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Red brick building with two canons in front. — Exeter Gateway to the South-West

Tutankahmun's Mask, embellished gold mask of this ancient Egyptian pharaoh. — Ancient Egypt

More Pants, written and illustrated by Giles Andreae and Nick Sharratt, A little girl doing a handstand on a page and revealing her pink frilly pants. — More Pants

For Every Child, the rights of the child in words and pictures. An elderly woman is cuddling a baby close to her chest, both are wearing brown coats and the baby wears a brown cap. — For Every Child

Rainbow Bird an Aboriginal Folk Tale from Northern Australia, written and illustrated by Eric Maddern and Adrienne Kennaway. A Beautiful rainbow coloured bird flutterning its wings by the branches of a Eucalyptus tree. — Rainbow Bird

Star Seeker, A Journey to outer space. A boy and girl sit on a bright star in the night sky, high above houses down below. — Star Seeker, a journey to outer space

Boo! written and illustrated by Colin McNaugton. A pig wearing red and whiite striped dungarees, a blue cap and a black eye mask is jumping in the air. — Boo!

Official state portrait of HM The Queen in coronation gown. — Paintings from the Royal Collection

Tomb painting of a pharaoh surrounded by birds and other river creatures. — Stepping Stones in the History of Western Art

Two Bottlenose dolphins leaping out of the sea. — A Coastal Odyssey

The Lion and The Mouse, written by Gerald Rose. Yellow Lion laying down facing to the right with a little mouse standing on his nose. — The Lion and the Mouse

The painting looks down onto a craggy hillside to the thatched roof of a cottage and over a loch below. — The City of Glasgow

Peppa Goes Swimming. A girl pig, wearing a swimsuit and a rubber ring, floats in pool along with a boy pig wearing trunks and armbands, kicking his legs and holding a float. — Peppa Pig Goes Swimming

Watch Out! Big Bro's Coming! Written and illustrated by Jez Alborough. An elephant, monkey, parrot, frog and little mouse hiding in a jungle. — Watch out! Big Bro’s Coming!

The Sleepy Dormouse front cover showing a cosy little dormouse surrounded by hedge and nibbling on something he is holding to his mouth. — The Sleepy Dormouse

Elmer's Walk written and illustrated by David McKee. A colourful patchwork elephant and a black and white patchwork elephant stand side by side,trunks linked, under a star filled night sky. — Elmer’s Walk

Illustration showing an Allosaurus and Stegasaurus in the foreground and an erupting volcano in the background. — Dinosaurs ROAR! Triassic Rocks

Photograph of large white asteriod with illuminous blue, planet Earth in the background. — Ka-Boom: a guide to the Universe

Young lady in red shawl holding a new born baby in doorway of cottage. — Dickensian Hard Times

Close up illusration of the head of Tyraosaurs Rex with its mouth open showing us all its teeth. — Dinosaurs ROAR! Crazy Cretaceous

Lush green hillside along the banks of the river Seine. Through the centre a row of Polars shield a country estate. — Works of Art from the Burrell Collection

Vesuvius in eruption with dense black clouds above and orange lava pouring down the mountainside. — Science in Art

'Graveyard' of Second World War aircraft washed up on a beach with hillside in background and solitary owl in flight. — The Blitz

Spot Bakes a Cake written and illustrated by Eric Hill. A yellow puppy dog, wearing a chef's hat, sits at the kitchen table licking the brown cake mixture off a wooden spoon over a mixing bowl. — Spot’s Big Book of Maths (includes Spot Bakes a Cake)

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Find books suitable for...

Select one or more of the subjects that interest you

Exeter Gateway to the South-West

Ancient Egypt

More Pants

For Every Child

Rainbow Bird

Star Seeker, a journey to outer space

Boo!

Paintings from the Royal Collection

Stepping Stones in the History of Western Art

A Coastal Odyssey

The Lion and the Mouse

The City of Glasgow

Peppa Pig Goes Swimming

Watch out! Big Bro’s Coming!

The Sleepy Dormouse

Elmer’s Walk

Dinosaurs ROAR! Triassic Rocks

Ka-Boom: a guide to the Universe

Dickensian Hard Times

Dinosaurs ROAR! Crazy Cretaceous

Works of Art from the Burrell Collection

Science in Art

The Blitz

Spot’s Big Book of Maths (includes Spot Bakes a Cake)

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