The Book People may have the worst service ever but they do have lots and lots of lovely book bargains to enjoy. Today they are selling two books of magical recipes – Disney Princess and Winnie the Pooh – for £2.99 including delivery.

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Each recipe book is just £2.99 and you can get free delivery using the code HELP11. These books are both hardcover so they can cope with being bashed about in the kitchen a bit and combine lovely stories with lovely recipes to make and enjoy together.

The cookbooks include recipes such as Belle’s Dainty Cupcakes or Pooh’s Yummy Honey Cakes (yum) and includes stories to make the baking move nice and smoothly. Children can also record their cooking successes and create their own recipes.

These books are great for teaching kids how to enjoy cooking and to be proud of what they have made so far. I am particularly impressed with the fact that they are wipe clean. Nice.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD!

The Big Book of Ocean Adventures is part of the very popular Octonauts series and is down from £14.99 to £3.99 at The Book People. You can also get free delivery using the code below if you haven’t already used it before.

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The Big Book of Ocean Adventures takes children on a journey through the ocean teaching them all about life on the ocean floor. The Octonauts embark on six exciting missions and encounter some amazing creatures including a shy and retiring Decorator Crab, a Whale Shark and a Giant Squid.

I recognise those creatures so it is entirely likely that these Octonauts adventures are the same as the ones on TV, which I think is a bit poor really. They haven’t got very many episodes to start with so it would be nice if the books were at least original stories.

Still, each story is accompanied by a fact file that tells kids all about the different animals that the Octonauts encounter. To get free delivery use the code DEC11FREE.

Thanks to harasmc at HUKD!

Down from the usual price of £9.99 to only £1.50, you are saving a whopping £8.49 on this Gruffalo 2012 family planning calendar at The Book People. You can also get the item delivered for free using the code below.

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The Gruffalo 2012 family planner is not for working out when you are having your next baby, although I am sure you can do that too if you like. No, this calendar is structured for the school year, running from September to September so you can stay on top of all school activities and events.

The planner covers a 17 month period until December 2012 and comes with bright stickers that can be used to flag up school fairs, sports days, parents evenings and other similar events. The calendar also comes with the adorable Gruffalo images and extras that we all love from the ace book. There is even a drop-down pocket for popping important paperwork into. The code you need for free delivery is DEC11FREE.

Thanks to Speculator at HUKD!

This is a pretty good book deal if you fancy getting a ton of Thomas stories for £35. There are 65 books included in the price and the original RRP is apparently £195 so you save £160 when you get these at this ace price.

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The storage box houses 65 mini paperback tales in a gorgeous and sturdy design that will keep the books neatly packed away and looking good at the same time. The entire collection will welcome children to the fun filled world of Thomas the Tank Engine and keep them entertained for years to come.

There are fascinating adventures, colourful characters and plenty of fun to be had across the 65 Thomas books and the set will also happily pass down from child to child, generation to generation, thanks to the lovely storage box.

You will find all sorts of tales included such as The Fat Controller, Mighty Mac, Troublesome Trucks and more. The entire set also comes with free delivery.

Thanks to daisymeisha10 at HUKD!

You get four books in the Dr Who Quiz Collection, priced at £1 - and that includes delivery. The RRP on this set is £19.96.

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This is only a bargain if you or someone you know is a Dr Who fan, but if they/you are, then it is a fabulous bargain.

From the inner workings of the Tardis and the far-flung destinations of the Doctor to his battles with the Daleks and the strange creatures he meets on his travels, test your knowledge of the Doctor's adventures with this set of four brilliant quiz books. With over 250 questions in each book there are hours of mind-blowing fun to be had for obsessed fans of Doctor Who everywhere!

Fancy nabbing an ace collection of five books for under a tenner? Well, the Book People are offering the Diary of a Wimpy Kid collection, five books in total, for only £6.99 which, according to their website, is a saving of £27.96 off the original retail price.

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This fantastic series is great for getting reluctant kids to take up reading as Jeff Kinney writes about a kid that is, well, wimpy! These books have already been made into hit movies and is a series of cartoon diaries that covers the life of a school kid called Greg Heffley.

He records the events of his life along with superb, child-like illustrations that talk about family, relationships, friendships and life at school. They are funny and clever and cover all the emotive and social bases that face kids of this age. There is even an Do-It Yourself book included so that kids can create their own hilarious capers…

Thanks to benkaylamum at HUKD!

The Book People have marked this collection of 23 Peter Rabbit books down to £27 and if you use the voucher codes below you’ll get this price. This would make a stunning Christmas gift for any child as the world of Beatrix Potter is just lovely.

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The World of Peter Rabbit collection usually costs in the region of £140 but The Book People are selling it for £30. If you use the codes AFVOUCHER10 and 241PLUS you will drop the price down to £27. These books automatically come with free delivery.

