Let’s Read With Lyla and Dad

Lyla & Dad

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Apr 15, 2025 · 11 min
Five Minutes Peace, by Jill Murphy
One morning Mrs Large, needing some peace and quiet away from her boisterous children, decides to take refuge in the bathroom. She fills herself a foamy bubble-bath and takes in a tray of her favourite breakfast... but finds her peace is to be very short-lived!
Apr 15, 2025 · 16 min
Bluey, The Pool
On a trip to the pool Bluey and Dad tease Mum about being fussy and over-prepared, but they soon realise that's what makes the fun things possible.
Apr 15, 2025 · 10 min
Aliens Love Underpants, by Claire Freedman
Aliens love underpants, in every shape and size, But there are no underpants in space, so here's a big surprise....
Apr 15, 2025 · 16 min
The Fly who Told a Lie, by Russell Punter
Even the best lie in the world gets found out in the end
Apr 15, 2025 · 14 min
Simon Sock, by Sue Hendra
Simon is an odd, stripey sock. He lives in the drawers with all the other socks. Every day two socks get picked to go on an adventure. The sparklies go to parties. The woolies go the park. The smarts go to school. Everyone has a pair... except Simon.
Apr 15, 2025 · 26 min
The Day The Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt
Poor Duncan just wants to colour in. But when he opens his box of crayons, he only finds letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!
Apr 15, 2025 · 14 min
Once Upon a Dragon’s Fire, by Beatrice Blue
Do you know how dragons got their fire? It all began once upon a magic kingdom, when a fearsome, terrifying dragon stalked the land. Or so the stories said. When two children called Freya and Sylas met the dragon, they found something very different indeed...
Apr 15, 2025 · 22 min
Peppa Pig: My Mummy is Amazing
Peppa and her friends are celebrating their mummies at playgroup and share all the reasons their mummies are amazing
Apr 15, 2025 · 15 min
Pandarina, by Matilda Rose
Meet Pandarina, the ballet-loving Panda with magical paws. She's a little bit clumsy, but she never gives up!
Apr 15, 2025 · 13 min
The Pirate Mums, by Jodie Lancet-Grant
Billy has two pirates for mums. He wishes his family could be more like everyone else's. Until a swashbuckling adventure changes everything!
Apr 15, 2025 · 15 min
Charlie and Lola: A Dog With Nice Ears, by Lauren Child
Lola wants a dog - but her perfect pooch seem oddly like a ... rabbit!
Apr 15, 2025 · 21 min
The Who’s Whonicorn of Unicorns, by Kes Gray
Are you ready to discover some Unicorns…. and some spooky BOOnicorns, polite AFTERYOUnicorns, floating BALLOONincorns, smelly POOnicorns, clumsy BUMPINTOnicorns - and so many more!
Apr 15, 2025 · 16 min
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...
Apr 15, 2025 · 14 min
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…
Apr 15, 2025 · 13 min
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?
Apr 15, 2025 · 13 min
Giraffes Can’t Dance, By Giles Andreae
Giraffes can’t dance…. or can they??
Apr 15, 2025 · 20 min
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
Apr 15, 2025 · 12 min
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...
Apr 15, 2025 · 8 min
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?
Apr 15, 2025 · 14 min
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!