Titles and authors include Children's Book Award winners: Matilda by Roald Dahl; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling; Pongwiffy and the Holiday of Doom; The Owl Tree by Jenny Nimmo; Aquila by Andrew Norris; Nightmare Stairs by Robert Swindells.
Also, extracts from Switchers by Kate Thompson, Snatchers by Helen Cresswell, Skellig by David Almond and Krindlekrax by Philip Ridley.
The FCBG is the largest organisation of its kind in the UK and extremely influential. It brings together librarians, teachers, parents - anyone who has an interest in children's books - in its 45 regional branches. It annually runs the Children's Book Award - judged by 30,000 children - and six of the extracted titles in this collection are winners or have been shortlisted