The Peter Rabbit collection has 23 mini hardbacks and includes stories such as the Tale of Tom Kitten and the Tale of Squirrel Nutkin as well as The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit. The Tale of Jemima Puddleduck and Appley Dappley’s Nursery Rhymes are also included in the set.

This is a lovely Christmas buy.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD!

The whole collection of Winnie The Pooh stories is reduced to £20 and with the code below, you’ll have free delivery too. The RRP is apparently £149.99, to this is an insane £129.99 saving (although, fortunately it’s reduced to around this price often enough!)

Get your fill of Winnie the Pooh using two codes

• Free Delivery Code: 241PLUS
• Expires: Unknown

There are 30 books in the collection of tales from the Hundred Acre Wood. The box set is presented in a gift box, and the books themselves are hardbacks.

Books in this collection are:

• Winnie-the-Pooh and some Bees
• Owl becomes an author
• Kanga and Baby Roo come to the Forest
• Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
• Eeyore loses a tail
• Tigger comes to the Forest
• Tiggers don't climb trees
• Pooh invents a new game
• Piglet does a very grand thing
• Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place
• Christopher Robin returns to the Forest
• The Spelling Bee
• It Stops raining for ever
• Everybody learns something
• Tigger Dreams of Africa
• Pooh Goes Visiting & Pooh and Piglet nearly catch a Woozle
• Eeyore has a birthday
• An Expedition to the North Pole
• Christopher Robin gives a Party
• A House is Built at Pooh Corner
• A Search is organized
• Rabbit has a busy day
• Tigger is unbounced
• Eeyore finds the Wolery
• Pooh's Poems
• Rabbit organises almost everything
• Piglet meets a Heffalump
• Pooh goes in search of honey
• The Game of Cricket
• The Harvest Festival

Hairy MacLary from Donaldson’s Dairy is a cute and funny series of books written by Lynley Dodd. The entire collection is on sale at The Book People for only £9.99 which is, according to them, a discount of 83% off the usual price. Not bad.

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I am not a huge fan of The Book People myself; I’ve often taken advantage of their special offers and have encountered shocking service. Once they left the box outside my front door which is on a really busy street so anyone could have taken it, and the other time the product description was incorrect and they just shrugged and said so what.

That said, however, they do offer some fantastic deals and sometimes it is worth enduring the pain of poor service to get them. This deal is particularly good as the series is truly funny and well written, and kids absolutely love it. Well worth the price of 99p per book.

Thanks to geegee-pinata at HUKD!

This is an utterly lovely little set, especially now that the school season has started and the birthday invites are starting to appear in school bags. You get a pack of 20 cards – thank you and invitation – with adorable Peppa Pig pictures for only £2.50, these are also valid for free delivery using the code below.

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The code you need to use for free delivery from The Book People is LIVE2010 and I really do recommend using it in conjunction with other purchases as often they only allow you one use per code.

The Peppa Pig card pack includes 20 invitations and 20 thank-you cards along with a helpful party planner to help organise the special day. The cards are both colourful and fun and will definitely come in handy if you are madly busy and suddenly need to send out a thank you.

What do you think? Rocking bargain or not?

Thanks to ramnee at HUKD!

There’s an even greater deal on at The Book People than the one we published this morning. The Guess How Much I Love You book and writing set are on offer at £1.50 for both.

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Sarah told you about Guess How Much I Love You this morning, if you didn’t already know about it!

It’s an amazing gift set, much loved by children and mums alike, and if the story isn’t sweet enough, there’s also a lovely writing set for littlies to write letters to the ones they love – to grandmas, grandpas, aunts and uncles.

The set comes complete with 20 sheets of writing paper, 12 envelopes and 12 sheets of stickers. The writing paper is suitable for letters, invitations or thank you notes, not only perfect for teaching your kids the value of saying thank you for gifts received, but also spreading the joy of good old fashioned snail mail.

And who knows. Maybe you’ll even receive a little love letter you can treasure for years to come too.

With postage, the book and writing set will come to £3.45

Thanks to Kelly'n'Steve at HUKD

The Elmer Picture Book Collection of 10 Books that come in an Elmer bag is £9.99 at The Book People, a whopping £49.91 of the RRP.

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This collection looks like one of those things that would make great goodie bags for parties – quality gifts that don’t end up straight in the land fill, and cost just £1 each.

The Elmer Picture Book Collection “sees everyone’s favourite patchwork elephant get up to all sorts of enchanting antics with some entertaining animal friends.”

Books in the collection are:

• Elmer
• Elmer Again
• Elmer and the Lost Teddy
• Elmer and the Stranger
• Elmer in the Snow
• Elmer and Wilbur
• Elmer and Grandpa Eldo
• Elmer and the Wind
• Elmer and the Rose
• Elmer on Stilts

They all come in a handy carry bag, which is a lovely idea, although I’m not sure how long they’d stay in the bag! At least it’s something else to play with!

