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An award-winning New Zealand counting book featuring rhyming text and illustrations of New Zealand animals.

Now every year in Africa They hold the Jungle Dance, Where every single animal Turns up to skip and prance... A best-loved, rollicking, rhyming story -- perfect for little ones.

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Welcome to Maisy's amazing world of words, full of flaps, bold illustrations and a fantastic first vocabulary!
This biggest-ever Maisy book is full to bursting with first words and pictures. 64 pages, 25 fantastic flaps and over 300 wonderful words combine in this colorful collection from award-winning artist Lucy Cousins. All of Maisy's favorite places and activities are featured: dressing up, cooking, in the park, on the farm, at the beach, animals, bathtime, bedtime, and many, many more. It's truly amazing!
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Swing the ball. Swing the ball. Thump and smash and whack. Bring the top floors tumbling down. Bang! Clang! Crack! Load the trucks. Load the trucks. Lift and shift and heap. Drive away the piles of junk. Whump! Whop! Beep! Busy workers and noisy machines demolish an old building and build a new playground in this fun picture book from the award-winning team of Sally Sutton and Brian Lovelock. Ideal for machine-mad kids. Includes a pictorial glossary of all the machines with a short caption of what each machine does. A great bo... read more

Magic beans. Sow them. Plant them. Watch children grow. 'If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer. If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in!' (Shel Silverstein, Poet). Each and every one of the stories in this anthology is a magic bean: a wondrous tale that will capture your imagination. Prepare to be dazzled by "Rapunzel's" golden tresses. Prepare to be moved by the suffering of the "Little Mermaid". ... read more

Meet Lizzy, whose family are in the clothing industry. Very few people probably know that Queen Victoria made the wearing of underpants popular. At the beginning of her reign very few women wore them. But Queen Victoria made tartans, perambulators and chloroform fashionable. By the time she died just about every woman in Britain wore underpants like hers.

A. B. C. D. Unfold the full-page flaps to reveal an ant, bear, camel, and duck Eric Carles illustrated alphabet and animals make learning your ABCs as easy as . . . well, A, B, C

Unlike conventional alphabet books, My First Book of UPPERCASE LETTERS does not start with the ABCs. The most prominent characteristic of this book is that it starts with easy-to-write letters and then proceeds to more difficult letters step by step, regardless of alphabetical order. Different strokes such as straight lines, diagonal lines and curves are introduced in an incremental manner so that children do not grow tired of studying letters. The North American popularity of this book proves the Kumon Method's "practice makes per... read more

This is a highly collectible picture book with each spread a unique and highly-collectable artwork from acclaimed graphic artist Paul Thurlby. Thurlby creates a stunning alphabet that helps to make the shape of each letter memorable and fun. From 'A for Awesome', to 'Z for Zip', this is a stunning book from a unique artist.

Count along with Quentin Blake's entertaining animals in this fun-filled board book for little readers. On Crow, Two Goats, Three Dogs, Four Cats...

Out in the fields with Mamma one day, Oli finds a cocoon. Oli asks what it is and what it will become, which leads to questions about the way things change every day in the world. Through their journey, Mamma and Oli experience many wonderful changes and witness the cocoon turn into a butterfly. When Oli asks if he will change, Mamma says: You will become big and strong, whispered Mamma. But you will be my little bear forever.

Little boy bugs and little girl bugs are so completely different, they just can't get along ...can they? See what happens when Little Speckled Bug meets a mysterious new neighbour bug who has a strange but happy effect on him Written and illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna, whose charming style of texture, applique and collage has never before been used in children's books. A simple narrative with lovable characters that celebrates the differences and similarities between girls and boys. The Bug Next Door is one in a series of book... read more

A great Antipodean story for 4-8 year-olds. It has fantastic, funny colour illustrations, a CD to play along with the story and a great message - with some creative thinking, you can trick the meanest creatures in the world!

Join Little Witch and her friend Billy Wicked for three fun stories full of word plays, set in a magical land. Little Witch's favourite things are broom races with her best friend Billy Wicked and lemon-and-slime ice-cream with crunchy spider sprinkles. She would love to eat marshmallows for breakfast too, but she's stuck with toadflakes. Little Witch doesn't mean to get into mischief. Somehow though, she always does.

A rhyming couplet on each spread gives the clue as to what is hiding in the picture opposite. Many well-known nursery characters are included so that young children can follow the rhymes and enjoy the little jokes in this board book.

A fun introduction to both the alphabet and the work of famous artists. Readers can search the paintings of Giotto, Chagall, Picasso, Dali, Klee and many more to discover the letter hiding within.

Junior picture book. Who's hiding? Who's crying? Who's backwards? Look carefully! Is it dog, tiger, hippo, zebra, bear, reindeer, kangaroo, lion, giraffe, monkey, bull, rhino, pig, sheep, hen, elephant, or cat? Can you tell? Look again… 18 fun-loving animals can be found on each question-posing page, sending readers into an up-close, attention-to-detail discovery. This book is fantastic to read aloud, especially when you get to the final two pages: Who's eyes? Children learn the names of animals, to recognize expressions, co... read more

This is a beautifully illustrated collection of over 100 traditional nursery rhymes. Padded cover, stylish design and enchanting illustrations combine to make this a perfect and enduring gift for any baby or young child. It also includes well-known tongue-twisters, sayings and lullabies.

New series of interactive first learning board books for babies and toddlers aged one and over. Children will have fun learning about baby animals and colours using the simple but highly effective wheel novelty, as each turn of the wheel reveals a different picture for children to match to other pictures in the book.