Item category 2: Family Collection - When a book might help

This book takes one element of 'The Great Big Book of Families', the arrival of new members into a family, and explores all the different ways a baby or child can become part of a family. The book includes natural birth within a nuclear family, adoption, fostering, same sex families and many othe...

Grief, loneliness and bullying are dealt with in this sensitive book. Rob's mum has recently died and with no-one to talk to he keeps his worries to himself. His life begins to change when he finds a caged tiger and decides to set it free.

Maisy's a little nervous - today she is going on her very first swimming lesson. There's lots of hustle and bustle in the changing room and the pool looks SO big and it's ever so splish-splashy! Luckily, Eddie and Tallulah have come along too and they all have a great swimming teacher called Popp...

Laszlo is afraid of the dark. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo but mostly it spends its time in the basement. It doesn't visit Laszlo in his room. Until one night it does. With emotional insight and poetic economy, Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen bring to light a universal and empowering...

Angie, Ollie, Simona, Mario and Eric are five fantastic friends, each of whom has an unusual ability. Disaster strikes on a day out to the countryside but, working together and combining their individual powers, the fantastic five save the day.

In 'Topsy and Tim Help a Friend', Stevie Dunton is unhappy at school because he is being bullied. The twins do the right thing by speaking to Mummy and Miss Terry about it so they can stop the bullies picking on Stevie.