What Are You Looking For?

This offers a gentle, imaginative way into questions about origins, adoption, belonging and family. Its woodland journey, animal encounters and illustrated fairytale atmosphere may invite close shared reading.

A thoughtful picture book built around one question: different family members offer different answers, while Henry searches for an answer he can grasp. Its colourful illustrations and unusual page orientation invite looking as well as listening.

Choose this for a reflective shared read about sunlight, living things and big questions. Its strongest experience is visual: children can trace connections across scenes and wonder aloud rather than follow a conventional plot.

A reflective nature journey that links attention, breathing and wonder with responsibility for the environments and living things around us. It offers encouragement to care for the Earth without presenting protection as effortless.

This is a football-centred story about aspiration, practice and a hoped-for moment of success. It also presents encouragement from a father and the boy’s wish to earn recognition from teammates.

This is a fact-rich visual tour of flowers, moving from basic botany and plant parts to habitats, pollination, unusual species, threats to plants and ways to grow flowers.

This is a quiet, sensory story about missing someone while noticing meadow, forest and shore. It makes space for sadness and moments of wonder without explaining exactly what happened.

This offers a lively introduction to Welsh folklore through brief, retold stories with magical, humorous and emotionally resonant elements. It may particularly suit shared reading or readers curious about Wales, names and traditional tales.

Expect a reflective, nature-rich memoir rather than a conventional plot: wildlife observation, campaigning, family relationships, autism, school difficulties and changes at home unfold across a year.

A lively invitation to look closely at slugs, bees, spiders and other small creatures in familiar places. Its blend of humour, sketches, factual detail and observation activities makes ordinary surroundings feel worth investigating.

Expect a quiet, imaginative visual journey rather than a written plot. The boy’s discovery opens onto strange sea creatures, nested portraits and an open-ended cycle of finding, looking and passing on.

A portal-like magical shop gives Daniel a route from hardship into wonder, responsibility and danger. The story combines bullying, orphanhood, inventive fantasy and a clear save-the-Emporium quest, with creative possibilities beyond the plot.

Expect a highly atmospheric Christmas fantasy: cosy feasts and snow sit alongside wolves, criminals, magic, shifting time and pursuit. Its strongest appeal is the uneasy movement from delight into responsibility.

A lively, twist-filled family adventure built around magic shows, vanished landmarks and a journey to Las Vegas. Middy’s practice contrasts with Nathan’s showmanship, giving the cousins different ways to face trouble and uncertainty.

Expect a strange, richly illustrated folktale rather than a clearly explained lesson. Cinnamon’s encounters with the tiger open questions about communication, emotion and change, while the ending is described as happy but deliberately unusual.

A school story about August’s first experience of mainstream education, Wonder explores friendship, prejudice, family relationships and self-acceptance. Its difficult incidents are set alongside reconciliation, supportive adults and acts of kindness.

This looks like nature-centred fiction that invites children to wonder about trees and the wider living world.

A gentle imaginative search story, pairing a missing teddy button with a moonlit garden, animal encounters and the comfort of putting something right. Its appeal appears to lie in wonder, visual discovery and companionship.

This is an atmospheric circus fantasy about curiosity, belief and stepping into the unknown. Its strongest features are theatrical build-up, magical transformations and artwork that makes the mysterious Place Between feel vivid and slightly uncanny.

A poetry collection to dip into rather than read as a continuous story: poems celebrate animals, stars, trees and the wider planet, combining playful invention with ecological seriousness and reflective moments.