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Helen Docherty
Persephone the bee loves words!
Astronaut and telescope Rhinoceros; kaleidoscope Pterodactyl; saxophone Pomegranate; xylophone!
The Queen Bee, Hermione, thinks Persephone should spend less time with words and more time on…
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A deeply moving, vitally important picture book encouraging empathy and kindness.
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Rhyming text illustrates that in a world where we share more similarities than differences, the power of empathy and kindness is universal.
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Simple, rhyming text follows a blue baboon and her friends as they find the perfect place for a musical celebration before bedtime.
Age range 3 to 6
Orange moon,
blue baboon.
Blue baboon
spies bassoon.
Blue Baboon is eager to play the bassoon with her new friends. But a monsoon threatens to…
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One day, crawling under stones in the garden, Callum spies Henrietta the woodlouse. Callum is determined to find her a home, and stop her from getting squashed. With the help…
From the acclaimed author/illustrator team behind The Snatchabook comes a book-filled adventure on the high seas!
Look out! There’s a Snaffle about, and she’ll eat your screen as a snack! The Snaffle just wants to play, but everyone’s too busy staring at their screens. It’s only…
Originally published in 2016 by Alison Green Books as: The knight who wouldn’t fight.
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Leo isn’t like the other knights. He’d rather read a book than fight, which is tricky when his parents send him off to tame a dragon. But Leo knows that…
In every house, in every bed, A bedtime book was being read… But then, one night, all the animals’ bedtime story books start disappearing. Is there a book thief? And…
Screens away - it’s time to play! The Snaffle just wants to play, but everyone’s too busy staring at their screens. The Snaffle discovers that she likes screens, too -…
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It’s bedtime in the woods of Burrow Down, and all the animals are ready for their bedtime story. But books are mysteriously disappearing. Eliza Brown, a young rabbit, decides to…
Ordered by his parents to tame a dragon, a gentle mouse knight who prefers reading to fighting arms himself with a book.
Specially developed to enhance children’s vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks books are perfect for sharing. In this Partner Text, king March tries to hide his…
‘I can’t do it!’ ‘It’s not easy learning to do new things,’ said Mum. ‘But you’ve always got there in the end.’ Do you remember the first time you got…
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Steven Lenton
A funny rhyming story from an exciting new author and illustrator team. Perfect for Halloween!
William 1792-1829 Burke
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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William Burke, John Macnee
This historic trial documents the infamous Burke and Hare murders in Edinburgh in the early 19th century. It provides insight into the judicial system of the time, as well as…
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