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The Worry Jar
- Lou John, illus Jenny Bloomfield
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192782748
- Published: 05-01-2023
Frida worries all the time. Big worries, small worries, and all-the-time worries. Her worries feel heavy, just like the pebbles she collects every day. Some days, Frida's worries become that only thing she can think about. But then, one day, her granny teaches her an ingenious way to keep her...
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Ways to Say I Love You
- Madeleine Cook, Fiona Lee
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN13: 9780192782779
- Published: 05-01-2023
'How do I say I love you? I tell you in so many ways. Holding you close when you are small . . .' In this warm and cosy book, children grow and families have busy lives, but there is always time and just so many different ways to say 'I love you'. Love can be a word or a hug. It can be a sha...
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Protecting the Planet: Emperor of the Ice
- Nicola Davies, Catherine Rayner
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406397086
- Published: 05-01-2023
It's April in Antarctica and, in places so remote that they can only be seen by satellites, lines of Emperor Penguins appear in search of the perfect ice for raising their chicks. A wise old Empress has returned to the ice at Halley Bay year after year; with the help of her mate, she works to...
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All Four Quarters of the Moon
- Shirley Marr
- Usborne Publishing Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781803704326
- Published: 05-01-2023
Everything so far, if Peijing had to sum it up, was a string of small awkward experiences that she hoped would end soon.The night of the Mid-Autumn festival, making mooncakes with Ah-Ma, was the last time Peijing remembers her life being the same. Now facing a new home, a new school and a new...
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You're My Little Sunshine
- Nicola Edwards, Natalie Marshall
- Little Tiger Press Group
- ISBN13: 9781838914417
- Published: 05-01-2023
Celebrate your little sunshine with this sweet and colourful rhyming board book. With tactile pages, peek-through holes and lively artwork, this is a great book for parents and children to read together at bedtime. Show your little one just how much they mean to you with adorable illustratio...
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Influential
- Amara Sage
- Faber & Faber
- ISBN13: 9780571377343
- Published: 05-01-2023
Almond Brown has no friends in real life . . . but 3.5 million followers online. A heart-felt, whip-smart deep dive into what it would really be like to be internet famous at 17: a cautionary tale for our time from a writer who has grown up with social media. Almond is forced into the s...
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Word Trouble
- Vyara Boyadjieva
- Walker Books Ltd
- ISBN13: 9781406398755
- Published: 05-01-2023
A beautiful, moving and sensitively told picture book about language barriers, communication and a very young child's immigrant experience.When Ronnie moves to a new house, in a new country, he's excited to make friends. But when he introduces himself to everyone at nursery - "My n...
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The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die
- Peter Lantos
- Scholastic
- ISBN13: 9780702323089
- Published: 05-01-2023
A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hu...
