Due to the Covid restrictions,
our library is currently closed to parents.
We still encourage you to read with your child as often as you can.
"Children's fiction can reteach you how to read with an open heart."
Katherine Rundell
Spinderella, tired of hearing the words "lots" and "loads," longs to learn to count with real numbers, and it becomes especially important when her nine siblings decide they want to play soccer.
Fred, Con, Lila, and Max are on their way back to England from Manaus when the plane they’re on crashes and the pilot dies upon landing. For days they survive alone, until Fred finds a map that leads them to a ruined city, and to a secret.
القصة عن فتاة تراقب مهرًا حديث الولادة وهو يحاول الوقوف. يسقط المهر مرارًا ولكن الفرس تقوم بدفعه ليقف من جديد بعد كل محاولة حتى ينجح في الوقوف. المشهد يذكر الفتاة بوالدتها المتوفاة وحبها ودعمها لها فتجهش بالبكاء. بعد أن تهدأ تعود لمراقبة المهر والفرس لتكتشف أنها كالمهر في احتياجها لدعم أمها وكالفرس في عنايتها بأخيها الصغير.
وُلِد أوغوست (أوغي) بلمان بتشوّه في وجهه، مما منعه من الالتحاق بمدرسة عادية. وعند وصوله إلى الصف الخامس، قرّر والداه إلحاقه بمدرسة «بيتشر» الابتدائية. ومن المعروف أنك إذا كنت طالبًا جديدًا، فإنك ستواجه مصاعب كثيرة. لكن «أوغي» طفل عادي بوجه فريد. هل سينجح في إقناع زملائه أنه يشبههم على الرغم من مظهره الخارجي؟
When Peter finds an old skull hidden in his bedroom, he calls for an urgent meeting of the Secret Seven. The detectives soon discover a gigantic hole in the ground at the local hotel and some new arrivals behaving very strangely. Nothing can stop the Seven from investigating now, not even a disgusting dinner or a bike ride in their pyjamas...
أمل بنت بسيطة فقدت كل شعرها؛ فصار رأسها الفضي مثيرًا للاستغراب. تعمل أمل مع أمها في بيع الحشائش البرية، وترسم في أوقات الفراغ رؤوسًا بشعر ورؤوسًا بلا شعر، وتعيش بفضل رأسها المميز مغامرات لطيفة. ينبت شعر أمل التي تبيع أزهار الحب لنكتشف أن الحب دواءٌ حتى للمصابين بمرض السرطان.
تشارلي باكيت يُحِبّ الشوكولاته. وَالسيّد ويلي وُنكا، المخترع الأكثر إدهاشا في العالم، يفتح أبواب مصنعه المذهل أمام خمسة أطفال محظوظين. إنّها جائزة العمر! كرات حلوى ملوَّنة وسكاكر زاحفة ونهر من الشوكولاته الذائبة اللذيذة في انتظارهم – لا يحتاج تشارلي لِسِوى بطاقة ذهبيّة واحدة فتصبح هذه الطيّبات ملكا له.
هاري بوتر وحجر الفلسوف "هو الكتاب الأول من سلسلة تتكون من سبعة كتب باسم هاري بوتر على يد الكاتبة البريطانية ج. ك. رولينج
عالِيًا في الفَضاءِ، تُحَلِّقُ طُيورٌ مُهاجِرَةٌ، قَريبَةً جِدًّا بَعضُها مِن بَعضٍ. وَفي مَكانٍ أَعلى بَعدُ، تَحومُ نُقطَةٌ سَوداءُ تَكادُ لا تُرى. وَإذا بِهذِهِ النُّقطَةِ تَهبُطُ في خَلاءٍ وَبِسُرعَةٍ رَهيبَةٍ؛ رَأَتها الطُّيورُ الـمُهاجِرَةُ بَعدَ فَواتِ الأَوانِ، وَحاوَلَتِ الفِرارَ مُطلِقَةً أَجنِحَتَها لِلرّيحِ؛ غَيرَ أَنَّ الـمُهاجِمَ أَدرَكَها فَأَمسَكَ طَريدَةً بِمَخالِبِهِ؛ بَعدَ قَليلٍ، وَفي غَمرَةِ طَيَرانِهِ، نَتَفَ الطَّيرَ وَابتَلَعَهُ. تَناوَلَ الشّاهينُ وَجبَةً لِلتَّوِّ!
يركب زياد دراجته الكبيرة دون أن يطلب إذن والدته ويصطدم بسيارته. يتضرر كل من الدراجة والسيارة. عندما يسأله أصدقاؤه عن السبب يقوم بتغيير الحقيقة وخلق قصة جديدة فقط للتبرير. يحاول تغيير الحقيقة وإخفائها وتجاهلها، ولكن عندما تسأل والدته السبب يخبرها بالحقيقة لأنه يشعر أن هذا ما عليه فعله. منذ تلك اللحظة تصبح الحقيقة صديقه المفضل. قصة تركز على أهمية الصدق وتشجع الأطفال على قول الحقيقة ليكونوا مسؤولين عن أفعالهم.
