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Charlie and Lola

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Charlie and Lola: I Absolutely Love Animals
Charlie and Lola: I Absolutely Love Animals
Lola loves guinea pigs, and wishes more than anything that she can take home the classroom guinea pig, Bert. With a little help from her friends and Charlie, she learns all there is to learn about guinea pigs. But caring for a pet is a big responsibility... Is Lola up to the challenge?

Charlie and Lola's love of animals continues in the second story, in which they care for their new pet mouse, Nibbles. As they discover, mice are extremely clever and seriously brave; Nibbles, an expert tightrope-walker, is no exception. Join Charlie, Lola and Nibbles as they embark on a heartwarming journey of adventure and friendship.
Charlie and Lola: I Completely Love Winter
Charlie and Lola: I Completely Love Winter
This really very good Charlie and Lola book combines two snowy stories, perfect for cold winter bedtimes: Snow is My Favourite and My Best and I Really Need Actual Ice Skates.

In the first story, Lola is extremely excited because it's going to snow. Lola says, 'Snow is my FAVOURITE and my best. Why can't it snow every day?'

In the second story, Lola can't wait to go ice skating. Lola says, 'I will be the best ice-skaterer in the WHOLE school!'
Charlie and Lola: Look After Your Planet
Charlie and Lola: Look After Your Planet
Lola is clearing out some of her old things because she does not want her bedroom to ever get as messy and pongy as Marv's older brother Marty's bedroom - yuk! Charlie persuades Lola that instead of throwing her things away, she should recycle them. 'Recycle it? What is that?' asks Lola. With a bit of help from Charlie, Lola learns all about recycling and how it is extremely very important to look after our planet. Soon she has found an extra-specially fun way to do more recycling - and gets lots of her classmates to join in too!
Charlie and Lola: This is Actually My Party
Charlie and Lola: This is Actually My Party
It's Charlie's birthday and he has invited all his friends and Lola to an especially scary, hairy monster party - but Lola has other ideas! Not only does she make PINK fairy cakes for his friends, she opens his cards and presents too. Lola says, 'Oh I LOVE birthday parties!' How can Charlie explain to Lola that it is actually HIS party?
Charlie and Lola: But Excuse Me That is My Book
Charlie and Lola: But Excuse Me That is My Book
Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies is Lola's absolute favourite book ever in the whole wide world. So naturally she is distraught when it's not at the library. Someone else has borrowed it! Charlie tries everything he can think of to placate her but nothing is ever going to beat Beetles, Bugs and Butterflies. That is, until Charlie finds Chimps and Chimpanzees and then Lola has a new best book ever!
Charlie and Lola: I'm Really Ever So Not Well
Charlie and Lola: I'm Really Ever So Not Well
Lola has a cold and is feeling really ever so not well. So her big brother, Charlie, thinks of all sorts of ideas to try to cheer Lola up. He brings her pink milk and biscuits, sings her a special song, plays her best smiley jigsaw puzzle and even takes her on a cloud-hopping adventure! Soon Lola's feeling much, much better!
Charlie and Lola: We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog
Charlie and Lola: We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog
Lola loves dogs. So when Charlie takes Lola and her friend Lotta to the park with his friend Marv and Marv's dog Sizzles, Lola is thrilled. Marv lets her and Lotta look after Sizzles on the promise that they don't let him off the lead. Can Lola and Lotta keep their promise and look after Sizzles?
Charlie and Lola: Snow is my Favourite and my Best
Charlie and Lola: Snow is my Favourite and my Best
Lola can't wait for it to snow. 'Snow is my favourite and my best,' she says. It snows all through the night and in the morning everything is extremely, completely white! Charlie and Lola play in the snowy park with their friends - they make snow angels, go sledging and Lola even makes a snow dog - just like Sizzles! But by the very next day all the snow has completely disappeared. Lola wishes it would snow every day,but Charlie compares snow to birthdays - they wouldn't be special if they happened every day. He takes Lola on an imaginary adventure to see penguins and polar bears living in their snowy homes and soon Lola realizes that it would be absolutely too cold to swim or wear her stripy party dress if it snowed all the time. Another winning story that perfectly captures a child's anticipation of the first snow of winter.
Charlie and Lola: My Best, Best Friend
Charlie and Lola: My Best, Best Friend
Lola and Lotta are BEST friends. They do absolutely completely everything together, like eating lunch, playing in the sandpit and going in pairs. But when a new girl, Evie, arrives in their class, Lotta starts spending all her time with her, and not Lola. Everything is extremely very different and Lola worries that Lotta is not her Best, Best, BESTEST friend anymore. How will Lola get Lotta's attention? Find out in this ever so good Charlie and Lola story.
Charlie and Lola: My Wobbly Tooth Must Not ever Never Fall Out
Charlie and Lola: My Wobbly Tooth Must Not ever Never Fall Out
Charlie and Lola are back with another ever so completely good story – this time involving Lola’s wobbly tooth. It's her first ever wobbly tooth and Lola is determined to hang on to it – until she finds out about the tooth fairy!
Charlie and Lola: We Completely Must Go to London
Charlie and Lola: We Completely Must Go to London
Charlie has this little sister Lola. Today they are visiting London on a school trip. Lola says, "London is extremely huge and very BUSY...I can't wait!"

