Neal Layton

• Mar-1999
• / General Fiction
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An alien family visits a zoo in search of a real-life human, but their not-very-good guide to Earth fails them and they resort to trial and error while continuing to look and eventually figure out what makes humans special....

• May-2002
• / General Fiction
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Oscar was a woolly mammoth. And so was Arabella. Did anyone ever tell you that woolly mammoths weren't very smart? Don't believe them if they did! Oscar and Arabella were two woolly mammoths who had to think very fast to outwit the scary creature lur...

• Jul-2002
• / General Fiction
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A funny and all-too-familiar story that will delight anybody who has a hard time looking forward to Monday mornings.


Steve was fed up. He was fed up because it was Sunday and because
that meant tomorrow was Monday and because that meant...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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Looking for an escape from the heat? Kids will laugh out loud at the lively illustrations in Neal Layton’s tale of two fun-loving, enterprising mammoths.

For wild and woolly mammoths like Oscar and Arabella, playing in the ice and snow and a...

• Aug-2006
• / General Fiction
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Bartholomew leads a quiet life, but he is a kindly sort of bear, so when he meets the fly-bug, who is in a terribly tremendous hurry to find the bright lights, he decides to help him get to the big bright city. A charming and quirky story about an u...

• Jul-2007
• / Literary
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Things are getting pretty hairy for the academy students. First they return for a new term to find graffiti everywhere, then there's a flea epidemic and the heaviest snowfall in history means there's lots of hungry humans around. How will they get ou...

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Stinking, rubbish-infested rivers to swim in, nature walks minus the nature and Giant Sloth cooking dinner. This can only mean one terrible thing for the Academy students on their school trip. Humans are about! Oscar has gone missing, and Professor S...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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Oscar, Arabella, and their friends can't wait to begin their second termat theMammoth Academy. But when they arrive at school on the first day after winter break, there's a threatening graffiti message waiting for them. It seems the Cave Skool has mo...

• Sep-2009
• / General Fiction
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A new year at the Mammoth Academy and this time there are some new faces - Oscar and Arabella, the pygmy mammoths! And they're not your usual pygmy mammoths either - they're cool surfer dudes from Paradise Island! No sooner have they arrived however,...

• May-2010
• / General Fiction
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Oscar and his sister, Arabella, are starting their first year at the Mammoth Academy. Oscar isn’t fond of schoolwork, but he loves learning outdoor sports and becoming best friends with Fox. Things are going wonderfully, until the cook’s oranges ...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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Flamingos are pink. Frogs are green. But what animals are orange, purple, or blue? Children will go wild for this vibrant and fun early concept book that teaches them about colors, filled with wonderfully humorous animal illustrations. ...

• May-2012
• / General Fiction
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Go wild with the biggest to the smallest, the noisiest to the quietest animals around Smooth as a snake or prickly as a porcupine, from a big elephant to a little mouse, animals can be so different that they are opposites! From the slowest...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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A hugely entertaining story about one dog and his owner. When Rover, that's the little girl with red hair, NOT her canine friend, gets lost on the beach there's only one thing for it! Dog to the rescue! Seen from a dog's perspective Michael Rosen, a...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Each night as the sun goes down and the sky grows dark, STARS come out. But what are stars? And where are they? An innovative pop-up book from the maker of The Story of Everything and The Story of Things. Ages 5+ ...

• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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Look around you and what can you see? That's right, you can see THINGS - lots of things! But life on Planet Earth wasn't always like this... An innovative novelty book from the maker of The Story of Stars. Ages 5+ ...

• Feb-2017
• / General Fiction
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When a family wants to cut down a tree to build a house, what happens to the animals’ nests and burrows? Can a tree be home to everyone? For the rabbits, birds, and squirrels, the big tree is home. But then come two new arrivals with wonderful p...

• Sep-2018
• / General Fiction
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Perfect for every child who has ever dreamed of travelling to space...

Making new friends is never easy, but seems impossible when Tony moves to a new town and school mid-term. But when he finds a round red button hidden in a cupboard, all h...

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction
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Clever and wonderfully original - a celebration of friendship, kindness and living life to the full.

A reissue of this award-winning picture book by Neal Layton. Winner of the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Bronze Award.

Bartholomew lead...

• Oct-2018
• / General Fiction
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Tony has settled into his new school, but things never stay the same for long - Tony's mum announces that he is going to have a new little brother or sister.

When things get too much, Tony likes to press the red button in the kitchen cupboa...

• Jan-2019
• / General Fiction
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What would you do if a red button in your kitchen cupboard could transport you to a spaceship? Press it, of course! Created by the award-winning author and illustrator Neal Layton.

When things get too much, Tony climbs aboard his spaceship c...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2023
• / General Fiction
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