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This is a visual, challenge-led activity book for children who enjoy finding differences, matching items and solving search puzzles. Its appeal appears to lie in variety, emojis, funny facts and the option to time each task.

This is a comic school-and-family story in which Tom’s everyday mishaps lead to a project about family, friends and furry creatures. His research reveals surprising family details, including how his parents ended up together.

A comic family-and-school story about a child navigating ambitious parents, a new school and competing ideas about attention. Its main appeal is the child’s perspective on adult expectations and the awkward question of whether independence can become neglect.

This is an action-led coming-of-age story about a troubled child entering an extraordinary spy-training organisation. It offers perseverance, teamwork and personal change alongside danger, bereavement, coercion and language some families may wish to discuss.

A comic adventure about an underestimated child confronting a frightening threat, while the adults and children around him face the consequences of past choices. Its imaginative monster story also explores belonging, courage and changing relationships.

This is a light, observant story about a child trying to understand a parent’s changed life. Its humour comes through the gap between the dad imagined by the child and the dad seen at home.

This is an energetic, participatory poetry book: poems can be performed aloud, paired with movement, facial expressions and imaginative drawing. Its colourful illustrations provide visual prompts and subjects to talk about together.

Expect a quick, joke-led read built around repetition, animal characters and toilet humour. The visual style is bold and simple, while the plot uses a wolf encounter and a comic reversal.

This is an emotionally serious but often humorous story about a child trying to solve an illness he cannot control. Its interest lies in Colin’s urgency, bold schemes and changing understanding of help, responsibility and loss.

No reliable judgement about its reading experience can be made yet.

This is primarily a creative activity book: children can colour line illustrations inspired by warm, seasonal scenes featuring a fennec fox and cactus companion, rather than follow a clearly established narrative.

This is an activity-led nonfiction book: readers can learn and practise tricks, then consider how presentation, preparation and originality affect a performance. It suits shared experimentation as much as quiet reading.

Expect energetic science learning through comic dilemmas, illustrations, experiments and short factual explanations. The book offers hands-on routes into physics, including light, electromagnets, compasses, telephones and periscopes.

This is an upbeat exploration of what a child might do when entertainment stops. It offers a sequence of imaginative transformations, moving from frustration towards self-directed play and inventive possibilities.