Books about mud, bugs and growing plants for 0-5
Young children love splashing in muddy puddles and discovering minibeasts. This selection of books explores the fascinating world of soil, plants and bug life.
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Who Ate All the Bugs? The TRUE and GORY story of the food...
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Who Ate All the Bugs? The TRUE and GORY story of the food...
This delightful and very funny cartoon-style guide to food chains is a brilliant introduction to the concept, and gives young read…
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Mad About Minibeasts!
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Mad About Minibeasts!
These simple, cheerful and humorous rhymes about all the familiar insects you might encounter in your garden are great fun to read…
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Benjamin Zephaniah’s Nature Trail
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Benjamin Zephaniah’s Nature Trail
This joyful poem within a picture book pays tribute to all the treats that nature has to offer. Packed with animals and minibeasts…
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Follow the Trail: Minibeasts
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Follow the Trail: Minibeasts
This fun book offers lots of interaction, from the trails (which are great for fine motor skills and getting used to tracing, a pr…
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Build a… Butterfly
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Build a… Butterfly
This sturdy board book with bold, colourful illustrations guides the reader through the life cycle of a butterfly, slotting togeth…
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The Very Busy Spider
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The Very Busy Spider
One morning in a farmyard a spider begins to spin a web. All the animals try to persuade her to stop but she doesn't answer any of…
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Watch Out For Muddy Puddles!
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Watch Out For Muddy Puddles!
The first picture book from Ben Faulks, otherwise known as CBeebies’ Mr Bloom, and illustrated by Aliens Love Underpants&rsq…
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Puddle Pug
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Puddle Pug
This is a warm and playful tale of friendship and fun, with delightful illustrations, sure to give young readers a giggle!
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I Like the Rain
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I Like the Rain
This book conjures up everything that is fun about rain: splashing in puddles, dancing with umbrellas, as well as staying cosy and…
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A Good Place
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A Good Place
Four friends including a ladybird, a bee, a beetle and a dragonfly search for a new home and finally find the perfect place in a l…
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Splish, Splash, Ducky
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Splish, Splash, Ducky
Lucy Cousins’ bright and vivid animal characters are as loveable as ever for babies and toddlers. The rhyme is perfectly aimed at …
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Splash, Anna Hibiscus!
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Splash, Anna Hibiscus!
Anna Hibiscus is at the beach with her family. She wants someone to go in the sea and splash in the waves with her but they are al…
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Lift and Look Bugs
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Lift and Look Bugs
Published in partnership with the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, this board book for young readers explores some of the places we…
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Rosa's Big Sunflower Experiment
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Rosa's Big Sunflower Experiment
Rosa and her friends are growing sunflowers. The industrious team of children fill pots with soil, tenderly plant seeds and then c…
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Bugs (First Word Fold-Out Explorers)
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Bugs (First Word Fold-Out Explorers)
In this ingenious large fold-out board book, illustrators Loulou and Tummie bring young readers some of their first experiences of…
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Beastly Bugs
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Beastly Bugs
A fun little book about mini beasts with lots of somewhat gruesome looking photographs...
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The Weaver
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The Weaver
Stanley the spider is an imaginative creature who loves collecting things to incorporate into his beautifully woven web. This stun…
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Waldo a'I we wych / Walter's Wonderful Web (bilingual)
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Waldo a'I we wych / Walter's Wonderful Web (bilingual)
Nid oedd Waldo’n cael unrhyw hwyl ar greu gwe – roedden nhw’n chwythu i ffwrdd bob tro! Ond dyma Waldo’n cael syniad, sef creu gwa…
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