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Currently reading: A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
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We have a delightful children’s area with an extensive range of books from pre-school to teens. We organise and host a wide range of events and activities including storytelling sessions, cartoon and illustration workshops, character appearances and author readings and book signings.
We extended our children’s area at the beginning of 2011 and were lucky enough to have Ian Whybrow visit us to officially open it.
Here is a selection of our favourite children’s books of the moment (titles both old and new) together with our most recent book of the month
Children's Book of the Month - December 2011
Another Night Before Christmas
Review: Carol Ann Duffy’s twenty-first-century reworking of the Victorian Christmas classic is filled with her characteristic warmth, wit and imagination and, illustrated by the sophisticated, romantic and truly original Rob Ryan. The perfect gift this Christmas! Carrie
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The Day Louis Got Eaten
Synopsis: When Louis gets eaten up by a Gulper, his big sister Sarah knows she has to act fast, and sets off in hot pursuit. But rescuing a boy from a Gulper’s tummy isn’t so simple – especially when other strange and scary creatures are looking for their dinner too…
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Flies Again
Synopsis: When the Tooting family find a vast abandoned engine and fit it to their camper van, they have no idea of the adventure that lies ahead. The engine used to belong to an extraordinary flying car and it wants to be back on the road again …fast! The Tootings can haul on the steering…
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Kensuke’s Kingdom
Synopsis Michael’s parents buy a yacht, and take him off to sail round the world. Washed overboard in a fierce storm, Michael finds himself on the shore of a remote island – and soon discovers he’s not alone. Kensuke, a former Japanese soldier, survived the war and the bombing of Hiroshima, but his family perished….
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Diary of a Wombat
Synopsis A baby wombat’s work is never done! The star of the international bestseller Diary of a Wombat is back – with a new mouth to feed! Cuter, stroppier and even more determined than her mother! meet Mothball’s baby. Like any growing family, this baby wombat and her mum are finding it hard to fit…
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The Highway Rat
Synopsis Give me your buns and your biscuits! Give me your chocolate eclairs! For I am the Rat of the highway, and the Rat Thief never shares!’ Life is not safe for the other animals, as the villainous Highway Rat gallops along the highway, stealing their food. Clover from a rabbit; nuts from a squirrel…
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Ballet Shoes
Synopsis Pauline, was rescued from a shipwreck as a baby. She longs to be an actress. Petrova, is a Russian orphan. She is happiest when playing with cars and engines. Polly was handed over with just a pair of ballet shoes to her name. If she could, she would dance all day! But one thing…
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The Demon Collector
Synopsis Edgy Taylor sees demons when nobody else can. Edgy thinks he is insane and expects to be carried off any minute. He is a prime collector, wandering the streets of London collecting dog muck for the tannery. The only thing Edgy is good at is setting and solving riddles, and evading his brutal and…
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Millie’s Marvellous Hat
Synopsis Millie loves hats, but she has no money and she can’t afford to buy any of the lovely hats in town. But the man in the hat shop has an idea. He produces a box containing a hat too fine and beautiful to behold, but with the most perfect shape and colour imaginable, if…
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