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  • Penguin

    Penguin

    • Polly Dunbar, Polly Dunbar
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406373318
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    A penguin turns out to be the perfect present in this beautiful 10th anniversary edition of an award-winning classic.\"This heart-warming book conjures imagination, anger, danger and love, while encouraging small children to remember events, read pictures and laugh\" The Sunday Tim...

  • The New Adventures of Mr Toad: A Race for Toad Hall

    The New Adventures of Mr Toad: A Race for Toad Hall

    • Tom Moorhouse, Holly Swain
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192746733
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    Teejay (which stands for Toad Junior), Mo and Ratty are exploring the ruined grounds of Toad Hall. After falling into a tunnel they discover something . . . someone in the ice house. It turns out to be Mr Toad and the children have found him in the nick of time: Wildwood Industrious (the shady...

  • The Cherry Pie Princess

    The Cherry Pie Princess

    • Vivian French, Marta Kissi
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406368970
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    A stand-alone comic adventure for younger readers by sublime storyteller Vivian French, with pictures by Marta Kissi, a talented new illustrator and animator.From Vivian French, the bestselling author of the Tiara Club series and The Adventures of Alfie Onion, comes a charming new...

  • Thunderstruck

    Thunderstruck

    • Ali Sparkes
    • Oxford University Press
    • ISBN13: 9780192739360
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    What if your new best friend was a ghost? Getting struck by lightning whilst huddling under a tree isn't exactly the way Alisha and Theo would have chosen to get out of sports day . . . Surviving the strike makes them see life differently. It also makes them notice Doug and Lizzie. Struck by l...

  • The Elephant Thief

    The Elephant Thief

    • Jane Kerr
    • Chicken House Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781910655757
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    When pickpocket Danny accidentally bids for Maharajah the elephant at an Edinburgh auction, he's swept up on an unforgettable journey. His new employer, a zookeeper, transforms Danny into a bejewelled Indian prince. As he rides Maharajah from Scotland to his new home in England, even Queen Vic...

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie

    • Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Frau Isa
    • Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781847809612
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Marie Curie, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist.When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college because she was a woman. But when she was older, her scientific...

  • Agatha Christie

    Agatha Christie

    • Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Elisa Munso
    • Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781847809599
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Agatha Christie, the most famous crime writer of all time.When Agatha was young, she read books every night, but always had her own idea for how they should end! As an adult, her crime...

  • Erica's Elephant

    Erica's Elephant

    • Ashley King, Sylvia Bishop
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9781407168326
    • Published: 02-03-2017

    When Erica Perkins wakes up on the morning of her tenth birthday, the last thing she expects is to find a very confused elephant sitting on her doorstep. So begins an unlikely friendship. But can a small girl and a rather large elephant learn to live together in a tiny terraced house? And when...