Books By Age

The much-loved Roald Dahl story, updated for a whole new generation of readers with an exciting new interior design and cover look. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: you are not alone. Matilda is a brilliant child with a magical mind. But her parents have decided she's just a nuisance who wastes too much time on reading and stories. And her headmistress Miss Trunchbull is a terrible bully, who thinks children are rotten and awful and should be locked up. Now it's time for Matilda to find the power to change her story, and show them just how extraordinary children can be . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241558317 • Author: Roald Dahl • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.9 x 2.5 cm

Percy Jackson returns to give readers his unique and unforgettable insight into the epic feats of twelve of Ancient Greece’s most recognisable heroes. Percy Jackson knows all there is to know about the greatest heroes in Greek mythology. After all, he’s met most of them. Want to know who cut off Medusa's head? Which hero was raised by a she-bear? Whose idea it was to create an impossible Labyrinth? What happens when you try to sneak someone out of the Underworld? Who tamed Pegasus, the winged horse? Percy has all the answers . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9780141362250 • Author: Rick Riordan • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 528 • Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 3.4 cm

Celebrate Disney's most iconic animals in this wonderful collection of art to colour!  From Simba and Nemo to Bambi and Baloo, this book is dedicated to the animals that have captured the hearts of audiences through the ages. With over 90 beautiful images, it's time to embrace your wild side! Collect all of the official Disney and Marvel colouring books in this series!  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781803685441 • Author:  Walt Disney • Publisher:  Igloo Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  96 • Dimensions: 21.1 x 29.9 x 1.2 cm

Join in the rhyming fun and get ready to sing along! With musical introductions from 4 popular nursery rhymes, this fantastic book encourages children to sing along and finish the songs. There are also 4 fun sound effects to accompany each classic rhyme.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781786707772 • Author:  Igloo Books • Publisher:  Igloo Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  10 • Dimensions:  10 x 0.3 x 1 cm 

Take your toddler on an adventure and find the adorable baby animals in this lift-the-flap baby book with pictures that pop off the page!  This colourful pop-up peekaboo book follows animal parents and their babies as they play hide-and-seek. Babies and toddlers can lift big flaps and see peekaboo surprises pop up from the pages: a naughty baby monkey swinging from a tree, a messy baby hippo rolling in the mud, a sleepy baby sloth hiding behind the leaves, and a happy baby elephant who's splish splashing in the lake. The lively, read-aloud rhymes encourage literacy and early learning, while the surprise pop-up scenes will delight curious preschoolers. With the help of parents and caregivers, toddlers will have fun turning the sturdy board book pages, guessing what's hiding under each flap, and then lifting the flaps to reveal the baby animal characters and play peekaboo! Ideal for interactive preschool play, this book will appeal to both parents and children and is certain to keep little ones entertained time and time again! Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241411117 • Author:  DK • Publisher:  DK • Format:  Board Book • Pages:  12 • Dimensions:   21.6 x 2.6 x 21.6cm

Young children will love completing the puzzles in this nature-themed book. As they use the special pen supplied to trace the dotted lines, solve mazes, spot differences and join numbered dots, they will also be practising vital early-learning skills such as counting, observing and pen control. Then they can wipe the pages clean and do them again. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781801319188 • Author: Kirsteen Robson • Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 24 • Dimensions: 27.6 x 21.6cm

"Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist." One dark, silvery moonlit night, Sophie is snatched from her bed by a giant! Luckily it is the Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers snozzcumbers and frobscottle to children. But there are other giants in Giant Country. And those giants have a plan to gallop far and wide to find some tasty human beans to eat. Can Sophie and the BFG stop them?  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241558348 • Author:  Roald Dahl  • Publisher:  Puffin • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  384 • Dimensions:  12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm

It’s Wimpy Kid Greg’s birthday – and you’re invited to the chaos. In Partypooper, the 20th book in Jeff Kinney’s global smash-hit Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley is planning the ultimate party – for himself. But when the guest list grows, the decorations flop, and the surprises backfire, this birthday bash turns into a total blowout―just not the kind Greg had in mind. Packed with cake disasters, family fiascos, and laugh out loud Wimpy Kid fun, this book is perfect for readers ages 8–12. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241745168 • Author: Jeff Kinney • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 224

A classic collection of stories by P.L Travers, Penelope Lively, Michael Morpurgo, Michael Rosen, Alexander McCall Smith and others, specially chosen for young readers of around seven by children’s book expert, Julia Eccleshare. Mary Poppins takes Jane and Michael on a gravity-defying tea party on the ceiling; Meet the boy who rescues a beached dolphin: Can the barber keep the secret of the Rajah’s big ears? These classic stories are wonderful to share and enjoy with your child at any time of the year, or would make the perfect birthday gift. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008524739 • Author:  Julia Eccleshare • Publisher:  HarperCollins Publishers • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  208 • Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm 

Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world in the second book in the mega-selling Dork Diaries series. Nikki is finally adjusting to life at her new school: she's made some real friends and her major crush, Brandon, has even asked to be her science partner! But when Nikki overhears mean girl Mackenzie bragging about going to the Halloween dance with Brandon, she's gutted and decides to go to her little sister's party instead. Then she discovers Mackenzie was lying. Could her dream of going to the party with Brandon still come true? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781398527560 • Author:  Rachel Renee Russell • Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Children's UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  304 • Dimensions:  13 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm

