Looking for some new books to read with your little ones? Take a look at our brand-new children's titles for July! All of these books and more are available to borrow for free with your library card.
Nothing can replace Rabbit's favourite curly carrot - not a cauliflower, not a pea, and absolutely not an aubergine! Rabbit has a special curly carrot which she loves very much. So, when her beloved carrot goes missing . well, Rabbit is very upset and soon finds herself on a rampage, bursting into rooms and accusing her innocent friends - Mouse, Hedgehog and Badger - of vegetable theft. Will Rabbit's friends forgive her rampage? And have you seen curly carrot?
Are you a cat person or a dog person? Well, this cat thinks cats are the best and dogs are the absolute worst. I mean, dogs stink, they slobber, they enjoy rolling around in cow poo - need I say more? And why are there so many types of dog, too? Hairy, scary, spotty, Scottie - the list goes on! But when this confident cat gets a very scary surprise, guess who comes to the rescue? Will our cat finally accept that he might have been wrong about dogs all along?
A witty and imaginative story from Rebecca Cobb, featuring two children and their mum as they make the epic adventure to school!
Being a bright red elephant, Doris is very easy to spot. Can you see her? Of course you can. But Doris is shy - she just wants to lose herself in a colourful crowd. Come on a journey of self-discovery as one little elephant comes to appreciate her own specialness.
Meet a secret superhero with CAT-ITUDE - Max Meow, Cat Crusader - in this purr-fectly awesome, hiss-sterically funny graphic novel series! Max is just a regular cat in Kittyopolis, trying to make it big as a podcaster until he accidentally takes a bite of an radioactive space meatball at his best friend, scientist Mindy's, secret lab. Then before you can say MEOWZA, Max becomes the Cat Crusader!
Blast off on an adventure with the Space Cadets! Astrid Atomic and her best friends, the Space Cadets, have been given an important mission from the Chief - to retrieve the special trophy for the Supersonic Saturn Race! Tonight they'll have to fly under boiling hot lava waterfalls, zoom through fields of flaming flowers and sneak past a big, toothy, scary space monster! And things go from bad to worse when they realise that the naughty Dr Boris Uranus on their tail. Will they get to the trophy before time runs out?
Eleven-year-old Lori is home alone for the first time in her life, and she's immediately done all the things she's totally not allowed to do: 1. Turned the heating up to the max. 2. Built a giant blanket fort in the living room. 3. Switched on Voxminer, aka the greatest game in the history of the universe. But quickly, Lori realises something is wrong. She can hear strange whispers coming from the screen - and soon, they're in the house with her. Could it be Voxminer's most terrifying legend: Shade Girl? Trapped in her home as the doors and windows start to vanish and her phone goes dead, Lori must use all her bravery, wits, gaming skills - and the love and deep bond she shares with her BFF, Shoelace - to survive until Mum gets home.
Creepy crawlies do so much for us! They make honey, eat waste, help make chocolate and more. In this wacky book, these helpful critters are taking you on a grand tour of their homes! They just can't wait to tell you about all the good they do. They'll show you the special skills and features they have, explain why they're so important to the ecosystem, and generally make their case for why they deserve a little more credit.
Based on real questions from children, expert author Matt Bothwell has created the Supervillain Academy to teach astrophysics to middle graders. 'Could you crash the Moon into the Earth? If the Sun explodes, would we all get vaporised? What's the weather like on Mercury?' Discover the answers to these questions and many more at the Supervillain Academy: the magnificently morbid school for young bad guys-in-training.
Take a colourful tour through the prehistoric animal kingdom with this hilarious collection of non-fiction comics from award-winning author Mike Barfield and illustrator Paula Bossio. From the earliest life forms living under the ocean waves, to the most fearsome dinosaurs, all the way through to early mammals like the woolly mammoth, this book tells the story of what life was really like on early Earth.
