Books - Children

• Clive Gifford, Paul Boston
• The Ivy Press
• ISBN13: 9781782405580
• Published: 21-06-2018

**SAINSBURY'S CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2018 WINNER - LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY**How many people could fit on a blue whale's tongue? Is a hovercraft faster than a tank? And what grows quicker - toenails or fingernails? Discover the answer to these questions and so m...

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• Roger McGough
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9781509871377
• Published: 14-06-2018

Poems to make you smile! Critically acclaimed poet Roger McGough has drawn together a fantastic collection of upbeat poems to bring happiness into your day with this uplifting collection Happy Poems. He reminds us that happiness can be found all around us in the everyday, in family...

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• Andy Shepherd, illus Sara Ogilvie
• Templar Publishing
• ISBN13: 9781848126497
• Published: 14-06-2018

When Tomas discovers a strange old tree at the bottom of his grandad's garden, he doesn't think much of it. But he takes the funny fruit from the tree back into the house - and gets the shock and delight of his life when a tiny dragon hatches! The tree is a dragonfruit tree, and Tomas has got...

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• Will Mabbitt
• Hachette Children's Group
• ISBN13: 9781510104556
• Published: 14-06-2018

The first book in a spookily funny new series, where the living meets the dead and survival is a race against time. Perfect for fans of Skulduggery Pleasant and Who Let the Gods Out. Welcome to the Embassy of the Dead. Leave your life at the door. (Thanks.) When Jake opens a stra...

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• Isabel Thomas, Daniel Egneus
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781408889756
• Published: 14-06-2018

Powerful and visually spectacular, Moth is the remarkable evolution story that captures the struggle of animal survival against the background of an evolving human world in a unique and atmospheric introduction to Darwin's theory of Natural Selection. Against a lush backdrop of lichen-covered...

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• Sibeal Pounder, Jason Cockcroft
• Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• ISBN13: 9781408877142
• Published: 14-06-2018

Mermaids Beattie, Mimi and Zelda, along with Steve the talking seahorse, are trapped aboard the spooky ship the Merry Mary, heading for the legendary (and super-stylish) Crocodile Kingdom. On land, Paris Silkensocks, ice-cream seller and GADGET QUEEN, has uncovered a plot to destroy the mermai...

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• Jessica Miller
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571335732
• Published: 07-06-2018

Elizabeth is a thoughtful, quiet girl, ever cautious and just a little bit timid. Zenobia is everything Elizabeth would like to be, and more: bold and unafraid and wildly imaginative. The problem is ... only Elizabeth can see Zenobia. When they arrive at their new home, the imposing Witheringe...

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• Emma Fischel
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192763822
• Published: 07-06-2018

An unforgettable hero. A fresh and unique voice.Meet Ned Harrison Arkle-Smith - he's grumpy, bossy, and exasperating, but you can't help liking him. Oh, and he's just discovered he can walk through walls . . .Ned's world is collapsing. His parents have split up, his best friend is behaving str...

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