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The Home that Love Built
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 January 2026;Genre: Family & Home
When a terrible storm blasts through the forest, it causes chaos, destroying homes and toppling trees. Left with ruins, the animals realise that by working together they can create a new home, built with kindness and love. Using a cumulative style similar to that of 'This is the house...
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Bedtime for Little Digger: Volume 1
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 January 2026;Genre: Adventure
Although it’s bedtime, Little Digger is too busy with things to do to go to sleep just yet . . . The soothing rhythmic, rhyming text of Bedtime for Little Digger is just perfect for calming little ones down and snuggling up ready to sleep. Little Digger is really excite...
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The Map of Me
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 January 2026;Genre: Family & Home
When a little girl moves home, everything feels strange and unfamiliar. With her mother's help, she creates a map of the new area, but some important things are still missing so she makes the map bigger. Soon, her new friends get involved, making everyone feel closer and more connected and, ev...
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The Golden Boy's Guide to Bipolar
Name: Clare Wilkins
19 January 2026;Genre: LBGTQ+
Riven with self-doubt, anger and Catholic guilt, Cesar finds it impossible to deal with his feelings for ex-boyfriend Jamal whilst still holding close to his family's ideals. Throw in being bipolar and bisexual, and life seems impossibly complicated. In an effort to get a hold on his fr...
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Gaslit
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 January 2026;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
When a migraine cancels Ella's New Year's Eve plans, she agrees to babysit for her younger cousin, Joey. Arriving at her aunt's house, she is horrified to find the family unconscious and strives to save them. An investigation discovers that there had been a gas leak, leading to the death of he...
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Hello, Sleep!: Turn the wheel and become a bedtime superstar!
Name: Sue Wilsher
16 January 2026;Genre: Baby & Toddler Books
Hello, Sleep! is an interactive story which is perfect for setting up a bedtime routine. From tidying away toys to turning the lights out, the book shows reassuring, familiar activities with the added fun of wheels to turn. Toys move into the toy box, water squirts in the bath...
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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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Finn's Epic Fails: The hilarious new series packed with school fails, friendship, pranks and chaos!
Name: Jacqueline Harris
16 January 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
Finn is the middle child of three. His older brother Jonah is a bully and yet somehow very popular at school and his younger sister Maisie is a unicorn obsessed five-year-old. And Finn describes himself as a 'Fail Magnet'. He does seem to have a lot of disasters of epic proportions and is cons...
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The Home that Love Built
Name: Linda Canning
15 January 2026;Genre: Family & Home
The Home That Love Built is an absolute joy. I loved it from start to finish. The prose is beautiful and lyrical, almost poetic, with a gentle rhythm and repetition that makes it a pleasure to read aloud. It feels carefully crafted, comforting, and deep...
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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...
