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Making the most of the last days of summer

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As summer lurches towards its inevitable conclusion, the air seems heady with decay and overripeness. Worker wasps, evicted from their nests, turn feral from sugarlust. Canada geese, contemplating the skies from the brown edges of ponds and lawns, find a new note in their sawtooth honking; carpe diem they call to one another, seize the day, a motto celebrated and expanded upon by this selection of children’s books

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A warm and heartfelt story of a little boy with a bicycle-obsessed dad learning to ride a bike of his very own.Training bikes have four wheels, a tricycle has three wheels, but what this little boy really wants is a bike with two wheels! It…

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Do you know who owns these woods?Who owns old oak and pointy pine?Who owns root and branch and leaf;Who calls this forest “MINE”?Follow a little boy and his grandma as they wander through the wild and wonderful woods. From the…

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A timely, inspiring and uplifting story about hope and the power of creative expression, from one of the world's most treasured bookmakers.After a cold, dark winter, doors opened. Children spilled out like sweets from a box. Amanda was…

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Join Flora and Fauna, the world's greatest explorers as they embark on an extraordinary adventure in search of an elusive species of wild cat - the clouded leopard. With flaps and paper effects throughout, who knows what marvellous things…

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An autumnal, joyful follow up to Omar, The Bees and Me which sees another blossoming friendship connected by a love of nature.When Jack meets new neighbour, Enzo, from South Africa, they soon discover they love pizza, drones and…

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE KLAUS FLUGGE PRIZE 2019 and longlisted for The CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2019.New into paperback this spring, The Extraordinary Gardener is a charming story about the importance of nature, teaching us that if…

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Winner of the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration.Written by scientist and environmental activist Trang Nguyen, Saving Sorya: Chang and the Sun Bear is an inspirational graphic-novel adventure, based on a true story about a…

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Scotty is a little Scotty dog who was blown onto the Isle of Mull, deep in the heart of a storm. But when a fisherman gives him an old collar with ancient writing on it, Scotty is whirled off on a series of extraordinary journeys with his…

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