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With simple, clear text and bright, beautiful illustrations introducing all the colours of the rainbow, this delightful book and jigsaw set is an ideal way for little children to have fun developing visual recognition skills. The jigsaw has 25 pieces and measures 59 x 44cm once complete.

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Take a whistle-stop tour through the alphabet from amazing aardvarks, big brown bears and crazy cats to dancing ducks, naughty narwhals and sleeping sloths. With gorgeous illustrations by Sophia Touliatou, simple facts and capital and little letters on every page, this is a lovely book to share with a young child.

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A fun and exciting way for children to learn about colours, with over 60 flaps to lift. With plenty of questions to answer and talk about, this book is perfect for sharing together. Includes naming, matching and counting activities.

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A bright, lively introduction to our world with simple text, amazing photographs and detailed illustrations. Provides simple explanations to questions such as “Why is night dark?” “How do earthquakes happen?” and “What is under the sea?” Includes free downloadable pictures and internet links to carefully selected fun websites.

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A fantastic journey through an amazing world of over 130 colors, including the primary and secondary colors and descriptive color words, such as canary yellow, russet and mint green. Includes a color wheel to turn to see which colors go well together and a see-through acetate page to flip to see what happens when you mix colors. A delightful book to share and talk about with a young child, and to use as inspiration for writing and painting as they grow older.

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A lively cast of characters from aardvarks to zebras decide to disrupt and rewrite an alphabet book to make it more fun. Rhyming text and appealing illustrations combine perfectly to bring the story of big blue bear, elegant eel, fabulous flamingo, snazzy snail and talented toucan to life as each animal claims its rightful place in the book.

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Winner - Schools Library Association Information Book AwardA fantastic journey through an amazing world of over 130 colours, including the primary and secondary colours and descriptive colour words, such as canary yellow, russet and mint green. Includes a colour wheel to turn to see which colours go well together and a see-through acetate page to flip to see what happens when you mix colours. A delightful book to share and talk about with a young child, and to use as inspiration for writing and painting as they grow older.

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A colourful book with over 60 flaps to lift to teach little children about opposites in a fun way. Pages include colourful scenes at the park, in the ocean, in the jungle and more. Each flap has its opposite hiding behind it. Bright illustrations of large and small parrots, high and low swings at the park and hot and cold picnic foods make the opposites clear and give prereaders lots to spot and talk about. With pages for commonly used opposites such as above and below, inside and outside and big and little.

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A rollicking romp through the alphabet with a different letter and animal on each beautifully illustrated page. With zoo animals from angry alpacas and furious foxes to wild wombats and zebras from Zambia, this is the perfect way to help children learn alphabetical order and remember letter shapes and sounds.

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Help young children improve their language and writing skills with this fun activity book all about a farm. There are lots of easy words to practise reading and writing, including farm animals, machines, fruit and vegetables and farm noises. With durable, wipe-clean pages for endless practice and links to websites with advice and more activities.

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Introduce little ones to 19 well-loved nursery rhymes in this beautiful book, including Humpty Dumpty, Jack and Jill, Baa, Baa Black Sheep and Little Miss Muffet. With delightful illustrations by Sophia Touliatou, information about the benefits of sharing rhymes with little children and tunes to listen or sing along to at Usborne Quicklinks.

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Why do we need friends? How can we make friends? And what makes a good friend? This charmingly illustrated book explores the benefits of having friends, looking at different types of friendships, and what happens when friends fall out and make up. Includes helpful notes for grown-ups on talking to children about friendships, dealing with conflicts and imaginary friends.

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Perfect for storytime, this collection of ten traditional and much-loved stories includes The Princess and the Pea, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Little Red Riding Hood. Beautifully designed pages with Richard Johnson's enchanting illustrations bring each tale to life. Includes an introduction to the stories and notes on where they came from.

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'Oh, ONE can be fun. ONE Bun, ONE sun, ONE tree. You see? Just me.Ah, TWO. Yahoo! That's me AND you - a couple, a pair. Let's share!'So begins a lively rhyming story that follows ONE little bunny's attempts to host a fun birthday picnic as her friends fox, penguin, bear, tiger, sloth, toucan, dinosaur and giraffe arrive one by one to swell the numbers to NINE. But it is guest number TEN, a skunk with a rather unusual perfume, who causes most problems, prompting each animal to make its excuses and leave. Nevertheless, it is the skunk who turns out to be the best of the bunch and in more ways than one. Rhyming text and appealing illustrations combine perfectly to help consolidate counting up to ten and back again, also gently reinforcing the early numeracy concepts of one more and one less.

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A delightful first reference book. Children can see how a sunflower grows from a seed, how poppies flower and make seeds, how vegetables grow and how insects and animals help plants. With over 120 stickers to add to the pages, a glossary, quiz and naming and spotting games. Supports basic biology as taught on the UK Primary National Curriculum for Science and includes internet links to age-appropriate websites.Also available as a hardback library edition with no stickers and with a contents page and index.

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What do families look like? Who’s in your family? And how can families change? With delightful illustrations, this glorious celebration of family diversity talks about lone-parent families, adoptive, foster, divorced, remarried, and mixed race families, and lots, lots more, showing little children that families come in all shapes and sizes.

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Celebrate springtime with little lambs, bouncing bunnies and fluffy chicks in this charming sticker book. There are over 250 stickers to bring the scenes to life, including an Easter egg hunt, an Easter parade and fields to fill with animals.

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This fun book is a perfect way for young children to improve their language and writing skills. Trace over 130 school-themed words, from classroom objects to PE activities and colours, shapes and numbers. With durable, wipe-clean pages for endless practice and links to websites with advice and more reading and writing activities.

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How are you feeling today? This fun, friendly and reassuring introduction to feelings is designed to help young children recognise, understand and name how they’re feeling and learn to talk about and manage their emotions in helpful ways.

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A beautiful gift edition of over 100 traditional nursery rhymes, stylishly presented with a padded cover. With enchanting illustrations alongside well-known tongue-twisters, sayings and lullabies. A wonderful gift that is sure to be treasured.

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Everyday Words Flashcards are a great learning resources for young children. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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A bilingual adaptation by Bethan Mai Jones of All About Diversity by Felicity Brooks. A dynamic and joyous exploration of difference helps young children learn to respond in a kind and equal way to everyone, thus developing confidence and promoting development, education and welfare.

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A pack of 50 picture cards illustrating simple Russian words. Each card has a word and picture on one side, and the same word, alone, on the other. Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or propped up around the house or classroom as reminders.

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Delightful illustrations and clear definitions combine to make this the ideal first dictionary for young children. Words are shown in context to help children understand how they are used, and colourful alphabet strips along the edges of the pages aid navigation. There's also user-friendly information on how to use a dictionary, simple explanations of word classes, and plenty of tips on grammar and spelling.

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A pack of illustrated cards with fifty words in simplified Chinese characters, as used on mainland China. Each card shows a picture of an everyday object with the Chinese word on one side and just the word on the other to aid revision. Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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A pack of illustrated cards with fifty simple words in Italian. Each card shows an everyday object with accompanying word on one side and just the word on its own on the other to aid revision. Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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With 50 flashcards to help children master simple vocabulary this is a great learning resources for young children. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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A fact-packed introduction to the wonders of the sea with easy-to-read text and superb photographs. Subjects include coral reefs, whales and dolphins, undersea exploration and environmental threats. With internet links to exciting websites, including a virtual tour of the seabed and downloadable images of weird and wonderful sea creatures.

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Everyday Words Flashcards are a great learning resources for young children. The cards can be used to play games, for self-testing, or simply propped up around the house or classroom as useful reminders.

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