Books about animals for toddlers
These books are perfect for entertaining toddlers and younger children that love animals, with everything from hilariously silly stories to early learning tales.
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What Does The Crocodile Say?
Author: Eva Montanari
Interest level: 3-5
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What Does The Crocodile Say?
Author: Eva Montanari
Interest level: 3-5
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First days at nursery can be really hard for little ones and grown-ups. What Does The Crocodile Say? is a wonderful and …
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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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I Can Learn My First Colours: Animal World
Author: Lauren Crisp Illustrator: Thomas Elliot
Interest level: 2-5
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I Can Learn My First Colours: Animal World
Author: Lauren Crisp Illustrator: Thomas Elliot
Interest level: 2-5
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Learning the colours will be great fun with this rhyming, interactive, board book packed with bright animals and with wooden spinn…
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Farmyard Friends: Portly Pig
Author: Axel Scheffler
Interest level: 1-3
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Farmyard Friends: Portly Pig
Author: Axel Scheffler
Interest level: 1-3
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Portly Pig is worried about being too clean. The grass is too pristine and the flowers and trees are too neat, so he goes to find …
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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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Harris Finds His Feet
Author: Catherine Rayner
Interest level: 3+
Reading age: 6+
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Harris Finds His Feet
Author: Catherine Rayner
Interest level: 3+
Reading age: 6+
Harris leaps joyfully across the pages, against vibrant washes of colour, as he learns to be independent for the first time.
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Mr Pusskins Colours
Author: Sam Lloyd
Interest level: 2+
Reading age: 3+
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Mr Pusskins Colours
Author: Sam Lloyd
Interest level: 2+
Reading age: 3+
A great introduction to colours, simple stories and relationships – all in twelve pages!
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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
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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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The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water
Author: Gemma Merino
Interest level: 3-6
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The Crocodile Who Didn't Like Water
Author: Gemma Merino
Interest level: 3-6
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Little crocodile doesn't like water. It's cold. It's wet. It's embarrassing.
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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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Mouse is Small
Author: Mary Murphy
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Mouse is Small
Author: Mary Murphy
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Reading age:
A colourful picture book about animal sizes
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