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May 17, 2017May 21, 2017

The Beetles with M.G. Leonard

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April 22, 2017April 8, 2020

Mangoes and Milktarts: Cooking with Katherine Rundell

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April 14, 2017May 23, 2017

The Animal House by Ivor Cutler and Helen Oxenbury

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April 11, 2017May 23, 2017

So Much! By Trish Cooke and Helen Oxenbury

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April 7, 2017May 23, 2017

Tiny Tim by Helen Oxenbury

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March 28, 2017May 17, 2018

Rosemary Sandberg – From the Puffin Club to Picture Lions

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March 8, 2017November 15, 2017

Misty

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January 29, 2017January 31, 2017

The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert Hunter

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January 23, 2017January 23, 2017

Quentin Blake’s Tell Me a Picture

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January 9, 2017May 17, 2018

The History of London and Other Ceramics by Laura Carlin

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December 30, 2016September 14, 2018

10 Best Children’s Books of 2016

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December 24, 2016April 3, 2017

Father Christmas Goes on Twitter

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December 23, 2016December 23, 2016

Maurice Sendak’s Christmas Mystery

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December 22, 2016December 21, 2016

The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder

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December 21, 2016December 22, 2016

Robin Stevens’s Favourite Christmas Mysteries

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December 20, 2016December 22, 2016

The Happiest Man in the World by Mij Kelly and Louise Nisbet

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December 19, 2016December 19, 2016

Lotta: Christmastime is Wonderful by Astrid Lindgren

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December 18, 2016December 18, 2016

An Interview with Santa Claus by Margaret Mead illustrated by Thomas Nast

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December 17, 2016December 16, 2016

The Perfect Present by Michael Foreman

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December 16, 2016December 16, 2016

The Twelve Days of Christmas by Brian Wildsmith

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December 15, 2016December 15, 2016

Beatrix Potter’s Christmas Party

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December 14, 2016December 14, 2016

The Bear’s Sea Escape by Benjamin Chaud

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December 13, 2016December 13, 2016

There May Be a Castle by Piers Torday

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December 12, 2016December 12, 2016

Once in Royal David’s City by Harold Jones and Kathleen Lines

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December 11, 2016December 10, 2016

Winter and the Children by Hilde Hoffman and Beatrice Braun-Fock

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December 10, 2016December 10, 2016

The Mouse and his Child by Russell Hoban

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December 9, 2016December 5, 2019

The Snow Day by Komako Sakai

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December 8, 2016December 4, 2019

Brambly Hedge: The Secret Staircase by Jill Barklem

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December 7, 2016December 7, 2016

Christmas in July by Arthur Yorinks and Richard Egielski

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December 6, 2016December 5, 2016

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

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December 5, 2016September 14, 2018

Ivor the Engine’s Christmas

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December 4, 2016December 4, 2016

Easter Treat by Roger Duvoisin

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December 3, 2016December 2, 2016

Melrose and Croc by Emma Chichester Clark

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December 2, 2016May 17, 2018

The White Lands of Raymond Briggs

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December 1, 2016January 15, 2018

Tygertale’s Advent Calendar 2016

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December 1, 2016December 2, 2016

Winter Magic curated by Abi Elphinstone

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November 14, 2016November 21, 2016

Children in East and West by Ingrid Vang Nyman

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October 29, 2016October 30, 2016

Witches of the Northern Lights

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October 18, 2016October 18, 2016

Ingrid Vang Nyman’s Garden

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October 9, 2016November 15, 2017

The Encyclopedia of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg

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September 23, 2016

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster & Edward Ardizzone

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September 13, 2016December 4, 2018

The Songs of Roald Dahl

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September 2, 2016October 9, 2019

Luke Pearson Q&A

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August 5, 2016April 23, 2018

Quentin Blake’s Jackanory Olympics

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July 25, 2016November 13, 2018

The Way to Write for Children by Joan Aiken

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July 1, 2016March 24, 2017

Lotta by Astrid Lindgren & Beatrice Alemagna

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June 10, 2016September 6, 2016

Jesus in London by Edith Nesbit

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May 20, 2016May 17, 2018

Willy Wonka and Other Psychopaths

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March 29, 2016September 6, 2016

