I've written about this Children's Illustrated Internet Linked Encyclopedia before, the last time was September last year, but now it's part of the WHSmith 'clearance books' section so this may well be your last chance to grab a copy - it'll set you back all of £3.39, its full price was £19.98.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Children's Illustrated Internet Linked Encyclopedia

When I was little I was a regular visitor to the local library.  I loved the kid's story book section, but I was always fascinated by the reference books section upstairs.

The entire floor was dedicated solely to dictionaries, encyclopedias, volumes and volumes of English case law and Hansard reports and archives of the local papers going back over 100 years; seeing that amount of knowledge and information just begging to be discovered was amazing to me and when I was nowhere to be seen in the kiddies section, upstairs is where I'd always be found!

My 'thing' for reference books remains just as strong today, so when I saw this Children's Illustrated Internet Linked Encyclopedia, there really was no question as to whether I'd buy it or not; I gave a copy to my youngest son for Christmas and he regularly dips in and out of it to help him with his homework, or just because he's thought of something and wants to find out about it.

It contains spectacular illustrations, photographs and maps.  There are thousands of entries on a huge range of topics and up-to-the-minute coverage of world events, and you can jump from one entry to another and find out more with comprehensive cross-references and there are hundreds of expertly selected links that will take you to the best websites for each topic.

This is such a wonderful book; it's big and hefty (hardback too, so it's robust) and, quite frankly, I think it should be standard issue for every child starting school - I can't wax lyrical about it much more so I'll just leave you to go and buy a copy whilst you still can!

Happy internet linking and learning!

The Book People are selling this Little Princess book collection of 10 books for £9.99, rather than their full recommended list price of £59.90.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Little Princess book collection

I do like mooching around the kid's section over at The Book People on Saturdays, it reminds me of going into town with my mum and going to the independent book shop (Waterstones et al didn't exist then) and choosing a book to buy.

Whilst browsing their virtual shelves today, I came across this Little Princess book collection; one of the highlights of getting up early with my youngest a few years ago was getting to watch the Little Princess, I don't think Edward was overly bothered either way, but I loved watching it.

I'm not sure why, maybe it's because the Little Princess is cheeky, a bit naughty and is quite angsty for a little girl, or maybe it was just Jane Horrocks' voice brought a certain 'something' to it all.

The Little Princess stories are all about the little life lessons that young ones have to get to grips with and presents them in a fun and very clever way.

The titles include:

• I Want to Do It by Myself!
• I Want My Light On!
• I Don't Want to Go to Hospital!
• I Don't Want to Wash My Hands!
• I Want a Party!
• I Want A Sister!
• I Want My Dummy!
• I Want to Win!
• I Want to Go Home!
• I Want TWO Birthdays!

To zero out the delivery charge just add code CHAT2012 to your basket; marvellous.

Happy reading!

The complete Oxford Reading Tree 'Read At Home' book collection is back in stock with The Book People and is up for grabs this time for £25, rather than the full list price of £243.91.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Read At Home book collection

If you've missed the previous offers for this Oxford Reading Tree 'Read At Home' book collection then I really urge you not to wait too long this time, it always goes out of stock fairly quickly and whilst it will come back into stock at some point, there's no telling when or what the price will be (it has been cheaper than £25 before now).

It's ever so easy to forget what a huge task learning to read actually is; it's just something we take for granted once we can do it without having to think about it and the Oxford University Press are one of the leading book publishers for books that help speed this process along for your child.

The collection has 31 books with six stories for each of the five levels of reading.  It comes with an easy-to-use handbook that will help YOU to help YOU to learn how make reading fun your child and make sure you both have fun learning together.

Progressing step-by-step through levels one to five your child will learn through repetition of words and sentence patterns and be well on their way to enjoying reading for the rest of their lives.  If your little one is already at school then the characters in the books may well be familiar to them because this reading collection has been written so you can help support the reading work your child is doing in the classroom.

