Waterstones have taken £1.75 off the range of Ladybird’s successful ‘Pirate Pete’ and ‘Princess Polly’ ‘I’m a Big Brother/Sister’ books. So instead of paying £6.99 you’ll pay £5.24 each.

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Wondering how you’re going to ease your son into not being the centre of your universe once a new baby arrives? This interactive sound book describes the excitement and fun of having a new sibling and becoming a BIG BROTHER. The simple text and colourful illustrations will help little boys understand what happens when a new baby joins the family and how lovely it is to be a big brother. Pressing the sound button each time to hear the baby giggle is also a great way to encourage young children to help out and play with the new baby and reward his good behaviour.

This would be a lovely gift for any mum expecting her second child to help her teach her little one how to adapt to the new member of the family. And at this lovely price, why not get one for another special person in your life too!

I’m always looking for fun sounding and discounted kid’s books and this one looks hilarious. Gangsta Granny by David Walliams normally retails for £6.99 but you can get it from Waterstones for £4.99 so you’ll be saving a nice £2.00. Every penny counts!

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This is another hilarious and moving novel from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children's author in the country. A story of prejudice and acceptance, funny lists and silly words, this new book has all the hallmarks of David's previous bestsellers.

Our hero Ben is bored beyond belief after he is made to stay at his grandma's house. She's the most boring grandma ever: all she wants to do is to play Scrabble, and eat cabbage soup. But there are two things Ben doesn't know about his grandma. 1) She was once an international jewel thief. 2) All her life, she has been plotting to steal the Crown Jewels, and now she needs Ben's help…

Gangsta Granny sounds brilliant, might even give it a read myself.

Pirates Love Underpants , really? Who would have thought? This kid’s book sounds brilliant and definitely one the kids are going to love and it’s on sale at Waterstones. The fun sounding pirate book normally retails for £6.99 but you can get it at Waterstones for £5.24 so you’ll be saving £1.75, on top of that it’s delivered FREE in the UK.

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“Ahoy me hearties! Join the Pants Pirates on a special and very amusing treasure hunt. Grab your cutlass and sail on the Pirate Ship Black Bloomer (giggle) past angry crocs, sharks in fancy pants and through gurgling swamps on a quest to find...the Pants of Gold! This hilarious new addition to the phenomenally successful Underpants series will not disappoint. You'll be yo-ho-ho-ing until the sails come down!”

Pirates Love Underpants sounds like the perfect bedtime read for the kids, it sounds hilarious. Hurry and get it at Waterstones while it’s still on sale and have the kids giggling hysterically about the pirates and their undies.

The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series has been an award winning series with millions of fans around the world. The next book in the series “The Third Wheel” is on sale at Waterstones, just in time for Christmas, lovely. Waterstones are selling the book for £9.74 when the recommended retail price is £12.99 so you save £3.25

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The Third Wheel is perfect for readers over eight and all other Wimpy Kid fans. Love is in the air, but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's school has turned his world upside down. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. His best friend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either but that's small consolation. Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Rowley the odd man out. But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who's going to be lucky in love...

Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in this highly-anticipated seventh book in the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series. And it’s on sale, super!

The Mr Men and Little Miss books by Roger Hargreaves are delightful books. Waterstones have currently got a great deal on where you can get three of these books for the price of two.

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This is the perfect stocking filler for "Mr Men" and "Little Miss" fans. There are lovely Christmas titles to choose from such as Mr Men Meet Father Christmas. When Little Miss Tiny secretly wishes she could visit Father Christmas she doesn't expect her wish to come true. But magical things really do happen at Christmas and crazy things too when you're with the Mr. Men and the Little Miss. Complete with celebrating sheep, pink snow, sneezing elves and a very sooty Father Christmas, this story will having you laughing all through Christmas.

