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 And Tango Makes Three,
Justin Richardson
& Peter Parnell
5+
Roy and Silo are just
like the other penguin couples at the zoo - they bow
to each other, walk together and swim together. But
Roy and Silo are a little bit different - they're both
boys.
Then, one day, when Mr Gramzay the zookeeper finds
them trying to hatch astone, he realises that it may
be time for Roy and Silo to become parents for real.
 Lost And Found,
Oliver Jeffers
5+
There once was a boy…
and one day a penguin arrives on his doorstep. The boy
decides the penguin must be lost and tries to return
him. But no one seems to be missing a penguin. So the
boy decides to take the penguin home himself, and they
set out in his row boat on a journey to the South
Pole. But when they get there, the boy discovers that
maybe home wasn’t what the penguin was looking for
after all…
 The
Story Of Ferdinand,
Munro Leaf
5+
All the other bulls
would run and jump and butt their heads together. But
Ferdinand would rather sit and smell the flowers. So
what will happen when our pacifist hero is picked for
the bullfights in Madrid?
 Blueberry Girl,
Neil Gaiman &
Charles Vess
5+
A book of dreams and wishes for a new born girl, this
wonderful celebration of the birth of a child is the
perfect christening or ‘birth day’ gift.
Neil Gaiman wrote Blueberry Girl for a
friend who was about to become the mother of a little
girl. He has turned the deeply personal wish for a new
daughter into a book that celebrates the glory of
growing up.
Illustrated throughout with gorgeous art by Charles
Vess who also illustrated Gaiman's Stardust.
 I
Love My New Toy,
Mo Willems
6+
Gerald is careful.
Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can.
Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald
and Piggie are best friends. In I Love My New Toy!
Piggie can’t wait to show Gerald her brand-new toy.
But will an accidentally broken toy accidentally break
a friendship?
 Where The Wild Things
Are,
Maurice Sendak
6+
One
night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief
of one kind and another, so his mother calls him
'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his
supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's
room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max
to the place where the wild things are. Max tames
the wild things and crowns himself as their king,
and then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has
sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet,
he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to
sail home to the place where someone loves him best
of all.
 Bink &
Gollie,
Kate DiCamillo, Alison
McGhee & Tony Fucile
7+
Meet Bink and Gollie:
two precocious little girls – one tiny, one tall, and
both irrepressibly funny. Setting out from their
shared super-deluxe tree house and powered by plenty
of peanut butter (for Bink) and pancakes (for Gollie),
they share three comical adventures involving
outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the
Andes, and a most unlikely marvellous companion. No
matter where their roller-skates take them, at the end
of the day they will always be the very best of
friends.
 The Wind In
The Willows,
Kenneth Grahame
8+
When Mole goes boating
with Ratty instead of doing his spring-cleaning, he
discovers a whole new world. As well as adventures
on the river and in the Wild Wood, there are high
jinks on the open road with that reckless
ruffian, Mr Toad of Toad Hall. Ratty, Mole, Badger and
Toad become the firmest of friends, but after Toad's
latest escapade, can they join together and beat the
wretched weasels once and for all?
 The Sword
In The Stone,
T.H. White
9+
When Merlyn the magician comes to tutor Sir Ector's
sons Kay and the Wart, schoolwork suddenly becomes
much more fun. After all, who wouldn't enjoy being
turned into a fish, or a badger, or a snake? But
Merlyn has very particular plans for the Wart.
The extraordinary story of an ordinary boy who goes on
to become King Arthur.
 Coraline,
Neil Gaiman
9+
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows
and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and
close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the
other side is only a brick wall, until the day
Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another
flat in another house just like her own.
Only it's different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. But
there's another mother, and another father, and they
want Coraline to stay with them and be their little
girl. They want to change her and never let
her go.
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 The Last
Unicorn,
Peter S. Beagle
9+
This is the story of the last unicorn on earth. She has
lived contentedly alone for hundreds of years, and would
have continued to do so, believing that there were
others of her kind somewhere in the world, had she not
heard a huntsman say that she was the last of her kind.
Afterwards she could have no peace of mind until she
left the safety of the enchanted wood and searched for
another unicorn. Once she leaves the wood she is exposed
to the covetous gaze of men and there is danger at every
turn.
 Comet
In Moominland,
Tove Jansson
9+
A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody knows what
to do! Will it destroy everything and everyone?
Moomintroll decides to find out. So, with Sniff, he sets
out on an expedition that promises to be packed with
adventure and excitement!
 The Invention Of Hugo
Cabret,
Brian Selznick
9+
Orphan, clock keeper and thief, Hugo lives in
the walls of a busy Paris train station, where his
survival depends on secrets and anonymity. But when his
world suddenly interlocks with an eccentric, bookish
girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy booth in the
station, Hugo's undercover life, and his most precious
secret, are put in jeopardy. A cryptic drawing, a
treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man, and
a hidden message from Hugo's dead father form the
backbone of this intricate, tender, and spellbinding
mystery.
 Gangsta Granny,
David Walliams
9+
Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to
stay at his grandma’s house. She’s the boringest grandma
ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat
cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn’t know
about his grandma.
1) She was once an international jewel thief.
2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the
crown jewels, and now she needs Ben’s help…
 Outcast,
Rosemary Sutcliffe
9+
Rescued as a baby from a shipwrecked Roman galley, Beric
is raised in a British tribe but is never fully accepted
by them. When disaster and bad times come to the clan,
they believe it is down to Beric - that he has brought
bad luck and misfortune to them - and they cast him out.
Left alone without family or friends, Beric is sold into
slavery in Rome and with danger and death all around
him, Beric must free himself and try and build a new
life.
 His Dark Materials Trilogy,
Philip Pullman
12+
His
Dark Materials explores the biggest
questions of them all - existence, childhood, innocence,
knowledge, grace, death and, last but by no means least,
that of love. The three volumes of the trilogy, Northern Lights, The
Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass, are multi-layered
and embrace many different themes and facets relevant to
us all. At its simplest it is a story of courage and
humanity about a boy and a girl with a destiny to
fulfill. At its widest it whirls the reader into a
universe of wonders and dazzling marvels. Here is
a magnificent tale, rich in incident and character, that
takes the breath away and leaves the reader with a sense
of wonder.
 The Outsiders,
S.E. Hinton
12+
In Ponyboy's world there are
two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich
society kids who get away with anything. Then
there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't
so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count
on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble
with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is
beating up greasers like Ponyboy. At least he
knows what to expect - until the night things go
too far...
 Tales From Outer Suburbia,
Shaun Tan
12+
Do you remember the
water buffalo at the end of our street? Or the
deep-sea diver we found near the underpass? Do
you know why dogs bark in the middle of the night?
Shaun Tan, creator of The Arrival, The
Lost Thing and The Red Tree, reveals the
quiet mysteries of everyday life: homemade pets,
dangerous weddings, stranded sea mammals, tiny
exchange students and secret rooms filled with
darkness and delight.
 The Fault In Our Stars,
John Green
14+
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has
bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything
but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon
diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus
Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group,
Hazel’s story is about to be completely rewritten.
Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, The Fault in
Our Stars is award-winning-author John Green’s
most ambitious and heartbreaking work yet, brilliantly
exploring the funny, thrilling, and tragic business of
being alive and in love. |
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