CHILDRENS BOOKS

Giggle your way through this book with touch, feel and tickle fun!Touch, feel and tickle the friendly ocean animals in this interactive book that is full of fin-tastic playful fun!There are four friendly ocean animals for you to tickle on each page as you follow the felt trails with your finger. Die-cuts in the pages reveal bright felt finger trails to touch, feel and follow to tickle each creature and make them laugh, giggle and snap!The bright and bold illustrations will captivate young readers, who will want to touch, feel and tickle the ocean animals as they read the funny rhyming words. The felt pages make these books light to hold and perfect for toddlers and children to pick up, read and play with!'Can You Tickle a Tiger?' voted winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize (2023), for 'best book for sharing with children aged 0-5.' - BookTrust.

Giggle your way through this book with touch, feel and tickle fun!Touch, feel and tickle the friendly bears in this interactive book that is full of bear-y playful fun!There are four friendly bears for you to tickle on each page as you follow the felt trails with your finger. Die-cuts in the pages reveal bright felt finger trails to touch, feel and follow to tickle each animal and make them laugh, giggle and roar!The bright and bold illustrations will captivate young readers, who will want to touch, feel and tickle the animals as they read the funny rhyming words. The felt pages make these books light to hold and perfect for toddlers and children to pick up, read and play with!'Can You Tickle a Tiger?' voted winner of the BookTrust Storytime Prize (2023), for 'best book for sharing with children aged 0-5.' - BookTrust.

From the bestselling creator of CBCA Shortlisted Australia: Country of Colour comes a new board book range celebrating Australia and introducing first concepts for babies and toddlers.

Swapna lives in New Zealand with her karate-chopping, swash-buckling son and her thirty-something, age-sensitive husband. She spends her time writing, eating cake and making sure her son doesn't flatten her husband as he attempts to master his human cannonball trick. Sometimes she does all three at the same time. She landed her first book deal when she won the Greenhouse Funny Prize for her children's story 'Dave Pigeon', which was shortlisted for the Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards 2016, the Leicester Libraries Our Best Book Award 2017 and the Sheffield Children's Book Award 2017.A children's book author and illustrator from Taiwan, based in the UK since 2020, Yiting graduated with a master's in Children's Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art in 2012. She focuses on picture books, delivering whimsical and unpredictable stories, and likes to keep the story simple and the illustration full because she knows children love looking into those details like she did. In her illustration, she mainly uses watercolour, gouache, ink, colour pencils and whatever else she has newly discovered.

Born in central India, Vita Murrow grew up in Minneapolis, MN, and became a children's author. She has a M.S.Ed degree in Literacy, which included studies and practice in linguistics, sociology and the intersection of language and cultural anthropology. She has over a decade of experience working with multilingual families, speech language pathologists and school systems supporting healthy language development for children.Annelies Draws is a self-taught illustrator based in the Netherlands, originally from South Korea. She has loved to draw since she was a little girl and works with traditional mediums such as coloured pencils and gouache paints with whimsical colours. Annelies finds inspiration through her daily life and hopes her work can bring a little joy to your day.

From New York Times bestselling author Beth Ferry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Andrew Joyner comes a moving picture book about a brave little lion who decides to speak out for stories by standing up to book banning. Libraries and lions have a history so long no one’s quite sure how it began—maybe because books were once rare and needed fierce protectors? Still, it’s been a very long time since lions had to roar in the name of books. But when young Julius finds out that books are being banned at his local library, he becomes so filled with emotion that he ROARS! Not all lions are librarians, but all librarians are lions in this inspiring tale of protecting the stories that connect us and defending books that hold ideas that can change the world. - Resources in this edition have been adapted for Australia and New Zealand.

New for 2024: The Official Novelization of Paddington's Third Movie!Join Paddington in his third big-screen adventure from Studiocanal, the creators of Wonka and the Harry Potter movies.This time, Paddington and the Browns leave Windsor Gardens for an epic journey to visit Aunt Lucy at The Home for Retired Bears. Their visit takes an unexpected turn when they uncover a mystery that leads them on a hilarious and thrilling adventure—traveling along the Amazon, through the jungle, and up the majestic peaks of Peru.This delightful retelling of the cinematic story is written by Anna Wilson, based on the story by Paul King, Mark Burton, and Simon Farnaby, with a screenplay by Mark Burton, Jon Foster, and James Lamont.

