Reading is Magic: Children’s Book Week

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Nanny Piggins

By: R.A. Spratt
Narrated by: R.A. Spratt
Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

A Nanny with trotters!

Nanny Piggins, the world's most glamorous flying pig, runs away from the circus and goes to live with the Greens as their nanny. The Green children, Derrick, Samantha and Michael, fall in love with her instantly. Who could not fall in love with a Nanny whose only job qualifications are her astonishing ability to be fired... Read more

Hamlet is Not OK

By: R.A. Spratt
Narrated by: R.A. Spratt
Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

“This book offers a delightful twist on Hamlet, making it an engaging read for middle-grade students who might struggle with more traditional literature. The characters are likable, and their intentions are believable, though a bit more explanation about how they got transported into the novel would have been helpful. Despite this, it didn't... Read more

Look Both Ways

A Tale Told in Ten Blocks

By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Chris Chalk, Bahni Turpin, Kevin R. Free, JD Jackson, Guy Lockard, January LaVoy, Jason Reynolds, Adenrele Ojo & David Sadzin
Length: 3 hours 58 minutes

“While adults may discount the heavy emotions of middle school, Jason Reynolds has captured all the real life that is young emerging adulthood in his new middle grade book LOOK BOTH WAYS. These middle school children are dealing with the same adversities that hit grown folks but without all the tools adults have and they’re doing alright. This... Read more

Finding Hope

A Whistledown Farm Adventure: Book #1

By: Nicola Baker
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
Length: 4 hours 21 minutes

“This charming middle grade book is a lovely nod to All Creatures Great & Small, but with a young, plucky protagonist. When Ava goes to stay with her extended family on their Yorkshire farm, she quickly learns the high's and the low's of country life. Eager to fit in and shed her big city persona, she rolls up her sleeves to help. Along the... Read more

THE TIGER WHO CAME TO TEA

By: Judith Kerr
Narrated by: Geraldine McEwan
Length: 9 minutes

READ BY GERALDINE MCEWAN. The classic picture book story of Sophie and her extraordinary teatime guest has been loved by millions of children since it was first published more than fifty years ago. Now an award-winning animation! The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly... Read more

Wolf Road

The bestselling animal adventure from TV's Alice Roberts

By: Alice Roberts
Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
Length: 8 hours 6 minutes

Discover the history of our lifetime through one girl's adventure, in the epic new children's novel from bestselling author and broadcaster, Professor Alice Roberts.

'A fine storyteller' Philip Pullman

‘A wonderful book – exciting, fascinating, gripping, beautifully written’ Anthony McGowan

'Highly atmospheric, this impressive story asks questions... Read more

No Place Like Home

By: James Bird
Narrated by: Calvin Joyal
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

When home is a car, life is unpredictable. School, friends, and three meals a day aren't guaranteed. Not every town has a shelter where a family can sleep for a night or two, and places with parking lots don't welcome overnight stays. Opin, his brother Emjay, and their mother are trying to get to Los Angeles, where they hope an uncle and a new... Read more

Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion

A True Story

By: Dave Eggers
Narrated by: George Newbern
Length: 9 minutes

Make way for history as only Dave Eggers could stage it. It all started when John “Minnie” Moore built a mine in Idaho and sold it to Englishman Henry Miller. Then Henry married a local lass named Annie and built her a mansion, hence the “Millers’ Minnie Moore Mine Mansion.” After Henry died and Annie was hoodwinked—losing all but the... Read more

Scaredy Bath

By: Zoë Foster Blake
Narrated by: Zoë Foster Blake
Length: 4 minutes

Bath-time is fun! There's the bubbles, the bath toys and lots of splashing of course. But have you ever wondered what it's like for the bath?

Scaredy Bath does not like bath time . . . the piping hot water, the gooey muck and especially not the small boisterous grubby ones that shout and splash and make Scaredy all mucky! What's a bath to do?... Read more

Frindle

By: Andrew Clements
Narrated by: Keith Nobbs
Length: 1 hour 40 minutes

From bestselling and award-winning author Andrew Clements, a quirky, imaginative tale about creative thought and the power of language that will have readers inventing their own words—now available in a deluxe paperback edition!

