It’s never too early to start picking up a book and they make learning fun! We hope your little ones will love this selection of books to see them through the school years.
EARLY YEARS
In this uplifting picture book, you imagine a world where everyone looks identical, where all food tastes the same, where we all speak the same language.
A world that is…well, pretty boring. But with an explosion of colour, the pages soon come to life. This joyful picture book encourages children to imagine the world as a vast library, with room on the shelves for everybody’s story.
It is a celebration of our incredibly diverse world as it really is: home to 195 countries with thousands of different cultures, 10 million colours and 4,300 religions.
Written by Uju Asika, author of Bringing up Race, this beautiful picture book celebrates the beauty and joy of living in a wonderfully diverse world.
YEAR 1
Welcome to a strange and wonderful land, where nothing is quite what it seems! The Emperor of Absurdia is a gloriously rich and beautiful picture book from Chris Riddell, the award-winning creator of Once Upon a Wild Wood.
This is Absurdia: trees are birds, umbrellas are trees, and the sky is thick with snoring fish. Join one small boy as he tumbles out of bed into a crazy dreamland of wardrobe monsters, dragons and amazing adventures!
The Emperor of Absurdia is a brilliantly imaginative and original story from the bestselling picture book creator, Chris Riddell.
With a story to enchant even the youngest reader and wonderfully rich and detailed illustrations, it will delight parents and children alike.
YEAR 2
This unusual rhyming journey through a world of dynamic story starters, was created in collaboration with twelve illustrators, to excite and engage everyone from avid book lovers, to the most reluctant readers.
Children at home will ask for the book again and again, reliving their adventure across every contrasting page. In school environments this book is used by teachers in Key stages 1 and 2 to engage reluctant readers and writers, inspiring them to write creatively and map stories using the fun and disruptive content. Other more able writers in school extend their stories into fully illustrated poems.
This book is a great tool for anyone who wants to reignite the imaginative wonder in the mind of their child/student.
YEAR 3
When the Stewarts spend a sunny, frosty December day at London Zoo, they’re enchanted by one small penguin.
At the delight of young Imogen and Arthur, Mrs Stewart insists the penguin “must come and stay with them whenever he likes.”
But not one Stewart expects the penguin to turn up at their door that evening, rucksack labelled “Einstein” on his back…
The family’s new feathered friend helps Arthur to come out of his shell and makes massive demands on Imogen’s amateur sleuthing. But together they must find out why Einstein came to them and they must keep away from the mysterious white-coat man.
And Einstein can’t stay forever, can he…?
YEAR 4
Enter the darkly funny world of Stitch Head, as he steps out of the shadows into the adventure of an almost-lifetime…
Deep in the maze-like dungeons of Castle Grotteskew, eccentric Professor Erasmus created Stitch Head, a small, almost-human creature.
His experiments continued, filling the castle with creations so fabulously monstrous that Stitch Head was long forgotten.
Until a travelling circus ringmaster knocks at the castle door, promising to make Stitch Head a star.
Is this Stitch Head’s chance to venture beyond the castle walls?
Or could he be making a terrible mistake…?
YEAR 5
THIS IS THE SYSTEM OPERATOR.
WHO IS USING THIS ACCOUNT? PLEASE IDENTIFY YOURSELF…
Vicky’s life is completely normal. Maybe even a little boring.
But all that changes when her dad is accused of stealing a million pounds from the bank where he works.
Vicky knows for sure that her dad is innocent, and is determined to prove it.
Luckily for him, she is a seasoned computer hacker. Using the skills he taught her, she’s going to attempt to break the bank’s files. Should be simple, right?
But it’s a race against time to find the cyber-thief, before they find her . . .
YEAR 6
A mind-bending adventure from the author of Brightstorm!
A year after the death of her older brother, Prue Haywood’s family is still shattered by grief. But everything changes when a stranger arrives at the farm.
A new, incredible technology has been discovered in the city of Medlock, where a secretive guild of inventors have developed a way to capture spirits of the dead in animal-like machines, bringing them back to life.
Prue knows that the “Ghost Guild” might hold the key to bringing her brother back, so she seizes the stranger’s offer to join as an apprentice. But to find her brother, she needs to find a way to get the ghost machines to remember the people they used to be.
Yet if Prue succeeds, all of society could come apart…