The night was dark and the moon was bright, everyone wanted some fun and a fright. But all through the town, no spooks could be seen... HOW MANY SLEEPS 'TIL HALLOWEEN? Count down to the most exciting and spooky night of the year with this celebration of fun and familiar Halloween characters. Featuring a vampire, skeleton, ghost, zombie, witch, and more, each character is getting ready for Halloween. Will they cause mischief and mayhem, or do they just want to join in with the trick-or-treating fun? Featuring a spooky glow-in-the-dark cover, this is the perfect way to count down to Halloween. Bonus activities at the back of the book teach readers how to make a Halloween-inspired dessert and craft a spooky bat out of a toilet roll tube.

Encourage young students to learn and practice counting with this wordless picture book. Featuring fun images of various toys, this picture book will encourage young readers to develop their early oral language and mathematics skills by counting and describing what is depicted in each picture.

Learning is fun while discovering one of the most beautiful ecosystems in the world! Begin to appreciate the adorable baby animals in and around the coral reef like pufferfish that puff, gruntfish that grunt, and seahorses that flutter. Explore the world around you, and inspire a bond with nature through curiosity and wonder! Parents, teachers and gift givers will find:a book filled with baby animals from the coral reef.educational backmatter about this habitat and the animals that live there.a nature book to explore new and beautiful habitats!The creative art will inspire many projects at home and at school! Kids will explore the coral reef habitat and learn about baby animals like octopus, clownfish, and more creatures around the ocean habitat in this bestselling book for young explorers!

Fast cars, slow cars, ready steady go cars . . . which do you like best? Follow fifty colourful cars as they race along the road - up, down, around and back again! Can you find your favourite? Full of spotting and counting fun, with different cars to follow on each page and an exciting fold-out race at the end, this rhyming preschool picture book from Donna David and Nina Pirhonen has been specially developed to encourage pre-reading skills and expand language and vocabulary. With a super-shiny foil cover and fun read-aloud text, Cars Cars Cars! is perfect for any transport-obsessed toddler! Part of a preschool series from Macmillan Children's Books, Cars Cars Cars! is the follow-up to Trains Trains Trains! and includes reading tips for parents and carers at the back of the book.

This brightly illustrated picture book introduces the concept

of money, first by looking at its development as an alternative to bartering and then by explaining the many forms of money, from primitive rocks, feathers, and metal lumps to the familiar coins and paper bills to alternatives such as checks, credit cards, and digital forms of payment. Adler does a particularly good job explaining the inconvenience of

bartering through child-friendly examples such as How would a baker trade for a house? How many loaves of bread would he have to trade? And why would anybody want so much bread? Using flat colors and stylized designs, Millers upbeat digital artwork helps to clarify points made in the text, while adding occasional bits of visual humor.

Night night lambs, it's time for bed. Snuggle down and rest your heads . . . Put the farm animals to bed in Night Night Sleep Tight: Farm Animals! Little readers can help the sleepy baby animals settle down by turning the shaped 'blanket' pages and tucking them into bed. Night Night Sleep Tight: Farm Animals has been created in partnership with The Sleep Charity - the experts in good sleep and effective bedtime routines - and features a page of tips at the back of the book to help with a calm, stress-free bedtime and a good night's sleep. Written in gentle read-aloud rhymes and with colourful, stylish pictures, the calming, repetitive text and dreamlike illustrations in Night Night Sleep Tight: Farm Animals will soothe and relax young children. This book is the first collaboration between bestselling picture book author Lucy Rowland and acclaimed pattern designer and illustrator Monika Forsberg. Packed with features to aid pre-reading skills including a gentle counting element and tips for reading together, it's the perfect preschooler bedtime book.

Julia Donaldson's favourite characters are now in gorgeous board books with lovely soft felt flaps for toddlers to lift and find fun things. Where has Superworm gone? Can you find him? Lift the colourful felt flaps in this fun chunky board book, perfect for small hands, until you find Superworm! While there is so much fun to be had, this board book will also help increase hand-eye co-ordination, develop speech and aid learning through repetition. Based on the bestselling book Superworm by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, the creators of The Gruffalo. Celebrating 10 years of Superworm in 2022 Story based on the chorus of the bestselling book Superworm by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, creators of The Gruffalo, Stick Man and Zog The pair's book, The Smeds and the Smoos, is soon to be an animated film showing on BBC at Christmas 2022

Matt and Mia's Adventures were written to encourage children to develop a love for reading. The books contain fun stories that focus on early literary skills, such as counting and identifying shapes and colours. There are five stories in the series: Matt and Mia Meet a Bully; Matt and Mia Build a Bridge; Matt and Mia in the Garden; Matt and Mia help Eddy; Matt and Mia rescue Tom Cat.

Big trains, small trains, short trains, long trains . . . which do you like best? Follow fifty colourful trains as they whizz along tracks and through tunnels - up, down, around and back again! Can you find your favourite? Full of spotting and counting fun, with five trains to find on each page and an exciting fold-out race at the end, this rhyming preschool picture book from Donna David and Nina Pirhonen has been specially developed to encourage pre-reading skills and expand language and vocabulary. With a super-shiny foil cover and fun read-aloud text, Trains Trains Trains! is just the ticket for any transport-obsessed toddler!

