Adapted from the very successful Animal World board books, this new paperback series features an amusing verse for each animal written by respected authors such as Jack Prelutsky, Hillaire Belloc, Gail Kredenser, and Miles Gibson. The vivid illustrations and simple rhyming verses make this series an ideal way to introduce young children to wildlife and poetry. Children will marvel at the exotic…
Read this together with your toddler and find out how a wobbly foal grows into a sure-footed pony. Watch the foal get bigger in fantastic photographs bursting with colour, and share easy-to-follow words ideal for reading out loud to the very young. Plus, there are special pony stickers for lots of interactive, furry fun!
A photographic paperback series designed to introduce the fascinating world of animals and how they develop. In this informative and highly visual series, appealing step-by-step photography allows children to see a butterfly emerge from its cocoon and spread its wings, or see what happens when an egg hatches and a chick emerges. Each book comes with a sticker sheet packed with cute images of th…
"Then I'll HUFF and I'll PUFF and I'll blow your house down!" cried the wolf. Find out what happens when the three little pigs build homes made of straw, sticks, and bricks. The Three Little Pigs has lively illustrations by Mei Matsuoka that you will want to enjoy again and again. Designed to encourage vocabulary development and help children read aloud, this story uses large font types and vib…
Diggers are noisy, strong, and big. Diggers can carry and push and dig. Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that bulldoze, shunt, and shift. Sloshing and squelching, and smashing and bashing, the construction machinery does its work - manned by a friendly animal gang - in this lively picture book. Young children will adore it as will the adults who get to read aloud these irresistibl…
Pulitzer Prize-winning Dr. Seuss’s classic Beginner Book is now part of a book and audio CD package, with word-for-word storytelling by David Hyde Pierce. “From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” Beginning with just five fish and continuing into flights of fancy, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish celebrates how much fun imagination can be. From the can…
Here was once a Velveteen Rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid. He was fat and bunchy, as a rabbit should be; his had real thread whiskers, and his ears were lined with pink sateen. On Christmas morning, when he sat wedged in the top of the Boy's stocking, with a sprig of holly between his paws, the effect was charming.
Along the Bay of Bengal, between the countries of India and Bangladesh, stretches a strange and beautiful landscape—part ocean, part river, part forest. This is the Sundarbans Tiger Reserve, and it is home to more tigers than anywhere else on the earth. Nowhere else do tigers live in a mangrove swamp. Nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people. Yet about three hundred people a year …
From the bestselling author of Owen & Mzee, a picture book about Knut, the adorable polar bear cub who's captured hearts around the world. When Knut was born, the first polar bear cub at the Berlin Zoo in more than thirty years, he was no bigger than a snowball and unable to care for himself. His mother, a rescued East German circus bear, didn't know how to take care of Knut and rejected him…
The amazing true story of the orphaned baby hippo and 130-year-old giant turtle whose remarkable friendship touched millions around the world. The inspiring true story of two great friends, a baby hippo named Owen and a 130-yr-old giant tortoise named Mzee (Mm-ZAY). When Owen was stranded after the Dec 2004 tsunami, villagers in Kenya worked tirelessly to rescue him. Then, to everyone's amazem…