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The Book of Not Entirely Useful Advice
- A.F. Harrold, Mini Grey
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN13: 9781526618016
- Published: 03-09-2020
A riotous celebration of words and a modern take on cautionary tales - featuring advice on parrots, gravy, mathematics, castles (bouncy), spiders, vegetables (various), breakfast, cakes, and removing ducks from soup.Advice comes in many shapes.Poems come in many...
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Tamarind & the Star of Ishta
- Jasbinder Bilan
- Chicken House Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781913322175
- Published: 03-09-2020
Tamarind never knew her Indian mum, Chinty, who died soon after she was born. So when she arrives at her ancestral home, a huge mansion in the Himalayas surrounded by luxuriant gardens, she's full of questions for her extended family. But instead of answers, she finds an ominous silence - and...
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Victoria Stitch: Bad and Glittering
- Harriet Muncaster
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192773579
- Published: 03-09-2020
'The crystal keeper gazed around him at the shards of impure crystal, glittering furiously on the floor, and shivered with a terrible sense of foreboding.' Twins, Victoria Stitch and Celestine, are denied their royal birth-right. Celestine accepts the decision with good grace, but Victoria Sti...
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Butterfly Brain
- Laura Dockrill, Gwen Millward
- Templar Publishing
- ISBN13: 9781848128682
- Published: 03-09-2020
If Roald Dahl had written A Monster Calls . . . A very special picture book from two rising stars. Everyone is always shouting at Gus to stop leaning back in his chair - but does he care? No way! Then sure enough, the chair falls, he cracks his head and has to spend all...
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Girl from the Sea
- Margaret Wild, Jane Tanner
- Murdoch Books
- ISBN13: 9781911631767
- Published: 03-09-2020
'Who lives in that cottage by the sea? I wish. I wish. I wish it was me.' A lyrical masterpiece by Margaret Wild and Jane Tanner.
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Kevin and the Biscuit Bandit
- Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192766144
- Published: 03-09-2020
Welcome to another brilliantly quirky adventure story from creative powerhouse Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre. Bumbleford has been hit by a series of biscuit thefts. All the clues lead straight to the only roly-poly flying pony in town, and Max's best friend, KEVIN! Max and Kevin are forced t...
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School's Cancelled
- Serena Patel, Emma McCann
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781474959537
- Published: 03-09-2020
Anisha can't wait to show off her volcano project at the science fair...and maybe win the prize trip to the national space centre. But when the volcano explodes and floods the school, Anisha is disqualified. It's so unfair, because it wasn't her fault! Can Anisha, her best friend Milo, a pet r...
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What Are Little Girls Made of?
- Jeanne Willis, Isabelle Follath
- Nosy Crow Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781788004466
- Published: 03-09-2020
Award-winning author, Jeanne Willis, revamps all the favourite Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes.Think you know your favourite classic nursery rhymes? Read this picture book and think again! In this witty reworking of popular nursery rhymes, Georgie Porgie doesn't dare to make the girls cry, Little...
