ReadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2025

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Adam Ming Illustrator

Amazing Animals with Astonishing Jobs cover

Amazing Animals with Astonishing Jobs

Simon Philip - Paperback

£7.99

Where Are You Really From? cover

Where Are You Really From?

2 authors - Paperback

£9.99

Posey Pearl is a Curious Girl cover

Posey Pearl is a Curious Girl

Fifi Box - Hardback

£9.99

I'm Building a Nest cover

I'm Building a Nest

Saskia Gwinn - Hardback

£12.99

Down the Hole cover

Down the Hole

Scott Slater - Hardback

£12.99

Once Upon a Big Bad Wolf cover

Once Upon a Big Bad Wolf

Leigh Hodgkinson - Paperback

£7.99

Does A Monkey Get Grumpy? cover

Does A Monkey Get Grumpy?

Moira Butterfield - Paperback

£7.99

Does a Bear Wash its Hair? cover

Does a Bear Wash its Hair?

Moira Butterfield - Paperback

£7.99

I'm Joining the Herd cover

I'm Joining the Herd

Saskia Gwinn - Hardback

£12.99

A First Book of Bugs: with 30 poems about insects and minibeasts cover

A First Book of Bugs: with 30 poems about insects and minibeasts

Simon Mole - Hardback

£16.99

Help!

Anna Brooke - Paperback

£7.99