Welcome to Nikki Maxwell's aDORKable world and the mega-selling Dork Diaries series – now with over 50 million copies in print worldwide! TOTAL DISASTER!!! Mean girl MacKenzie has stolen Nikki's diary! What if she tells everyone Nikki's totally secret thoughts?! But reading Nikki's diary isn't the only thing MacKenzie's interested in. Get ready for Dork Diaries with a twist as MacKenzie takes over and tells all about her GLAMFABULOUS life! What does the queen bee really think about Nikki and her dorky friends? Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781398527638 • Author:  Rachel Renee Russell • Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Children's UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  352 • Dimensions:  13 x 2.08 x 19.8 cm

The third book in the bestselling Percy Jackson and the Olympians series - now as a graphic novel! Discover the story behind the Disney+ series. Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. It's not every day you find yourself in combat with a half-lion, half-human. But when you're the son of a Greek God, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a Goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster. Oh and guess what. The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780141346816 • Author:  Rick Riordan • Publisher:  Puffin • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  128 • Dimensions:  21.6 x 13.8 x 0.76 cm

The one and only Cat in the Hat from the iconic Dr. Seuss gets a brand new look, introducing his roller-coaster ride of mayhem to a new generation of readers. When Sally and her brother are left alone, they think they're in for a dull day – until the Cat in the Hat steps in on the mat, bringing with him mayhem and madness! This is the classic book that every child should have the joy of reading. The perfect book for early readers, the new style brings a worldwide favourite to a whole new generation.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780007348695 • Author:  Dr. Seuss • Publisher:  HarperCollins Publishers • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  64 • Dimensions:  28 x 20.3 x 0.5 cm

The Mr Men and Little Miss will help you show that special someone just how much they mean to you with this warm and witty celebration of love and friendship. Following the bestselling My Mummy and My Daddy, this delightful book pairs Roger Hargreaves classic artwork with affectionate and humorous new text to help children and adults share the love on Valentine's Day or at any time they want to say I love you. The Mr Men and Little Miss have been delighting children for generations with their charming and funny antics.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008671648 • Author:  Roger Hargreaves • Publisher:  Farshore • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  32 • Dimensions: 25 x 0.3 x 23 cm

Best friends Bumble and Snug are bugbops - little monsters filled with BIG feelings! Join them in this new, full-colour graphic novel, as they go on a thrilling, funny adventure with some VERY worried giants and learn about the world outside and inside. When Bumble and Snug accidentally bring home some dragon eggs, they have to teach the little dragons how to be dragons - with the help of books, costumes, sweets and treasure, of course! But the little dragons' parents are very worried about them and Bumble and Snug need to help their new friends home soon, otherwise they may end up as dragon dinner... Bumble and Snug and the Worried Dragons is a story about worry, adventure and a super fun best-friends day out! Perfect for readers just starting to enjoy stories independently, for visual readers and for wise kids to share with their grown-ups. For fans of Narwhal and Jelly and Dogman. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781444972368 • Author: Mark Bradley • Publisher: Hachette UK • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 160 • Dimensions: 19 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm

An official lift-the-flap box set for two of the most-watched shows on CBeebies! Featuring five fun lift-the-flap books, this gift set guides early learners to recognise numbers up to 100 and practise and develop their mathematic skills with the Numberblocks, and to recognise letters A to Z, use phonics skills to read and build words, and match words to pictures with the Alphablocks. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781782269960 • Author: Sweet Cherry Publishing • Publisher: Sweet Cherry Publishing • Format: Box Set • Pages: 80 • Dimensions: 22 x 26.2 x 6 cm

The bestselling and hilariously funny series for kids, told entirely in the form of a group chat, from award-winning author and comedy writer, Emily-Jane Clark. Welcome back to the Cringe Club! It’s Kennedy’s first day back at Hellington High after half term and things seem to be going . . . well!? Even her arch enemy, Harmony Bliss, is being NICE!? Meanwhile, Devon is collecting cringes like trophies thanks to his highly embarrassing parents and Liv is having major boy trouble. Unfortunately, Kennedy's good luck soon turns: she earns herself a new nickname, things between her new friend group are not going smoothly and she has to go on a school trip to a theme park when she’s TERRIFIED of heights. To top it all off, The Mother has made them go vegetarian (aka STARVE TO DEATH). Things couldn’t get any CRINGIER. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781398543553 • Author: Emily-Jane Clark • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Format: Paperback  • Pages: 368

Delight in this collection of 30 short stories, full of the buzz and excitement of spring! Head off on a sparkling springtime adventure with the world's best-loved storyteller. From the little boy who helps a lamb in trouble to the fairies hidden inside Easter Eggs, excitement and magic are never far away in this collection of stories to read and share. These fun, entertaining tales are ideal for newly confident readers and are the perfect length for reading aloud at bedtime or in the classroom. Enid Blyton remains one of Britain's favourite children's authors and her bumper short story collections are perfect for introducing her to the latest generation of readers. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781444939330 • Author: Enid Blyton • Publisher: Hachette UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 320 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3 cm

Watch the animals in this book magically burst into colour with a splash of your imagination! Simply dip the brush into water and gently sweep it over the black and white patterns within the pictures! Product Information:• ISBN: 9781474960465• Author: Federica Iossa• Publisher: Usborne• Format: Paperback• Pages: 32• Dimensions: 25 x 22 x 0.3cm

Jakob has found the long-lost SPACE TRAIN! But it's old, battered and broken. With the help of Granny and Derek the robot chicken, can Jakob fix the train? Product Information: • ISBN: 9781848699465 • Author: Maudie Powell-Tuck • Publisher: Little Tiger Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 28 x 24 x 0.4cm