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Books > Children's & Educational > Young children's, early learning & special book types > Early learning / early learning concepts > Rhyming & wordplay books
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her ... Join in the fun as your all-time favourite children's nursery rhymes are brought to life by Wendy Straw's charming illustrations.
Roger Priddy's Lift-the-Flap: Nursery Rhymes is a chunky board book with colorful, beautifully illustrated artwork and large flaps that reveal lots of fun surprises. Each page features kooky characters in a classic nursery rhyme, and includes a fun flap to lift. Children will love finding the mouse in Hickory Dickory Dock, seeing the cow jump over the moon, and finding out what happens to Jack and Jill in this delightfully charming book.
Little children and their grown-ups can poke their fingers through the holes to become the trunks of Big Elephant and Baby Elephant and tell a simple story. Baby Elephant learns to reach for leaves, suck up and squirt water, then takes a walk through the grassland before joining the rest of the family at the end of the day for a big elephant cuddle.
An adorable Sing-Along board book story, with five robust board sliders – easy for little hands to use! Each board book comes with a free instrumental and vocal version of the nursery rhyme - simply scan the QR code for little ones to listen and sing along! With bright illustrations this series make the perfect gift for a baby or toddler! When a sailor goes for a sail in his boat, he can't see very much at all. All toddlers will love joining in with the song, and pointing out the things he's missed!
"The words one first meets in nursery rhymes will always have a special magic," writes Iona Opie in her foreword to this book. "Hey Diddle, Diddle", "Humpty Dumpty", "Jumping Joan", "Wee Willie Winkie", passed on from generation to generation, these rhymes learnt in infancy remain with us forever. Divided into four enticing sections, My Very First Mother Goose contains more than sixty of the most colourful and best-loved nursery rhymes. But what makes it so special are the wonderful watercolour pictures by Rosemary Wells, who has created an engaging and exuberant world filled with distinctive characters - rabbits and cats and mice - guaranteed to delight the youngest child. This is indeed a very first book, a book to be encountered at the earliest possible moment and savoured for an entire lifetime.
Come into the jungle for a noisy, rhyming animal adventure in this colourful read-aloud board book! There's a rumble in the jungle, There's a whisper in the trees, The animals are waking up, And rustling the leaves ... Little ones will love looking at the colourful pictures and joining in with all the rhymes, as they discover lots of exciting jungle animals - including lions, elephants, chimpanzees, zebras, hippos and more! From the author of international bestseller Giraffes Can't Dance.
Long planes, short planes, stuck at the airport planes . . . which do you like best? Follow fifty colourful planes as they race through the air - soaring, swooping and loop-the-looping! Can you find your favourite? Full of spotting and counting fun, with different planes 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, Planes Planes Planes! is perfect for any transport-obsessed toddler! Part of a preschool series from Macmillan Children's Books, Planes Planes Planes! includes reading tips for parents and carers at the back of the book. Fans of this book will love the others in the series: Trains Trains Trains! and Cars Cars Cars!
A beautiful gift edition of Aesop's Fables featuring eight classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations. Bringing together the incredible talents of award-winning illustrator and Booktrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altes and author and poet, Elli Woollard, this unique collection of Aesop's Fables is a fresh and funny take on an enduring classic. Richly illustrated throughout by Marta Altes, author of Little Monkey, this is perfect for new and younger readers and will delight children and adults alike. Meet the town mouse and his country cousin, discover what happens to the boy who cried wolf one too many times and find out just how the tortoise beat the boastful hare. A perfect companion title to Just So Stories, created by the same winning team. Stories include: Two Travellers and the Bear The Hare and the Tortoise The Boy who cried Wolf The Donkey in the Lion's Skin The Dog and his Reflection The Baboon and the Fox The Peacock and the Crane The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
With fun by the bag-load, if you love Wonky Donkey, Unicorn and the Rainbow Poop or I Need a New Bum, then you will love this book too! Bestselling author Emma Adams and smash-hit illustrator Mike Byrne join forces for the very first time - and the results are hilarious! In the bathroom this morning, I looked in the loo, and guess what I saw - yes that's right, it's a poo! I couldn't believe it, I called for my mum, "There's a gift in our toilet that's made by a bum!" When a little boy finds a poo in his family loo, he starts imagining who might have left it there. Was it ... a dragon? A unicorn? A dinosaur?! With every idea more exciting than the next, he can't wait to find the culprit. But who could it be? The perfect book for all children who love to laugh.
