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Welcome to Reading
Book Talk Notes from books featured in our Welcome to Reading book case for children aged 4+.
Big Blue Train
All aboard Chuffa Luffa the big blue train as Bella and Ben speed off, picking up a variety of different creatures as they go along. They’re all on their way to a special birthday party! A cat, a polar bear, a leopard, two chimpanzees, a hen and her chicks … then a spotty cow jumps in too! Is this the last straw? There are so many animals inside the train that they almost get stuck! Just in time, a camel gives them a push and off they zoom, all the way to Puppy Dog’s birthday party by the sea. Everyone has fun until it’s time for Chuffa Luffa to take them all home again — just in time for bed!
Guess How Much I Love You: All Year Round
This is a collection of four delightful new stories about Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare. In spring, the Nutbrown Hares finds lots of plants and creatures that are growing and changing — but what will Little Nutbrown Hare change into as he grows?
Read Alone
Book Talk Notes from books featured in our Read Alone book case for children aged 6+.
Lost! The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog
Streaker is definitely the fastest dog in the world — that’s what she thinks, anyway! She lives with Trevor, who has two legs and therefore not quite as sensible as a dog, but she loves him anyway. This hilarious story tells how Streaker makes her way back home to Trevor, despite close encounters with some barking-mad guard dogs, a tap-dancing owl and a variety of unhelpful two-legs who seem bent on stopping her.
The Butterfly Lion
This magical and cleverly constructed book tells the story of a boy who runs away from his horrible boarding school. He meets an old lady, Millie, who can sense his loneliness. She tells him the story of her husband Bertie, who rescued an orphaned white lion cub while he was an equally lonely boy in Africa many years ago. Through Millie’s words we learn the amazing story of the friendship between Bertie and the lion cub.
Read on
Book Talk Notes from books featured in our Read On book case for children age 8+.
Ways To Live Forever
Sam McQueen is eleven years old, and he has leukaemia. There are lots of things he’s interested in, from airships and ghosts to breaking world records. He’s also interested in death, because he’s probably going to die soon. He confronts all these different subjects with honesty and humour, and his world-view is one that will stay with the reader long after the end of the book.
Tom's Midnight Garden
This is the story of Tom, who has been sent to stay with his uncle and aunt for the summer. He is bored and very lonely. Then, in the depths of the night, he hears the old grandfather clock in the hall striking thirteen … Tom creeps down and opens the back door, expecting to see his aunt and uncle’s grim concrete yard, but instead he steps out into a beautiful garden in full bloom. A magical garden, in the middle of the night, and where no garden should be!