Books about animals for toddlers

Banana!

These books are perfect for entertaining toddlers and younger children that love animals, with everything from hilariously silly stories to early learning tales.

  • How To Be A Lion

    Author: Ed Vere

    Interest level: 3-7

    Reading age: 5+

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  • How To Be A Lion

    Author: Ed Vere

    Interest level: 3-7

    Reading age: 5+

    Leonard is a gentle lion: just because you’re a lion doesn’t mean that you have to roar. A book about ignoring the aggressive…

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  • Baby Touch Animals

    Author: N/A Illustrator: Lemon Ribbon Studio

    Interest level: 0-3

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  • Baby Touch Animals

    Author: N/A Illustrator: Lemon Ribbon Studio

    Interest level: 0-3

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    The excellent Baby Touch series is a real feast for the senses for newborns, and is the perfect introduction to books for the tini…

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  • The Steves

    Author: Morag Hood

    Interest level: 4-6

    Reading age: 5+

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  • The Steves

    Author: Morag Hood

    Interest level: 4-6

    Reading age: 5+

    What do you do when you meet a fellow Steve who is trying to out-Steve you? Two puffins called Steve come face to face and lots of…

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  • Oi Dog!

    Author: Kes Gray Illustrator: Jim Field

    Interest level: 3-6

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Oi Dog!

    Author: Kes Gray Illustrator: Jim Field

    Interest level: 3-6

    Reading age: 5+

    Frog has had enough of being sat on. This time, dogs will not sit on frogs - they will sit on logs, which is where they belong. Ca…

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  • Elmer and Snake

    Author: David McKee

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Elmer and Snake

    Author: David McKee

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 5+

    A group of mischievous elephants decide to play a trick on Elmer, the famous multicolour patchwork elephant, so they ask Snake for…

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  • Doing the Animal Bop

    Author: Jan Ormerod Illustrator: Lindsey Gardiner

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Doing the Animal Bop

    Author: Jan Ormerod Illustrator: Lindsey Gardiner

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 5+

    Children will enjoy matching the rhythmic text to the animals actions, and joining in with the dancing themselves.

    A great book f…

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  • Seal Surfer

    Author: Michael Foreman

    Interest level: 5-8

    Reading age: 6+

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  • Seal Surfer

    Author: Michael Foreman

    Interest level: 5-8

    Reading age: 6+

    A welcome re-publication of Foreman's timeless and evocative account of a boy's relationship with life and death.

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  • Meerkat Mail

    Author: Emily Gravett

    Interest level: 4-6

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Meerkat Mail

    Author: Emily Gravett

    Interest level: 4-6

    Reading age: 5+

    Sunny lives on an arid plain with his extensive and loving meerkat family; they work together, play together and together do their…

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  • Banana!

    Author: Ed Vere Illustrator: Ed Vere

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Banana!

    Author: Ed Vere Illustrator: Ed Vere

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 5+

    Follow the cartoon-style adventures of two monkeys. One of them has a banana and the other one wants it - but what is the magic wo…

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  • Elephant

    Author: Petr Horacek

    Interest level: 4+

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Elephant

    Author: Petr Horacek

    Interest level: 4+

    Reading age: 5+

    Horáček's illustrations vividly supplement this many-layered story of a lonely child who finds solace in an imaginary world…

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  • Ernest

    Author: Catherine Rayner

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 6+

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  • Ernest

    Author: Catherine Rayner

    Interest level: 2+

    Reading age: 6+

    Ernest’s huge, friendly face fills up the spreads of this gorgeously illustrated book.

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  • WOW! Said the Owl

    Author: Tim Hopgood

    Interest level: 2-5

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  • WOW! Said the Owl

    Author: Tim Hopgood

    Interest level: 2-5

    Reading age:

    Everyone knows that owls are nocturnal but one curious little owl decides to take a long nap at night so she can stay awake during…

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  • Puffin Peter

    Author: Petr Horacek

    Interest level: 3+

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Puffin Peter

    Author: Petr Horacek

    Interest level: 3+

    Reading age: 5+

    Peter and Paul are the best of friends, until one day while they are diving for fish, Peter is caught in a storm and swept out to …

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  • Peck Peck Peck

    Author: Lucy Cousins

    Interest level: 1+

    Reading age: 5+

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  • Peck Peck Peck

    Author: Lucy Cousins

    Interest level: 1+

    Reading age: 5+

    The new picture book from Lucy Cousins introduces readers to an enthusiastic and eager woodpecker who is being taught to peck by i…

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  • The Storm Whale

    Author: Benji Davies

    Interest level: 3+

    Reading age: 6+

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  • The Storm Whale

    Author: Benji Davies

    Interest level: 3+

    Reading age: 6+

    Noi finds a baby whale washed up on the beach after a storm and decides to take it home to care for it.

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  • Elmer's Day

    Author: David McKee

    Interest level: 6months+

    Reading age: 3+

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  • Elmer's Day

    Author: David McKee

    Interest level: 6months+

    Reading age: 3+

    What does the world's favourite patchwork elephant do all day?

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