Shearer's Kids Reading Guide


Our Kids Reading Guide is available to download as a PDF. Simply click on this LINK . The Reading Guide is over 30 pages packed full of great kids titles, pictures, small blurbs, and kids' reviews.

For your convenience, all of the titles in the Guide are available to order through the website. To browse or purchase any of the great Reading Guide books, just scroll down.

The books have been grouped according to age group or book type for extra ease. You can go directly to sections of interest by following the links in the "Sections" box to the right.


Picture Books - Older


Don't Read This Book!

Don't Read This Book!
By Jill Lewis
ISBN: 9781405236423

The King is about to star in a brand new story but - wait a minute! What's this? The story has disappeared! You'd better go and do something else instead...What? You're still here? Well, then you'll see the King frantically galloping through Storyland to piece together the fragments of his story, wi

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Running with the Horses

Running with the Horses
By Alison Lester
ISBN: 9780670868339

Ten-year-old Nina lives with her father above the palace stables at the Royal Academy of Dancing Horses. She loves watching the famous white stallions as they parade for the crowds, but her favourite horse is an ordinary mare called Zelda - an old cab horse Nina often pats on her way home from schoo

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Mac O'Beasty

Mac O'Beasty
By Adam Wallace
ISBN: 9780980556452

Mac O'Beasty was a huge Scottish monster who dreamed of travelling the land, playing his bagpipes. Every time he played, all the other monsters danced and danced and danced. How they loved to hear him! Mac sadly wished he could dance to music but he was too big and fat. He had never ran, or climbed

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  My Brilliant Book!
By Michael Broad
ISBN: 9781847381460

When Sam gets bored of all his books, he decides to make a book of his very own - a brilliant book with lots of brilliant things in it, like dinosaurs, cowboys, aliens and much more. But when Sam's sister points out that his book doesn't make sense, Sam has another idea and, suddenly, his book is be

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Who Wants to be a Poodle? I Don't!

Who Wants to be a Poodle? I Don't!
By Lauren Child
ISBN: 9780141384900

Trixie Twinkle Toes doesn't want a maid to plump her cushions. She wants to roll in the mud and paddle in the puddles. She doesn't want to be carried over them by a butler. Trixie Twinkle Toes may look like a prancing poodley poodle. But, on the inside, she's a dazzlingly daring dog ready to make a

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Cautionary Tale for Boys and Girls

Cautionary Tale for Boys and Girls
By John Hay-mackenzie
ISBN: 9781741965162

An illustrated children's book with a wicked twist. Twelve slightly deranged-looking soft toys have provided the inspiration for watercolour artworks by the author, and matching 'cautionary tales' that each have a moral or lesson, from obeying parents and following the rules for crossing roads, to e

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