Revolutionary Russian Children’s Books

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March 17, 2016March 18, 2016

Atomic Adventures with Professor Astro Cat & Ben Newman

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February 25, 2016December 17, 2018

Mapping Piers Torday’s The Last Wild by Thomas Flintham

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February 9, 2016April 3, 2017

Pancake Day

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February 4, 2016March 24, 2017

Mapping The Shadow Keeper – Abi Elphinstone Q&A

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December 31, 2015September 14, 2018

10 Best Children’s Books of 2015

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December 30, 2015September 14, 2018

10 Best Picture Books of 2015

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December 24, 2015September 19, 2016

Words & Pictures Advent Stories

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December 23, 2015December 23, 2015

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum

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December 22, 2015September 19, 2016

A Storyteller Christmas

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December 21, 2015December 21, 2015

Hansi by Ludwig Bemelmans

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December 20, 2015December 4, 2016

The Sleeping Beauty Theatre

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December 19, 2015November 15, 2017

Klaus by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora

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December 18, 2015January 6, 2016

A Boy Called Christmas: Q&A with illustrator Chris Mould

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December 17, 2015December 17, 2015

Mary by Brian Wildsmith

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December 16, 2015May 21, 2022

Puffin Post at Christmas

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December 15, 2015December 14, 2015

The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry and Lisbeth Zwerger

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December 14, 2015December 13, 2015

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May

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December 13, 2015July 31, 2017

Shirley Hughes and Clara Vuillamy’s Christmas Books

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December 12, 2015December 11, 2015

The First Christmas by Enid Blyton

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December 11, 2015December 11, 2015

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote and Beth Peck

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December 10, 2015December 9, 2015

Mog’s Christmas Calamity by Judith Kerr

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December 9, 2015December 9, 2015

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

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December 8, 2015September 19, 2016

The Tomten by Astrid Lindgren and Kitty Crowther

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December 7, 2015December 7, 2015

I Like Winter by Lois Lenski

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December 6, 2015December 5, 2015

The Mysterious Toyshop by Cyril W. Beaumont and Wyndham Payne

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December 5, 2015December 5, 2015

The Christmas Eve Tree – Emily Sutton Q&A

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December 4, 2015September 14, 2018

The Dolls’ House by Rumer Godden

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December 3, 2015December 2, 2015

Pinocchio the Boy or Incognito in Collodi by Lane Smith

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December 2, 2015December 2, 2015

The Christmas Bower by Polly Redford and Edward Gorey

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December 1, 2015January 15, 2018

Tygertale’s Advent Calendar 2015

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December 1, 2015December 1, 2015

Refuge by Anne Booth and Sam Usher

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November 27, 2015January 9, 2017

We are shed people: Dahl, Gorey & Riddell

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November 11, 2015November 30, 2015

‘A’ is for Atlas

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November 6, 2015November 16, 2015

Railhead by Philip Reeve

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October 30, 2015July 31, 2017

It’s Too Frightening For Me! By Shirley Hughes

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October 25, 2015November 21, 2016

The Black Hand Gang

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October 20, 2015April 8, 2017

The Book That My Parents Read to Me – Wide Awake Jake

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October 14, 2015April 3, 2017

Beatrice Alemagna Q&A

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October 8, 2015October 14, 2015

The Rainbow of Time by Jimmy Liao

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September 30, 2015October 11, 2015

Close to the Wind by Jon Walter

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September 23, 2015November 3, 2020

Katherine Rundell’s The Wolf Wilder by Gelrev Ongbico

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September 16, 2015April 3, 2017

Ed Vere Q&A

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September 9, 2015November 3, 2020

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith

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August 30, 2015April 3, 2017

Emily Hughes Q&A

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August 23, 2015November 15, 2017

The Yellow “M” by Edgar P. Jacobs

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August 11, 2015August 16, 2015

Dillweed’s Revenge by Florence Parry Heide and Carson Ellis

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August 9, 2015October 31, 2020

SF Said Q&A

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August 1, 2015August 4, 2015

