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Matty Mouse is in trouble. He’s flooded the kitchen floor, and left the front door wide open – again! Time to put on your thinking-cap, is dad tells him. But where can he find it?

Simple, lively text with speech bubbles for shared reading. Fully illustrated in colour, the Blue Bananas series provide simple stories for early readers.

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Author:   Jenny Nimmo
Publisher:   Egmont Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   212x145mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781405205917

This is the vine, knitted in twine, made by Jack's grandma in double quick time, that swings from the tree (two metres tall), made out of cardboard and wood in the hall...that holds up the coconut Jack made.Year One's homework is to make something for the jungle display. That evening most of the class are cutting and gluing, painting and drawing. But Jack thinks it's far more fun to play football.
So he gets some modelling clay, rolls it into a ball and hey presto! It's a coconut. But Jack's family don't feel this is quite enough. So, Dad makes a tree and Grandma knits a vine, Mum makes a snake and little Fred donates a stuffed parrot.
Soon it's a glorious palm tree, worthy of a place among the jungle huts, anteaters, birds and giant millipedes the others have made.They take it to school, but oh no! The water pipes burst and flood the hall where the jungle display is. What will happen to everyone's work? Told in bouncy rhyming couplets, this witty story is perfect for developing readers.

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Author:   Jill Lewis
Publisher:   Egmont Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   212x145mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781405241328

Bonzo thinks dogs ought to scare cats but he doesn't seem able to scare anybody or anything. By chance, on a visit to the woods, he ends up taking lessons at Mr Fox's Scary School, where he learns to bark and growl ferociously.


This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   Scoular Anderson
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   1844289451

Everyone loves Maggie, but when she cartwheels into an uptight parent, the headmistress gives her the sack. Soon, the whole school is up in arms, and stages a sit-down strike to get her reinstated. Illustrated in two colours, this reader uses different media - posters, letters, signs - to tell the story of Maggie Magic, a lollipop lady.


This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   Delia Huddy
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   184428929X

Mr Trim the teacher is very neat and tidy. And so are the children in his class...When one day he wakes up feeling unwell, Miss Jumble is sent in as a supply teacher and she has fun un-tidying them all!


This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   Ed Boxall
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   1844289559

Illustrated in two colours, this reader uses different media - posters, letters, signs, alphabetti spaghetti - to tell a story about a young girl who loves signs so much that when she grows up she starts her own sign-making business.



This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   Shoo Rayner
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   129x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   1844281248

I'm PC Bert Butts, I like skipping and poetry. I need to catch a burglar to make Marigold love me. Will my story have a happy ending? Read this book and see!

Another title in this highly acclaimed series for beginner readers, written using a variety of media.

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Author:   Vivian French
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   1844286053

Brian the Giant loves eating muffins - but when someone starts stealing them he has a VERY special way of finding out who it is!

Another title in the extremely popular Starters series for beginner readers.

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Author:   Vivian French
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   184428963X

Call for Buck and his truck! Buck will move you faster!
Larry and his lorry are the greatest! No job too small for Larry's lorry!
Buck and Larry are rivals...until one day they are both asked to do the same job and discover they have more in common than they thought!

One of the Walker Books Starters series for beginner readers.

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Author:   Vivian French
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   135x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   1844289389

These stylish first readers use several different media - posters, letters, video diary - to tell stories about subjects with strong child appeal, such as football, giants, dragons and highwaymen. Ideal for use in the classroom as well as at home.


The Dragon Test uses letters and posters to tell the story of how a princess learns how to be a Dragon Catcher!

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Author:   June Crebbin
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9780744590180

Prince Hugo has everything, but he is lonely. This is the story of how the King and Queen organise a surprise Hullabaloo at which Hugo makes lots of new friends.




These stylish first readers use several different media - posters, letters, video diary - to tell stories about subjects with strong child appeal, such as football, giants, dragons and highwaymen. Ideal for use in the classroom as well as at home.

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Author:   Ed Boxall
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781844286393

Inventively illustrated in just two colours, this stylish first reader uses several different media - posters, letters, video diary - to tell a story about a subject with strong child appeal - football. Meet the Belton Goalbusters. Follow them on their cup run in this exciting video diary of their cup games!


This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   Martin Waddell
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   0744590264

Dear Dick Turpin, I would like to be a highwayman like you but I think I need a few lessons. Please may I come to your school? Yours hopefully, Hal. ps. I'm not very good.
Find out what happens when Hal joins the Dick Turpin School for Highwaymen.


This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   June Crebbin
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   0744590191

"A pirate's life for me, A-sailing on the sea. Yo ho the billy-o, a pirate's life for me!"
But is it really a pirate's life for Hal, who gets seasick, falls overboard (a lot), and doesn't know his west from his east?



This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   June Crebbin
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   0744565952

Deep in the dark the firestones wait, where icy east winds blow...
The firestone in the Royal Lighthouse has gone out! Lucy, the Lighthouse Keeper's daughter, must follow the clues in the riddle to find another one before it's too late.


This book is one of the Starters Series by Walker Books - written in simple language for children who are learning to read.

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Author:   June Crebbin
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   48
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   0744565960

Lily wants to bring in something really special for Show and Tell. But she doesn't want her chocolate bunny nibbled or her puppets' strings to get tangled. They're not allowed to bring in computer games, so Lily brings in a stone from the garden.

