Item category 1: Picture Books for Older Readers

This graphic novel follows 11-year-old Benji and his elderly grandmother, Bubbe Rosa, as they traverse Brooklyn and Manhattan, gathering the ingredients for a Friday night dinner. Bubbe's relationship with the city is complex - nothing is quite as she remembered it and she feels alienated and ang...

Wally invites you to join him on an incredible journey of a lifetime! Every fabulous location he visits is a magnificent mind-boggling maze, with twists and turns in all directions. Trace your fingers along the paths from start to finish and complete the maze challenges and searches along the way...

Take one pugnacious pirate, add a clueless crew, a poisonous parrot, a psychopathic squid and the merest glimpse of a treasure map - and you have a recipe for the worst kind of marine mayhem. Colin King's illustrations bring the crew of the Purple Pimple to all-too-loathsome life and add another ...

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...

Anita watches the dragons high above her as she hops from one cement roof to another in her village in the Domincan Republic. But being the valiant princess she is, she never lets them scare her. Then one day, Anita must face her fears and begin life in a new country. Will she be brave enough to ...

Anouk Ricard's bold and colourful comics of this quirky, grumpy gang of pals are delightfully weird yet thoroughly reaslistic in their honest and hilarious portrayal of friendship. Anna, Froga, Christopher the worm, Ron the cat, and Babu the dog continue their non-adventures with bickering, needl...

Each book in this series explores a common emotion through the story of a dinosaur, each of whom displays some common trait such as jealousy, anger, shyness or grumpiness.

Black Beauty's story improved the lives of horses all over the world. Seen through his own eyes, young horse lovers will be swept up in his incredible journey from a peaceful paddock to the streets of London. No matter what he encounters, nothing can break Black Beauty's spirit.

Schoolyard rivalries. Baking disasters. Puffed sleeves. Explore the violet vales and glorious green of Avonlea in this spirited adaptation.

Anthony begins his day at home with nothing but his colouring pencils to keep him company. Soon an animal visitor arrives and then so does another one. Then more and more and more. What will happen when Mum sees the wildlife in the house? Find out in this 'Wordless Graphic Novel' in which the art...