The Gothic Empire – Bryan Talbot’s Nemesis the Warlock

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July 26, 2015April 3, 2017

David Lucas Q&A

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July 20, 2015July 20, 2015

The Original Steampunk – Bryan Talbot’s Luther Arkwright

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July 18, 2015July 20, 2015

The Book I Read Until it Fell Apart – Tintin Prisoners of the Sun

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July 12, 2015April 3, 2017

Rilla Alexander Q&A

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July 5, 2015April 3, 2017

Philip Reeve Q&A

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July 2, 2015September 14, 2018

The List of Betterment

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June 28, 2015November 3, 2020

Reading Dangerously – The Tiger Who Came to Tea

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June 22, 2015June 23, 2015

Mr. Miacca

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June 14, 2015September 14, 2018

The Clangers

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June 9, 2015October 9, 2019

Rosie’s Chick – Pat Hutchins Q&A

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May 30, 2015June 3, 2015

Alan Garner’s Caves

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May 12, 2015September 14, 2018

The Pogles

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May 1, 2015September 12, 2015

Nancy by Ernie Bushmiller

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April 23, 2015October 18, 2016

100 Great Children’s Picture Books

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April 14, 2015November 13, 2018

The Puffin Club

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April 2, 2015November 3, 2020

The anti-Narnia: Elidor by Alan Garner

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March 26, 2015June 22, 2015

The Mildenhall Treasure – Ralph Steadman

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March 18, 2015March 18, 2015

Home by Carson Ellis

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March 12, 2015March 13, 2015

Brett Ewins – In Bad Company

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March 1, 2015May 17, 2018

Philip Pullman Q&A Northern Lights – The Graphic Novel.

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February 19, 2015September 14, 2018

Noggin the Nog

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February 8, 2015February 19, 2015

Grimm by Cruikshank

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January 28, 2015January 28, 2015

Super Hairy Animals

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January 20, 2015January 20, 2015

Maurice Sendak – A Day in the Life

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January 13, 2015November 21, 2016

Fungus the Bogeyman Plop-Up Book by Raymond Briggs

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January 2, 2015May 21, 2017

Puffin Annual Number One

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December 24, 2014October 18, 2016

A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

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December 23, 2014December 23, 2014

Olivia Helps With Christmas by Ian Falconer

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December 22, 2014December 21, 2014

Barbapapa’s Christmas

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December 21, 2014May 1, 2015

Mutants, Mayhem, Mistletoe – 2000AD at Christmastime

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December 20, 2014December 20, 2014

The Christmas Truce by Carol Ann Duffy and David Roberts

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December 19, 2014December 18, 2014

Can it be True by Susan Hill and Angela Barrett

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December 18, 2014December 18, 2014

Eloise at Christmastime by Kay Thompson

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December 17, 2014November 30, 2018

The Night Before Christmas illustrated by Tomie dePaola

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December 16, 2014December 15, 2014

Tom Fobble’s Day by Alan Garner

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December 15, 2014December 15, 2014

The Twelve Days of Christmas by George Buchanan

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December 14, 2014April 22, 2020

Ladybird Stories of our Christmas Customs

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December 13, 2014December 12, 2014

Church Mice at Christmas by Graham Oakley

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December 12, 2014October 11, 2017

A Merry Moomin Christmas

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December 11, 2014December 10, 2014

Merry Christmas Ernest and Celestine by Gabrielle Vincent

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December 10, 2014October 18, 2016

Lotta’s Christmas Surprise by Astrid Lindgren

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December 9, 2014December 8, 2014

Once Upon a Northern Night by Isabelle Arsenault

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December 8, 2014January 8, 2015

The Snowman by Raymond Briggs

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December 7, 2014December 7, 2014

Biff, Chip and Kipper’s Christmas Adventure

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December 6, 2014September 13, 2016

My Year by Roald Dahl

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December 5, 2014December 1, 2020

The Fish in the Bathtub by Eoin Colfer and Peter Bailey

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December 4, 2014January 29, 2015

Seasons by John Burningham

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December 3, 2014December 3, 2014

One Thousand Christmas Beards by Roger Duvoisin

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December 2, 2014January 15, 2018

Tygertale’s Advent Calendar 2014

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December 2, 2014December 2, 2014

Snow by Sam Usher

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December 1, 2014August 14, 2015

Der Struwwelpeter by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann

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November 20, 2014November 1, 2020

Moominvalley in November

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October 31, 2014February 22, 2020

Edward Gorey’s Fantod Pack

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