Booklists

BOLT encourages a wide variety of students, including reluctant readers, by providing them with books featuring appealing topics and carefully prepared text. Innovative infographics and attention-commanding photography draw in young readers. Packed with dynamic photos, charts, diagrams, fun facts, and infographics, BOLT's attention-grabbing titles are sure to have your readers coming back for more.

The little wild sparrow journeys south across the seas, to a bright new world where he meets little Edie and changes her life forever.

Verdi, the personality-plus python, begins life as a yellow, boldly striped and lively hatchling who zings his way through the jungle. Join the snake's verdant, vibrant tropical world and share his fun.

The Very Blue Thingamajig is a colourful, innovative counting book about the newly hatched thingamajig, who is very blue and very plain. He is different from all the other thingamajigs, so he has no friends. Then, one day, he begins to change.

The Very Cranky Bear is back, and this time he is facing Boris Buffalo in a battle of bravery. Each comes up with an activity he is sure the other will be too afraid to complete and each time they are right behind each other, until a huge roar from big, very dark cave sends them both fleeing through the forest.

Take a deep dive into your body and how it works. A lift-the-flap, very first questions, book that will answer questions such as: What gives me shape? How do I move? and What does blood do?

There's a big bad mood spreading through the wood. It starts with Bear who upsets Mole, who snaps at Hedgehog, who's prickly with Fox. Soon Bear's bad mood has made everyone grumpy! Can a little bit of love make them happy again?

This book asks you to imagine and think about some things. That sounds easy, right? Anyone can think stuff. You don't even need to be standing up. Is this book really The Very Hard Book? We shall see. Good luck.

When the very hungry bear goes fishing, he ends up catching more than he bargained for. There's a polar bear, with an armful of fish, who needs help finding a new home.

The very hungry caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food in this beautifully structured and appealing story.

Bear is enjoying a pleasant, quiet read which is interrupted when Flea announces his presence, in a way that only fleas can. The resultant sea journey for both Flea and Bear culminates somewhat surprisingly.

Fox, Chipmunk, Marmot and Bear are such good friends that they decide to build a forest home and live in it together. But when winter comes, Chipmunk, Marmot and Little Bear take to their beds. Fox can't wake them up at all. Fox is lonely and confused, especially when parcels start to arrive for the other three animals. What on earth can be in them, and will the three friends ever wake up?

Here is the story of a very noisy baby. She could bellow like a buffalo and roar like a lion. And howl like a wolf for a very long time. The baby loves to make all kinds of sounds. She's really very loud. But when some animals in the town go missing, can the very noisy baby help?

In the jingle, jangle jungle, there's music in the air. It's time for bear to sleep but, perhaps, his friends can find the perfect instrument for him to play.

The toys are on their way to Jemima's caravan park to spend the holidays together. Join them for classic Play School fun as they bring to life the joy of an Australian Christmas.

'We wish you a quacky Christmas!' Samantha Duck is getting ready for Christmas. 'I'm going to give presents to animals all over the world!' Her friend Sebastian tells her not to bother. 'Christmas is not for animals,' he says. But with the help of her farmyard friends, Samantha sets out to prove that Christmas is for everyone.

On a Jingle Jangle Mountain, as the snow fell on the rocks, a bear was being followed by a very sneaky fox. But Bear was in a hurry, he was running very late, winter had arrived and it was time to hibernate!

Theres a monster in the jungle and its gobbling up the trees! It sounds like a job for THE VERY SUPER BEAR! Can The Very Super Bear and his sidekick, Bruce the Goose, save the jungle from the cranky, yellow monster?

Bartelby's walks started out great...but they didn't always end so well

Van Gogh's paintings cleverly mixed with text from Van Gogh's letters. A wonderful introduction to the more sophisticated world of visual art through a simple introduction to colour. American spelling.

Everyone admires Viola because she is so brave and because of the very daring things. But Viola has a secret and at bed-time she is not so brave after all.

Violet is a little girl with big ideas. She is always thinking. One day, Violet starts thinking about nothing...

In a big apartment building two children live next door to each other. One plays the violin. One plays the cello. They play alone until one day something exciting happens. A book about friendship, the magic of music and an original duet for musicians to play.

Who are you going to visit?" a young child asks curiously. A daughter, a wife, a grandfather, a son...Each simple answer from a fellow commuter shows how we are all bound by the common experience of love, and that it's our similarities - not our differences - that matter most.

Two sisters live peacefully on a tiny, remote island. When they receive a letter announcing the arrival of their cousin, John, the sisters are initially delighted to have a visitor. But, the sisters' delight is short-lived as John tries to bring order to their comfortable lives.

Vivi sets off to travel from Hamburg to Sydney to find her godmother. How long will it take and how will she get there.

Four different voices tell their own versions of the same walk in the park. There's a bossy woman, a sad man, a lonely boy and a young girl whose warmth touches those she meets.

Displaced by war and conflict, a refugee family sets out on a voyage into the unknown. Told in only a few words (one word per page) this is the powerful story of a family fleeing their war-torn country and making a dangerous trip across the ocean to a new life in a new land.

This ancient song is presented for the first time as a beautiful book for children, includes a CD to song along with.