Bear About Town

Stella Blackstone, Debbie Harter

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

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Sneaky Animals (Reading Ladder Level 3)

Clive Gifford, Sarah Horne

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (4 reviews)

Sneaky Animals is an engaging non-fiction reader that will help make learning to read fun and interesting. Get ready to discover the animals who don't play by the rules! Warning: contains rotters and plotters, hooligans, con artists, assassins and more! Who do you think is the naughtiest animal? The Reading Ladder series helps children to enjoy learning to read. It features favourite topics, well-loved authors and classic characters so that children will find something to excite and engage them in every title they pick up. It’s the first step towards a lasting love of reading. Level 3 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for fluent readers who are beginning to read exciting, challenging books independently. Varied sentences Detailed illustrations to enjoy Contains a glossary and index More technical language A rich range of vocabulary Higher word count All Reading Ladder titles are developed with a leading literacy consultant, making them perfect for use in schools and for parents keen to support their children’s reading. Book band level: Gold More level 3 non-fiction reading ladder books to collect: A day in the life of Triceratops, A day in the life of T. rex, Senses, Romans and The Water Cycle. For more information about the series and advice on supporting children's reading, see our reading ladder page here Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of books for children and adults including the astonishing Dead or Alive, the creepy Book of Bad Things and the brain mangling Think Again and Eye Benders. He is passionate that books should entertain, inform and amaze whenever possible. A contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica, Clive's books have won School Library Association, PBS, Smithsonian and Times Educational Supplement, as well as the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize. Sarah Horne lives in London, and has illustrated many children’s books including Monster House, The Sesame Seade Mysteries and Guinea Pigs Online. Continuously drawing from a young age, Sarah’s strength is in her draftsmanship and line work, she loves colour and one of the real joys of her illustration work is adding the extra humour in the detail. Sarah likes to travel, loves music, she doesn’t care for mice and loves a good cup of coffee.

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Olga Meets Her Match

Michael Bond

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (3 reviews)

Olga da Polga goes visiting and meets Boris, a Russian guinea-pig. Olga and Boris become firm friends and Olga is surprised to discover that Boris can tell even taller tales than she can. Second in a series of books about Olga da Polga, this title is illustrated throughout with black and white artwork. It also contains humorous stories.

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Busy Zoo: A Push, Pull, Slide Book

Rebecca Finn, Ruth Redford

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

With lots to see and heaps to do, in Busy Zoo young children can join in by pushing, pulling and turning the tabs to meet the animals! Make the giraffes' heads pop out of the trees, spray the baby elephant with water, watch the monkey acrobatics and feed the penguins. Little ones will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text and wonderful illustrations by Rebecca Finn, which is part of the Busy Book series. Busy Zoo has been endorsed and recommended by Dr Amanda Gummer's Good Play Guide. Discover more animals in this tactile series: Busy Farm, Busy Pets, and Busy Baby Animals.

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My Secret Unicorn: A Touch of Magic

Linda Chapman

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

Lauren's pony, Twilight, turns into a beautiful unicorn when she says the magic words. Caring for your pet is really important to Lauren, especially if your pet turns out to be as special and as magical as Twilight, but her little brother Max disagrees. He has grown tired of looking after Buddy, his big, lively puppy and leaves him all alone while he goes out to play on his skateboard. But one day Buddy goes missing and Max is distraught. Lauren secretly turns Twilight into a unicorn and together they fly over the woods in search of the young dog. They find him, but he's badly injured. Twilight uses his new-found healing power to save Buddy. Max promises never to neglect his pet again - after all, you can't be best friends with a skateboard like you can with a dog!

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Oww!

Michael Rosen, Jonathan Langley, Jonathan Langely

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (4 reviews)

Piggy Piglet was wriggling in his sleep. He wriggled, and he jiggled, and he rolled on to something very prickly. Owww!!! Piggy Piglet needs help from the farmyard animals because whatever it is that he has sat on is very prickly and it hurts. But when his brothers and sisters try to BOUNCE it off it prickles them too -- OWW! OINK! OINK! When Dog tries to WACK it off it prickles his tail. -- OWW! WOOF! When Cat tries to CLAW it off it prickles her paw -- OWW! MEOW! It doesn't seem as though anyone will be able to help Piggy Piglet -- that is, until then most unlikely, and unhelpful animal on the farm appears looking for a tasty breakfast! Age 18 months -- 4 years

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Nipper the Noisy Puppy

Jenny Dale, Frank Rodgers

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

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Dodos are Forever

Dick King-Smith, David Parkins

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (7 reviews)

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The Fish Who Could Wish

John Bush, Korky Paul

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (2 reviews)

The award-winning interactive storybook starring the amusing and exuberant wishful fish. Children can watch and play as he wishes for a variety of things such as a purple and yellow submarine, a sports car, and a wardrobe of suits and silk ties. After each page has been read, children can explore the scene by clicking around on a host of hotspots. With plenty of visual surprises and witty animations, this is guaranteed to keep them entertained. The beautiful illustrations and funny ideas in this storybook will keep children entertained for hours. The story is read by Robbie Coltrane which means prime exposure on the shelves and in the media, as well as more fun for the children. All the children have to do is point and click, so they can let their imagination roam freely and proceed at their own pace. The clever sound effects and witty animation bring the story to life, adding an extra dimension to story-telling, to delight and amuse children endlessly. New ""breath-of-life"" techniques mean that there is always something happening on screen, ensuring that children are constantly stimulated and intrigued. Each time the CD-ROM is played, there are different sound effects and animation, encouraging children to read it again and again.

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Disney ""Lady and the Tramp""

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (3 reviews)

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Surprises According to Humphrey

Betty G. Birney

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (5 reviews)

Surprises can be good, like my brand new hamster ball or a surprise party. But surprises can be bad, like coming whisker to whisker with a cat (EEK!) or having an alien from another planet move into Room 26. All this and lots-lots-lots more happens in my new book of adventures, ""Surprises According to Humphrey"".

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Fox Investigates: A Whiff of Mystery

Adam Frost, Emily Fox

Subjects

• Funny Stuff - rib ticklers to make you fall off your chair
• Animal Tales - bundles of fur, fluff and fun
• Friends & Family - tears and laughter, and happy ever after
• Sporty Stories - games, goals and gold medals

Average rating

4 out 5 (4 reviews)

Solving Crime in Record Time! One knock-out perfume, an underground hideout and a string of bogus bank robberies. From the canals of Venice to the mountains of China, detective Wily Fox is on a mission to sniff out the thief of a precious perfume recipe. But the crafty villain is involved in some stinky business and it's getting right up Wily's nose... Fun and fast-paced detective stories, perfect for fans of Geronimo Stilton and The Dragon Detective Agency.

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