Your Read At Home book collection order should qualify for free home delivery, as it's £25, but if for some reason it doesn't, add this free delivery code - 2012CHAT - to your basket.

Thanks to sooofee at HUKD

The wonderful Julia Donaldson book collection is back in stock over with The Book People; you can grab one for yourself for £9.99, rather than £64.90, and they always tend to fly out of stock pretty fast so if you want one then I urge you not to dawdle.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Julia Donaldson book collection

I wonder, is it possible there are many people left in the land who haven't read a Julia Donaldson story? It's a bit like the bit of pub quiz trivia I heard the other day, that one in six households in the UK has a copy of an Adele album (I don't) - I wonder how many households have a copy of the Gruffalo?!

The titles included in the Julia Donaldson book collection are:

• One Mole Digging a Hole by Julia Donaldson & Nick Sharratt
• Rosie's Hat by Julia Donaldson & Anna Currey
• The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
• A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler
• One Ted Falls Out of Bed by Julia Donaldson & Anna Currey
• Hippo has A Hat by Julia Donaldson & Nick Sharratt
• Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose by Julia Donaldson & Nick Sharratt
• Tyrannosaurus Drip by Julia Donaldson & David Roberts
• The Troll by Julia Donaldson & David Roberts
• The Smartest Giant in Town by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler

Delivery with The Book People is usually only free if you spend over £25, but if you add this code - 2012CHAT - to your basket then you'll get free delivery without having to spend more than £9.99.

Thanks to siandy at HUKD

Amazon has dropped the price of the book Goodbye Pert Breasts from something to, well, nothing! Yes, you can download this extremely funny and clever look at parenthood from the perspective of a man without paying a single red cent. Wahoo!

• Click here to get your free Kindle book at Amazon

Yes, in case you hadn’t already guessed, this free book is a Kindle download. Written by Ben Wakeling, the book is the diary of a newborn dad and should have most of us cackling in agreement and sympathy.

Ben Wakeling is a very funny author and the book has had plenty of good reviews from the likes of Prima Baby, Pregnancy & Birth, and plenty more. He is a husband and father who lives in Warwickshire and his views on being a parent are delightful, and don’t pull any punches either.

Fans of his blog and his writing will appreciate this fab freebie so get on there and get downloading!

Thanks to Robinsad at HUKD!

The Book People are selling these two Driver Dan's Story Train story books, as a pair, for £2.99 - their usual full list price is £7.98.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Driver Dan story books

I don't know anything about Driver Dan's Story Train, he's come along too late for me to be able to tell you about him first hand.  I have to say though, after a bit of Googling, that he looks rather fabulous and all of my kids would have loved him when they were in the right age range to be Driver Dan's Story Train fans.

So, Driver Dan is a CGI lion who drives the Story Train; each character within Driver Dan's Story Train has their own carriage (apart from Driver Dan, well, unless you count his driver seat engine, of course and Twinkle - she's a bird) that can be hitched up to the Story Train.  When Driver Dan stops at a character and hitches their carriage to the Story Train an adventure unfolds involving that character - that's the brief gist of Driver Dan's Story Train!

These two Driver Dan's Story Train story books are suitable for youngsters aged one year and older and the titles are: The Stripey Seed and The Congo Conga.

Single item delivery with The Book People is usually £1.95.  However, I have a free delivery code for you - yipppeee!  To have your pair of Driver Dan books delivered for free simply add this code - 2012CHAT - into the promotion code box in your online basket and the £1.95 single item delivery charge will disappear before your very eyes; magic!

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD

Red House Books are selling two Famous Five books - Five on a Treasure Island and Five go to Smugglers Top - that have been illustrated by Quentin Blake to celebrate their 70th Anniversary for £5.99 instead of £11.98.

• Click HERE to take a look at the two Famous Five books

Of all the Enid Blyton books I read as a child, the Famous Five stories weren't among them!

