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When Hare ventures into town one night he is delighted to see a display of chocolate eggs in the window of the store. But no one really knows why they are there. Join Hare, Little Grey Rabbit, Squirrel and all the creatures of the countryside as they celebrate their first Easter.

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Travel along the story path and discover an enchanted world where fairy princesses battle with monsters from the deep and vampire cats zoom through the galaxy on silver unicorns. This innovative twist on the classic quest tale allows young readers to choose their own characters, settings and plots at every turn. With a simple, easy-to-follow structure and bold, quirky imagery by award-winning illustrator Madalena Matoso, this is an imaginative storytelling experience for children of all ages.Who will you meet? Where will you go? What will you do next? It's all up to you...

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It's breakfast time! Can you butter the toast and pour the milk?In this fun new series, little ones learn first words and experiences by using satisfying sliders and sturdy flaps. Each spread introduces a new scenario with characteristic vibrant artwork from acclaimed artist Jane Foster.

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A touching picture book about the power of art and the imagination, brought to life by David Litchfield's art

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Zany slider books from Aya Watanabe!

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A non-fiction picture book series set in a forest school.

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10th anniversary edition of everyone's favourite scary dinosaur, Gigantosaurus! Complete with bonus content.

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Bestselling illustrator Britta Teckentrup explores the world of birds in a sumptuously illustrated non-fiction book.There are birds everywhere! Some of them live by the sea, some of them in the savannah, and some might live in your roof.There are Birds Everywhere is the fourth in a series of non-fiction books from Britta Teckentrup. Young readers will learn where in the world all sorts of birds can be found and all the weird and wonderful things about them that they never imagined were true. With an added search-and-find element, this is non-fiction with spark and personality from a much-loved illustrator.

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Paper World: Ocean uses ingenious paper cuts to reveal the wonders of our planet's oceans, from the microcosm of a rock pool, to the strange creatures living in the very deepest waters. With detailed art by paper-cut artist Gail Armstrong, a fact-packed text, and flaps and die-cuts on every spread, this unique novelty book will appeal to all the family.Fact-checked by Marine Biologist Dr Helen Scales. Also available:Paper World: Planet Earth (published 2019)Paper World: Space (published 2020)Paper World: Human Body (published 2023)Winner of the ASE Reader's Choice Award 2023

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What is black and white? A word-juggling penguin called Norman.

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From Bee pollinating plants and bringing nectar back to the hive in the spring to the busy and bustling hive in the height of summer, join Bee on this amazing journey. Follow the peep-through holes on every page to discover each stage of a honeybee's life.After a long, cold winter, Bee sets off in search of some delicious nectar. Bee also works hard to carry pollen between plants and crops. Back at the hive, the Queen must lay lots of tiny eggs to help grow her colony. Before long, the hive is filled with new bees and lots of honey. At the end of the summer, Bee gets ready to start the cycle all over again.A timely and important message about pollinators and what we can do to help is carefully interwoven with an introduction to life cycles for little readers. With bright, accessible illustrations by the talented Maggie Li and tactile pages that are ideal for little hands, this is the perfect STEM board book.Collect the rest of the Little Life Cycles series with Pip, Drip, Bug, Frog and Whale.

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A new book from international bestseller Emma Dodd, focusing on the importance of embracing your hopes and dreams. Let's snuggle up and think abouthow great your life can be.We'll dream big dreams together,just you and me. A lion cub learns that to release life's full potential, it needs to dream BIG! The perfect gift for Father's Day, this inspirational book will encourage everyone, big and small, to embrace the future with hope and positivity.

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From the Big Bang to the abundance of life that surrounds us today, this beautiful book - the third by the award-winning duo Gill Arbuthnott and Chris Nielsen - is the story of evolution, from the very first cells to ourselves.How old exactly is the Earth? How do we know what was here before us? Are we still evolving? From Cells to Ourselves is the story of the beginnings of life around 3.8 billion years ago, to the millions of species alive today, including humans. Learn about mythology giants who formed the Earth, analyse fossils, walk with the dinosaurs, join Charles Darwin on his exploration of the Galápagos islands and marvel at some of the random and bizarre acts that have shaped our world in this beautifully illustrated book.Created by the author and illustrator duo of the award-winning Balloon to the Moon.

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Percy is a little pigeon, and he's very hungry. Life on the streets is tough, and every time he tries to get hold of a scrap of food, bigger, beefier birds bat him away. He's about to give up when someone offers him her very last chip.A moving and uplifting story about struggle against adversity and the kindness of strangers.10% of the profits from the sale of the book go to The Trussell Trust, supporting a network of 435 foodbanks across the UK.

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When a forest is cut down, the consequences are more than anyone could have anticipated. A Forest is an simple and powerful environmental parable from an extraordinary new talent.

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Do you know how tall the tallest mountain on Earth is? Or how deep the deepest ocean goes? Do you know which creature was the largest to ever live? Or how old the oldest tree is? Learn all this and more in this exquisite book of comparisons. Page Tsou's extraordinarily detailed illustrations have a lithograph aesthetic that is at once vintage and contemporary. Another gorgeous Big Picture Press title that will fill readers with wonder at the world we live in.