There’s free delivery on orders over £25, otherwise you’re looking at £3.95.

This fantastic Winnie the Pooh Collection of 30 Books from The Book People is just £30, a massive saving of £119.99 and  as an added bonus comes with free delivery.

• Wander off into the 100 Acre Wood

Presented in a unique gift box, these hardback books are packed full of the adventures of Winnie, Tigger, Piglet, Eeyore and the rest of them. Books in the series are:

• Winnie-the-Pooh and some Bees
• Owl becomes and author
• Kanga and Baby Roo Come to the Forest
• Piglet is entirely surrounded by water
• Eeyore loses a tail
• Tigger comes to the Forest
• Tiggers don't climb trees
• Pooh invents a new game
• Piglet does a very grand thing
• Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place
• Christopher Robin returns to the Forest
• The Spelling Bee
• It Stops raining for ever
• Everybody learns something
• Tigger Dreams of Africa
• Pooh Goes Visiting & Pooh and Piglet nearly catch a Woozle
• Eeyore has a birthday
• An Expotition to the North Pole
• Christopher Robin gives a Party
• A House is Built at Pooh Corner
• A Search is organdized
• Rabbit has a busy day
• Tigger is unbounced
• Eeyore finds the Wolery
• Pooh's Poems
• Rabbit organises almost everything
• Piglet meets a Heffalump
• Pooh goes in search of honey
• The Game of Cricket
• The Harvest Festival

This is a beautiful set, and I think it would make a fantastic, special gift.

If it wasn’t for the fact that my child’s bookshelf is completely stuffed with books I would so be buying this collection. It is totally awesome. Imagine owning every single Mr Men book? And for only £27. That is a really good price of almost 50p a book.

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The Mr Men collection consists of 50 books all boxed up nicely in a neat little box. The price on the site is £30 but if you use the code AFSUNSHINE10 you get 10% off and because the final amount is still over £25 you get free delivery too. Bargain.

The collection is just for the Mr Men series, you won’t find any of the Little Miss books in here. The series includes some of the Christmas tales along with all the usual Mr Men favourites – Mr Lazy, Mr Bump, Mr Tall, Mr Strong and Mr Nosey.

I would go on and list them all but I would be here all day. What do you think of this deal? Would you go and buy it?

Thanks to JennyPeach at HUKD!

Yesterday Tamsin wrote about a great deal on the 48 Biff, Chip and Kipper books from the Book People. This new offer, the Treetops Collection seems to be aimed at slightly older children (7+), and comes in at a less staggering 85% off (rather than 89% on the other offer), but still, it is 85% off.  So, instead of £104 for this set of 20 books, you’ll now pay just £15. That’s a whopping £89 off.

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There are a bunch of different authors, these books are written to introduce new words and concepts in a fun manner that is easy for children to take on board. The titles are:

• A Kitten in Daisy Street - Pat Belford
• Dads Win Prizes - Debbie White
• Scrapman and Scrapcat - Carolyn Bear
• Cool Clive and the Bubble Trouble - Michaela Morgan
• Scrapman and the Incredible Flying Machine - Carolyn Bear
• Bones! - Paul Shipton
• The Monster in the Wardrobe - Paul Shipton
• The Revenge of Captain Blood - Paul Shipton
• Trapped! - Malachy Doyle
• The Booming Boots of Joey Jones - David Clayton
• Doohickey and the Robot - Jonathan Emmett
• Kid Wonder and the Terrible Truth - Stephen Elbaz
• Doughnut Dilemma - Margaret McAllister
• Kid Wonder and the Half-Hearted Hero - Stephen Elbaz
• Shelly Holmes Animal Trainer - Michaela Morgan
• Spooky! - Michaela Morgan
• The Goalie from Nowhere - Alan MacDonald
• Never Wash your Hair - Margaret McAllister
• Sing For Your Supper - Nick Warburton
• The Terrible Power of House Rabbit - Susan Gates

So there's a lot of reading there, at a price you’ll otherwise only get at a charity shop – or the library.

The Oxford Reading Tree series is the same that your kids get when they go to school. A series of books starting Biff, Chip and Kipper that teaches them basic words and sentences and makes them excited about learning and reading. The Book People have marked the set down from £243.51 to only £25 so you save £218.51.

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These books amuse me. First off, you get a pair of glasses that are hidden somewhere in almost every book – not all of them  but many of them. Then you have a series of characters that have names that are, quite honestly, bizarre. Who calls their kids Kipper? Or Biff? Or Chip?

Who calls their daughter Biff? WHO? Weirdoes, that’s who. But the stories are sweet and my daughter loves reading them and I am definitely going to buy them this time around. We don’t have any more space on her bookshelf but I can always donate some to her school.