"The concept of doubling goes down easy in this combination of multiplication facts, rhyme, humor -- and diner food." -- THE HORN BOOK
Down on the farm one morning, Papa McFay orders his sons to hop to their chores. But from Minnie's kitchen wafts a smell that gets the boys itchin', and one by one, they succumb to the call of that sweet aroma. Each brother arrives at Minnie's twice as hungry as his brother before -- and looking for twice as much grub. Will they be in double trouble when Papa McFay tracks them down? With singsong rhythms and comical illustrations spiced with flavor, Dayle Ann Dodds and John Manders serve up a humorous lesson in multiplication.

One Odd Day is a humorous, rhythmic, read-aloud story about a boy who awakens to find that everything around him is "odd." His shirt has three sleeves and his dog has five legs. . . Things are no better at school either. Will his odd day end when he goes to bed that night? Children will delight in finding all the "odd" items and numbers hidden in the art! This great introduction to the concept of odd and even numbers is supplemented by odd fun facts, number games, and the art! All Sylvan Dell titles feature free educational resources at www.SylvanDellPublishing.com, including the "For Creative Minds" sections and additional teaching activities. Learning Magazine's 2008 Teachers' Choice Award

Perfect for nervous/excited kids about to go to kindergarten (and their parents!). This engaging adaptation of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" convinces parents and children alike that there is no place cooler than a kindergarten classroom. On the first day of kindergarten, there's so much to do! From making new friends to jumping rope in gym to riding the bus to school, there are lots of exciting firsts to look forward to. Even though saying good-bye to Mom and Dad is hard, when the school bus pulls up, it's time to begin kindergarten fun. Share at home along with such books as Clover Kitty Goes to Kittygarten and Kindergarten, Here I Come! Tish Rabe is a seasoned children's book author with over 160 titles, including ones for Sesame Street and Curious George, under her belt. Like Natasha Wing with The Night Before Christmas, Rabe puts a novel spin on a first-day-of-school classic with On the First Day of Kindergarten. And don't miss the follow-up: On the First Day of First Grade!

From the experts at America's Test Kitchen comes a counting book for toddlers that will revolutionize their relationship with food! What does a farm look like? What ingredients make up the food you eat? How does the food you eat get to your table? In this innovative and interactive book, readers will have fun counting along as they go from the farm, to the store, to their kitchen, to their table to share a dinner. Additional food facts will allow caring adults and toddlers to learn even more about the farm-to-table process. No other board book features counting and the cooking process in this way-and no other board book features the expertise of the cooks at America's Test Kitchen! Don't miss this farm-to-table board book for toddlers that unites food with an introduction to counting and numbers.

Meet Panda Claus! He's a friendly panda who loves to dress up just like Santa Claus.

In this exciting new sticker activity book you can help Panda Claus decorate his Christmas tree with lots of colourful Christmas objects. Find two twinkling stars, three golden bells, four dancing fairies, four marching soldiers and much more!

Find stickers objects for each number and add them to each page, and then decorate the tree at the end. This book is the perfect way to learn your 123 at Christmas time.

Our innovative write and wipe flash cards are specially designed for early learners. They are extra-thick to stand up to repeated and frequent use and include a dry erase marker so children can practice each skill again and again.

For lunch today I have a fine treat: five little fingers for Monster to eat! In this silly playtime rhyme, young readers will burst into giggles as they fit their fingers through die-cut holes and make them wiggle and squirm while a hungry little monster tries to gobble up every last bite! Parents play the part of the monster and "eat up" their laughing little ones fingers, turning the pages to make the finger holes disappear one by one until there are no wigglers left! There likely isn't a mom or dad on the planet who hasn't pretended to eat their toddler's fingers and toes, and Fingers for Lunch makes good, clean, but devilish fun of this favorite game. Little readers will be drawn to the bold, colorful illustrations and kid-friendly rhyming text, each page ending with fun sound words like "nibble" or "chomp" or "burp." And once all the fingers are gone, it's easy to start back at the beginning, this time with mom or dad's fingers in the holes--if they're willing to risk it!

*WINNER- Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards- Children's Book of the Year!*

*WINNER- Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards- Best Picture Book!*

Small dog, tall dog, playing with a ball dog, big dog, dig dog burying a bone . . .

Can there really be 100 dogs doing 100 doggy things packed into the pages of this picture book?

Yep, we've counted and we're pawsitive!

Follow the bouncy rhyme as it weaves its way through an array of hilarious hounds (from petted pugs to silly sausage dogs) and find out . . .

This silly celebration of dogs is bursting with funny details to spot and crazy, characterful dogs to fall in love with - a bark-aloud book to return time and again.

In the ideal follow-up to his stunning Caldecott Honor book Alphabet City, Stephen T. Johnson turns his talents towards numbers. Wordless spreads featuring impressively photo-realistic paintings of New York City invite readers both young and old to search for the numbers zero through twenty-one hidden in the images. From a sweeping 4 found in the span of an urban bridge to the 13 of a faded crosswalk, this is an intriguing new way to think about numbers and the world around you.