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      Slide and See Animals
      
      Slide and See Books
      
      Age: 6+ months
      
      £7.99
      
      An engaging board book for very young children, with sliding panels to reveal images hiding below. Babies will love moving the sliders to make a bush baby...
      
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      First Questions & Answers: Why do we need worms?
      
      First Questions and Answers
      
      Age: 4+
      
      £9.99
      
      Worms are so much more than wiggly minibeasts. This bold, bright and brilliant book delves underground, discovering what worms do all day (and night),...
      
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      Get That Monster Out Of Here!
      
      Peculiar Pop-Ups
      
      Age: 5+
      
      £12.99
      
      You'd better not open the flaps, because the monsters might get out! There's a hilarious beastie waiting to jump out from behind each flap in this irresistible...
      
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      Spotter's Cards Flags of the World
      
      Spotter's Cards
      
      Age: 7+
      
      £7.99
      
      56 double-sided cards show the flag of every independent country in the world. Each flag is accompanied by country data, from capital cities to currencies....
      
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      Royal Blood
      
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      £8.99
      
      PRAISE FOR ROYAL BLOOD: "Royal Blood is The Princess Diaries meets What A Girl Wants meets Gossip Girl." CULTUREFLY "An...
      
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      Where Sleeping Girls Lie
      
      Age: 14+
      
      £8.99
      
      AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES bestseller. Where Sleeping Girls Lie is a haunting and compulsive new Dark Academia mystery of secrets, lies...
      
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      Cute Stickers Unicorns
      
      Usborne Cute Stickers
      
      Age: 3+
      
      £5.99
      
      Add the stickers to the pages of this delightful book to fill the meadows, waterfalls, palaces and skies with super cute unicorns! Illustrated in the classic...
      
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      Write Your Own Family History
      
      Write Your Own
      
      Age: 7+
      
      £12.99
      
      What was school like for Grandma? What was your Great Uncle's first job? What can we find out from old photos, documents and objects? This...
      
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      Peep Inside How a Submarine Works
      
      Peep Inside
      
      Age: 3+
      
      £8.99
      
      Lift flaps and peep through holes to explore with a little sub on a deep-sea dive. Find out how the sub works by opening it up and peeping inside at the...
      
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      I'm (Mostly) Happy Being ME
      
      I'm Not Very
      
      Age: 3+
      
      £12.99
      
      In this sweet, thoughtful story, a little boy feels unhappy when he compares himself to his classmates. But he comes to realize there's a lot more...
      
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      Write Your Own Story Word Book
      
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      Age: 8+
      
      £9.99
      
      Provides helpful advice on choosing the best words for creating characters, setting scenes and shaping stories, as well as special vocabulary for different...
      
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      Always Angel
      
      Age: 9+
      
      £7.99
      
      A powerful novel about second chances, friendship and finding the courage to rewrite your story.Angel finds school hard.She talks...
      
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      100 Things to Know About Saving the Planet
      
      100 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT
      
      Age: 8+
      
      £9.99
      
      How could plastic-eating bacteria help reduce waste? Can a river be given human rights? Could we generate all the power we need from the sun...
      
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      Lift-the-flap First Questions and Answers How can I make friends?
      
      First Questions and Answers
      
      Age: 4+
      
      £9.99
      
      This warm, practical and inclusive book is a wonderful tool for little children learning to make friends. You'll meet Rhino and lots of other young animals,...
      
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      World Kitchen - Celebrations
      
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      Age: 7+
      
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      Join families from all corners of the globe as they share their much-loved recipes for special occasions and festivals. Whether they're for Ramadan...
      
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      'Twas the Night before Christmas
      
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      Age: 2+
      
      £5.99
      
      'Twas the Night Before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.' The traditional and much-loved Christmas...
      
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      Forgotten Fairy Tales: The Sleeping Prince
      
      Young Reading Series 1
      
      Age: 5+
      
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      A brave princess goes on an epic quest. Surviving the terrible dangers of a forest that no man is brave enough to enter she reaches an enchanted castle...
      
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