UPDATE: We are pleased to announce that a number of new books have been added to the RRL. Look out for the 'NEW' symbol! *
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Dear Zoo |
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Rod Campbell |
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I wrote to the zoo, but what did they send me? Lift the flaps to find out. |
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Maisy's Bedtime |
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Lucy Cousins |
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Maisy the mouse goes through her bedtime routine. |
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Where's Spot? |
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Eric Hill |
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Spot the dog is hiding. Can you lift the flaps and find him? |
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Monkey and Me |
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Emily Gravett |
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In this wonderfully-illustrated book, a little girl and her monkey meet a whole host of animals both big and small. |
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Dig Dig Digging |
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Margaret Mayo and Alex Ayliffe
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Diggers, tractors, cranes and more. Dig Dig Digging shows you how good machines are at doing their stuff. |
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I'm Not Scared! |
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Jonathan Allen |
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A fearless baby owl goes for a night-time adventure with his jumpy best friend. |
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Each Peach Pear Plum |
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Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg |
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A wonderful rhyme featuring lots of nursery-rhyme characters in a nursery-rhyme world. |
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Dogger |
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Shirley Hughes |
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Dogger, the well-loved stuffed dog, gets lost. Can Dave find him? |
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Handa's Surprise |
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Eileen Browne |
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Generous Handa wants to carry some fruit to her friend Akeyo as a surprise. But what happens to the fruit on the way? |
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The Digger and the Flower 
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Joseph Kuefler |
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Amongst the rubble of the construction site, Digger finds a single flower. Can he find a way to keep it safe? |
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Guess How Much I Love You |
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Sam McBratney and Anita Jeram |
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Little Nutbrown Hare really loves Big Nutbrown Hare. But Big Nutbrown Hare seems to love him back even more. |
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Can't You Sleep, Little Bear? |
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Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth |
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In this lovingly illustrated book Big Bear cares for sleepless Little Bear. |
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Kipper's A to Z |
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Mick Inkpen |
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Kipper the dog capers through the alphabet with his friends and a zealous zebra. |
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Possum Magic |
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Mem Fox and Julie Vivas |
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An invisible baby possum and his grandma tour Australia to find that special, magical ingredient to make him visible again. |
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Peepo!* |
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Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg |
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Here’s a great book. One, two, three. It’s full of rhymes and pictures. It’s lov-er-ly!
*Also titled Peek-a-Boo!
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We All Went on Safari: A Counting Journey through Tanzania |
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Laurie Krebs and Julia Cairns |
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A lovely counting rhyme based in Tanzania that is full of all kinds of African animals. |
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They All Saw a Cat
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Brendan Wenzel |
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In this beautiful exploration of perspective and imagination, stunning illustrations show how a simple cat can be seen in a variety of ways. |
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The Gingerbread Man |
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Catherine McCafferty and Doug Bowles |
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The Gingerbread Man is a tasty-looking treat who’s quick on his feet. Will anyone be able to catch him? |
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Here Comes Stinkbug!
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Tohby Riddle |
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Stinkbug really does stink! He tries to hide it from his friends, but maybe a stink can be useful after all? |
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Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
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Verna Aardema and Beatriz Vidal
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A tale from Kenya about Ki-pat, a herd boy who helped to end Kapiti Plain's terrible drought by using an eagle's feather and a bow-and-arrow. |
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Where's My Teddy? |
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Jez Alborough |
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A great rhyming story in which Eddy can’t find Freddy and Bear can’t find Ted, until… |
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Little Polar Bear |
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Hans de Beer |
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Lars’s first hunting trip becomes quite an adventure! Can he get home? |
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
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Beatrix Potter |
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Mrs Rabbit warned her four children not to go into Mr McGregor’s garden. But cheeky Peter, in his lovely new jacket, doesn’t listen. |
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Leo the Late Bloomer |
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Robert Kraus and Jose Aruego |
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Leo’s father is rather worried about him, but will Leo make it in the end? |
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Who Sank the Boat? |
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Pamela Allen |
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All the animals got in, but can you guess which one sank the boat? |
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Pumpkin Soup |
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Helen Cooper |
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Duck, Cat and Squirrel are a supreme soup-making team. |
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Would You Rather . . . |
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John Burningham |
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Would you rather be crushed by a snake or eaten by a crocodile? There are some difficult choices to be made. |
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Harold and the Purple Crayon |
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Crockett Johnson |
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Harold creates a wonderful world with his magical purple crayon. |
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Are We There Yet?
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Dan Santat |
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Time passes so slowly when you're bored . . . slowly enough to send you back in time! Literal twists and turns accompany this fantastical story. |
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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy |
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Lynley Dodd |
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What makes Hairy and his doggy friends run and hide? |
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The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems |
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June Crebbin (ed.) |
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This wonderful anthology is perfect for sharing. With funny animal poems and warm bedtime rhymes there is something for every occasion. |
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The Tiger Who Came to Tea |
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Judith Kerr |
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What do you do when a big, furry, stripy tiger comes to tea? |
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The Gruffalo |
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Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler |
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A clever mouse meets a lot of hungry animals, but even the scariest snake is afraid of the gruffalo. |
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Something Else |
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Kathryn Cave and Chris Riddell |
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A weird-looking creature isn’t accepted by the ‘normal’ animals, but finds friendship in the end. |
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Wombat Goes Walkabout |
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Michael Morpurgo and Christian Birmingham |
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Wombat goes looking for his mum. On the way he meets lots of rude animals who don’t want to help him, until something scary happens. |
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Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! |
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Mo Willems |
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The bus driver’s instructions are clear, but the pigeon really, really wants to drive the bus. What will you do? |
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Toot and Puddle |
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Holly Hobbie |
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World traveller Toot writes postcards to stay-at-home Puddle. Both like different things but remain the best of friends. Wonderful! |
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Dr Seuss's ABC |
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Dr Seuss |
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Dr Seuss’s alphabet, filled with weird and wonderful animals, educates while it entertains. |
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Where the Wild Things Are |
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Maurice Sendak |
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Mischief-making Max is sent to bed. From his room he goes on an incredible journey meeting, and then becoming king of, the wild things. |
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Revolting Rhymes |
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Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake |
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Did Little Red Riding Hood really get eaten? Did Cinderella really marry a handsome prince? Find out in this belly-wobblingly funny book. |
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Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type |
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Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin |
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A herd of uncomfortable cows find a typewriter, and decide to send the farmer an ultimatum. |
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The Shopping Basket |
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John Burningham |
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Steven pops down to the shops but has to get past lots of nasty bullying animals on the way home. |
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The Emperor of Absurdia |
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Chris Riddell |
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In this fantastically illustrated book a little boy dreams up an amazing world full of live toys. |
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The Colour of Home |
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Mary Hoffman and Karin Littlewood |
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The moving story of a Somali refugee child who is getting used to life in a British school. |
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The Iron Man* |
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Ted Hughes |
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A gigantic iron man appears from nowhere and terrorises the countryside.
*Also titled The Iron Giant
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Winnie-the-Pooh |
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A A Milne and E H Shepard |
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Join Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends on their adventures in and around the Hundred Acre Wood. |
* Please note that the implementation date for the revised RRL varies between regions. Both the latest edition and the 2017 edition are available on the 'Download the RRL' page.
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