Spooky school is open, welcome everyone! Here you'll learn to scare and creep while having lots of fun. Welcome to Spooky School! It's the scariest school around, where all the creepiest creatures come to dust off their skills and become the best they can be. Join your friends and learn how to fly like a wicked witch on a broomstick, howl like a werewolf and jiggle like a skeleton to all the best Halloween tunes. The friends you make will stay with you forever - because sometimes scaring is caring! Packed with Halloween delights from creepy spiders to stomping monsters, this brilliantly spooky and accessible board book is perfect for Halloween!
Push, pull and slide the tabs to meet all the Busy Baby Animals. See lambs leaping in the field, piglets playing in the mud and cheeping chicks as they hatch. Young children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text, lots to spot and talk about, and wonderful illustrations by Ag Jatkowska. Busy Baby Animals has been endorsed and recommended by Dr Amanda Gummer's Good Toy Guide. Discover more animals in the Busy Book series with Busy Farm, Busy Zoo, and Busy Pets.
This brand new board book edition of a favourite sing-along picture book is bursting with cars, buses, planes, trains, trucks, diggers and many more things that go. Add to that a musical accompaniment to the tune of 'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' and ... what a combination! Follow the web link on the back of the book and get ready to sing along. Car, car, truck, jeep, have you any fuel? Yes, sir, yes, sir, three tanks full. One for the red bus, one for the train, and one for the pilot in her jumbo jet plane. With bold, colourful illustrations by the instantly recognisable Nick Sharratt and text by talented newcomer Katrina Charman, vehicle-obsessed little ones will never want to put this gloriously fun, musical book down.
This activity book encourages children to take the vital first steps on the road to reading. They will begin to build words, then identify words that rhyme and anticipate word endings. There's plenty of fun to be had drawing and colouring pictures too. Great for developing pencil control.
Includes over 50 original fingerplay activities that will immediately capture a child's attention, arranged alphabetically by topic beginning with "A" for Alligator and ending with "W" for worms. Topics include animals, insects, foods, transportation, occupations, nature, and everyday objects such as eyeglasses, pockets, crayons, and shoes. Each fingerplay/action rhyme contains stories perfect for young children that utilize a wide assortment of everyday objects. Also included are hands-on craft activities that simultaneously entertain children and allow them to personally discover information about the topics, and suggestions for informative activities that get children involved in expressing the information they have learned for themselves. The activities include creative movement, bulletin board and room decorating ideas, games, puppetry, flannelboard suggestions, and musical activities. The book also contains an author and title index for the children's books suggestions that accompany each topic. Once Upon a Childhood is the perfect resource for the childcare provider looking for stimulating activities to begin a child on a lifelong track of learning and creative self-expression.
When Bruce and Sue the cockatoos take their little nephew Lou on a luxury cruise, he causes chaos on every deck. But he might just save the day in the end... Another title in the popular phonics readers series, which makes learning phonics fun.
A mother expresses her everlasting love for her child in this warm,
poetic picture book. Alice Faye Duncan's playful, affectionate text
and Susan Keeter's tender paintings will touch your heart and soul.
A completely original rhyming picture book that celebrates daring to be different, featuring Shiloh, the rapping princess Here is a story that everyone should know. It's the tale of a princess named Shiloh. She lived in a kingdom, not far from yours, in a grand house with a swimming pool and fourteen floors. I know that sounds too big but here's the thing: her mother and father were the Queen and King. Being a princess is a tough job for someone so small. It's even harder when you've a problem you can't solve at all. You see, every princess in the kingdom could sing. Yet Shiloh's voice could do no such thing . . . Shiloh might not be able to sing like her sisters, but she has other talents, and sometimes it's about embracing your differences and celebrating them!
These five little ducks love to swim, but they sometimes go too far. Find out what they get up to in this charming adaptation of the classic counting rhyme, beautifully illustrated by Katya Longhi. |
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