There are 48 books in this bundle which is a total bargain for £25. I’m not too sure I believe they ever cost £243 though, do you?

Thanks to geegee-pinata at HUKD!

The Rainbow Magic Stories Collection is £20 at The Book People right now, which is 88% off from £167.58 – which seems really high, and makes this almost a steal.

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Okay, I’ll come clean right away and say this – I have no idea who or what the Rainbow Magic Stories are. I’ve never heard of it, but with 42 books in the collection, and five star reviews from each of the 22 reviewers, it sounds pretty good – especially at £20.

Some of the titles in the collection are:

• Bella the Bunny Fairy
• Lauren the Puppy Fairy
• Katie the Kitten Fairy
• Georgia the Guinea Pig Fairy
• Tallulah the Tuesday Fairy
• Thea the Thursday Fairy
• Sienna the Saturday Fairy
• Ruby the Red Fairy
• Saffron the Yellow Fairy
• Sky the Blue Fairy
• Heather the Violet Fairy
• Melodie the Music Fairy
• Cherry the Cake Fairy
• Polly the Party Fan Fairy
• Crystal the Snow Fairy
• Pearl the Cloud Fairy
• Storm the Lightning Fairy
• Evie the Mist Fairy
• Amy the Amethyst Fairy
• Emily the Emerald Fairy
• India the Moonshone Fairy

All names that make it sound like a series suitable for a little girl and the age range is indicated as 5 and above. According to The Book People, these books are “Great for bedtime and perfect for easing children into chaptered reading and building their confidence, these fun tales are filled with gentle and familiar themes – just right for reinforcing vocabulary and encouraging an enjoyable reading experience.”

Spend an extra £5 and you’ll get free delivery (orders over £25) or spend an extra £10, and you’ll get 10% off with the code SUNSAVE too  and still free delivery) otherwise standard delivery starts at £3.95.

Thanks to mum2littleangels at HUKD

Now this is a fantastic deal for any parent with a tot in the first years of school. Utterly brilliant, in fact. Here you have 48 books in the Read at Home series that tells the stories of Biff, Chip and Kipper in a series that will expand your child’s literacy exponentially.

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This is one deal that I’m definitely going to be taking advantage of. 48 books for only £25 and all of them seriously brilliant for child education. Originally selling for £243.51, you are saving a hefty £218.51 off the original price. And there is free delivery on all orders over £25!

Now I will never understand why they called the girl of the series Biff. It seems unusually cruel, but that’s pretty much what she is called throughout. You will also find a hidden pair of glasses either on every page, or on one of the pages in each book. I love that sort of thing. I hunt the ducks in the Usborne series…

Thanks to fish1234567 at HUKD!

Those lovely folks over at The Book People are selling this delightful Elmer the Elephant book collection for just £9.99 instead of £49.99, saving you a rather lovely 83% off the list price.

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Talking of bagging bargains the 10 books that make up the Elmer the Elephant book collection come in a beautiful matching bag - perfect for encouraging tidiness in your young bookworm when they've finished reading/looking at them, or just to use for other things.

Elmer the Elephant books are wonderfully vivid picture books that have been delighting children for over 20 years.

Just in case you've never heard of him, Elmer the Elephant is a lovely patchwork elephant who gets up to all sorts of things with his other animal friends.

The colourful stories explore some interesting childhood themes and are perfect for bedtime and if you DO remember Elmer the Elephant then reading any of these books is going to be like taking a warm and fuzzy trip down memory lane.

The Book People have a single item delivery charge of £1.95 so if this is all you buy from The Book People then that's all you'll pay for postage; free delivery doesn't kick in until you spend over £25.

Happy reading!

The Book People are selling the fabulous and wonderful Grufallo Pop-Up Theatre Book for £4.99 instead of £15.99; Amazon are currently the next cheapest at £9 (although be on the look-out for their usual price shifting - it can go up as well as down).

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I've written about the Gruffalo Pop--Up Theatre Book before and, as we've had a bit of a Gruffalo drought lately and this deal's popped up, I thought I'd write about it again.

The first time I wrote about it I said I wanted one, I still don't have one and I still want one - it just looks like so much fun.

You have two choices when you're the proud owner of a Gruffalo Pop-Up Theatre Book, you can be the director of your very own Gruffalo production and make up the story as you go along OR, you can stay faithful to the original Gruffalo story.

The Gruffalo Theatre Pop-Up Book comes with lots of extra Gruffalo goodies to help you put on your performances:  a full cast of characters, a play script and other bits and pieces.

If this is all you order from The Book People then you'll only have to pay the £1.95 single item delivery charge; if other things take your fancy and you spend over £25 then delivery will be free.

Thanks to eslick at HUKD