When Grandma’s puppy Milo comes to stay, Ollie is excited for all the adventures they will have. So, she is upset when things don’t quite go to plan . . . But as they head into the magical woods and are joined by lots of woodland friends, Milo shows Ollie that the best adventures happen when you least expect them. With striking illustrations, cut-outs and foil throughout, this is the sixth book in the internationally beloved Ollie series by Nicola Killen. Discover Ollie adventures: Ollie’s Magic Bunny Ollie’s Christmas Reindeer Ollie’s Lost Kitten Ollie’s Back-to-School Bear Ollie’s Birthday Surprise

Coraline is not the kind of girl to be put off by a sign of danger read in some tea-leaves or indeed a message sent to her by some very talented mice! No, she is the kind of girl who faces a challenge with bravery, intelligence and a lot of determination. Which is just as well because she is going to need all those skills, and more, in this wonderful, spooky tale of a girl caught on the wrong side of a door, with counterfeit parents who have buttons for eyes and who clearly do not intend to set her free.'Rise to your feet and applaud- 'Coraline' is the real thing' - Philip Pullman

If you like tractors, you'll love Total Tractor, get under the bonnet of these glorious, gigantic machinesIf your child likes tractors and diggers, they'll love this illustrated children's book. It is the easiest and safest way to get close to these extra-large machines.From exciting vintage tractors and farming machines to the latest state-of-the-art John Deere, Total Tractor presents these mighty machines in all their glory. Travel through time with the pictures of tractors through the ages. Discover historic steam engines in fascinating detail and follow their development right up to the present day. See more than just the tractors and farm machinery that grow our food, as you explore the different types and uses of tractors, such as the bulldozers and diggers in the city and the giant saw-wielding forestry tractors.Total Tractor reveals essential facts and stats including pulling power, tyre size, and much more. Large scale, big pictures of tractors reveal the intricate parts of the machine and a driver's-eye view puts you in the cab. See tractors in action ploughing, planting, building and breaking, plus step into the world of tractor competitions and find out how to win at tractor pulling.

Tilly dreams of having a pony of her own. One that only she can ride to stardom. Will her wishes come true when she joins Silver Shoe Farm Stables?Tilly learns all about World Horse Welfare and, when she visits their rehabilitation centre, she falls in love with gentle giant, Goliath, the shire horse. What can she do to help find him a new home?Collect all 18 titles in this series of irresistible, uplifting and heartwarming pony adventures. Printed in a dyslexia friendly font and packed with up to date tips from three times Olympic Medallist, Pippa Funnell, as well as a helpful glossary and black and white illustrations on every spread.

When Sam-I-am persits in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green eggs and ham, perseverance wins the day, teaching us all that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it! The original Dr. Seuss classic that inspired the Netflix series. <p>The classic story from the one and only Dr. Seuss, that inspired the hit Netflix series!</p><p>When Sam-I-am persists in pestering a grumpy grouch to eat a plate of green eggs and ham, perseverance wins the day, teaching us all that we cannot know what we like until we have tried it!</p><p>The perfect book for early readers, the new style brings an old favourite to a whole new generation.</p><p>As part of a major rebrand programme, HarperCollins is relaunching 17 of Dr. Seuss's best-selling books, including such perennial favourites as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham and Fox in Socks. In response to consumer demand, the bright new cover designs incorporate much needed guidance on reading levels, with the standard paperbacks divided into three reading strands – Blue Back Books for parents to share with young children, Green Back Books for budding readers to tackle on their own, and Yellow Back Books for older, more fluent readers to enjoy. Green Eggs and Ham belongs to the Green Back Book range.</p>

A charming fairytale original to Shirley Barber about a child who is lucky enough to fly to Fairyland with the fairies and attend a fairy wedding. This is a beautifully produced and richly illustrated classic children's picture books.