This is the picture book for every little one's shelf, about how sometimes the smallest people make the biggest difference. A beautiful owl lives in the tree outside Ben's house. Ben calls him Mr Hoot. When grown-ups want to chop down Mr Hoot's tree, Ben has to act fast to save him. This warm, funny and inspiring story shows how we can all protect the wildlife that lives all around us. With characteristic warmth and humour, Helen Stephens' exquisite new picture book celebrates the precious wildlife that lives all around us, and shows how even the smallest of us can help to protect it. Hugely topical: a warmly funny environmental book with heart - will inspire children to look out for, love and protect their local wildlife Striking cover design with gold foil - a perfect gift book Helen Stephens is an Instagram star with nearly 20,000 followers. She also launched her own online illustration course, The Good Ship Illustration

This Christmas book is the perfect stocking filler for babies and will make sure baby's first Christmas is full of festive fun - with a snowman, a Christmas tree, reindeer, and more!

Just right for sharing with babies and toddlers, inside you meet jolly characters and Christmassy things, all with touch and feel patches or sparkly areas to explore. There's a toy snowman with a fleecy scarf, a toy robin with a fluffy red breast, a sparkly Christmas tree, a toy reindeer with bumpy antlers, an elf with glittery clothes, a silky Christmas sack filled with presents, and Santa with a soft white beard.

Filled with early learning, every page of Baby Touch and Feel Merry Christmas has texture or an eye-catching shiny area to expand a baby's senses, with a simple design easy for very young children to follow. There are clear, real-life photos babies and toddlers can focus on, which help their identification skills, large word labels that build vocabulary and picture-and-word association, plus short, read-aloud text with each picture that's great for encouraging little ones to talk, promoting their language.

Babies and toddlers will love turning the tough pages themselves, which develops their fine motor skills. Part of DK's popular Baby Touch and Feel series, this sparkly Christmas baby book with its appealing puppy jacket makes a perfect Christmas gift.

Discover what it would be like to travel through the four seasons in one day in this musical story based on the classical masterpiece The Four Seasons - push the button in each breathtaking scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Vivaldi's score. Follow a little girl called Isabelle and her dog, Pickle, as they take on the adventure of a lifetime. As a sign of the changing seasons, Isabelle carries a little apple tree with her, and we see it bud, blossom and lose its leaves. As you and your little one journey through the vibrant scenes illustrated by artist Jessica Courtney-Tickle, you will press the buttons to hear 10 excerpts from The Four Seasons violin concerti. Readers should press firmly on the pages to activate the sound board at the back of the book, encouraging interactive learning and introducing children to this beautiful piece of music. At the back of the book, find a short biography of the composer, Antonio Vivaldi, with details about his composition of The Four Seasons. Next to this, you can replay the musical excerpts and, for each of them, read a discussion of the instruments, rhythms and musical techniques that make them so powerful. A glossary defines musical terms. The Story Orchestra series brings classical music to life for children through gorgeously illustrated retellings of classic ballet, opera and program music stories paired with 10-second sound clips of orchestras playing from their musical scores. With The Story Orchestra keyboard sound books, children can play the famous melodies themselves with the sound of a real grand piano. Also available from the Story Orchestra series: The Magic Flute, I Can Play (vol 1), Carnival of the Animals, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. Manufacturer's note: please pull the white tab out of the back of the book before use. Sound buttons require a firm push in exact location to work, which may be hard for young children. All sound clips are 10 seconds long. The perfect primer to introduce children to classical music.

Introduce your baby to all of the seasons with this bright, interactive playbook. Say hello to spring, summer, autumn and winter, from fluffy chicks to sparkly snowflakes! With textured patches to touch, feel and explore, this bright and sturdy board book with grabbable tabs will engage young children from birth upwards. High-contrast colours and touch-and-feels stimulate a baby's senses, while encouraging interaction and play. A perfect first words book for all babies and toddlers. Sensory development Boosts motor skills Recommended for children aged 0+ Illustrated by Lemon Ribbon Studio Also available: Baby Touch: Playbook Baby Touch: Peekaboo Baby Touch: Vehicles Baby Touch: Animals Baby Touch: Tummy Time Baby Touch: Night Night Baby Touch: Busy Day Baby Touch: Get Dressed

There are so many ways to spend a chilly winter day. Join The Very Hungry Caterpillar and explore everything winter has to offer! Welcome winter with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and his friends in this sensory exploration of the season. Discover the very best of this time of year: snowy days full of play, the sounds of birds chirping atop a snowman, the smell of cookies fresh from the oven, and so much more!

Jane Yolen introduces us to the fickle scarecrow, who decides to leave his station and dance away the fall night. He leaps through the fields until he reaches the farmhouse, where he sees a small light in the window. Inside, a boy is saying his prayers, and he offers up a special prayer for the corn that will be harvested in the morning. Humbled, the scarecrow knows what he has to do: He returns to the field and watches over the corn as only he can. Masterfully told, with illustrations by award winner Bagram Ibatoulline, this book has all the makings of a new classic.

