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Delightful book celebrating the different ways to feel snug by comparing how animals and children stay cosy

The classics take their place in this collection, but are interspersed with less familiar poems by writers from Ted Hughes to Langston Hughes to Harindranath Chattopadhyaya.

Fun to read aloud, each character is introduced with an enchanting rhyme which is accompanied by vibrant, colourful illustrations.

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.

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!

The wonderful rhyming text and charming illustrations create a beautifully paced and reassuring picture book

Hairy Maclary is lucky enough to be given a big juicy bone by the butcher, Samuel Stone. This does not go unnoticed by all the other dogs who decide to follow him.

Comes with a sing-along CD and features a multi-ethnic cast of children. One child uses a wheelchair.

This is a happy book for babies and toddlers, one that no-one will be able to listen to and remain sitting still!

The determined heroine of this magical picture book knows exactly what she wants, and even the big city is too small for her dreams.

A beautifully and brightly illustrated rhyming story, brimming with humour and cleverly constructed, which will delight children and adults

Monkey is tired of tourists taking his photo. Snatching a camera from a stray hand, he starts to snap all the birds and animals in the jungle - whether they like it or not.

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...

Five years after the publication of multi award-winning The Gruffalo, author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler return with a much-awaited sequel.

Ruth Brown perfectly depicts the daily activities of Henry, a pre-school boy who is desperate to help his mum with the household chores.

Vivid, colourful illustrations beautifully convey the exhilaration felt by a small person with the whole world to explore.

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.

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.

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.

The ever-popular Gruffalo returns in musical form in this book of songs to sing and play from Julia Donaldson.

Learn numbers as you have fun with this book - the pages are split to make counting easy.

The animals on the farm are always noisy, all except for the ladybird who never says a word. But when burglars plot to steal the farmer's fine prize cow, the ladybird has a plan...

A large, bright, creepy-crawly bug safari through a little boy’s garden, with a final spread which shows how we often react to them.

Click on the objects on every page to find the word. With the sound of rain falling you feel as though you’re fully immersed in the book.

Although he looks small and ordinary, Tiddler is a fish who loves to tell tall tales. But one day he is swept up in a fisherman's net and then thrown back in to an unfamiliar part of the sea.

The beautifully detailed illustrations by Nicola Bayley capture the warmth and magic of this delightful story

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!'

Willaby Wallaby is throwing a wobbly...He’s quite determined he still needs a pouch to live in, but suddenly it’s just too knobbly, wodgy, wedgy and wriggly and so he jumps out.

Actions to accompany the verses are demonstrated in lively watercolour illustrations of bright and cheerful babies, bursting with energy.

Most youngsters would recognise a big, grey, wrinkly elephant, but what about a green and red, spotty Unwelliphant or a clairvoyant Gypsy Fortune-Tellerphant?

See You Later, Escalator is an anthology of rhymes and poems chosen by John Foster for the very young.

A delightful new collection of nineteen poems, ranging from limerick to parody, from the author of the classic Please Mrs Butler.

Poets ranging from Robert Louis Stevenson to Eleanor Farjeon are featured in each of the themed sections devoted to subjects such as animals, night time, food and nonsense verse.

The text of this simple picture book is a version of a traditional folk song, 'The Green Leaves Grew Around'. The words and music are printed inside the back cover.

24 poets from around the English-speaking world provide a commentary on their work, their methods and sources of inspiration - a fascinating and immensely useful project.

Harry runs a popular café where friends rush from far and wide to slurp his superb soup

Young children will enjoy listening to the lovely rhyming text and looking at the detail in Steggall’s bold collaged illustrations.

Combine bright, funny, action-packed pictures with a rap-style rhyming text telling a favourite story, and you get a book like this, guaranteed to engage readers of all ages.

The popular rhyme is brought to life with lively pictures of Baby bear and Grandbear playing in a mountain of bedclothes.

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.

George is the scruffiest giant in town, so he buys a new outfit to smarten himself up. On the way home, however, he meets others who are in greater need of his clothes than he is...

Children will love the energy and humour of the verse, which works best read aloud, and the appealing, colourful illustrations include lots of fascinating details that children will love picking out.

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.

Mr Troll is kept awake by the sound of the Three Billy Goats Fluff trip-trapping over his bridge, and he threatens to put the billy goats in a stew if they disturb him again.

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.

Hollie's hatred of the hair brush results in her tangled curls attracting a range of nesting birds.

This rhyming tale of a villainous Highway Rat is the latest book from Children’s Laureate Julian Donaldson and her Gruffalo collaborator Axel Scheffler. The Highway Rat, gallops along the highway stealing food from other animals – clover from a rabbit, nuts from a squirrel and even his own horse’s hay, until he encounters a cunning duck! Eagle-eyed readers will enjoy searching for the Gruffalo’s face hidden amongst the illustrations.

The reassuring text moves rhythmically and repetitively, engaging the youngest of readers who can quickly learn to join in with the rhymes.

This book is brilliant for bedtime, and the rhyming story is fun to read.