Our books for children. Reading is a very important part of a child's upbringing. It will bring them much pleasure and give them vital knowledge and skills for adult life.
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Anansi the trickster is hungry. All the animals are cooking but none of the food is ready, so Anansi comes up with a cunning plan, but will he be ready when the food is cooked?
Lola and Lotta are best friends. They do absolutely completely everything together, like eating lunch, playing in the sandpit and going in pairs. But when a new girl, Evie, arrives in their class, Lotta starts spending all her time with her, and not Lola.
Charlie and Lola are going to the zoo and Lola is so extremely excited that she uses up all her photos, spends all her money and eats all her lunch! Lola says, 'Charlie, please may I have some of yours?' Find out how Lola learns to save in this ever so good picture book story.
This anthology brings together a selection of best-loved children's poems. All of the old favourites are presented including Edward Lear's The Owl and the Pussycat and Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky.
I need more tragedy in my life. Why is life never like it is in books? Nothing Jacqueline Wilson ever happens to me: I am not adopted, my mum is not tattooed, I am not likely to move to the middle of a council estate or be put into care. My parents are not alcoholics, drug addicts or closet transvestites.
Jack is disappointed when there are no exciting new cars in the Car Supermarket this week. But then Granny Bright turns up and transforms a boring minibus ride into one crazy, eventful journey ...
Bill's own fascination with science began with a battered old schoolbook he had when he was about ten or eleven years old in America. It had an illustration that captivated him - a cutaway diagram showing Earth's interior as it would look if you cut into it with a large knife and carefully removed about a quarter of its bulk.
Sheila Helliwell has been writing children's stories for many years, her first book "Hoonraki Moon" is one of the "Murphy Story" series which depicts the adventures of Steven, Susan and Mark and a nine-inch Leprechaun (Murphy) who lives in a magic world at the bottom of their garden.
Following the success of the Murphy stories, Sheila has focused on writing shorter stories aimed at younger children in her new book "Children's Short Stories (1)".
Bring your child face-to-face with nature with this first reference for young animal lovers, now in paperback. You can explore nature in all its glory and discover all about plants and animals and where they live. You can find out what life is like underground, where you can find the world's ugliest fish and why fungi are so fantastic.