Another one available is Mr Men the night before Christmas. It's the night before Christmas and all through Mr Men houses not a creature is stirring, but in the sky overhead there are some very special visitors on their way. Keep your children enchanted this Christmas with the Mr Men and Little Miss series.

The Hogwarts library Boxed Set from Waterstones is a wonderful Christmas gift for any Harry Potter fan. Waterstones are selling the set for £15.00 when the recommended retail price is £25.00 so that’s £10.00 off to you. Even better, Waterstones offers free delivery in the UK.

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This fabulous hardback boxed set from the world of Harry Potter contains handsome new editions of Quidditch Through the Ages, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (both in hardback for the first time) and The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The Hogwarts Library is an essential collection for any wizard or Muggle home. Eager seekers of wizard learning will find within these books a treasure trove of magical facts, additional notes from the esteemed Professor Albus Dumbledore, and illustrations from J.K. Rowling.

When you buy this set you can be reassured that two charities important to J.K. Rowling - Comic Relief and Lumos - will benefit from the sale of each set. These editions are exclusively available in this boxed set and I think they’ll make a fantastic Christmas present.

Here’s a great deal, the Complete Adventures of Tintin in a box set from Waterstones. The set has been marked down from £120 to £45, that’s £75 off! On top of that Waterstones offers free delivery to the UK.

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This beautifully designed box set contains every single one of Tintin's adventures from Tintin in the Land of the Soviets to the last, unfinished adventure, Tintin and Alph Art. Your children haven’t lived yet if you haven’t introduced them to the exciting world of Tintin, a young Belgium reporter and his faithful fox terrier dog Snowy. With eight volumes in hardback and over 1,500 pages of classic stories, this is the ultimate Christmas gift for any child or even the older Tintin fan.

Another great thing about the set is that each book is approximately A5 sized which actually makes them easier to handle and the illustrations lose none of their appeal for the smaller size. This really is a great price for the complete Tintin collection, you won’t be disappointed.

Waterstones have on offer a Gruffalo apron for £2.75 instead of £5.50 and they also have free UK delivery.

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Deals like this are the reason I love sites like HUKD and PlayPennies. With a little bit of planning, you can be prepared for Christmas and every birthday throughout the year, and be an absolutely fantastic gift giver without it breaking the bank at all. I recently saw a Dr Seuss bib that was so cheap it was almost criminal not to buy it, so I did, and then found out that my daughter's best 'friend' (at playschool) is a Dr Seuss fan. Well, that's Christmas for her wrapped up, and it cost me next to nothing!

This Gruffalo apron would make an ideal stocking filler, or added to one of the many children's baking sets we see floating about these parts, could be a lovely gift too - perfect for wintery apple pie.

This is a cotton apron,  appropriate for children aged 3 - 5 years and size 44cm x 33cm.

Thanks to bellabambino at HUKD

Waterstons are offering the first book from five series for £1, with free delivery.

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This deal was actually posted on HUKD a few weeks ago (thanks verlaque76), but was reposted today, which is where I saw it for the first time.

The idea behind this offer, I guess is to get children hooked on a new series, which is great, really! I loved all the mystery books as a child – The Hardy Boys, Famous Five and Nancy Drew – and would live myself into the series. It was wonderful!

The books on offer here are:

• Horrid Henry, who tries to be perfect for one day; he learns to dance, quarrels with his arch-enemy Moody Margaret and goes on holiday.
• Hiccup: How to Train Your Dragon, which is apparently a must read before seeing the film, and is the first in Hiccup's How to Train Your Dragon memoirs.
• Skulduggery Pleasant is for the slightly older 9- 12 year old readers, as is…
• … the series on the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history, Artemis Fowl.
  
• Lord Loss is the first in the Demonta series for teens, and reading the synopsis, I kind of long for the innocent days of the Famous Five! I’m not into fictional demons and darkness, but the reviewers give it pretty high ratings.

Thanks to ednamay78 at HUKD

I'm in book mode today!  There are currently Buy One Get One Free book deals to be had at Waterstones (on selected titles).

