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Pablo and Splash: The Castle Quest: World Book Day 2026
Name: Jack Age 11
05 February 2026;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
It is really fun!
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Adventuremice: Of Mice and Mummies
Name: Amanda Shipton
04 February 2026;Genre: Adventure
This is the eighth fantastic book in the Adventuremice series by Reeve and McIntyre! These two authors make are hard to beat when it comes to creating warm-hearted and comical adventures. As always, the illustrations in this series are really outstanding, they are warm...
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Pomegranates for Peace
Name: Jacqueline Harris
30 January 2026;Genre: Family & Home
12-year-old Tamara Cohen is struggling. Since the Hamas attacks on October 7th, nothing has been right. Her dad is worried about his brother and family living in Israel and Jewish children, including Tamara, have become targets of Jew hate at school. To cap it all Tamara has to move out of her...
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Postman Planet: Volume 1
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
23 January 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
Postman Planet considers himself to be the cool dude hero of the Intergalactic Postal Depot, he is the greatest postman in the whole galaxy so its no surprise when he is given a very important task, so important that he even gets an unwelcome assistant. This is because his mission is to delive...
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Finn's Epic Fails
Name: Beverley Somerset
22 January 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
Finn lives with his dad, younger sister Maisie (who is obsessed with unicorns) and his older brother Jonah, whose hobby is bullying and embarrassing Finn. As Finn puts it, he is "the filling in a sibling sandwich" and his life is one huge fail after another. In the very first chapter, he loses...
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Clem Fatale Has Been Upstaged
Name: Jane
16 January 2026;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Much like the previous book featuring young female sleuth Clem Fatale, this one is a helter-skelter, sometimes farcical, always entertaining, page-turner set in 1950s London. Apart from the famous London Palladium where the Wade sisters are due to perform, and the Ritz frequen...
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Postman Planet: The hilarious, high-energy new young fiction series for kids!: Volume 1
Name: Tina Derry
16 January 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
If your New Year's resolution was to read more great books then look no further; Postman Planet is here! Award-winning author Ben Davis comes up trumps again with this hilarious story about Postman Planet and his trusty companion, Stamp, the half-robot, previously frozen helpmate that every he...
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Animagicals: Mia's Tiger
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 January 2026;Genre: Adventure
Mia's Tiger is the first in the amazing Animalgicals series by Paula Harrison. This is the perfect choice for any child who loves, animals, nature and adventure. Most would dream of the opportunity to change into an animal but the one of the p...
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Poo! What? Where?: The number ONE book about all things number TWO
Name: Michelle Bailey
15 January 2026;Genre: Non Fiction
Poo! What? Where? written by Mike Rampton and illustrated by Gareth Conway is our new favourite poo-related picture book. When I saw it had poo in the title, I just knew that it was going to be a popular choice in my household. In fact, it was so popular that we sat and read t...
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The Golden Monkey Mystery (Secrets of the Snakestone)
Name: Jane Rew
14 January 2026;Genre: Adventure
Roma Moreau's dual mission is to release a captive monkey into the wild and persuade her father, a French army captain, to let her study at medical school. Roma's French mother died in childbirth and she is determined that 'no other woman must die'. She is also accompanied on her mission by ta...
