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One Ted Falls Out of Bed
This book is brilliant for bedtime, and the rhyming story is fun to read.
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Fussy Freya
Freya has gone off her food - until Grandma suggests that if she won't eat turkey or bacon, perhaps she'd prefer mashed monkey, creamed giraffe or even warthog with cheese?
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Grill Pan Eddy
Grill Pan Eddy is a daring and very intelligent mouse who takes up residence in a box of porridge oats and flatly refuses to be caught despite the family's best efforts.
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Duck in the Truck
As Duck is driving home his truck gets stuck in the mud. Frog and Sheep come to his aid, but it's only when Goat arrives that a solution is found.
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Elephant Wellyphant
Most youngsters would recognise a big, grey, wrinkly elephant, but what about a green and red, spotty Unwelliphant or a clairvoyant Gypsy Fortune-Tellerphant?
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Number One, Tickle Your Tum
This touching board book for babies depicts a parent bear and a baby bear playing a counting game. Adults can join in the fun with their babies by imitating these two characters.
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Is It Because?
A light-hearted and sympathetic tale about bullying that even-handedly presents both sides of the story.
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Five Little Ducks
Learn numbers as you have fun with this book - the pages are split to make counting easy.
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Pat-a-Cake!
Traditional and modern nursery rhymes, with the accompanying movements. An ideal baby book for any and every child.
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
This book is all about signing and singing-along! The clear hand movements encourage signing as well as dancing.
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
An all-time favourite that introduces different colours through simple text, presented in a satisfyingly repetitive pattern.
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Noisy Neighbours
Sid the Snail is looking for somewhere to have a nap but all the other animals are being too noisy until Sid decides to have a party and tire everyone out!
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The Fabulous Flapdoodles
This funny book, whose rhyming text will be easily learnt as a spell to ward off bedtime fears
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Monkey and Me
A small girl takes her toy monkey everywhere with her. Together they imitate and then imagine visiting a string of real animals, from penguins to kangaroos, whose glorious images fill the pages.
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Happy Baby
A lovely board book with five well-known songs and pictures showing how to move your baby in time. The CD features backing music for all the songs and nine other pieces of music.
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Sharing a Shell
Poor crab has lost his shell, and nobody wants to share. But when he finally finds a shell of his own, he is surprised to find himself being asked to move over!
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Happy Harry's Cafe
Harry runs a popular café where friends rush from far and wide to slurp his superb soup
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Sleepy Places
Big sister is reading to her sleepy siblings. She reads about the animals - how frog takes a snooze in the ooze and how pup takes a sleep in a quivering heap.
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Quentin Blake's Nursery Rhyme Book
This collection of lesser-known nursery rhymes from the 1950s, with lively illustrations by Quentin Blake, will introduce children to a host of intriguing characters.
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There’s a Goat in my Coat
Children wriggle, hop, dance, shake and play in this book of original rhymes for the very young
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A Bear With a Pear
This robust buggy book offers an entertaining introduction to colours, animals and numbers.
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If You're Happy and You Know It
On every page of this board book are attractive, colourful illustrations of babies clapping their hands, rolling about on the floor and hugging their friends.
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One, Two, Cockatoo!
Here is a rhyming, counting book with cockatoos having fun on every page.
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My Favourite Nursery Rhymes
This book brings together 48 of Tony Ross’s favourite traditional rhymes and is accompanied by a CD to teach readers the tunes.
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The Animal Boogie
Comes with a sing-along CD and features a multi-ethnic cast of children. One child uses a wheelchair.
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Rattle and Rap
Young children will enjoy listening to the lovely rhyming text and looking at the detail in Steggall’s bold collaged illustrations.
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Snug
Delightful book celebrating the different ways to feel snug by comparing how animals and children stay cosy
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Whizz Bang Orang-Utan
This is a book of fantastic poems, which are great fun to read aloud.
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A Goodnight Kind of Feeling
Vivid, colourful illustrations beautifully convey the exhilaration felt by a small person with the whole world to explore.
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Cave Baby
Cave Baby is restless and sets about amusing himself. But he is warned that being naughty will mean 'A mammoth's going to throw you to the big brown bear!'
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Sir Charlie Stinky Socks and the Tale of Two Treasures
The King has found a treasure map! Sir Charlie, his good grey mare and his faithful, fearless cat Envelope set out on a quest to find the treasure.
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Each Peach Pear Plum
Children will enjoy the traditional tales and finding all the hidden characters in the pictures.
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Hush, Baby, Hush!
A collection of 29 lullabies from around the world featuring rhymes in both the original language, and in English.
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Perky Little Penguins
The penguins are enjoying themselves in the snow, until they discover a seal pup who has lost his mum, so they comfort and entertain him until she returns for him.
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Stormy Weather
All over the world baby animals are preparing to go to sleep. Foxes, seals, rabbits, owls and even snails have shared a bedtime story and said goodnight.
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Old MacDonald
This lovely touch and feel book centres around the popular rhyme. Join in and make farmyard noises!
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One Mole Digging a Hole
In this vibrant counting book, one mole digging a hole is soon joined by a troupe of gardening friends, including nine doves in gardening gloves and ten bees pruning trees.
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Croc by the Rock
Jake finds what he thinks is proof of a crocodile in his local pond. He tells a man in a van, and the man sends his dog to take a look...
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Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
This is the first of many books featuring a zappy dog and his friends. The illustrations of the lovable Hairy Maclary are great fun, and the story's a real joy to read and to listen to.
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The Magic Paintbrush
When Shen is given a magic paintbrush, she promises only to use it for the good of the poor. But how will she avoid painting for the greedy emperor?
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Have You Ever Ever Ever?
An essential book for everyone, which expounds the importance of libraries, books and the wonders which lie within them!
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I'm a Little Teapot!
A lively board book in which children introduce the popular rhyme and the accompanying actions. One of the children pictured has a hearing aid.
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Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
Babies may be born in different countries, look a little different and have different needs, but one thing that most have in common are ten fingers and ten toes.
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The Bear went over the Mountain
The popular rhyme is brought to life with lively pictures of Baby bear and Grandbear playing in a mountain of bedclothes.
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The Gruffalo's Child
Five years after the publication of multi award-winning The Gruffalo, author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler return with a much-awaited sequel.
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Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes...
This is a happy book for babies and toddlers, one that no-one will be able to listen to and remain sitting still!
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More Pants
When a book begins: 'Red pants, green pants, Yellow Submarine pants, Dancing with the Queen pants, la la la!' you know you're in safe hands!
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Roar!
With its appealing animal characters to slot into the correct environment, Roar! is a huge favourite amongst parents and young children alike.
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Amazing Baby: Party Time!
This chunky party-themed board book contains a variety of favourite songs to sing together






