Interest age: from c 4 years

The most magical things can happen even on the rainiest of days. How many people can you fit under one umbrella? It wasn't even meant to rain the day the blue umbrella turned up, but for the people who used it that day, they found something more than just shelter: something truly amazing had happ...

Boy hides behind his wall because he doesn't trust people and he knows how it feels to be hurt and let down. That is until Someone Kind arrives on the other side of his wall. This picture book is designed to help children who have experienced trauma, loss or neglect to come to terms with their ex...

Brian the lion loves dancing, but lions are meant to be brave and strong and fierce. Nobody would think a dancing lion was brave or strong or fierce, would they? But when Brian finds out about a big dancing competition, he decides it's time to prove everyone wrong!

Bee buzzes along, looking for flowers. Will he find any?

Bluey is on a family camping trip, where she makes a new friend, Jean-Luc. Even though Bluey and Jean-Luc don't speak the same language, they teach each other how to camp, plant trees and hunt a 'wild pig'. This picture book is all about the magic of friendship.

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). 'Can I Live Here?' follows a little squirrel who is looking for a home - the trouble is, e...

Masha wants sweets for breakfast. Bear is not happy. Sweet are not a breakfast food! Masha makes lots of sweets. 'Ladybird Readers' is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second la...

This was meant to be a simple alphabet book but something has happened. Something horrible. The most terrible crime! The world's most completely delicious, tongue-jinglingly, chocolaty cake has been stolen! As Bear travels from A to Z, visiting all sorts of characters, objects, and extraordinary ...

Fast, brave Lami has to learn to do quick thinking, not quick running, if she wants to be the best chicken catcher in the village! Lami loves chickens. She's the best chicken catcher in the village. She's fast, she's brave and she always catches that chicken. Until the day she chases one up the b...

As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes - big or small - in the world, in their communities, and most importantly, in themselves. With lyrical text and rhythmic illustrations that build to a dazzling crescendo, 'Change S...