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The Wonder of Life on Earth: A beautifully illustrated story of our pl ...

Henry Gee

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£20.00

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Alte Zachen: Old things

Ziggy Hanaor

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£9.99

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Ancient Rome: Infographics

Nicolas Guillerat

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£16.99

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Once I was a Giant

Zeno Sworder

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£12.99

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The Adventures of Portly the Otter: Untold Tales from the Wind in the ...

M.G. Leonard

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£14.99

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The Little Mermaid and Other Tales

H. C. Andersen

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£9.99

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The Fox Outfoxed and Other Tales

Aeso

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Once Upon An Island: An Atlas of Islands From Around the World ...

Alice Albinia

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The Lost Robot

Joe Todd-Stanton

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A delightful, titchy facsimile of one of three little books by the artist. Two are more-or-less (but not absolutely) for children, while The Book of Blokes consists of a series of very quick... read more

An Alphabet

William Nicholson

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A delightful, titchy facsimile of one of three little books by the artist. Two are more-or-less (but not absolutely) for children, while The Book of Blokes consists of a series of very quick... read more

The Square Book of Animals

William Nicholson

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Owls swooping through the darkness, frogs watching moonlight reflected in a pond... Beautifully illustrated non-fiction for ages 2-4.

Who is Awake in the Moonlight?

Alexandra Milton

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When a mouse's oak tree home is destroyed, it falls to his young neighbour to find him a new place to live. Terribly sweet. Ages 2-5.

The House with the Little Red Door

Grace Easton

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A new edition for young readers including press-the-button classical music throughout and an ingenious pop-up stage. Ages 3+.

All the World’s a Stage: Peter Pan

J. M. Barrie

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A letter for a lonely fox takes him on a puzzling journey. Ages 3-5.

Fox and the Mystery Letter

Alex G Griffiths

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A suspicious cheep impedes Bear's sleep! Ages 3-5.

Bear’s Nap

Emily Gravett

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The sequel to What Feelings Do When No One's Looking, translated from Polish and featuring the same strange, delightful illustrations by Aleksandra Zajac. Ages 3-6.

What Feelings Do at Night

Tina Oziewicz

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This dear bear has a lovely time on his own, reading, playing with his wooden locamotive, listening to the wind, smelling the rain... An ode to the pleasures of solitude, from morning to nig... read more

Bear by Himself

Geoffrey Hayes

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The master of American spookiness has based his retelling of the Grimm brothers' tale around the great Sendak's set and costume designs for Humperdinck's eponymous opera. (King has not adjus... read more

Hansel and Gretel

Stephen King

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The Arctic night is very cold even for this little fox in her white winter fur, and she can't find her way home... For ages 4-6.

The Snow Fox and the Long, Long Night

Berge, Marieke ten
Berge, Marieke ten

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Once in a while a really great book for children comes along and this is one of them: a gloriously tall tale of canine derring-do, with superb illustrations. A story to fire the imagination ... read more

A Dog’s Tale: The Story of a Little Dog with a Big Imagination ...

Kiko

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Ravishingly illustrated with ink wash and brush, this is a tale about a mythological creature that inhabits China's primeval forests and a mischievous wind. Together they encounter a lake, a... read more

Take a Walk with the Wind

Xiong Liang

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A small girl braves her fears in her quest to find her mother a life-saving flower, guarded by dragons. Richly illustrated and exciting, for ages 4-7.

Dragon Flower

Chen Jiang Hong

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A thoughtful, poetic little tale about a man embarking on a voyage at sea, adapted from the Nobel prize winner's Lanzarote Notebooks. Ages 4-8.

The First Boat

Jose Saramago

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Reminiscent of those long-treasured What To Look For In... books by Ladybird - the ones from the 60s'/70s' - this is packed with facts, activities and things to go out and find even in the... read more

A Field Guide to Winter: Play and learn in nature

Gabby Dawnay

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The diminutive guard of Buckingham Palace takes his American cousins on a scurry around London. A facsimile edition of the charming 1967 original. Ages 4-7.

The Guard Mouse

Don Freeman

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A feast of silliness as Captain Danger goes off in pursuit of his errant shadow, accompanied by his faithful hound. Merry stuff for ages 5-7.

Captain Danger and the Stupid Shadow

Victor Engbers

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The true story of the discovery of the Lascaux cave paintings by a teenage boy and his dog. Expansively illustrated (the pages fold out!) and brimming with facts for the budding archeologist... read more

The Cave Explorer

Kate Winter

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Delightful and funny introduction to birds, beaks, bones, eggs and the shaking of tail feathers. For ages 4-8.

Omnibird: An Avian Investigator’s Handbook

Giselle Clarkson

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Same cast, different situation: a follow-up to CM's hugely successful The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Ages 5-10 - or anyone, in fact...

Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm ...

Charlie Mackesy

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£22.00

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A really beautiful edition of Wilde's stories, including The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant and The Remarkable Rocket, illustrated by the incomparable Lauren O'Hara. Ages 5-12.

Oscar Wilde’s Stories for Children

Oscar Wilde

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Two of Pullman's early concoctions republished here as part of the Everyman's series of classics for children. Ages 6-8.

I Was a Rat! Or, the Scarlet Slippers and the Scarecrow and His Servan ...

Philip Pullman

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Pepper, pine, vanilla, dandelion, cotton etc - their uses around the world, now and in the past. Fascination for ages 6-9.

The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of: Things We Make With Plants ...

Jonathan Drori

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The first in a planned trilogy-in-verse from the acclaimed nature writer and academic, in which a child goes looking for light in a dark time. A handsome book, cloth-bound, with striking woo... read more

The Night Creatures: Firefly

Robert Macfarlane

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A family of water voles enter the Peking to Paris motor rally, with many adventures along the way. Ages 7-10.

The Mudlarks: Peking to Paris

Jane McMorland Hunter

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Five interwoven stories of children from across the world are connected by a migrating flock of starlings. Age 8+.

Wild Journey

A. M. Dassu

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