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Find the very best children's books for your primary school or classroom library. Our Corebooks and Power of Reading text recommendations provide inspiration and structure for your literacy curriculum.

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The Fantastic Book of Feelings: A Guide to Being Happy, Sad and Everything In-Between!

Get to know all your feelings and how to look after them in ...

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Count on Me

Katherine is from a dual heritage family where everyone has ...

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What We’ll Build – Plans for Our Together Future

In this sequel to Here We Are, dedicated to his daughter ...

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A Planet Full of Plastic

Neal Layton provides a guide for children in an accessible ...

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Once Upon a Raindrop

James Carter’s poetic narrative explores the story of water ...

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Winter Sleep: A Hibernation Story

Sean Taylor partners with ecologist Alex Morss and ...

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The Ways of the Wolf

This book reveals many aspects of the lives of these ...

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Hummingbird

After revealing the amazing information that there are 300 ...

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Amelia Earhart

Strikingly patterned illustrations accompany this brief life ...

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Here We Are

Inspired by the birth of his son, Oliver Jeffers was moved ...

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We Travel So Far

Animals and birds from around the world briefly describe ...

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Moth: An Evolution Story

Evolution seen in microcosm through the story of the ...

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