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A playful lift-the-flap guide to how we keep ourselves clean and why it matters.

From eating jam to jumping in muddy puddles, there are lots of ways for a little child to get mucky. But there's also a cosy pleasure in feeling clean again. This delightful book talks little children through everything from baths and showers to handwashing and hairwashing, and even how animals wash themselves.

Animal characters explore questions about friendship, learning how to make friends - and keep them too.

This warm, practical and inclusive book is a wonderful tool for little children learning to make friends. You'll meet Rhino and lots of other young animals, following them through the everyday challenges and joys of friendship, from birthday parties to best friends. With expert advice from a child psychologist, this reassuring book is full of practical advice and conversation starters, designed to build children's confidence and natural empathy.

Set off on a storytelling journey across six continents. This stunningly illustrated story collection takes the reader on a journey around the world, exploring 80 different cultures through retellings of traditional tales. Strange and surprising plots, fascinating characters and exotic locations will transport you across the world. These stories are bot humorous and moving in turn, and will help children learn about the diversity of cultures and peoples in the world today.Â

Making Tracks City

Can lead to creative play relating to mark making - have a go at
drawing the patterns you felt in the book!
The chunky format and large flaps encourage young children to use
their fine motor skills to check whoos hiding!
Each title is themed around a specific area, encouraging children
to associate groups of animals with their habitats. With
guidance, these books can help children to understand that
animals are suited for the places where they live.
Also Available - Making Tracks Mountain

New bubs see the world differently, and this high-contrast board book is perfect for engaging their developing eyesight, strengthening their cognitive abilities and encouraging their gross motor skills.
Bond with your baby and start a lifelong love of books as you introduce them to the world of adorable Australian baby animals!
Open up to meet kangaroos, emus, wombats, dingoes, echidnas, koalas, kookaburras and quokkas!

New bubs see the world differently, and this high-contrast board book is perfect for engaging their developing eyesight, strengthening their cognitive abilities and encouraging their gross motor skills.
Bond with your baby and start a lifelong love of books as you introduce them to the world of water-loving Australian baby animals!
Open up to meet little penguins, green sea turtles, brolgas, great white sharks, platypuses, saltwater crocodiles and clownfish!

New bubs see the world differently, and this high-contrast board book is perfect for engaging their developing eyesight, strengthening their cognitive abilities and encouraging their gross motor skills.
Bond with your baby and start a lifelong love of books as you introduce them to the world of bouncing, hopping and leaping Australian baby animals!
Open up to meet bilbies, kangaroos, hopping mice, lizards, frogs, jumping fish, quokkas and bunnies.

A celebration of the extraordinary and ordinary power of dogs of all kinds, in sly and cheerful verse from celebrated poet David Elliott. Features artwork from an all-star cast of eighteen bestselling and award-winning illustrators.
In so many hearts you’re number one! Agile! High-spirited! Obedient! Fun! You hunt. You fish. You search and find. You cheer the old. You guide the blind.
In this ode to our most loyal companions, you’ll meet the Labrador Retriever and sixteen other remarkable dogs. There's the Bloodhound, who has a sense of smell one thousand times better than yours or mine. And there’s the Irish Wolfhound, the world’s tallest dog, who was once the companion of royalty. And we can’t forget the mutt.
But that’s not all! You’ll meet big dogs and small dogs, scruffy dogs and elegant dogs, and dogs from all around the world. Pairing engaging poems with surprising facts, Best in Show is a one-of-a-kind gift and a paw-sitively perfect read-aloud for dog lovers and aspiring pet owners.
Includes illustrations by Elaine Bay, Cátia Chien, Matthew Cordell, Cindy Derby, Flavia Z. Drago, Leo Espinosa, Raissa Figueroa, Julie Flett, Ebony Glenn, Rebecca Green, Emily Hughes, Oge Mora, Kenard Pak, Antoinette Portis, Raúl the Third, Sergio Ruzzier, Charles Santoso, and David Ezra Stein.

A mini book packed full of fun puzzles and games to do on a train journey.
This little book is packed with puzzles that will make any journey steam by, including mazes, spot-the-differences, number puzzles and more. Part of a range of mini paperbacks perfect for journeys, rainy days and party bags.

In this enthralling and emotional palindrome picture book by Daniel Nayeri and Matt Rockefeller, a young boy grieving the loss of his mother embarks on a lushly fantastical adventure that illuminates what remains when our loved ones are gone.
All alone
He was not so brave...
His heart needed to know
The answer.
In this lyrical, heartfelt story, a young boy who's lost all hope braves the dark forest to ask, "Mom, were you glad you were Mom" Gorgeously illustrated, Drawn Onward gently guides readers through the depths of grief and provides comfort and hope to those who seek answers when it feels like all is lost.
PRAISE FOR DRAWN ONWARD:
An Indie Next Pick
A Junior Library Guild Selection
An NPR Best Books of the Year pick
A Kirkus Best Picture Books of 2024

A charming nursery rhyme book containing many Australian characters from the bush. Wonderfully written by Bindi-Bindi and illustrated by Heather Blackstock, this lovely book will keep children entertained for hours.
56 pages
Hardcover Colour Illustrations

Within the colourfully illustrated 56 pages of this hard cover book is presented poetry designed to be enjoyed by our young ones & adults alike. Enjoy the interactions of the Australian fauna in tales such as “The Aussie Barbeque” & “The Kakadu Bush Band”.