I don't know why, but they just never appealed to me - I read the Adventure series, which were very similar kids-turn-detective-and-get-themselves-into-all-sorts-of-trouble stories, and the Malory Towers series, along with Enid Blyton's Book of Fairies, but NOT the Famous Five.

I don't know what it was about them that put me off, you know - maybe it was the boring looking covers they had!  If they'd been illustrated by Quentin Blake back in the day then maybe I'd have been more interested - look at them, don't they look fun!

So, if you want to introduce your children to a time when lashings of ginger beer was a good thing, and kids went out for the entire day, didn't have mobile phones and got up to all sorts of mischief then these two Famous Five books are the way to go.

Single item delivery will cost you an additional £1.95 unless your order total is over £15, in which case delivery then becomes FREEEE!

The Works is selling this ace collection of Ten Favourite Books for Girls at only £9.99 instead of the usual price of £47.90. It’s a fab price with a discount of substantially less than the original price and you can get free delivery if you use the code below.

• Click here to get reading with The Works

To avoid paying around £3 for delivery of your books, you can use the voucher code DELIVERY15 to get free next day delivery. Now, isn’t that nice? At the moment there are plenty of these book collections in stock but you will need to hurry as they are going pretty fast.

The selection of books is perfect for girls aged 7 to 11 with stories by Sally Gardner, Francesca Simon and Pippa Funnell. If you sadly discover that this selection is out of stock, why not grab the Charlie and Lola: My Completely Best Story Book and CD Collection for the same price instead?

Thanks to Syzable at HUKD!

If you want this Charlie and Lola My Completely Best CD and Storybook Collection then you'd better get in quick because stock is going fast.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Charlie and Lola My Completely Best CD and Storybook Collection

I'm not surprised either, five Charlie and Lola hardback books, with accompanying audio CDs, are being sold for £9.99 rather than their £34.95 rrp.

I loved watching Charlie and Lola with my youngest son and whilst it's great fun and exciting to watch him growing up, it does mean that Charlie and Lola, Thomas the Tank Engine, Bob the Builder and Co suffer an enforced retirement from our lives.

The audio recordings for the CDs have been done using the original actors, which is great - there are few things as disappointing, as a child, expecting to hear the voices which have become so familiar to you, only to discover completely new ones who mean nothing to you.

Standard delivery with The Works will cost you an additional £2.95 and takes between three and five working days; if you need your Charlie and Lola My Completely Best CD and Storybook Collection then you can pay £6.95 for next day delivery.

Thanks to Syzable at HUKD

This deal is for the Thomas the Tank Engine Centenary Library by Rev. W. Awdry that includes twenty six of his books in one classic collection. Originally on sale for £150, this collection of books is down to £39.99 at The Works.

• Click here to get reading with The Works

The Reverend W. Awdry is the much celebrated creator of The Railway series and he was born in 1911, to celebrate the centenary of his birth all twenty six of his books were collected into one gorgeous library for generations of children to enjoy.

You’ll find the Thomas the Tank Engine series in a gorgeous box that stores them neatly together and looks really pretty with original images across the sides and top. Thanks to the fact that this box set is over £30, your delivery is also free from the store, which is rather nice.

This would make a stunning gift for an expectant parent or as a birthday present to a train mad child.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD!

I apologise to all the PlayPennies Dads here, this is probably not a freebie for you. And to those mums who think Mills & Boon and other such romantic novels are a waste of time, I apologise to you too. I, however, have a soft spot for these books as I discovered them when I was a teen and thought they were terribly exciting. Now you can get two free books right now and try them out. Go on, you know you want to…

• Click here to get some free romance from Mills & Boon

So, what you have here is Mills & Boon attempting to ensnare the unwary by sending them two free historical romance novels and hoping to hook them to the brand. Clever… You are under no obligation to buy anything if you accept your two free historical novels and there is no catch and no delivery charges.

Just bung them into your bag, send your order and wait for these two free books to appear in your mailbox. Good timing for lazy summer reading…

Thanks to TallerPaul at HUKD!

