Great new
children’s books!
Fantas c new non‐fic on! RESCUE VEHICLES
This book shows all the machines that are used to help people,
from fire-trucks to helicopters to life boats. As well as featuring
action photos, each page contains facts and figures and points
of interest.
July 2013 Excellent picture books! REAL-SIZE FARM ANIMALS – MARIE GREENWOOD
This fabulous Dorling Kindersley book shows all your favourite
farm animals in life size. Fold out pages reveal the animals in all
their stunning detail, and this book also gives facts about each
animal. Animals range from sheep to sheepdogs, and geese to
goats.
DINOSAURS LOVE CHEESE – JACKIE FRENCH
REPTILES – SIMON HOLLAND
Do you like crocodiles, pythons and chameleons? Do you know
what a real-life dragon looks like? Do you know how long a turtle
lives for? If you are interested in reptiles, this book is for you.
It’s packed full of facts and photographs, and also includes fun
activities. Highly recommended.
LION VS. RABBIT – ALEX LATIMER
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SNAKES –
JOHN WOODWARD
This book is full of all different kinds of snakes, as well as other
scaly reptiles. In this book you will learn about how snakes live,
why they behave as they do, how they hunt, how they disguise
themselves, and much more. This is another beautifully
presented Dorling Kindersley book, packed with illustrations.
RED TED ART – MAGGY WOODLEY
This book contains over 60 fun craft projects, most of which use
recycled materials. Make mice out of walnuts, puppets out of
toilet rolls, organza flowers, a sock monkey, a salt dough
necklace, cookie bunting, a pine cone baby owl and much more.
Fully illustrated and explained, this book has projects for many
different age levels.
Award-winning author Jackie French delivers another lovely
simple story with Dinosaurs Love Cheese. It’s bold illustrations
feature a wide variety of animals, and the text is repetitive. A
good read-aloud.
Lion is mean. Very mean. All of the other animals are
constantly bullied by him, so they put an advertisement in the
paper for help. A little rabbit answers the add – but how can
one tiny rabbit be a match for Lion? This book is full of
humour and quirky pictures that give clues as to how Rabbit is
defeating Lion. Parents as well as children will enjoy this.
Best suited to children of primary school age.
OH DEAR, GEOFFREY! – GEMMA O’NEILL
Geoffrey is a clumsy giraffe desperate to make friends, but
whenever he tries to get down to the other animals level it
ends in chaos. He feels very defeated until a bunch of
monkey’s show him that life can be just as good when your
head is in the clouds…This delightful book features stunning
illustrations of jungle animals, and a good message about
being happy with who you are.
SLEUTH ON SKATES – CLEMENTINE BEAUVAIS
FRIENDS – MICHAEL FOREMAN
Bubble and Cat are unlikely friends, and Cat wants
nothing more than to be able to show goldfish Bubble the
world. One day he comes up with a plan to do this, and
Bubble’s life is never the same again. This is a sweet
and touching tale of friendship, from a wonderful author.
Sesame Seade is determined to become Cambridge’s top
sleuth – she has the skates, she has the brain, now all she
needs is the mystery! When a ballerina vanishes, she has
just the case to sink her teeth into, and with the help of her
friends, she throws herself into being an investigator. This
funny, illustrated book is aimed at 7-11 year olds.
JOE AND THE HIDDEN HORSESHOE – VICTORIA
EVELEIGH
DAVE – SUE HENDRA
Dave is one greedy, fat cat, and he thinks he is fantastic
until the day he gets stuck in his cat flap. After having a
good laugh, all the neighbourhood animals decide to
help him get out, but none of their bright ideas work until
they start feeding him beans …. Children will love this
humorous story and its inevitable result.
Fantas c new children’s fic on! Joe isn’t feeling very lucky. His family have moved, he
wants a dog, and his mum has bought two ponies but
nobody can ride them. When he finds a horseshoe he
decides it can’t hurt to make some wishes, just in case they
come true …. This book is recommended for animal lovers
aged 7+.
TOM GATES : EVERYTHING’S AMAZING (SORT OF) –
LIZ PICHON
BIG NATE : GENIUS MODE – LINCOLN PEIRCE
If you haven’t caught up with the Tom Gates books yet,
read one now! By Liz Pichon (winner of the Roald Dahl
funny prize) these books are full of humour and quirkiness,
and they have loads of illustrations. This is the third Tom
Gates book, where Tom has the school sports day, school
fair, and his birthday to look forward to. What could
possibly go wrong? Suggested reading level: 9-12 years.
Big Nate started out as a comic strip, and this was Jeff
Kinney’s inspiration for the Wimpy Kid books. This book
is a compilation of some of the funniest strips – highly
recommended for lovers of graphic novels and comics. If
you enjoy this one, also try Big Nate flips out and Big
Nate goes for broke. Suggested age level: 8-12 years.
THE LOST PROPERTY DEPARTMENT – MAUREEN
MYERS
When Max finds out he will be spending his school holidays in an old Government building, he isn’t happy.
When he discovers the building houses the Lost Property
Department, however, things get a bit more interesting,
as the Lost Property Department is where all of the City’s
misplaced items go. It soon becomes evident that the
Department has an enemy, and Max finds himself caught
up in the race to find out who is trying to destroy the Department. This book has a bit of mystery and adventure,
and is best suited to 8-12 year olds.
DIARY OF A TAEKWONDO MASTER – SHAMINI FLINT
Meet Marcus. His dad is convinced his son is good at
sport, it’s just a matter of finding out which sport. Marcus
has already tried rugby, soccer and cricket (read his other
diaries currently out) and now he’s trying taekwondo. Will
he find his forte this time? These funny, illustrated books
will especially appeal to boys aged 7-10.
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