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...

Meet Brian, the invisible boy. Nobody ever seems to notice him or think to include him in their group, game, or birthday party - until, that is, a new kid comes to class. When Justin, the new boy, arrives, Brian is the first to make him feel welcome. And when Brian and Justin team up to work on a...

These books explore common emotions through these charming stories of dinosaurs, each of whom display some common traits such as jealousy, anger, and grumpiness.

Do you have a pet? Biff, Chip and Kipper have a dog called Floppy. In this story they worry when Floppy has to go to the vet. Read this story to learn about how the vet might help to make animals better.

Stinkysaurus is the smelliest dinosaur in the whole wide world, and don't the other dinosaurs know it! The dinos rushed for cover, when Stinkysaurus was about! He smelled so bad that just one whiff, could knock a T-Rex out! Finally, however, the other dinosaurs decide that the time has come for S...

When a little boy is told that his grandma has died, he isn't really sure what death means. In this reassuring lift-the-flap book with bold and colourful illustrations, he asks his mum important questions about death and bereavement. Why do people have to die? What happens to them once they are d...

The kids have got - whisper it - nits! All the mummies are going mad with the nit-combs and the mayonnaise and even the hoover - but these nits don't care.This book is produced in association with Barrington Stoke and incorporates dyslexia friendly features so that parents and carers with dyslexi...