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

Meet Lizzie and Lucky: a sparky young detective and her loyal Dalmatian sidekick! Lizzie is desperate for a dog. In order to convince her parents to get one, she has to come up with 101 reasons why she needs one. Lizzie is a master at making lists, so thinking of 101 reasons is going to be easy! ...

Lancashire 1934. Three years after her husband's sudden death, Stella comes into some money unexpectedly and decides to make a new start in the country. She settles on Ellin Valley, where she quickly begins to make friends. She falls in love with a cottage in Birch End, but an unscrupulous man wa...

Pedro Pony is poorly, so Peppa Pig and her friends go with Madame Gazelle to visit Pedro in hospital. Pedro shows everyone what the hospital is like - the nurses, the doctor, and of course, the food. Peppa and her friends discover that the hospital isn't so scary after all!

Following the success of the 'Little Book of Investigations', this book goes one step further in size, scale, and scope. It covers explorations indoors, outside and in the local community, from the water in the tap, the dust on the floor, the mud in the garden, to exploring connections,constructi...

Bunny wants his potty. What will Bunny do? Only one thing for it - skip to the loo! Bunny's not the only one skipping to the loo. Look who else wants their potty! Quite a few. In vibrant, rhythmic, rhyming beats, Sally Lloyd-Jones gets the party going in a book that simply rejoices in the call of...

Follow the journey of one little mouse trying to make himself heard and discovering along the way that even the smallest of us has the heart of a lion.

Hippo is having a bad day. It all started when he missed breakfast. Now he's eaten most of the chocolate cake and everybody is blaming someone else. Will Hippo own up and make amends? This series introduces children to different emotions and behaviour.

Joey has chicken pox and has to stay at home. But being ill is boring. His mother tells him he can play with a friend, but only a spotty friend as he is infectious, so he sets off to search for one. Will Joey find anyone to play with who isn't scared of his spots?

This is a gentle story about family separation with a happy ending. Betty and Paul are two little birds who build a nest. Betty lays an egg and out pops Baby Bird. But the nest is small, Betty and Paul squabble, and they decide that Paul should live in a different nest. But Betty and Paul both lo...