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Video Review: Best New Books for 4 to 8 Year Olds

Clare Cannon | 08 May 2012
Check out this stunning mix of new books for young children.

Get Into the Classics Series

Jennifer Minicus | 10 August 2011
Here is another time travel series.

Dickens fans will enjoy Matthew Pearl’s The Last Dickens

Clare Cannon | 27 January 2011
An intriguing story around Dickens’ final and only half-finished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
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It’s a Book

Clare Cannon | 17 October 2010
Here's the perfect 'first book' for kids of the digital age.
  
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