Books - Children

• Kiran Millwood Hargrave
• Chicken House Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781910002742
• Published: 05-05-2016

The magical bestseller: a classic story to read again and again. Winner of the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2017. Winner of the British Book Awards Children's Book of the Year 2017. Shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award. Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. Beautiful, thrilling and magica...

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• Clara Vulliamy
• HarperCollins Publishers
• ISBN13: 9780008132491
• Published: 05-05-2016

Meet Dorothy Constance Mae Louise, or Dot as she prefers to be called!  Dot loves super-sour apple sherberts, running fast and puzzles - especially if they're fiendishly tricky. And with the help of trusty sidekick, Beans and TOP DOG, McClusky, she is always ready to sniff out a mystery. So wh...

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• M.M. Vaughan
• Alma Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781846883958
• Published: 21-04-2016

When Parker Banks moves with his family from London to New York, he struggles to adapt to his new school and environment. His scientist dad is constantly at work on a top-secret technological venture for a major corporation, when one day he is kidnapped. It is up to Parker, along with his deaf...

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• Dave Rudden
• Penguin Random House Children's UK
• ISBN13: 9780141356600
• Published: 07-04-2016

The first book in a new series about an orphan boy who discovers he is part of a secret army that protects the world from a race of shadowy monsters.Grey placed his finger in the middle of the shadow.'What's this?' he asked.Denizen frowned. 'It's a shadow.''No, it...

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• Swapna Haddow, Sheena Dempsey
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571323302
• Published: 07-04-2016

WINNER of the Greenhouse Funny Prize; SHORTLISTED for the Sainsbury's Book Award and numerous regional awards, this hilarious series is adored by its readers!If you can read this, you obviously understand Pigeonese. You may read my book.If you're a cat and you've learnt Pigeonese . . . (HA HA...

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• Frank Cottrell Boyce, Steven Lenton
• Pan Macmillan
• ISBN13: 9780230771376
• Published: 07-04-2016

The Blythes are a big, warm, rambunctious family who live on a small farm and sometimes foster children. Now Prez has come to live with them. But, though he seems cheerful and helpful, he never says a word. Then one day Prez answers the door to someone claiming to be his relative. This...

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• Gary Northfield
• Walker Books Ltd
• ISBN13: 9781406365870
• Published: 07-04-2016

Madagascar meets Gladiator in this hilarious, exciting and action-packed new illustrated chapter book series from celebrated cartoonist Gary Northfield.From the hilarious, celebrated cartoonist Gary Northfield - author of The Terrible Tales of the Teenytinysaurs! - comes an illustr...

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• Sanna Francesca
• Flying Eye Books
• ISBN13: 9781909263994
• Published: 01-04-2016

With haunting echoes of the current refugee crisis this beautifully illustrated book explores the unimaginable decisions made as a family leave their home and everything they know to escape the turmoil and tragedy brought by war. This book will stay with you long after the last page is turned....

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