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Each of our 56 shortlisted titles has an accompanying Book Talk card, created by our qualified team of teachers and librarians. Browse titles and download below.
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 I Follow the Foxby Rob Biddulph |
All You Need to Know About Dogs: by A Catby Fred Blunt |
 The Great Expeditionby Peter Carnvas |
 A Wild Walk to Schoolby Rebecca Cobb |
 Tiny McTootby Barry Falls |
 A Spider in the Wellby Jess Hannigan |
 Panda & Penguin Find a Thingby Zehra Hicks |
 There's a Beach in My Pants!by Michelle Harrison and David Tazzyman |
 The Cat who Couldn't be Botheredby Jack Kurland |
 Winter Wonderland Adventureby Jonny Lambert |
 Godfrey is a Frogby Alex Latimer |
 Otto the Top Dogby Catherine Rayner |
 If I Had a Dragonby Gabby Dawnay and Alex Barrow |
 My Bright Shining Starby Fatima Whitbread and Rhian Wright |
 Nush and the Stolen Emeraldby Jasbinder Bilan |
 I Am Wolfby Alastair Chisholm |
 The Boy in the Suitby James Fox |
 The Great Phoenix of Londonby Lindsay Galvin |
 Starminsterby Megan Hopkins |
 Ice Cream Boyby Rob Biddulph |
 The Secret of the Moonshardby Struan Murray |
 The Wrong Shoesby Tom Percival |
 The Letter with the Golden Stampby Onjali Q. Raúf |
 Me and My Brianby Helen Rutter |
 The Girl Who Couldn't Lieby Radhika Sanghani |
 Murder! by Narwhal!by Alex T Smith |
 Bridget Vanderpuff and the Monster Mountain Mysteryby Martin J Stewart |
 A Ship in the Darkby Yarrow Townsend |
 A Girl Can Dreamby Emily Barr |
 The Love Dareby Abiola Bella |
 On Silver Tidesby Sylvia Bishop |
 Seven Million Sunflowersby Malcolm Duffy |
 Northern Soulby Phil Earle |
 The Reappearance of Rachel Priceby Holly Jackson |
 If My Words had Wingsby Danielle Jawando |
 King of Nothingby Nathanael Lessore |
 Some Like it Coldby Elle McNicoll |
 Thunder Cityby Philip Reeve |
 Twenty-Four Seconds from Nowby Jason Reynolds |
 AdelAIDE Just Wants to Helpby Melinda Salisbury |
 Us in the Before and Afterby Jenny Valentine |
 For She is Wrathby Emily Varga |
 Seven Small Inventions that Changed the Worldby Roma Agrawal and Jisu Choi |
 Dear Vincentby Michael Bird and Ella Beech |
 A Really Short History of the Wordsby Bill Bryson and Emma Young |
 Alastair Campbell Talks Politicsby Alastair Campbell |
 Green: The Story of Plant Life on our Planetby Nicola Davies and Emily Sutton |
 Rewild The World at Bedtimeby Emily Hawkins and Ella Beech |
 Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Talesby Catherine Cawthorne and Sara Ogilvie |
 The Wild Outsideby Rachel Ip and Katie Hickey |
 How to Say No to Your Phoneby Brad Marshall, Lindsay Hassock and Lauriane Bohémier |
 Lostby Jess McGeachin |
 12 Ways to Get a Ticket to Spaceby Kate Peridot and Terri Po |
 How to Be a Genius Kidby Roma Agrawal and Jisu Choi |
 Patience...by Rachel Williams and Leonie Lord |
 What's the Point of Art?by Sanya Jain |
