Item category 2: Picture books for older readers

In this heart-warming Christmas story, by celebrated author Shirley Hughes, a young boy called Lewis Brown is looking out of a window and wishing that someone might notice him. Then he spots a single golden feather floating down from the heavens and discovers an angel on the roof. And so begins a...

Banshees are supernatural Irish harbingers of doom, but where do they come from? The answer: they grow in pods on the prickly gorse bush. The sole job of a baby banshee, a 'bansheenie' as they are called, is to bond with a human. Once bonded, they know everything about that person. Most important...

Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station. Since then their lives have never been quite the same, for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is involved.

A plucky little robin sets out on an epic journey. Through dark forests, driving rain, clapping thunder and flashing lightning. Across frozen wastes, huge mountains and stormy seas he flies. And all the while he's dreaming of home. Of her. But will he ever get there?

Offers a gentle introduction to the concept of reducing the use of plastic for young children. In this humorous story, Croc shows her love for plastic. She loves drinks and snacks that come packaged in plastic, and she isn't very careful about throwing the plastic away after she has used it. Can ...

Using the sort of crazy characters and nonsensical situations that are the hallmark of Dr. Seuss, Dr. Seuss's Book of Bedtime Stories brings together three popular rhyming tales.

Dreams are not always pleasant, especially for a brother and sister who don't know how to get along with each other. The children enter the magical world of dreams, where they find it difficult to escape. They must experience many adventures, understand what dreams are made of, and make peace wit...

Deano is being rude to his parents so they tell him to go out to calm down and get some air. He sees some smoke in the air but has never seen any before so doesn't know what it is. He speaks rudely to and pushes rudely past several other dinosaurs to run towards it only to come face to face with ...

This is a follow up to 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone', which won the 1998 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. Harry Potter is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and this year promises to be just as eventful as the last.