Is Nick Allen a troublemaker? He really just likes to liven things up at school--and he's always had plenty of great... Read more

Diary of a Big Bad Wolf

Your favourite fairytales from a BIG BAD point of view!

Fairytale Woods: Book #1

By: Ben Miller
Narrated by: Ben Miller
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Once upon a time was only the start... welcome to the Fairytale Woods! Listen to the big bad wolf's hilarious secret diary in this instant bestseller from author, comedian and actor Ben Miller.

*DIARY OF A PUSS IN BOOTS AVAILABLE OUT NOW* 

'I need to raise my game again now spring is here, and get back in shape. Show the pack and the rest of... Read more

The Skull

A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen
Narrated by: Fairuza Balk & Jon Klassen
Length: 22 minutes

“Folk tale retelling at its finest. Perfect 20 minutes with my morning coffee. Brought back memories of reading Grimm's Fairy Tales at my Grandma's house. Read more

Friday Barnes 1: Girl Detective

The bestselling detective series

Friday Barnes: Book #1

By: R.A. Spratt
Narrated by: R.A. Spratt
Length: 3 hours 43 minutes

Imagine if Sherlock Holmes was an eleven-year-old girl!

When girl detective Friday Barnes solves a bank robbery she uses the reward money to send herself to the most exclusive boarding school in the country, Highcrest Academy.

On arrival, Friday is shocked to discover the respectable school is actually a hotbed of crime. She's soon... Read more

Alice-Miranda in the Outback

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Alice-Miranda

By: Jacqueline Harvey
Narrated by: Jacqueline Harvey
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

Alice-Miranda and her friends are off to the Australian Outback! They're going to help an old family friend who's found himself short staffed during cattle mustering season. The landscape is like nothing else - wide open and dusty red as far as the eye can see. It's also full of quirky characters, like eccentric opal miner Sprocket McGinty and... Read more

Genesis Begins Again

By: Alicia D. Williams
Narrated by: Alicia D. Williams
Length: 8 hours 48 minutes

“Reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” —The New York Times

“One of the best books I have ever read…will live in the hearts of readers for the rest of their lives.” —Colby Sharp, founder of Nerdy Book Club

“An emotional, painful, yet still hopeful adolescent journey…one that needed telling.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“I really... Read more

Princess Academy - Abridged

The Princess Academy Series: Book #1

By: Shannon Hale
Narrated by: Laura Credidio & a full cast
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

Miri lives on a mountain where, for generations, her ancestors have quarried stone and lived a simple life. Then word comes that the king's priests have divined her small village the home of the future princess. In a year's time, the prince himself will come and choose his bride from among the girls of the village. The king's ministers set up an... Read more

The World’s Worst Teachers

By: David Walliams
Narrated by: David Walliams, Helen McCrory, Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Emma Fryer, James Goode, Adjoa Andoh & Paul Panting
Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Millions of young readers have loved the World’s Worst Children tales – now they will revel in this delightfully dreadful collection of the most gruesome grown-ups ever: The World’s Worst Teachers. Think your teachers are bad? Wait till you meet this lot. These ten tales of the world’s most splendidly sinister teachers will... Read more

Ghost

Track: Book #1

By: Jason Reynolds
Narrated by: Guy Lockard
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of the acclaimed Track series from Coretta Scott King - John... Read more

The World’s Worst Pets

By: David Walliams
Narrated by: David Walliams, Terry Mynott, Morgana Robinson, Clare Corbett, Wayne Forester, James Goode, Danielle Vitalis & Akiya Henry
Length: 3 hours 38 minutes

BE WARNED! AWFUL ANIMALS LURK INSIDE… Millions of readers have loved The World’s Worst Children, The World’s Worst Teachers and The World’s Worst Parents – now they will delight in this ludicrously laugh-out-loud collection of pets, brought to you by the phenomenal Number One bestselling author David... Read more

The World’s Worst Monsters

By: David Walliams
Narrated by: David Walliams, Harriet Carmichael, Sophia Eleni, James Goode, Pui Fan Lee, Paul Panting, Carlyss Peer & Tania Rodrigues
Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Dare you enter the world of MONSTERS? The beloved World’s Worst series has captivated millions of readers. You’ve met the world’s worst children, the world’s worst parents, the world’s worst teachers and the world’s worst pets – but are you ready for the world’s worst monsters? If you don’t... Read more