Item category 2: Picture books for older readers

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.

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 ...

Featuring magical and mythical creatures and monsters from all over the world, this book will tell you where these creatures dwell, how to spot one, and how to keep yourself safe.

In this humorous story, Lemur is always wasting energy. She forgets to switch off the light, she lets all the hot air out of the front door and all the cold air out of the fridge. But when a big energy bill arrives, Lemur wants to make a change!

'Leopard Doesn't Waste Food' offers a gentle introduction to the concept of not wasting food for young children. In this humorous story, Leopard often throws food away. He sometimes takes too much, or he doesn't store it carefully and then doesn't want to eat it. But after a day on the farm and W...

Eugène Handschuh was a Jewish member of the Resistance in occupied Paris. After he was captured by the Nazis, he was placed on a convoy to Auschwitz. Against all the odds, with the help of strangers and fellow members of the Resistance, Eugène and his father escaped the convoy and survived - wh...

In this illustrated edition of the classic Swedish folk tale, Nils is shrunk to a tiny size by a dwarf, and is carried off across Sweden by a flock of wild geese to their summer home in the far north.

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...

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 ...