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New Children's Books
024157417X 
Paperback 
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Ladybird Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Bluey and Mackenzie are spending the day with their buddies. They're excited to play Barky Boats and build a fairy garden! Their buddies Mia and Captain seem distracted - will they still have time to play with Bluey and Mackenzie?
0241345871 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Bookworm Rocket loves to collect new books on her weekly visit to the library, and to read all about inspirational figures like Rosa Parks. She is heartbroken when she discovers the library will be closing down! Can she use what she's learnt from Rosa and speak up to save the day?
0241609860 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: DK Children
Resource type: Physical
Note: Baby Stegosaurus loves a challenge - even one that seems impossible. And on a sunny day at the beach, she has her mind set on learning how to swim! Luckily, she has the best kind of pals to help her out.
1839947934 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Little babies everywhere sleep softly through the night. So now, my little baby, it is time to say goodnight. Get ready to say goodnight to all kinds of animal babies - from zebras standing tall to mice, soft and small. With bold animal artwork on every page, this board book will brighten any bookshelf and is the perfect first bedtime book to share
1839944420 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Archie Blake thought his policeman father teaching him how to pick locks and open safes was just a bit of fun. But when a diamond necklace is stolen and his dad is arrested, Archie realises the only way to prove Dad's innocence is to go on the run and use everything he's learned to uncover the truth. But Archie soon finds himself deeply tangled in a web of deceit and lies that go deeper, and are close to home, than he could ever have imagined.
183994871X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: With five colourful felt flaps and rich artwork from Axel Scheffler, join a game of hide-and-seek in the garden with Pip and Posy.
12p ; 190mm
183994076X 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Year 2 at Wigglesbottom Primary is never boring. They don't expect to run a race against a chicken at Sports Day, or eat green toxic slime at lunch (it's halloween custard!) or that Anne Marie Moor is an ant queen and one of her subjects is called Lady Gaga - but they love every minute of it! This book is aimed at newly-independent readers.
1839949287 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Resource type: Physical
Note: Sunny's favourite game is Super Rabbit Boy, where his carrot-loving friend must thwart all the plots the evil King Viking of Boom Boom Mountain comes up with. King Viking is competing in the Super Cup Grand Prix to win the power of super speed. Super Rabbit Boy and his friends, Jody Racer and Nugget, must work together to stop him!
1529075653 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Charity Brown's life is about to change - her family have been left a huge, rambling house by a mysterious benefactor, and her parents want to move in and throw open its doors to the needy. Only recently back from hospital after months of isolation with polio, Charity is over-protected and lonely as the only child still at home.
000856082X 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: The hilarious crayons from 'The Day the Crayons Quit' are ready to go back to school! The crayons are getting ready to go back to school and each crayon has a subject they're looking forward to the most. They're also ready to meet new friends and let loose during their very favourite time of day - art class. This is a hilarious back-to-school story
0008541515 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Nothing ever happens except for sometimes. And only on rare-ish occasions, which is hardly ever. There are times when even I can't turn the nothing into more than it is. But there was one day in the holidays that began as a nothing day and then everything happened. Absolutely nearly everything.
0008509921 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Goldilocks and her little dog are off on an adventure, looking for that house again - the one with the chairs, the porridge and beds. The sound of the sea calls to them and before they know it, they have found quite a different sort of a house - there are bowls, and chairs and sort-of beds - plus some rather unexpected and hilarious inhabitants!
1803707496 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Babies and infants can meet a variety of animals for the first time in this friendly board book. Each page features one big animal saying its name, and has a small peep-through hole for eagle-eyed kids to spot smaller animals, too. Pages are made from robust board, tough enough to survive being read and flicked through and chewed again and again.
0241429870 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Puffin
Resource type: Physical
Note: Britain is at war, and a secret arm of the British government called the Ministry of Unladylike Activity is training up spies. Enter May Wong: courageous, smart, stubborn - and desperate to do whatever she can to help end the war, so she can go home to Hong Kong. May knows that there is no one more perfect to become a spy than a child.
0008222495 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: A laugh-out-loud collection of three short stories for readers of 8 and up.
1471192385 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's
Resource type: Physical
Note: When Wellington is given a new jacket exactly like Dad's for his birthday, at first he's delighted. But his delight turns to disappointment when he tries it on and it's far too big. And what if, Wellington thinks, - even worse! - it's not that the jacket is too big, but that he's too small? Well, Wellington's dad has a plan, and on an exciting day
1913102823 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Firefly Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Max and Peregrine volunteer at an old people's home when strange things happen. One resident is walking on the ceiling, another is riding their wheelchair through walls. And Reggie says his marmalade is haunted (no one listens)! Things don't look good - the Marmalade Ghost is turning into a sticky Godzilla.
1803703350 
Hardback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Resource type: Physical
Note: Lift the lily pads and peep under the water to discover what's in a pond. From tadpoles hatching and turning into frogs, to diving beetles and even dragonfly larvae transforming into adults, this book has so much information for curious young children.
0008568081 
Paperback
Year: 2023
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: It's time for the Windsor Gardens Annual Pet Show and everyone is very excited! But when the judge fails to show up, has Paddington got what it takes to pick the best in show?W ith hilarious pet fashion shows, animal assault courses and a special skills round, Paddington has a real job on his hands to select a winner!
1445184389 
Paperback
Year: 2022
Language: English
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Resource type: Physical
Note: 'The Crow and the Pitcher' is a retelling of an Aesop fable in which a crow must be very clever and persistent to have a drink of water. 'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Originally published: 2022