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The Wolf, the Duck and the Mouse

A mouse and a wolf have an inauspicious encounter in the ...

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The New Neighbours

Some rats have moved into one of the flats in a tower block ...

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The Night Box

Ashling Lindsay’s pictures complement and extend the words ...

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Moth: An Evolution Story

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

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A Perfect Day

A patterned text describes in simple terms what made a ...

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Imaginary Fred

Fred is an imaginary friend, poised in the ether, waiting ...

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The Boy Who Climbed into the Moon

When Paul, the boy from the basement, ascends to floor 29 in ...

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Stardust

This picture book may appear at first glance to be about ...

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Snow

Sam Usher is not afraid of white space. He presents a ...

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If All the World Were...

Not to be confused with Joseph Coelho’s well-received poem ...

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The Velveteen Rabbit

A classic story, first published in 1922, about a toy rabbit ...

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Kevin

Sid Gibbons is always blaming his friend Kevin for messes of ...

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