The Book People are selling this Titchy Witch book collection for £8.99, rather than its full list price of £39.92.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Titchy Witch book collection

If I had a little girl I'd buy her this Titchy Witch book collection.  Looking back over my reading childhood, witches featured from very early on - Meg and Mog when I was at infants school, Bewitched on TV then Jill Murphy's Worst Witch stories when I was a little older.

The same was true for my 16-year-old daughter, only she had Sabrina the Teenage Witch and TV adaptations of the Worst Witch  to watch as well.

Eight books make up this Titchy Witch book collection and are aimed at little girls aged around six years old, who are just getting to grips with reading for themselves.

The language is clear and straight to the point, the pictures are bright and colourful and, apparently, the layout is in a format that will make it easy for your budding reader to follow.

Single item delivery will cost you an additional £1.95; free delivery only kicks in when you spend over £25.

Thanks to bjay at HUKD

The Works are selling the rather fabulous Horrible Histories Blood Curdling Box Set for £19.99 rather than the recommended list price of £99.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Horrible Histories Blood Curdling Box Set

I think all the Horrible Histories books are utter genius; kids love gross, gruesome and gory and bringing history to life by revealing all the disgusting bits is just the perfect way to get children engaged in days and centuries gone by.

When my older teenagers were younger they loved dipping in and out of the Horrible Histories books, my youngest son is almost six-years-old and he loves them too.

From the Savage Stone Age, to Groovy Greeks, Rotten Romans ,Vile Victorians and the two World Wars, there's a section of history covered by these fabulous books written by Terry Deary.

If you have a young boy who's more than a little bit reluctant to open the pages of books, then the books that make up this Horrible Histories Blood Curdling Box Set may just come to your rescue.

Standard delivery is an additional £2.99.

Calling everyone who knows a young LEGO Star Wars fan!  The Book People are selling a collection of three LEGO Star Wars Books (complete with bricks and minifigures) for £15 rather than the full £43.99 list price.

• Click HERE to take a look at the LEGO Star Wars books

The LEGO Star Wars Visual Dictionary, Ultimate Sticker Collection and the LEGO Star Wars Brickmaster books are the LEGO Star Wars books that make up this rather fab' LEGO Star Wars book collection, and they all come in a linen bag that has various LEGO Star Wars characters printed on it.

The Ultimate Sticker Collection comes with 500 stickers to sort out and stick on/in; the Visual Dictionary will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about LEGO Star Wars figures, and the Brickmaster book comes with 240 bricks, two minifigures and instructions for building eight models.

There are usually delivery fees to pay either for orders containing either single or multiple items, but if you use this code at the checkout - AFFREE15 - then delivery of your LEGO Star Wars books will be free.

Thanks to Rhys135 at HUKD

This is an excellent freebie and one that I have snapped up faster than you can say, “Oh, look, a fabulous freebie!”. This book has been reduced from £7.50 to, well, zero, zip, nada, nothing. And delivery is free thanks to the wonders of the Kindle and Whispernet - yeah, sorry non-Kindle owners, this is for the Kindle.

• Click here to get your great free book from Amazon

The book has great reviews on Amazon with adults saying that it was fun to delve back into the world of fairy tales and mad magic and weird and gruesome tales. I know that I’ve felt as if I have neglected my daughter’s fairytale education with us focusing more on educational books so this is a lovely idea.

It captures books from all different fairytale cultures and puts them all into one simple volume for you and the kids to enjoy. Sit together under a blankie with some hot chocolate and read these adventures together, it’s a lovely way to spend some quality time with each other too.

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD!

Just to really get the Gruffalo engrained into your child's psyche from as early on as possible, you can buy them this My First Gruffalo Board Books set for £4.99 instead of the £15.96 list price.

• Click HERE to take a look at this My First Gruffalo Board Books set

I do love the Gruffalo and if any of my children were still young enough for board books then you can be sure that one of these My First Gruffalo Board Books sets would be part of their book collections.

