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A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry Sports - Francesca Simon

A Horrid Factbook: Horrid Henry Sports
Francesca Simon

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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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!

My Uncle Foulpest: Dinosaur Disaster - Timothy Knapman

My Uncle Foulpest: Dinosaur Disaster
Timothy Knapman

Format: Paperback - Released: 16/02/2012
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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. Bringing more mad-cap adventures from Wally and Foulpest - an ogre with the best intentions who never quite gets it right! - young readers will giggle with glee. With adorable and hilarious illustrations by Sarah Horne, this is a surefire winner for young fans of humour, with two stories in one brilliant package.

The Great Explorer - Chris Judge

The Great Explorer
Chris Judge

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Resourceful Tom has a great fantasy adventure in this exciting and action-packed story with clear, bold illustrations. Setting out to find his father who has gone missing on an expedition to the North Pole, Tom sails through icebergs, flees from a giant walrus, loses his tent and builds an igloo. Just when the sun is setting and he’s almost given up hope, Tom spots a familiar tent… Chris Judge’s debut picture book, The Lonely Beast, won the Specsaver’s Irish Children’s Book of the Year 2011 and is nominated for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2012.

Downtown Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Olympics - Jeanne Willis

Downtown Dinosaurs: Dinosaur Olympics
Jeanne Willis

Format: Paperback - Released: 24/02/2012
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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 hold a dinosaur Olympic games as a way of bringing peace? Will Boris’s plan work? It certainly sparks some very lively action amongst the dinosaurs…

Happiness is a Watermelon on Your Head - Daniel Hahn

Happiness is a Watermelon on Your Head
Daniel Hahn

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
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This is a brilliantly funny picture book to share with any toddler. Parent and child are sure to laugh through it as you meet three rather miserable ladies who live in a completely mad world but by the end of the story they've realised that happiness is a much better way to live! Emma Langley, Phoenix Yard Books publisher, says: “Stella Dreis’ illustrations - a glorious blaze of colour and whirlwind adventure - are matched perfectly by Daniel Hahn’s joyful rhyming text in this wonderful picture book. It’s slightly mad but, we think, completely irresistible!”

Dirty Bertie : Pong! - Alan MacDonald

Dirty Bertie : Pong!
Alan MacDonald

Format: Paperback - Released: 01/02/2012
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Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! Join Bertie as he comes a cropper on his Chopper, tests his patience - and everyone else's - on a bird-watching trip, and gives Mum a Mother's Day surprise she'll never forget ... ! Click here for the whole series of Dirty Bertie books.

My Very First Easter Playtime Activity Book with Stickers - Lois Rock

My Very First Easter Playtime Activity Book with Stickers
Lois Rock

Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2012
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This book of on-the-page puzzles, games and stories - with a page of stickers to use to complete the activities throughout - will provide lots of fun for little ones in the run-up to Easter. Using Easter symbols and spring time animals including bunnies, birds, bees, butterflies, chicks, eggs, flowers, and lambs, together the activities help to explore the reason for the season, touching on the Easter-time themes of spring and new life. Activities include matching pairs and shapes, spot the difference, counting, as well as a simple board game to play and a story and poem to read.

My Carry-along Easter Activity Book with Stickers - Jocelyn Miller

My Carry-along Easter Activity Book with Stickers
Jocelyn Miller

Format: Paperback - Released: 20/01/2012
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This festive book features a mixture of make-and-do crafts and on-the-page games, with a page of colourful bound-in stickers to help complete the Easter-related activities. A die-cut carry-along handle means that young craft-workers can take their activities with them wherever they go, making use of simple materials they might find on their travels. With simple, brightly illustrated activities to appeal to younger children and step-by-step crafts to give older children something to get their teeth into, this is a perfect solution for grown-ups looking for activities for families and groups of excitable children.

My Green Day - Melanie Walsh

My Green Day
Melanie Walsh

Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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Tips for going green in everyday life are easily followed in this beautiful picture book introduction to conserving the world. Saving on fuels by making use of nature for things like drying clothes, composting, not wasting food, home cooking and re-cycling are just some of the simple things introduced in Melanie Walsh’s lovely, interactive illustrations.

Here Comes the Poo Bus - Andy Stanton

Here Comes the Poo Bus
Andy Stanton

Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2012
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Prize-winning funny book author Andy Stanton of Mr Gum fame has created a gleefully gruesome picture book celebrating just about everything that is nasty! When Uncle toad invites and all to hop aboard his bus they think they are in for a treat…Little do Beetle Bill, Daddy Long Legs or Madame Claire the spider know what is in store for them in this dirt-encrusted cautionary tale.

Christopher's Caterpillars - Charlotte Middleton

Christopher's Caterpillars
Charlotte Middleton

Format: Hardback - Released: 01/02/2012
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The wonder of nature is brilliantly captured in this endearing story of what happens when you try to make pets out of caterpillars. Guinea pigs Christopher and his friend Posie love their garden and they love caterpillars too. But they don’t love caterpillars in their garden. Instead, they give the caterpillars the perfect home so, why do they apparently run away? The answer will delight.

Bella's Butterfly Ball - Anna Nilsen

Bella's Butterfly Ball
Anna Nilsen

Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2012
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The follow-up to the very popular Bella's Midsummer Secret. A lovely story containing everything children would expect from a fairy book. Beautifully illustrated with large flaps to lift and a special pop-up surprise at the end.

Love Monster - Rachel Bright

Love Monster
Rachel Bright

Format: Paperback - Released: 05/01/2012
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No one likes a funny-looking monster with sticking-out teeth and staring, googly eyes – especially if he lives in Cutesville, the home of cuddly bunnies and fluffy kitties. Poor Monster! Will he find happiness? He just needs one person to love him. Just when he’s given up, the very special person turns up and the world looks quite a different place. Simple and bold illustrations carry this touching story to its happy conclusion. A message from the author and illustrator, Rachel Bright: "Love Monster is a story that arrived in my brain unannounced. These ideas are my favourite kind. They usually come knocking when a pencil and paper is the last thing I have to hand – you know – like in the bath or halfway up a mountain or, in this case, when I was fast asleep in bed. I awoke wide eyed *ping* at 5am (this isn’t common believe me) and got up as fast as my slippers would carry me. To the dulcet tones of our dog, Elvis, snoring in his bed, I sat at the kitchen table and sketched furiously until the sun came up. As Herman, our cockerel, crowed to signal the arrival of the day, so Love Monster had arrived too. "A few months and many hours of magical printmaking later (I did all the illustrations using an amazing technique called solar etching which involves special printing plates, lots of messy ink and big, old printing presses), I had the book in its finished form. What’s even lovelier about it now is that the drawings are made of light: Love Monster is quite literally made of sunshine…"

Charles Dickens Scenes from an Extraordinary Life - Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom

Charles Dickens Scenes from an Extraordinary Life
Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom

Format: Hardback - Released: 27/10/2011
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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 in his books were taken from his own childhood during which he experienced much poverty and hardship, including working in a factory when he was 12. He later became a journalist before his enormous success as a novelist. The lively illustrations capture Dickens’s eventful life, including his successful tours of America where he was treated as a superstar.