Item category 1: Picture Books for Older Readers

If you're brave, helpful, honest, good to your planet and kind to animals (even ones that don't do much - like boring worms) then you, too, can be a 'Little Adventurer'. From the award-winning Philip Ardagh, and rising illustration talent Elissa Elwick, comes the second instalment in a brand-new ...

All Raven wanted was a little peace and quiet, and the local library seemed like the perfect place to find that. But her teammates know all her tricks, and when they catch up to her all heck breaks loose.

Every 25 years, Wakanda's ruler trades places with one of their subjects to gain perspective on their kingdom. T'Challa's turn has come, and while working in a Vibranium refinery, he uncovers a plot to sell the priceless metal on the black market. Plus, when one of the Black Panther's advisers su...

Richard Ayoade's children's debut gives you all the answers in a way that's silly, funny, and thoroughly beguiling. Have you ever thought about how it feels to be a book? To be left under a whiffy pant pile or shelved, forever collecting dust? To have your pages bent backwards or your spine broke...

Twins, Josh and Emma, follow their little sister into a creepy Good Times Travel Agency where the peculiar shop owner encourages them to open one of his guidebooks. Suddenly, they find themselves transported to Ancient Egypt! Before they can even get their bearings, Josh is dragged away to help b...

Mary loves stories, but the stories in her daydreams are far more thrilling than those in any book. After a troubled childhood, eighteen-year-old Mary runs away to Switzerland with the famous poet Percy Bysse Shelley, her step-sister in tow. One dark and stormy night at his house by the lake, the...

Observed through the window of a house in a typical urban neighbourhood, each picture shows the developments of the land being reclaimed from built up concrete to a gradual greening, shown through the artist's collage illustrations. This is a hopeful environmental message.

A wordless look at our changing environment, featured on the QCA's Key Stage 2 Schemes of Work list for geography, under 'What I Can See Through My Window'.

Follow the all new adventures of its monarch, the Black Panther! King T'Challa is responsible for defending his people and the world from any threats. And he gets plenty of help and sass from his genius sister Shuri.