Books - Families

• Kikaseya Keitaro, illus Alex Latimer
• OUP Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9780192787569
• Published: 02-01-2025

Among the busy pages of this clever picture book, young readers can search and find their favourite dinosaurs. Where is Stegosaurus in the rocky landscape? And is that a tall tree or Brachiosaurus hiding in the forest? All the dinos are hiding! Where could they be? Children (and adults!) will...

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• Fernando Martin
• Oxford University Press
• ISBN13: 9780192789761
• Published: 02-01-2025

When Jin dives into his dress-up box, he opens up a world of discovery! With every pair of shoes he tries on, he gets transported into an imaginary world of work, where he discovers lots of exciting jobs - one for every day of the week! Farmer, nurse, ballet dancer, marine biologist, or lifegu...

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• Fernando Martin
• OUP Children's Books
• ISBN13: 9780192789747
• Published: 02-01-2025

When Ama dives into her dress-up box, she opens up a world of discovery! With every hat she tries on, she gets transported into an imaginary world of work, where she discovers lots of exciting jobs - one for every day of the week! Builder, chef, courier, fire fighter, or pilot, which would you...

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• Alice Nuttall
• Chicken House
• ISBN13: 9781915947345
• Published: 02-01-2025

The action-packed and horrorful zombie adventure from debut author Alice Nuttall, with an original environmental twist . . . In a world without bees, death-flies are needed to grow food. But death-flies need bodies - lots of them. And bodies mean zombies. Merian understands this, but others ar...

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• Sylvia Plath, Cindy Wume
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571384891
• Published: 02-01-2025

From Pulitzer Prize-winning Sylvia Plath, this is the perfect bedtime read, written for her own children, exquisitely illustrated by Cindy Wume in picture book form for the first time.A Tank Bed's got cranksAnd wheels and cogsAnd levers to pullIf you're stuck in b...

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• Vashti Hardy, illus Agnes Saccani
• Farshore
• ISBN13: 9780008680749
• Published: 02-01-2025

Hana joins the Moonlight Mystery Agency to help Spark the bionic unicorn find her missing birthday cake in the first of an exciting new series from bestseller Vashti Hardy. Hana has always longed to have a pet of her own. So when a cat turns up at her bedroom window one...

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• Brittany N. Williams
• Faber & Faber
• ISBN13: 9780571381647
• Published: 02-01-2025

A masterful sequel to Brittany N. Williams's stunning YA historical fantasy debut, That Self-Same Metal.There's danger in the court of James I. Magical metal-worker Joan Sands must reforge the Pact between humanity and the...

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• Gill Lewis, Irina Avgustinovich
• Barrington Stoke
• ISBN13: 9781800902787
• Published: 02-01-2025

When Tia and Nat spot a turtle in difficulty off the coast of Devil Bird Island, they must help it find its way home in this inspiring tale of conservation from Gill Lewis. A camping trip to count puffins on Devil Bird Island turns into a real adventure for friends Tia...

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