Join Charlie and Lola as they take in all of London's most famous and best sights. There's plenty to see so tick off all the places they visit on your own extremely good London map AND tell everyone about your trip with free London postcards.
Charlie and Lola: I Completely Know About Guinea Pigs
Charlie and Lola: I Completely Know About Guinea Pigs
Lola is really, really excited about looking after the school guinea pig, Bert. Lola loves playing with Bert, and she and Charlie even build him his very own guinea-pig run! But when Bert goes missing, Lola soon discovers that she knows something about Bert that no one else has even thought of . . .

A completely special Charlie and Lola story, now available in paperback.
Charlie and Lola: I Will Be Especially Very Careful
Charlie and Lola: I Will Be Especially Very Careful
Lola's best friend Lotta has an extremely special new coat, and Lola really wants to borrow it. Lotta isn't so sure . . . 'I will be especially very careful,' says Lola. But will she be able to keep it all fluffy and white and new?

An especially special paperback picture book story, featuring Charlie and Lola.
Charlie and Lola: My First Ever and Best Story Collection
Charlie and Lola: My First Ever and Best Story Collection
A collection of FIVE extremely good stories all about ABSOLUTELY very important things like making friends, being independent and even taking part in your very first school sports day!

This collection contains: You Can Be My Friend, Help! I Really Mean It, I Am Really, Really Concentrating, I Can Do Anything That's Everything All On My Own and Charlie is Broken.
Charlie and Lola: My Completely Best Story Collection
Charlie and Lola: My Completely Best Story Collection
Charlie has this little sister, Lola, and together they have lots of extremely good adventures and do some very fun things. All Charlie and Lola fans will love this collection of five favourite stories, featuring Charlie and Lola, their friends Lotta and Marv and, of course, Marv's dog Sizzles!

Containing these five ever so good stories:
We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog, Whoops! But It Wasn't Me, My Wobbly Tooth Must Not Ever Never Fall Out, I've Won, No I've Won, No I've Won and Snow Is My Favourite and My Best
My Completely Best Story Collection
My Completely Best Story Collection
Charlie and Lola, first seen in I Will Not Ever NEVER Eat a Tomato, are stars of the screen, page, and now audio. First aired on prime time children’s BBC in October 2005 and now available on DVD, Charlie and Lola are enjoying superstardom! The fabulous audio collection contains five classic Charlie and Lola stories, enhanced with music, sound effects, and classic Charlie and Lola dialogue. The five fantastic audio adventures include the classic stories: We HONESTLY can look after your Dog; My Wobbly Tooth must not ever, NEVER fall out; I've Won, no i've won, No I've won; Whoops! But it wasn't Me; and Snow is my Favourite and my Best. With an all-star cast featuring Charlie, Lola, Lotta, Marv, Soren Lorensen, as well as Sizzles the dog.

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