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  • The Singing Mermaid

    The Singing Mermaid

    When Sam Sly invites the Singing Mermaid to join the circus, she is excited by the promise of fame and fortune. But things are not what they seem, and the Singing Mermaid soon finds herself confined to a fish tank, longing for the freedom of the ocean.

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  • Zog

    Zog

    Zog is a keen dragon at Dragon School who aims to be the best in his class and win a golden star.

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  • Cave Baby

    Cave Baby

    Cave Baby is restless and sets about amusing himself. But he is warned that being naughty will mean 'A mammoth's going to throw you to the big brown bear!'

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  • A Squash and a Squeeze

    A Squash and a Squeeze

    An anxious little old lady has a house that is just too small - but when she asks a wise old man for help, he suggests a rather strange solution to her problems.

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  • Rabbit's Nap

    Rabbit's Nap

    All Rabbit wants is to have a nap. But who is being so noisy? Lift the flaps to find out who is keeping Rabbit awake in Acorn Wood.

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  • The Rhyming Rabbit

    The Rhyming Rabbit

    The Rhyming Rabbit isn’t like the other rabbits, he likes to make up rhymes about the world around him but not everyone is interested in hearing them.

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  • Toddle Waddle

    Toddle Waddle

    An ideal book for sharing - babies will love imitating the sounds in the text and pointing out details in the illustrations.

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  • What the Ladybird Heard

    What the Ladybird Heard

    The animals on the farm are always noisy, all except for the ladybird who never says a word. But when burglars plot to steal the farmer's fine prize cow, the ladybird has a plan...

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  • Sharing a Shell

    Sharing a Shell

    Poor crab has lost his shell, and nobody wants to share. But when he finally finds a shell of his own, he is surprised to find himself being asked to move over!

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  • Charlie Cook's Favourite Book

    Charlie Cook's Favourite Book

    From pirates to dragons, aliens and ghosts, this book serves as a celebration of all stories, and a reminder of how one story can lead to another!

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  • Freddie and the Fairy

    Freddie and the Fairy

    Freddie rescues a fairy who offers to grant him his every wish. The only problem is that she can't hear very well, and so his wishes result in some unexpected surprises...

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  • The Giants and the Joneses

    The Giants and the Joneses

    Jumbeelia, a young girl giant from Groil, the Land of Giants, loves the stories of the iggly plop who climbed up the bimblestonk and was chased back down again by a giant.

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  • Running on the Cracks

    Running on the Cracks

    Donaldson's style engages immediately and through her characters she raises many questions about our attitudes to those perceived as ‘different'.

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  • Tabby McTat

    Tabby McTat

    A poetic story of love, adventure and music that demands to be read aloud or possibly sung, depending on the power of the reader's purr.

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  • One Mole Digging a Hole

    One Mole Digging a Hole

    In this vibrant counting book, one mole digging a hole is soon joined by a troupe of gardening friends, including nine doves in gardening gloves and ten bees pruning trees.

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  • Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose

    Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose

    Join in the fun as all the animals come together for a chaotic dinner party! Tasty treats are on the menu - but unfortunately not all of the animals have very good table manners.

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  • Tiddler

    Tiddler

    Although he looks small and ordinary, Tiddler is a fish who loves to tell tall tales. But one day he is swept up in a fisherman's net and then thrown back in to an unfamiliar part of the sea.

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  • Stick Man

    Stick Man

    The award-winning creators of The Gruffalo now present us with a modern variation on a long-established folk tale theme, which details the perilous adventures of a stick.

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  • Follow the Swallow

    Follow the Swallow

    Chack the blackbird is brown but claims he will turn black and that the berries in the tree where he lives will turn orange, but Apollo the swallow doesn't believe him.

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  • The Princess and the Wizard

    The Princess and the Wizard

    Princess Eliza is having a birthday party. But just as she blows out the seven candles on her cake, the wicked wizard arrives… uninvited.

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  • Fly, Pigeon, Fly!

    Fly, Pigeon, Fly!

    Wandering home from school, a boy finds a young pigeon, half starved, in a derelict warehouse in Glasgow. He takes him home, looks after him and even teaches him to fly.

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  • Room on the Broom and Other Songs

    Room on the Broom and Other Songs

    Clap your hands, tap your feet and join in with these songs for children, based on books ranging from 'Room on the Broom' to 'The Snail and the Whale'.

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  • Play Time

    Play Time

    Tried and tested and guaranteed to get children of all ages and abilities reading

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  • The Gruffalo's Child

    The Gruffalo's Child

    Five years after the publication of multi award-winning The Gruffalo, author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler return with a much-awaited sequel.

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  • Postman Bear

    Postman Bear

    Postman Bear writes three letters and goes out to deliver them in Acorn Wood. By lifting the flaps young readers can find out who they are for.

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  • Wriggle and Roar!

    Wriggle and Roar!

    This super collection of 17 original rhymes for joining in with has appeal for the new toddler and well into the nursery years.

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  • The Snail and the Whale

    The Snail and the Whale

    This book by the award-winning Gruffalo partnership is about a tiny snail who longs to see the world, and the enormous grey-blue humpback whale who gives him a lift on his tail.

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  • The Smartest Giant in Town

    The Smartest Giant in Town

    George is the scruffiest giant in town, so he buys a new outfit to smarten himself up. On the way home, however, he meets others who are in greater need of his clothes than he is...

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  • Princess Mirror-Belle

    Princess Mirror-Belle

    Ellen, off school with chicken pox, gets a big surprise one day while examining her spots in the mirror: her reflection starts talking back to her, and even comes out of the mirror!

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  • Spinderella

    Spinderella

    Spinderella is desperate to learn how to count, but her spider family just don't want to know. That is until her Hairy Godmother helps her...

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  • Night Monkey Day Monkey

    Night Monkey Day Monkey

    Night Monkey and Day Monkey both live in the same jungle but their lives are worlds apart until one day Night Monkey wakes up in the day and Day Monkey wakes in the night.

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  • Room on the Broom

    Room on the Broom

     

    Throughout the tale, a witch encounters a series of characters who help her to recover various possessions that she loses along the way.

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  • Monkey Puzzle

    Monkey Puzzle

    Monkey is lost in the jungle, so he asks Butterfly to help him find his mum. However, Butterfly cannot seem to understand that Monkey and his mum look alike!

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  • The Gruffalo

    The Gruffalo

    A mouse walks through the woods and encounters a fox, an owl and a snake. To fend them off, he tells them about the scary Gruffalo.

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