
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The Paper Dolls
Julia Donaldson
June 2013 Book of the Month  Best-selling Julia Donaldson’s light footed text captures the magical creation of a chain of paper dolls and all the imaginative games they can play. Dancing, flying, jumping, the five paper dolls joined together by holding...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark Picture Book
Jill Tomlinson
Plop is a baby owl. Perfect in every way - except for one. He's afraid of the dark! But he soon discovers, through a variety of new friends, that dark can be fun and exciting and magical! This is a story for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2002
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The Owl Who Was Afraid Of The Dark
Jill Tomlinson
Plop is a baby owl. Perfect in every way - except for one. He's afraid of the dark! But he soon discovers, through a variety of new friends, that dark can be fun and exciting and magical! This is a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/03/2004
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The Owl and the Pussycat and Other Nonsense
Edward Lear
The best-loved nonsense rhymes of Edward Lear including The Jumblies and The Dong with the Luminous Nose are beautifully presented in this handsome edition. Each of the nine rhymes is lavishly illustrated by the award-winning Australian illustrator. There is additional...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2012
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