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Willa can't sleep. She is afraid she might have bad dreams. Her brother, Willoughby, suggests she should think of something happy.

Marcia Williams’s brilliant wheeze of depicting classic myths and legends in humorous comic-strip format has introduced to very young readers some of the most famous stories.

The Me Books app allows users to read and listen to a whole range of picture books both old and new.

Did you know that Wibbly Pig has a bear so big he can hardly fit on the page? He may be big, but Wibbly's bear is very silly and seems pretty useless at most things.

Lion is a bully, and is mean to all the other animals - but then Rabbit comes up to the rescue. Although he is small and Lion is big, he still manages to teach him a lesson.

Monkey is lost in the jungle, so he asks Butterfly to help him find his mum. However, Butterfly cannot seem to understand that Monkey and his mum look alike!

Sunny lives on an arid plain with his extensive and loving meerkat family; they work together, play together and together do their best to stay away from jackals!

This is the fascinating and fact filled story of the world’s most famous painting narrated by the Mona Lisa herself.

Only when Clarice openly rebels does she finally succeed in getting the peace and quiet she really wants!

Meg, Mog and Owl are a beloved addition to any picture book collection and this quirky fun tale is no exception.

The little mermaid falls in love with a human prince and is given a potion by the sea witch to turn her mermaid's tail to legs so she can walk on the land.

Danny is greedy and spoilt - he already has so many toys there is no space in his room. When he sends Santa a long list for Christmas, St Nick decides to teach him a lesson.

Jamela is a young girl who lives with her family in South Africa. One day she goes to help out at Aunt Beauty’s hair salon.

Bella is having a Big Shouting Day: from morning until bedtime, she shouts and complains about everything from biscuits to baths.

Baggy Brown is a very special toy bear. He is due to be presented to a baby princess but is accidentally chewed up and ejected by a machine in the toy factory.

Whatever Dog does, Cat wants to do too - but soon Dog begins to feel annoyed...

Ellen, off school with chicken pox, gets a big surprise one day while examining her spots in the mirror: her reflection starts talking back to her, and even comes out of the mirror!

When Cat feels unfairly treated and is put out of the house, Farmer takes pity on him and lets him in. But when he makes a puddle on Farmer's favourite chair, out he goes again!

This well-judged story of a doll’s house-sized world coming to life is very appealing.

The witch’s children have a reputation of which passengers on the number 16 bus are well aware; on their journey to see the Queen, the children live up to it!

This picture book tells the story of the young Paul Cezanne. He visits his father where he lives in a little town in the mountains.

Children may have seen the BAFTA-winning animated version of this tale of friendship between a boy and a penguin, however, before it appeared on television, it was a Nestle and Blue Peter prize-winning picture book. Lost and Found is a visual delight, and its themes of loneliness and friendship will resonate with many readers. This book seems well on its way to becoming a modern classic.

A simple tale about an elephant who gets lost in a storm. He falls in with a herd of buffalo, who save him from a tiger attack and soon the elephant becomes one of them.

Rosen's text understandingly captures the roller-coaster extremes of infant emotions.

Carl Norac's delicately woven tale is accompanied by beautiful, evocative illustrations from Kristin Oftedal

Alone in the wild, Beryl is befriended by Amber, a scruffy little wild pig whose family is forced to find a new home, as pink pigs are banned by their community.

This is a book where you need to turn the pages slowly, and sink into the pictures.

A limited palette of extremely bright colours emphasises the images of dinosaurs and the qualities of their environments in this book.

Follow the life cycle of a car as it gets built, sold, driven, crashed and then recycled back into a car.

When a new family move into the neighbourhood, Vitello is excited - but he is disappointed to discover they don't have a cool boy for him to play with, only a yucky girl.

Although Lulu is only ‘quite little’, she manages to pack an awful lot into her day!

Replete with wicked uncles, a menacing and deceitful advisor and a fairytale romance, the story of Victoria's early life seems almost unreal.

When hard times come to Jack and his mother, she decides to sell their cow, Daisy. But at the market Jack exchanges Daisy for a handful of 'magic beans' instead of money...

Setting out to buy a violin, Patrick finds that playing it transforms not only his outlook on life, but the lives of all he meets, be it plant, animal or human!

A family of furry animals grow too big for their home in an old mattress and have to go out into the unknown world of the back yard to find a new one. This endearing and engaging picture book about growing up is told with gentle humour and illustrated with a blend of painting and photography by 2011 Best New Illustrator, Viviane Schwarz.

Wibbly Pig and Pigley have just left a party and Wibbly's desperate to discover what's inside the mysterious parcel in his party bag.

A small goose wants to know what a big bear is doing, and keeps asking him the question while the bear is quietly trying to read, write or think.

A cat, a duck, a fire engine and a cow are concerned that Stanley the rabbit has nothing to do - until, that is, an unusual parcel arrives...

In 1930s Liverpool, young Bronwen and Dylan find kindness from an unexpected source when they are frightened by what they think is a ghost on Christmas Eve.

When a rat comes to live at the edge of their wood, the animals decide they don't like having a stranger in their midst

Children beware: if you say 'it's not fair' one too many times, the It's Not Fairy might just come and gobble you up.

A little boy's mother has warned him about ferocious wild beasts in the forest so when he finds himself lost there, he's afraid.

A young boy proudly describes his father (a big, friendly, unshaven dad, sporting an old dressing gown).

Laura learns how to use Braille to communicate with her Australian penfriend Malcolm - with the added bonus that no one else can understand their letters!

A deliciously wicked rhyming account of the dreadful experiences at school of young Honor Brown, where every day, she claims, she faces food poisoning, beatings, sharks and monsters.

Stimpson sets his version of Jack and the Beanstalk in 1950s America, with skyscrapers surrounding the flyover under which Jack and his mother run a café

Tofta has found that sharing is really hard to get used to. But she discovers it can sometimes be fun – especially if it involves games and stories with an army of penguins.

There was a time when Giraffe had short legs, short horns and a very short, stumpy neck. She was also a very fussy eater – she only ate mangoes

After the Princess kissed the frog, he turned into a handsome prince, and they lived happily ever after… or did they?

Daisy loves talking to all her neighbours on Magnolia Street, but they never talk to each other. When Mr Hofmeister hurts his back, Daisy comes up with a plan to look after his garden and bring the neighbours together.