A photo of a young boy in his bedroom holding up a card that has a capital letter 'A' and a lowercase 'a' on it

Crafts &amp; activities

Fun phonics games to help encourage children to read

An image of a jellyfish drawing in Water World by Ben Rothery alongside a recycled jellyfish mobile

Make a jellyfish mobile out of a recycled plastic bottle

A picture of a selection of unicorn books on a blue and purple ombre background with yellow stars

Children's reading lists

The best unicorn books for kids

Image of adverts for the Penguin Bookshelf

Features

Is this the most desirable bookshelf on the internet?

An illustration from the book Hey Duggee: The Bedtime Badge. The Squirrels are all fast asleep in their beds against a blue backdrop with colourful stars, and there is a moon in the top left hand corner that has Duggee's face

Download our Hey Duggee bedtime badge chart

An illustration of Matilda by Quentin Blake on a light blue background, standing in the centre of the image holding a pile of books. Underneath her is the text 'I'm wondering what to read next'

Children's quizzes

Which Roald Dahl book should you read next?

A selection of illustrations of Jacqueline Wilson characters by Nick Sharratt

Find your Jacqueline Wilson character name

A selection of classic children's picture books on a bright yellow background

The best classic children's picture books

A photo of the DIY Enormous Crocodile word game. You can see a child's hands holding the cardboard crocodile and in the background is the book Roald Dahl: Words

Make an Enormous Crocodile word game

A photo of a young girl sitting in a garden with a terrier type dog on her lap; they are both wearing a pair of Bluey and Bingo cut-out ears

Make your own Bluey and Bingo cut-out dog ears

An image of a school uniform, Deepdean crest and magnifying glass on a bright yellow background

Dress up as a detective from Murder Most Unladylike

An image of homemade rocket ship on a dark blue background

How to make a rocket ship

An image of the book Hey Duggee: The World Book Day Badge on a pink background with a World Book Day badge in the left hand corner

Download our Hey Duggee World Book Day colouring sheets

An illustration by Quentin Blake of Matilda standing on top of a pile of books

Extracts

Extract | Matilda by Roald Dahl

A photo of the Peppa Pig ears template on top of some pink coloured card next to glue, scissors, a ruler and pencil

Make your own fun Peppa Pig ears and costume

A picture of a selection of historical fiction novels on a bright yellow background

17 must-have historical fiction books for kids

A photo of the book The Last Firefox by Lee Newbery on a dark purple background surrounded by illustrations of purple leaves

The Last Firefox by Lee Newbery

An image of eight books from the Moomin series on a light purple background

11 life lessons from the Moomins

An image of two young children, a girl and a boy, sitting at table reading and interacting with a book together

How to introduce books to your baby and young child

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

A photo of the book Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor on a wooden table surrounded by colouring pencils, lined paper, screws and cogs

Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor by Lucy Brandt

An illustration from The Abominable Snow Baby showing the snow baby chasing two of the characters

The Abominable Snow Baby by Terry Pratchett

A photo of the book The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher on a wooden background next to  some presents and a candy cane

The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher

The best books for six-year-olds

The best books for five-year-olds

The best books for four-year-olds

A picture of several books for three-year-olds on a bright green background

The best books for three-year-olds

A picture of several books for two-year-olds on a bright blue background

The best books for two-year-olds

About us

About Us (Header 4)

Best-Jane-Austen-quotes_Online-Desktop_Penguin

James-Baldwin

Marian-Keyes

haruki-murakami-320×320-1

Richard-Osman

Malorie Blackman

Lisa-Jewell

Charlie-Mackesy

Authors (Header 3)

Children&#039;s

Company

Discover

Fiction

Non-fiction

Penguin Classics

Penguin Shop (Header 5)

Useful links

Work with us