She can't think of a single exciting thing about it, until she decides that it moves! Nearly everyone believes her - some even claim they saw it move too!

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Author:   Anne Fine
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781406304305

Fitzroy works in the Famous Chocolate Biscuits warehouse – if you can call it work. In fact, he sleeps so much that mouse parents for miles around think he is perfect as cat practice for their mouselets. But when the factory owner arrives, a whisker-pulling accident gives Fitzroy the fright of his life – and ends up saving him his job!

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Author:   Kathy Henderson
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   7+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781844286331

One day, on the way to school, Joe finds a large, heavy key in the long grass. Joe thinks a giant might have dropped it; Irrum thinks it might be magic; Akash says the key is no good because it doesn’t open anything. But when Joe tries the key in the lonely gate, he opens up a whole new world…

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Author:   Jan Mark
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   7+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781844289684

At first Peter isn't too keen on his teacher's plan to dig a vegetable garden to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. Then he starts to dig up some interesting things – a huge worm, a big beetle, bits of china … and what looks like a giant cucumber but turns out to be something a lot more exciting!

One of the Walker Books Sprinters series - ideal for building reading confidence.

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Author:   Michael Morpurgo
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   135x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781844289677

Hugo has to choose who to stay with while his mother's having a baby. Granny? Mrs Mariposa next door? Uncle Jack? Who will care for him - and his dog Henry - the best?

One of the Walker Books Sprinters series - ideal for building reading confidence.

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Author:   Anne Fine
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   135x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781844281497

Jane has a cat called Furlong who walks with her to school every day. Then, one day, he takes his own way home.
When William, the new boy, threatens Jane with violence, it seems the only way she can escape him is to take Furlong's secret path, along the wall and into the unknown...


With its simple, dynamic story-telling and line illustrations, this is ideal for children building their reading confidence.

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Author:   Jan Mark
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781844281282

Long ago, in the cold lands of the North, there lived a troll named Ulf who had a very bad habit - he liked to eat fingers! Many, many men, women and children had found their hands a finger short thanks to the razor-sharp teeth of the Finger-eater. And who knows how many more might have suffered the same fate if it hadn't been for the actions of a resolute girl called Gudrun!

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Author:   Dick King-Smith
Publisher:   Walker Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   198x135mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9781844281275

'It's going to be woof-onderful'! There is nothing Nicky wants more in the world than a dog to play with. But Mum and Dad don't want a dog. Then Grandad has an idea - he and Nicky can make a dog: a snow-dome dog.
Even better, he has some special clay, found at the end of a rainbow, so that the dog will be extra-special. Maybe even magic...

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Author:   Malorie Blackman
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9780552547031

Pete wants a pet mouse more than anything else in the world. Every Saturday - his "mouseday" - he asks his parents for one, and each time the answer is "No". But who's going to know if he secretly keeps a mouse in his tree-house?

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Author:   Dick King-Smith
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9780552528207

One morning at school, Natalie is feeling bored - until a tiny monster waves at her from a plant on the classroom window sill. The monster whizzes her off in his mini flying saurcer for some MONSTER FUN. Now Natalie really has some monster stories to tell.

One of the Corgi Pups series, aimed specifically at beginner readers.

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Author:   Jaqueline Wilson
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9780552557870

On a school trip to see the dinosaurs in the museum, everyone in the class has a packed lunch. Everyone, that is, except for Dinah. Until a friendly iguanodon decides to help... Soon Dinah has a very special packed lunch - and a huge surprise to come!

One of the Corgi Pups series, aimed specifically at beginner readers.

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Author:   Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9780552557825

Alex is always being left on the bench - in fact, he's sure he's only in the team at all because his dad helps out at his team's weekend matches. His teammates think he's just a useless jelly belly - but they get a shock when they see Alex has a hidden talent. That belly - and all the rest of him - turns out to be spectacularly good at stopping goals.

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Author:   Rob Childs
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198
Attributes:   Paperback
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David and Lucy have got a new dog from the Rescue Centre, but they don't know what his name is. What they do know is that he's ace at digging and he's got a good nose for fossilized bones. In this humorous holiday adventure story, set on the Isle of Wight, David and Lucy are determined to find out if the bones their dog digs up are real dinosaur bones. Imagine if they've discovered a new kind of dinosaur! A dramatic storm and encounter with a local beachcomber eventually lead to the discovery of a complete dinosaur skeleton in the rock cliffs -- and the right name for their keen-nosed dog.

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Author:   Jane Clarke
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9780552550321

Mira loves crisps - they're her favourite food in the whole, wide world. But when she opens a packet on her first day at a new school, the whole class gasps in horror. For Miss Porter, their teacher, is a MONSTER crisp-guzzler. And something very strange happens when she guzzles crisps... The hilarious tale of a very unusual teacher from an award-winning author.

One of the Corgi Pups series, aimed specifically at beginner readers.

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Author:   Malorie Blackman
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   0552547832

When Jessica loses her first tooth, Granny tells her to watch out for a trainee tooth fairy. That shimmering little creature might look the part in her purple and silver outfit but she's not too sure of her job. As Granny knows, the trainee tooth fairy has been known to whisk away more than just the lost tooth...

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Author:   Sandy Toksvig
Publisher:   Random House Children's Books
Number of Pages:   64
Age category:   5+
Size:   128x198mm
Attributes:   Paperback
ISBN nr.:   9780552546638