Telling the time is a complex skill that many children struggle to grasp. Schofield & Sims Telling the Time breaks this difficult topic down into a sequence of manageable ideas that young learners can approach at their own pace. Beginning with child-friendly explanations of times of day and units of time, it moves on to introduce telling the time on an analogue clock, before progressing to cover a wide range of related concepts, including different ways of measuring and representing time, time expressions and everyday time problems. Each activity book provides large, clear clock faces for easy counting and colour-coded hands to aid recognition of hours and minutes. 'Learn' panels help to explain time-telling in simple steps, while regular 'Did you know?' boxes provide fun general-knowledge facts to enrich learning. Answers to all the practice questions are included at the back of the book for easy marking.Telling the Time Book 1 supports the National Curriculum requirements for Year 1 and covers the following topic areas: times of day (morning, noon, afternoon, evening); basic units of time; comparing and sequencing events in chronological order (earlier/later; first/next; yesterday/tomorrow); telling the time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour; the days of the week and months of the year; calendars; and seasons.

A practical workbook designed to help children to tell the time in a fun way. Full of simple activities and exercises to complete. Pages wipe clean so that exercises can be repeated again and again. Includes wipe-clean pen.

Acadia Greene wants answers. What happened to the frogs she used to see at her favorite local pond? Why do leaves change color in the fall, and why don't evergreen needles do the same? What is the water cycle, and what is transpiration? How do time zones work, and why does the sun set at different times in different places within a single zone? How do germs infect us? Acadia doesn't mean to do science, but she has questions and her parents refuse to simply give her the answers. "Conduct an experiment," they tell her. "Use the scientific method." So Acadia makes hypotheses, designs experiments, analyzes data, and draws conclusions. Acadia does science. The author, Katie Coppens writes a recurring column for NSTA's middle school magazine Science Scope on science and literacy called "The Integrated Classroom."

From a wildflower meadow to a snowy woodland, children will love learning about the seasons whilst decorating the scenes in this beautifully illustrated book. With over 200 stickers of animals, plants, flowers and insects, and links to specially selected websites for video clips and activities.

Storms can be scary, especially for little children. In sing-song text, this comforting tale about a stormy day by the sea tells children all about what happens in a storm. The wind is loud, the clouds big and black, and that grumbly noise in the sky is thunder. Lightning flashes, and thunder rumbles, and if you count, you can tell if the storm is coming or going away. But there's nothing to worry about - all storms pass. After the storm comes calm again - and lots of interesting things to find on the beach. With online audio to hear the story read aloud.

A gorgeous new collection of four Bing picture book stories that introduce toddlers to the changing seasons of the year. Children will love reading Bing's adventures with his friends and learning about the different seasons. It features the following stories: Bing's Yellow Wellies for spring, Bing's Ice Lollies for summer, Bing's Acorn Hunt for autumn and Dragon Breath for winter. With a Bing picture book story set in each season, this fantastic hardback collection will be one to treasure throughout the year.

Peter's parents send him to live with his no-nonsense grandmother on isolated Johnson Island. But something seems off about the town. And Peter learns that movie monsters are nothing compared to real-life ones as he and his new friends fight to save the island from transgenic weed experiments gone very, very wrong!

A boy visiting his grandmother over summer vacation finds terrors (real and imaginary) around every corner

Mr. Crocodile has big plans for finally catching--and eating--five pesky monkeys, but those little rascals dupe him again and again. By the time the clock strikes six, those mischievous monkeys actually teach Mr. Crocodile a thing or two about friendship . . . and about having fun!

Follow a day in the life of the Boot family, as Poppy and Sam learn to tell the time along with the reader. Young readers can turn the hands on the attached clock face to match the time of all kinds of activities on Apple Tree Farm.

This gorgeously illustrated volume of poetry -- sprinkled with facts and fun things to do -- sows an early love for nature in all its beauty and wonder.
The buzz of bees in summertime. The tracks of a bird in the winter snow. This beautiful book captures all the sights and sounds of a child's interactions with nature, from planting acorns or biting into crisp apples to studying tide pools or lying back and watching the birds overhead. No matter what's outside their windows -- city streets or country meadows -- kids will be inspired to explore the world around them. Written by award-winning author Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld, a breathtaking new talent in children's books, Outside Your Window is a stunning reminder that the natural world is on our doorstep waiting to be discovered.

Contains 50 colourful cards showing the time in words, numbers and on a clear clock face. The reverse of each card illustrates a scene of what is happening on Apple Tree Farm at that time. Includes 15 extra wipe-clean cards and pen, for children to fill in the time themselves.

Discover Benedict drinking hot chocolate in Paris, France; Mitko chasing the school bus in Sofia, Bulgaria; and Khanh having a little nap in Hanoi, Vietnam! Clotilde Perrin takes readers eastward from the Greenwich meridian, from day to night, with each page portraying one of (the original) 24 time zones. Strong back matter empowers readers to learn about the history of timekeeping and time zones, and to explore where each of the characters lives on the world map. A distinctive educational tool, this picture book's warm, unique illustrations also make it a joy to read aloud and admire.