Four Grufffalo board books will introduce your child to numbers, animal actions, opposites and colours and are suitable for young Gruffalo fans aged one year and older - although I'm sure little ones younger than this are allowed to look at them with no ill effects!

If you're quick you'll be able to take advantage of the free delivery code I have for you that's valid for all of April - just enter AFAPRILFREE and the usual £1.95 single item delivery charge will reset to zero.

Happy Gruffalo board book reading!

Play are selling this Cosytime Stories Book Collection of four books for £3.59 rather than £19.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Cosytime Stories Book Collection

I love books, if you're a regular PlayPennies reader you'll know this already, and goes some way to explain why all my children have a massive collection of books; whenever I came across deals like this, I 'd take advantage of them!

You can never have too many books, as far as I'm concerned, and the four books in this Cosytime Stories book collection look great - the sort of stories that leave you feeling all warm, fuzzy and lovely.

The Very Sleepy Sloth could adequately describe how I felt when I got up at 5am this morning - honestly, I could easily have just stayed in bed.  The other titles include: I Will Always Love You, What Are You Doing In My Bed? and When Will It Be Spring?

There's no delivery to pay when you order from Play so £3.59 is all you're going to pay for your Cosytime Stories Book Collection

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD

The lovely Book People are selling this Animal Stories Bedtime Collection of 10 books for £9.99, the recommended list price is £69.90.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Animal Stories Bedtime Collection

There's something utterly delicious about picture books at bedtime, especially ones that feature lovable animal characters.

Fergus the patch-eyed pup, roaring Little Rex and all their friends are going to become firm bedtime pals with your little one and each story is, apparently, just the right length for reading out loud.

Well, this may be so but in my experience one story is never enough - particularly if it's a favourite!

If you're a regular PlayPennies reader then it may have come to your attention that I'm not a fan of party bags full of plastic tat, I'd far rather give each child a book to take home and enjoy over and over again.

If you've got a pre-school youngster with a party coming up then you could buy this Animal Stories Bedtime Collection and split it up; of course this only works if you haven't fallen prey to the 'must invite every child in the nursery class' trend that seems to have become ridiculously popular.

Single item delivery usually costs £1.95; use code AFAPRILFREE and it'll be free for you.

Happy reading animal stories at bedtime!

The Works are selling this Young Puffin Modern Classics book collection for £16.99 rather than £36.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Youn Puffin Modern Classics book collection

Ten books make up this Young Puffin Modern Classics book collection and feature a range of stories from well-known authors: Roald Dahl's George's Marvellous Medicine is included in the collection, along with Jill Murphy's Worst Witch.

The Worst Witch was one of my most favourite stories when I was little, I dread to think how many times I read it - Mildred was so clumsy and Ethel was such a cow! I cheered every time Mildred turned her into a pig.

Mr Majeika and Diary of a Killer Cat also form part of the Young Puffin Modern Classics book collection; my daughter adored Anne Fine's Diary of a Killer Cat story, I swear there was a time where, if I'd tried, I could have recited that book by heart!

Standard delivery with The Works is £2.99.

Thanks to barky at HUKD

The Book People are selling this Forget-Me-Not Picture Book collection for £4.99, rather than the full £17.97 recommended list price.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Forget-Me-Not Picture Book collection

I love little book collections like this Forget-Me-Not Picture Book collection and I have a particular soft spot for elephants, which just makes me want to buy these three books and then find someone to give them to.

The recommended age range for this Forget-Me-Not Picture Book collection is three years and older, but I'm sure children younger than that will enjoy listening to the stories about the little elephant and looking at the pictures just as much.

The stories contain life lessons which include learning to be brave, standing up for your friends and love and kindness - gentle stories with a strong message all wrapped up in adventures of a cute elephant and illustrated with beautiful pictures.

Single item delivery with The Book People is usually £1.95 - use this free delivery code I have for you and you won't need to pay that, just the £4.99 for your Forget-Me-Not Picture Book books: AFAPRILFREE.

Happy reading!