Open each window in this magical advent calendar to discover a story or activity book hidden behind it. There are 12 magical Sticker Dolly Story books featuring fairies, mermaids and unicorns, and 12 little activity books, including drawing, doodling, puzzles and three sticker books.

Fiona Watt (Author)
Fiona Watt is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She graduated from Exeter University with a Bachelor of Education in Art and Design. She taught for three years at a primary school in Kent, before spending two years at a British school in The Netherlands. She started working at Usborne in 1989 and has written and edited hundreds of books including baby and novelty, sticker, art and craft, cookery, science and activity books. She has written all the titles in the award-winning THAT'S NOT MY® series and many in the highly successful Sticker Dolly Dressing series. She is the sixth biggest-selling UK children's author, with over 10 million of her books sold in the UK since records began.

Zanna Davidson (Author)
Zanna writes fiction and non-fiction for Usborne. Her favourite things to write about are small monsters and talking animals. She used to live in London but now lives in a cottage on the edge of some woods. She is only sorry there are no bears or witches in them.

Heather Burns (Illustrator)
Heather Burns is from a little market town called Uttoxeter in the middle of England. She graduated from the University of Lincoln with a degree in Illustration in 2013 and has been working as a freelance illustrator ever since.

Sylwia Filipczak (Illustrator)
Sylwia was born in Lodz, Poland and still lives there with her husband and two children. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland.

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Meet Chaz and his family as he takes you on a tour of his house before everyone sits down for dinner! This non-fiction book was written by Angie Belcher. Pages 14 and 15 contain an "I Spy" feature with a specific phoneme focus, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge. The focus sounds in this book are: /j/ /v/ /x/ /y/ /z/ /ch/ /sh/ /th/ /ng/ Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.

An exciting chapter book series inspired by Sticker Dolly Dressing, perfect for fans of Rainbow Magic and Holly Webb. Each book comes with a page of stickers to dress the Dolls. The Animal Rescue Dolls have a new mission... to rescue some bunnies on the Wild Isle. The bunnies are trapped on a hill as all around them, floodwaters are rising fast. But just when they think they've rescued them all, they discover some little babies, still deep within the burrow... will they be able to save them in time? Collect all the books in the Sticker Dolly Stories series! 1. Unicorn Rescue (A Magic Dolls Story) 2. Fairy Picnic (A Magic Dolls Story) 3. Mermaid in Trouble (A Magic Dolls Story) 4. Baby Dragon (A Magic Dolls Story) 5. Castle in the Clouds (A Princess Dolls Story) 6. Ice Palace (A Princess Dolls Story) 7. Woodland Princess (A Princess Dolls Story) 8. Waterlily Ball (A Princess Dolls Story) 9. Dream Pony (An Animal Rescue Dolls Story) 10. Lucky Bunnies (An Animal Rescue Dolls Story) 11. Little Lost Deer (An Animal Rescue Dolls Story) 12. Snow Puppy (An Animal Rescue Dolls Story) COMING SOON! And look out for the Summer and Christmas specials: Dolphin Magic (A Summer special) Christmas Mystery (A Christmas special)

Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary. Three tigers go on a raft ride on the river, but what happens when Tog just won't sit down? Join the journey and find out in this adventurous story! Pink B/Band 1B offers emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. The focus sounds in this book are: /g/ /o/ Pages 14 and 15 contain a fun "I Spy" Letters and Sounds activity, which uses visual support to help children embed phonic knowledge. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.