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What is the hospital and what happens there? This informative and realistic depiction of the activities and lives that exist within a hospital community explains everything.

Fun and interactive with flaps and sliders, Tractor Tractor is a delightful boardbook that’s guaranteed to get little readers excited about books, especially tractor mad toddlers.

A colourful and sweetly lyrical rhyming story, I Love You Like Yellow shows children and adults how to associate emotions and colours. It also demonstrates that there is room for negative emotions within love. An easy contender for a favourite bedtime story, Beaty’s flowing rhymes become an earworm the more often they’re read, as the book follows families through their days, both happy and sad.

A book about food that contains only one recipe! All those culinary delights and no washing up! The World of Food lifts a lid on everything that can be eaten and digested. From what we eat to where it comes from, this well researched and interesting book will enchant and educate all gastronomes, historians, and budding chefs.

This brightly illustrated and fact-filled book, Not Your Average Maths Book, is an exciting and accessible insight into numbers and all things maths. Bubbling over with engrossing details about numbers, their history and the accomplished mathematicians who uncovered the rules of the mathematical world, some that we still use today, this book makes maths fun!

This book does exactly what says on the tin! It is a beautiful kaleidoscope of colours and patterns explaining the history of dinosaurs and how they evolved over time. It looks at how animals lived in certain parts of the world. For example, in the desert, animals had light-coloured body scales or fur or feathers to reflect the sun’s rays and maintain a cool body temperature.

This graphic novel explores relationships, technology and the multifaceted nature of young adult life. From the outset, the reader is launched headfirst into the world of the novel. The tone is mature, and the creators skilfully portray an entire city and a world within the first few pages. The clear lines and use of sombre colour create a cloudy and equivocal tone that permeates the story.

Xav Bailey, star of the fictional online platform PlayMii, is used to seeing his content go viral. Tragically, he’s not there to see his final video cause a sensation, because that video is of his on-screen murder. His friends and fellow influencers, Maxine, Leni and Ed, are left to grapple with his death through reaction videos, hashtags and – perhaps most shockingly – a social media blackout. As the masked killer haunts the internet in comments and forums, Maxine abandons her ‘ditzy’ vlogger brand to follow a trail of secrets and blackmail.

Is cailín iontach cliste í Millí – is í an cailín is fearr sa rang í – ach is éan corr í, níl aon chairde aici agus bíonn cuid de na cailíní eile ag piocadh uirthi. Is cuma léi den chuid is mó mar bíonn sí gnóthach ag cuidiú lena hathair ina shaotharlann ag déanamh orgán agus géaga sintéiseacha, obair a thaitníonn go mór léi mar is é mian a croí a bheith ina hinnealtóir róbataice. Socraíonn sí féin agus a hathair róbat a mbeidh intleacht shaorga ann a dhéanamh le feidhmchlár sofaisticiúil atá forbartha ag a hathair.

The majesty of the heavens is the preoccupation of this beautifully written and illustrated book that abounds in scientific, historical and human-interest trivia. Rola Shaw’s prose is vivid, direct and clearly phrased, allowing the facts and figures of the cosmos to shine brightly in the minds of her readers.