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Do you remember a life without Waterstones? Miserable wasn't it!

I love bookshops; in fact, I just love anything to do with books full stop.

It's just so fantastic to be able to lose yourself in the pages and story of a book and go on different adventures; no batteries required, no flashing lights, no TV necessary...just a great book and a big dollop of imagination!

Titles include a fair few of the, apparently, VERY popular Percy Jackson series.

I don't know anything about Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief other than my teenage daughter keeps going on about it, and was miffed that it was an inflight movie on my long haul trip and not her short haul one.

But having jsut read the synposis of it, it sounds quite cool:

"Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until, I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong"

OOPS!

Included are also books by the wonderful Michael Morpurgo, some Horrid Henry books too and prices range between £4.18 to £6.99.

You can check for instore availability online or order online and pay NOTHING for delivery, as Waterstones are currently offering free delivery - how many MORE free things can one ask for (apart from everything, of course!)?

You want MORE? OK - spend over £20 before midday on Monday 25 October, apply this code to your basket - HC8375 - and you'll get 10% off your order too; how's that?!

Thanks to iamthewalrus over at HUKD!

Fancy nabbing your kids some fabulous books at the Waterstones Buy One Get One Free event? Well they have quite an impressive range on offer for some popular series that are bound to make you and your kids very happy.

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I do love the term BOGOF, it sounds a little rude and yet it’s all about getting lovely things for discounted prices. Anyway, let’s take a look at what books are included in this offer shall we?

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a childhood classic, is available in about ten different formats and you’ll find lots of Club Penguin books like Waddle Lot of Laughs and Secret Agent Handbook. You will also find Where’s Wally (who has been everywhere!), Peppa Pig and Ben 10.

The range is really for each of these different series’, with several in the Peppa Pig group and the Ben 10 group. There are lots of Where’s Wally titles and a few from the Club Penguin range. So this won’t be a brilliant sale for anyone who doesn’t like these franchises but it will be for those who know some Peppa Pig or Ben 10 fans.

Thanks to lucerysmum at HUKD!

Disney World may be the happiest place on earth but when you get there it can also be the most overwhelming. The place is HUGE! I remember when we first went, we kept losing each other. I even suggested electric shock devices that go off the moment we get too far from each other. Well here is a book that could transform your experience for only £6.99 at Waterstones.

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The books will show you how to find all the hidden Mickeys, tell you the truth behind Madame Leota’s ring at the Haunted Mansion and plenty more. You’ll learn all about the hidden magic that permeates these fabulous resorts in this tell-all handbook.

The book includes over 600 secrets of the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom and will be an indispensible guide for anyone who plans to go Disney this summer. You can also get a further 10 percent off the price by using the code: VK8645 which drops the price down to £6.29 delivered.

So if you’re bobbing off to Disney in Florida then nab a copy of this to read on the plane. You’ll be the family having the most fun.

Thanks to Cadmus at HUKD!

How very scrummy, a BOGOF on children’s books at Waterstones!  Yes, this means you get some stunning books at lovely low prices but beware, the adverts say that this is on Kids’ Bestsellers so the range may be slightly limited. 

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You’ll Francesca Simon’s series, including Moody Margaret and Horrid Henry, Charlie and Lola, Julia Donaldson and plenty more. In fact, even though the limit seems to be on bestsellers, there are tons of fab books to choose from. 

Personally I’m a huge fan of the Sir Charlie Stinky Socks series too. I discovered these at our local library and adored the illustrations and light humour. The writer and artist, Kristina Stephenson, put so much effort into creating each illustration its unreal. 

For those of you sporting moody teens in your home, there are books here for you too. The Kristin Cast series, Twilight and other such notables are also lurking in the sale. Perhaps, like me, you sneakily read some of these yourself so why not nab a new series and then pretend that it’s a gift for someone else. 

Works for me! 

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD!