Sweet, cuddly, delightful babies - but it's time for these little babies to go to bed!

The much-loved and cherished babies are back in these delightful stories to help engage toddlers and encourage a love of reading.

Although his friends want to ignore the new striped fish in their midst, Rainbow Fish must decide whether to help him when a shark attacks.

Bouncy Bunny is having a race with his friends. Join in the fun with this touch-and-feel book, perfect for sharing at storytime.

Brilliant board books for toddlers based around senses. Exploring the concept of touch, this title features familiar scenes and fun words to encourage lively chatter.

Young children adore looking at pets and wild animals, and they will find lots of them in this inviting box set from fluttering butterflies to playful puppies. Each sturdy volume has been carefully planned to help little ones learn new words and discover that books are fun. Eye-catching images, entertaining captions, and simple challenges will encourage children to observe, name, count, point and say, all while increasing their reading skills. What kind of animal is Belinda? Which of the rabbits have floppy ears? How many kittens can you see and more! Readers can also turn the books over to make a simple picture puzzle.

Incy Wincy Spider climbs up the water spout. Rain, wind and snow make it hard for her to reach the top - but she won't give up. This expanded version of the well-loved children's rhyme is brought to life by Stef Murphy's amusing illustrations.

See the piggy,
See the puddle,
See the muddy little puddle.
See the piggy in the middle
Of the muddy little puddle.

And so begins this rollicking story-in-verse about a determined young pig who absolutely refuses to leave her mud puddle -- much to the dismay of her family!

Charlotte Pomerantz's tongue-twisting nonsense verse -- made even more exuberantly hilarious by James Marshall's illustrations -- is sure to delight both children and adults.

Count up to ten and back down again in this board book starring ten traveling dogs and one very tenacious cat!One by one, each dog escapes its yard and joins the adventure in this hilarious counting story. Vehicle-obsessed readers will love seeing all the modes of transportation that the pups use-until the family cat decides to round them all up to go back home. Gabi Snyder's charming text and Robin Rosenthal's delightful illustrations are a surefire combination in this winning board book.

In this companion book to Global Baby Girls, appealing photographs of baby boys from around the globe celebrate diversity.

From a wolf howling on a remote mountaintop to a macaw squawking in the deepest jungle, this engrossing sound book takes children on a journey to some of the wildest places on Earth and lets them hear the amazing animals who live there.

The elephant is the kindest animal in the jungle, rescuing the giraffe, lion, and rhino, but who will return the favor when the elephant needs help?

Meet beloved toy Sophie and all her friends and learn about colours in this sturdy storybook. Sophie is off to meet her friends, when her bunch of balloons blows away. Can her animal friends help her to find them all? This gentle story is perfect for reading aloud with babies and toddlers. Chunky tabbed pages are easy to turn for little hands, and bright colours will draw in even the youngest readers. With things to look for, and a friendly face to meet on every page, this adorable book is a gentle introduction to first words, colours and numbers. Sophie la girafe has sold more than 50 million teether toys worldwide, and now the iconic toy from France turns 60. Celebrate with Sophie as she steps into the pages of a brand new series of baby books. Designed for reading together with your baby or toddler, this would also make the perfect baby shower or new baby gift.

You'd better not tickle that polar bear, because it just might growl if you do! Babies and toddlers won't be able to resist tickling the adorable touchy-feely animals to hear the animal sounds in this unique novelty book. Alongside the polar bear there's a walrus, a seal and a puffin, followed by a musical finale guaranteed to get everyone dancing.

Young children always enjoy looking at bright pictures, and with this book they can also learn to recognize, name and create different patterns. It includes everyday shapes such as wiggly toothpaste or squishy spiral cake, manufactured ones like spotted party balloons or splotches of messy paint, and natural ones such as stripes on a zebra or ripples in water. The straightforward text encourages reading skills and interactivity - see what patterns you can find on a wing of a butterfly, make zigzags in wet sand, and count the rings to find out the age of a tree. This first words and picture book will delight and inform early learners, who will love looking at it with grown-ups or by themselves. Compiled with the advice of educational specialists, this special padded boardbook combines lively, simple text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy skills. Experts agree that preschool children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations, and this book is full of lively images of objects, activities and people that youngsters will encounter in the world around them.The images are carefully arranged into visual and subject groups, such as spots, checks, zigzags, wiggles, swirls, spirals, natural patterns, animal patterns, and patterns that we can make ourselves - such as drizzles of icing or footprints on the ground. Young readers will see and identify with the pictures of children just like them, encouraging them to make connections, and to see how various things develop and work together.

Get ready for a ride through the alphabet at a busy construction site. There's a big yellow Bulldozer, a tall shiny Crane, and a rusty red Dump truck - and the construction crew is hard at work. But what are they building? Melissa Iwai's bright, bold illustrations are a perfect match to June Sobel's irresistible rhyming text. Join the excitement as the workers build, scoop, and dig their way from A to Z in this sturdy board book.

Children are able to communicate by signing before they develop the skills necessary for speech. By teaching simple sign language to children from as young as eight months, we can help them to convey their emotions and their needs. When children begin to talk, having sign language to fall back on provides a comforting safety net. Favourite nursery rhymes and songs, with babies and toddlers, signing and miming along.

A porcupine named Fluffy is happier with his name after he meets a similarly misnamed rhinoceros.

In this story in the Cat and Bug series of full-color board books about Cat and his oblivious friend Bug, it's almost but not quite snack time. Bug asks Cat to share his snack early, but by snack time, Cat's snack is all gone. Bug may have a lot to learn, but his friend Cat loves him anyway. This amusing beginner book, with bold, bright illustrations and simple text will show the readers the importance of waiting and of sharing. Introduces young readers to simple vocabulary and dialogue.

A little Inuit boy discovers there's room for himself and his baby sister on their mother's lap.

This is a sad story- but it has a very happy ending.

Once, there was a baby with no mummy- but he wanted a mummy very much. Deciding to take matters into his own hands, he set off to find one.

Along the way he met lots of new friends, none of whom could be his mummy but wanted to help him find one.

When they met a lady with a pram and no baby, the baby finally found his mummy- there was just one more thing he needed- a daddy!

A beautiful story about finding your family, it can be used to talk about adoption, fostering and changing families. This Janet and Allan Ahlberg classic is a must for every bookshelf.

In a great green room, tucked away in bed, is a little bunny. "Goodnight room, goodnight moon." And to all the familiar things in the softly lit room--to the picture of the three little bears sitting in chairs, to the clocks and his socks, to the mittens and the kittens, to everything one by one--he says goodnight.

In this classic of modern children's literature, beloved by generations of readers and listeners, the quiet poetry of the words and the gentle, lulling illustrations combine to make a perfect book for the end of the day.

1988 Choices (Association of Booksellers for Children)
1995 "Pick of the Lists" (ABA)

The peas are back in this counting-themed follow-up to the New York Times "bestselling LMNO Peas."
Meet the peas--the 1-2-3 Peas Come along as they count from one to one hundred in this pea-filled picture book that's packed with bright, bold numbers and playful number-themed scenes. These tiny green mathematicians will have young readers everywhere calling for more peas, please