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  • All Four Quarters of the Moon

    All Four Quarters of the Moon

    • Shirley Marr
    • Usborne Publishing Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781803704326
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    Everything so far, if Peijing had to sum it up, was a string of small awkward experiences that she hoped would end soon.The night of the Mid-Autumn festival, making mooncakes with Ah-Ma, was the last time Peijing remembers her life being the same. Now facing a new home, a new school and a new...

  • You're My Little Sunshine

    You're My Little Sunshine

    • Nicola Edwards, Natalie Marshall
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781838914417
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    Celebrate your little sunshine with this sweet and colourful rhyming board book.  With tactile pages, peek-through holes and lively artwork, this is a great book for parents and children to read together at bedtime.  Show your little one just how much they mean to you with adorable illustratio...

  • Influential

    Influential

    • Amara Sage
    • Faber & Faber
    • ISBN13: 9780571377343
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    Almond Brown has no friends in real life . . . but 3.5 million followers online. A heart-felt, whip-smart deep dive into what it would really be like to be internet famous at 17: a cautionary tale for our time from a writer who has grown up with social media. Almond is forced into the s...

  • Word Trouble

    Word Trouble

    • Vyara Boyadjieva
    • Walker Books Ltd
    • ISBN13: 9781406398755
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    A beautiful, moving and sensitively told picture book about language barriers, communication and a very young child's immigrant experience.When Ronnie moves to a new house, in a new country, he's excited to make friends. But when he introduces himself to everyone at nursery - "My n...

  • The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die

    The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die

    • Peter Lantos
    • Scholastic
    • ISBN13: 9780702323089
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    A story of survival, of love between mother and son and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship. The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die describes an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 1945. Peter and his parents set out from a small Hu...

  • Don't Mix Up My Dinosaur

    Don't Mix Up My Dinosaur

    • Rosamund Lloyd, Spencer Wilson
    • Little Tiger Press Group
    • ISBN13: 9781801044479
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    Which dinosaur is your favourite?   Children will love spinning the wheel to create their very own dinosaur friends! This chunky board book features a built-in wheel containing different touch-and-feel panels for little hands to explore - perfect for developing hand-eye coordination. With five...

  • Flooded: Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023

    Flooded: Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023

    • Mariajo Ilustrajo
    • Quarto Publishing PLC
    • ISBN13: 9780711276796
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023Flooded is the funny and beautifully illustrated tale of animals who live in a city that is ever so slowly flooding.  The flood comes gradually at first.  All the animals ignore the obvious and go about their busy lives, disjoin...

  • 21% Monster: Ice Giant

    21% Monster: Ice Giant

    • P.J. Canning
    • Usborne
    • ISBN13: 9781474984423
    • Published: 05-01-2023

    Genetically-modified teens try to bring down the organisation that made them, in this second action-packed installment in the 21% Monster series.'The girl put her hands on her hips, cocked her head and answered: "My name is Aurora Maria Ash-Valero and I'm here to kick your butt!"'<...