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What The Ladybird Heard Julia Donaldson

Tiddler The Story Telling Fish

The Tiger Who Came to Tea, by Judith Kerr, read for We Read it Like This (wereaditlikethis.blogspot.com)

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Listen as I read Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson. A firm favourite in our home! 

Room On The Broom

We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury. 
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Going on a bear hunt

A brand new song written and performed by the much-loved author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson, to accompany her new book for little ones, There's an Owl in My Towel. 

There's an Owl in My Towel is a beautiful and engaging book for little ones from Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb, the creators of the bestselling The Paper Dolls - with over 200,000 copies sold worldwide.

It's tricky to have breakfast when there's a mole in your bowl! Gentle humour abounds as one baby's every activity is thwarted by a variety of surprising animals. But who wouldn't be happy to find a ted in their bed?


Featuring satisfyingly simple rhyming text and charming illustrations on fresh white backgrounds, this gorgeous board book is a perfect gift. With big flaps to lift and irresistible actions throughout, children are sure to delight in joining in. 

To find out more visit - https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/julia-donaldson/there-s-an-owl-in-my-towel

There’s An Owl In My Towel - Julia Donaldson

The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr

My reading of the Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

The Rainbow Fish

The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand!&#160; Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom.&#160; But is there room on the broom for so many friends?&#160; And when disaster strikes, will they be able to save the witch from a hungry dragon? Available for purchase at: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803738412?tag=randohouseinc7911-20">Amazon</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8373827-11819508?sid=PRHD39095A662&url=http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/?ean=9780803738416">Barnes & Noble</a><a href="http://www.tkqlhce.com/click-8373827-10747236?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780803738416&url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780803738416">Books A Million</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/2186/9780803738416?prhc=PRHD39095A662">Bookshop.org</a><a href="http://www.hudsonbooksellers.com/book/9780803738416?utm_source=prh&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_term=301&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780803738416&utm_campaign=9780803738416">Hudson Booksellers</a><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780803738416?aff=penguinrandom">IndieBound</a><a href="http://www.powells.com/book/-9780803738416?utm_source=randomhouse&utm_campaign=randomhouse&utm_content=PRHD39095A662--9780803738416">Powell's</a><a href="http://goto.target.com/c/128773/81938/2092?subId1=PRHD39095A662--9780803738416&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.target.com%2Fs%3FsearchTerm%3D9780803738416">Target</a><a href="http://linksynergy.walmart.com/fs-bin/click?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&subid=0&offerid=183959.1&type=10&tmpid=273&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780803738416&RD_PARM1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.walmart.com%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-ng.do%3F&RD_PARM2=search_query%3D9780803738416%2526ic%3D16_0%2526Find%3DFind%2526search_constraint%3D3920">Walmart</a><a href="https://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=Room+on+the+Broom+Julia+Donaldson%3b+Axel+Scheffler&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=randohouseinc7911-20--9780593340677">Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8373827-11099382?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780593340677&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/9780593340677">audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780593340677/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780593340677&c=books">Google Play Store - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780593340677}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780593340677">Kobo - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler, read by Josie Lawrence

Read by Imelda Staunton, this audiobook edition of The Gruffalo--which includes a song and read-along track--brings to life the animals that live in the deep, dark wood.... A mouse is taking a stroll through the deep, dark wood when along comes a hungry fox, then an owl, and then a snake. The mouse is good enough to eat but smart enough to know this, so he invents . . . the gruffalo! As Mouse explains, the gruffalo is a creature with terrible claws, and terrible tusks in its terrible jaws, and knobbly knees and turned-out toes, and a poisonous wart at the end of its nose. But Mouse has no worry to show. After all, there's no such thing as a gruffalo. . . . Available for purchase at: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/audiobook/id1434007321?at=11l3IH&ct=PRHD39095A662--9780593341285">Apple Books - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="https://www.audible.com/search?advsearchKeywords=The+Gruffalo+Julia+Donaldson&source_code=COMA0213WS031709&SID=randohouseinc7911-20--9780593341285">Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8373827-11099382?SID=PRHD39095A662--9780593341285&url=http://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/9780593341285">audiobooks.com - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="https://google.prf.hn/click/camref:1011ld4r/pubref:PRHD39095A662--9780593341285/destination:https://play.google.com/store/search?q=9780593341285&c=books">Google Play Store - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/link?id=VD9*lkiWNd8&offerid=258185.12829781935712206&type=2&u1=PRHD39095A662--9780593341285}&murl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fsearch%3FQuery%3D9780593341285">Kobo - Audiobook (Downloadable format)</a>

The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson, read by Imelda Staunton

The most relentless, deeply disturbing thriller writer since Jeffery Deaver and Gillian Flynn.