Who's that singing on the savannah? It's the top-five ugly animals in Africa! The wildebeest, warthog, vulture, hyena and marabou stork swagger proudly across the savannah, rejoicing in their ugliness - and delighting their babies, who think they're perfect just the way they are. Inspired by the real-life Ugly Five safari animals, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's gorgeous picture book is a jubilant celebration of animals who are often rather unloved. The funny, heart-warming rhyme is a joy to read aloud, while bold, comical illustrations bring the savannah spectacularly to life.
This year the secret service made a major mix up, they mistook a 13-year-old boy called Kevin for a secret agent (I know, so much for an 'intelligence' agency). This was the sort of kid that would try and zip wire across a building and end up falling head first into a fountain with his bum on show, so can you imagine what happened when he was allowed access to the amazing sort of spy gadgets that James Bond would use? Despite this, it was up to Kevin to save us all from an evil supervillain.
On a visit to the US things take a strange turn for 12-year-old Ajay when, completely at random and totally by accident, he is sworn in as the new president. Well, I guess he can't be any worse than that guy who had the job before him, right? Wrong. It's quite easy for power to go to your head and Ajay, overwhelmed by it all, goes rogue…
When Joe tells a local news reporter exactly what he would do if he were leader of the country, the video goes viral and Joe's speech becomes famous all over the world!
Before long, people are calling for the current leader to resign and give someone else a go . . . and that's how an ordinary boy like Joe ended up with the most extraordinary job. Now the fun can really start .
quirrel, Bird, and their new friend, Sakari, hatch a plan to escape from their new enemy, the Great Whale, who is huge, hungry, and ready to eat Bird.
Squirrel, who is afraid of everything, teams up with Bird, who is fearless but grounded by a wounded wing, to head south for the winter, closely followed by Cat, who wants to eat them both.
كان نادر يحب جمع الأشياء الجميلة، وكان يضعها في صندوق جميل ويخبئه فوق خزانته. ذات يوم رأت والدته الصندوق فسألته عنه فقال: هذا كنزي الصغير. ثم سألها عما إذا كان لديها كنز، فأجابت أن لديها أحلى كنز. عندها طلب نادر رؤية كنزها وكانت المفاجأة عندما أشارت إلى صورته في المرآة، وقالت: أنت كنزي.
Once there was a boy, and that boy loved stars very much. So much so that he decided to catch one of his very own. But how? Waiting for them to grow tired from being up in the sky all night doesn't work. Climbing to the top of the tallest tree? No, not tall enough. The boy has a rocket ship . . . but it is made of paper and doesn't fly well at all. Finally, just when the boy is ready to give up, he learns that sometimes things aren't where, or what, we expect them to be.
First-time author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers offers a simple, childlike tale of reaching for the stars, and emerging with a friend.
Matty has a problem. Her new pet baby dragon, Smoky, is far too good and her parents are threatening to send him away! Smoky is her best friend--can she find a way to make him naughty enough to keep? She just might need the Forest Fairies' help...
Simple, direct, and emotive, Words and Your Heart’s message is that words have extraordinary power–to harm and to heal; to create and to destroy; and to spread love.
A classic tale from the Faraway Tree with exciting new full-colour illustrations.
A classic tale from the Faraway Tree with exciting new full-colour illustrations.
The boy's grandma was a famous architect. Her garden is still full of old building materials. Unwilling to accept she has gone, the boy builds a giant structure from the bricks and girders he finds. And then ... Grandma comes to life! The boy is whisked away on an epic adventure across fields, through oceans and atop roofs. But where is Grandma taking him?
Once, in an old rusty bin in an old rusty playground in an old empty park. . there lived a little tortoise. But Tortoise is lonely. He's never seen any other tortoises, and wonders where they could all be hiding. Then, one day, he looks up and the night sky, and sees a million blinking lights winking at him. "That must be where the other tortoises are - at the top of the sky! I wish I could join them." But how can a little tortoise get to the top of the sky? And so begins a magical journey...
This is a comprehensive kid's encyclopedia packed with photos of all modes of transportation, from classic cars and motorbikes to sailboats and spaceships. The book displays exciting vehicles that float, fly or speed across the land, including the record breakers - the fastest, largest, longest, and costliest modes of transportation ever to zoom, sail or soar.
From the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship to the record-breakers of Serie A, the Bundesliga and the Premier League, football's record-breaking stars are here. This book is packed with thousands of eye-popping stats about incredible trophy-winning teams and legendary goalscorers from around the globe, and contains all the need-to-know facts and figures from the 2016-2017 league seasons around the world.
Everyone thinks that Sophie is an orphan. True, there were no other recorded female survivors from the shipwreck which left baby Sophie floating in the English Channel in a cello case, but Sophie remembers seeing her mother wave for help. Her guardian tells her it is almost impossible that her mother is still alive, but that means still possible. You should never ignore a possible. So when the Welfare Agency writes to her guardian threatening to send Sophie to an orphanage, she takes matters into her own hands and flees to Paris to look for her mother, starting with the only clue she has - the address of the cello maker.
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