Don't miss the long-awaited companion to Not a Box, winner of a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Award. This picture book with its visual humor and simple dialogue is great for fans of Mo Willems and Crockett Johnson.
Bunny wants to build a cardboard city.
Bunny stacks one cardboard box on top of another and another.
Bunny doesn't want any help. Bunny doesn't need any help, either.
But what's a cardboard city without friends
Written and illustrated with the same delightful simplicity that made Not a Box such a hit, the playtime possibilities of a stack of boxes and friendship will inspire and excite any child who has ever journeyed into the world of make-believe.

A bright, bold activity book designed especially for very young children
This write-in book is packed with gorgeously simple artwork and activities themed around vehicles. Each page is full of things to spot, draw and say - with a little white mouse to find on every spread! Perfect for entertaining young children, while helping to develop vocabulary, fine motor skills and early mark making.

A bright, bold activity book designed especially for very young children
This write-in book is packed with gorgeously simple animal artwork and activities. Each page is full of things to spot, scribble and say - with a little white mouse to find on every spread! Perfect for entertaining young children, while helping to develop vocabulary, fine motor skills and early mark making.

Enjoy uncovering the secret life of water - and its epic journeys over millions of years.

A fascinating tour of the water cycle, looking at where rain comes from, flooding and droughts, the importance of clean water and how water reaches the kitchen tap. With expert advice from the international non-governmental organization Water Aid, this book encourages children to be curious about the world around them and the flap format works works brilliantly for answering their questions.

From the team that brought you I’ll Love You Till the Cows Come Home comes another funny and sweet lyrical lullaby, celebrating boundless family love. I’ll Love You Till the Crocodiles Smile is a cozy bedtime read-aloud guaranteed to have both you and your little one smiling. Tender and gently humorous, this story of unconditional love will become a household favorite to be read over and over.I will love you till forever and forever and more, till my love shakes the jungle with a lion-size ROAR, as night blankets the forest near a soothing waterfall and the chimpanzees sleep in trees, two hundred feet tall....I’ll Love You Till the Crocodiles Smile is perfect for giving, whether it be for a baby shower, birthday, or Valentine’s Day. The story stands beautifully on its own or can be paired with its companion story, I’ll Love You Till the Cows Come Home, which Booklist described as a bedtime read-aloud that is “both hilarious and comforting."

Meet the great Skulduggery Pleasant: wise-cracking detective, powerful magician, master of dirty tricks and burglary (in the name of the greater good, of course).Oh yeah. And dead.Then there's his sidekick, Stephanie. She's… well, she's a twelve-year-old girl. With a pair like this on the case, evil had better watch out…

“So you won't keep anything from me again?" He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die. "Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart," she said. "I know. "And technically, you've already died. "I know that too."Just so we're clear. "Stephanie's uncle is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source – the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard. When all hell breaks loose, it's lucky for Skulduggery that he's already dead. Though he's about to discover that being a skeleton doesn't stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there's anything Skulduggery hates, it's torture… Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing's for sure: evil won't know what's hit it.

Just when you think you’ve saved the world…

"You will kill her?" the Torment asked. Skulduggery sagged. "Yes." He hesitated, then took his gun from his jacket. "I'm sorry, Valkyrie," he said softly. "Don't talk to me," Valkyrie said. "Just do what you have to do."Please forgive me," Skulduggery said, then aimed the gun at the girl and pulled the trigger. With Serpine dead, the world is safe once more. At least, that’s what Valkyrie and Skulduggery think, until the notorious Baron Vengeous makes a bloody escape from prison, and dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. With Baron Vengeous after the deadly armour of Lord Vile, and pretty much everyone out to kill Valkyrie, the daring detective duo face their biggest challenge yet. But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home…?

Third bone-breaking, belly-busting adventure in the bestselling series that puts the “funny” back in… um… funny bestselling series. That didn’t really work, did it?

If you’ve read the previous Skulduggery books then you know what the Faceless Ones are – and if you know what the Faceless Ones are, then you can probably take a wild guess that things in this book are going to get AWFULLY sticky for our skeletal hero and his young sidekick. If you haven’t read the previous Skulduggery books then what are you doing reading this? Go and read them right now, so that you know what all that stuff in the previous paragraph was about.Done? Good. So now you’re on tenterhooks too, desperately awaiting the answers to all your questions, and instead you’re going to have to wait to read the book. Sorry about that.

This touchy-feely book features a friendly witch to spot and talk about on every page. Babies and toddlers will love turning the pages and touching the feely patches as they try to find their witch.

A fun addition to the bestselling That's not my... series, perfect for Halloween. Illustrations:Full colour throughout.