For years, best friends Sarah and Jennifer kept what they called the “Never List”:  a list of actions to be avoided, for safety’s sake, at all costs.  But one night, against their best instincts, they accept a cab ride with grave, everlasting consequences. For the next three years, they are held captive with two other girls in a dungeon-like cellar by a connoisseur of sadism.

Ten years later, at thirty-one, Sarah is still struggling to resume a normal life, living as a virtual recluse under a new name, unable to come to grips with the fact that Jennifer didn’t make it out of that cellar. Now, her abductor is up for parole and Sarah can no longer ignore the twisted letters he sends from jail. 

Finally, Sarah decides to confront her phobias and the other survivors—who hold their own deep grudges against her. When she goes on a cross-country chase that takes her into the perverse world of BDSM, secret cults, and the arcane study of torture, she begins unraveling a mystery more horrifying than even she could have imagined.

Koethi Zan’s debut is a must for fans of Karin Slaughter, Laura Lippman, and S.J. Watson.


The Never List by Koethi Zan, read by Kristen Sieh

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students are not taught history, geography, or mathematics - at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individuals by psychographic markers in order to take control of their thoughts. The very best will graduate as poets: adept wielders of language who belong to a nameless organization that is as influential as it is secretive.

Whip-smart orphan Emily Ruff is making a living running a three-card Monte game on the streets of San Francisco when she attracts the attention of the organizations recruiters. She is flown across the country for the schools strange and rigorous entrance exams, where, once admitted, she will be taught the fundamentals of persuasion by Brontë, Eliot, and Lowell who have adopted the names of famous poets to conceal their true identities. For in the organization, nothing is more dangerous than revealing who you are: Poets must never expose their feelings lest they be manipulated. Emily becomes the schools most talented prodigy until she makes a catastrophic mistake: She falls in love.

Meanwhile, a seemingly innocent man named Wil Jamieson is brutally ambushed by two strange men in an airport bathroom. Although he has no recollection of anything they claim he's done, it turns out Wil is the key to a secret war between rival factions of poets and is quickly caught in their increasingly deadly crossfire. Pursued relentlessly by people with powers he can barely comprehend and protected by the very man who first attacked him, Wil discovers that everything he thought he knew about his past was fiction. In order to survive, he must journey to the toxically decimated town of Broken Hill, Australia, to discover who he is and why an entire town was blown off the map.

As the two narratives converge, the shocking work of the poets is fully revealed, the body count rises, and the world crashes toward a Tower of Babel event which would leave all language meaningless. Max Barry's most spellbinding and ambitious novel yet, Lexicon is a brilliant thriller that explores language, power, identity, and our capacity to love whatever the cost.

Lexicon by Max Barry, read by Heather Corrigan and Zach Appelman

Imagine The Sopranos transplanted to the French countryside….
 
This thrillingly comic, internationally bestselling Mafia farce is the inspiration for the major motion picture The Family starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Tommy Lee Jones, and produced by Martin Scorsese.

The Blakes are newcomers to a small town in Normandy. Fred is a historian researching the Allied landings, Maggie enjoys charity work, and their kids are looking forward to meeting other teenagers at the local lycée. Or so it seems.

In fact, Fred is really Giovanni Manzoni, an ex-goodfella turned stool pigeon who’s been relocated from New Jersey to France by the FBI’s witness protection program. He’s got a two-million-dollar bounty on his head, but he and his family can’t help attracting attention (imagine the Sopranos in Normandy). And when imprisoned mobster Don Mimino gets wind of their location, it’s Mafia mayhem à la Josh Bazell’s Beat the Reaper, or like The Godfather as if written by Carl Hiaasen. Because while you can take the man out of the Mafia, you can’t take the Mafia out of the man.

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Malavita by Tonino Benacquista, read by Edoardo Ballerini

Audiobook Excerpt of The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz, read by Ari Graynor and Christina Moore

Audiobook Excerpt of The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz

Listen to an excerpt of The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman, read by the author

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Lexicon by Max Barry, read by Heather Corrigan and Zach Appelman

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