Let’s Read With Lyla and Dad

All the Ways to be Smart, by Davina Bell

Smart is not just ticks and crosses, smart is building boats from boxes. Painting patterns, wheeling wagons, being mermaids, riding dragons...

We Don’t Eat Our Classmates, by Ryan T. Higgins

It's the first day of school for Penelope Rex, and she can't wait to meet her classmates. But it's hard to make human friends when they're so darn delicious! That is, until Penelope gets a taste of her own medicine and finds she may not be at the top of the food chain after all…

You Can’t Let an Elephant drive a racing car, by Patricia Cleveland-Peck & David Tazzyman

Have you ever seen a weightlifting wombat, or a figure-skating alligator? How about a pole-vaulting hippo, or an octopus... playing table tennis?

Giraffes Can’t Dance, By Giles Andreae

Giraffes can’t dance…. or can they??

Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs, Giles Andreae.

Flinn is at school looking in the art cupboard for some coloured pens to finish off his dinosaur drawing when he stumbles upon Captain Stubble, a real live Pirate Captain! He tells Flinn that his ship, the Acorn, has been stolen and that he needs Flinn to help him rescue it back

Thomas & Friends, Neville the new Engine

This is a story about Neville, a little engine who just wants to be friends. But Thomas and the other trains won’t give him a chance, and that gets them all into trouble... 

Bears Big Bottom, by Steve Smallman

Bear was friendly, Bear was sweet, The nicest bear you'd ever meet! With little paws and little feet, And a very BIG bear bottom! Poor Bear! His bottom is causing chaos... Bump! Crash! Splat! Soon Bear is in great big trouble! Can he ever make it up to his friends? 

When a Dragon Goes to School by, Caryl Hart

When a dragon goes to school, will she enjoy a book in the reading den and save her lunchtime treats for a friend? Or will she throw the crayons and refuse to share? She's going to need her friends to help her behave herself . . . she is DRAGON after all!
 

Silly Billy, by Anthony Browne

Billy is a bit of a worrier. He worries about hats and shoes. Most of all he worries about staying at other people's houses. His mum and dad try to help, but still Billy worries, until a visit to his grandma's shows him how to overcome his fears with the aid of his imagination - and some tiny worry dolls.
 

The Book With No Pictures, by B. J. Novak

You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here's how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Everything..!