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Petunia Paris has everything she could possibly want, from a swimming pool to a bicycle with its very own chauffeur. When she requests a parrot for her fifth birthday, a parrot is what she gets. The problem is, Petunia Paris's parrot doesn't do what Petunia Paris wants it to ...A hilarious story with a moral, brought to life with classic and witty illustrations by Jo Williamson. Katie Haworth is an exciting new talent fresh to the UK from New Zealand, where she was picture book editor at Penguin Books. As well as writing, Katie also works as a senior editor for a children's publisher. Jo Williamson is an up and coming new talent, also published by Scholastic. She illustrates mostly by hand, in pencil or paint.

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Introducing BUGS, in the Little Explorer's collection - an interactive non-fiction series for curious youngsters, with over 30 flaps.A lively introduction to creepy crawlers, where children can lift the flaps to learn about a variety of little critters. Young readers will be amazed as they discover which bugs are the smallest, which are the biggest, the different jobs they have when they live in groups, the clever ways they help humans, and much, much more. This book features over 30 sturdy flaps to lift, along with charming, child-friendly artwork that introduces new concepts and vocabulary in a simple and accessible way.

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Little Explorers is a first information series for curious youngsters. With sturdy flaps to lift on every page, little ones can have hands-on fun finding out about life in the rainforest. Young readers will be amazed as they find out about the different animals who live together in the rainforest, the different ways the plants help humans today, facts about the largest rainforest in the world, and much much more. This book features over 30 sturdy flaps to lift, along with charming artwork that introduces new concepts and vocabulary in a simple and accessible way.

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Molly the moth lives in the back of an old wardrobe. She loves her home and her family but she yearns for adventure. So by day she helps her mother look after the larvae, and by night she prepares for her space mission to the MOON! It's no easy feat for a little moth to fly all the way to the moon - but Molly is not a moth to give up on her dreams.

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Welcome to Anatomicum. This museum is open all hours. It will take you on an incredible journey right around the human body, from the intricate workings of the brain to the tiny muscles used to show emotion. Have you ever wondered how each life starts with just one cell, or how many blood cells there are in your body? Then this is the book for you. Anatomicum Junior is a reduced age range follow-on from the original Anatomicum. The text is carefully simplified to make it appealing to younger readers, while retaining the dynamic style and fascinating information of the original.

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Oof and Pib come from an ancient tribe. They know hardly any words - in fact they only know how to say their own names - but it doesn't stop them from being the best of friends and doing everything together . . . Until Oof starts inventing all sorts of NEW words, and Pib feels so jealous that he does something to threaten their friendship forever.Can Pib come up with a word of his own to make things right again? A funny and poignant tale about friendship, forgiveness, and the discovery of new words . . . including one that can be the hardest of all to say . . .

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Bestselling illustrator Britta Teckentrup explores the world of birds in a sumptuously illustrated non-fiction book. There are birds everywhere! Some of them live by the sea, some of them in the savannah, and some might live in your roof. There are Birds Everywhere is the fourth in a series of non-fiction books from Britta Teckentrup. Young readers will learn where in the world all sorts of birds can be found and all the weird and wonderful things about them that they never imagined were true. With an added search-and-find element, this is non-fiction with spark and personality from a much-loved illustrator.

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Drip is a little drop of water. In this book, learn how he will travel through the water cycle ... to become a tiny drip once again.This beautifully illustrated board book for the very young explores the journey of a raindrop. Watch Drip travel through streams, rivers, the ocean and clouds to become a little drip once again. A die-cut right through to the last page of the book highlights that nature is full of changes, but that the story begins and ends with a tiny drop of water.

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This exquisite book explores one huge tree in the jungle, from roots to canopy... with a huge fold-out surprise at the end.Offering a perspective rarely seen, Up in the Canopy explores the rainforest layer by layer, as we climb the incredible Kapok tree - a 100-metre tropical tree in the heart of wildest South America - in search of the elusive Harpy eagle which lives almost exclusively at great heights. With artwork as rich and dense as the rainforest itself, there is much to explore at every level, and readers can scour the forest floor, understory and canopy for the world's rarest and most beautiful tropical creatures. Finally reaching the top, they are rewarded with the most magical sight... As told by James Aldred, author of The Man Who Climbed Trees, and published in conjunction with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

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From a tiny egg to fully grown, join Frog on this very exciting journey! Follow the peep-through holes on every page to discover each stage of becoming a frog.Little Frog is waiting inside a tiny egg. But first, Frog must avoid being washed away in the rain, blown away on the wind or even gobbled up by hungry fish! Watch as Frog grows from a tadpole to a froglet, before a fully grown Frog begins the cycle again. Is there another Frog waiting inside the next tiny egg?This beautifully illustrated book from the talented Maggie Li is the perfect introduction to life cycles for little readers - and its tactile pages and size are ideal for small hands!Collect the rest of the Little Life Cycles series with Pip, Drip and Bug.

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Journey through the story of our magnificent home planet and its spectacular features in this beautifully illustrated book about planet Earth. How the World Works tells children exactly that, answering each and every question they have about how Earth was formed, why we get earthquakes and volcanoes, where rain comes from and so much more.Richly informative text from Christiane Dorion combines with Beverley Young's painterly illustrations, taking children on a bright and beautiful discovery of our planet's unique story and wondrous features.Also available: HOW THE WEATHER WORKS

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A new edition of Michael Foreman's glorious anti-war picture book, featuring a message from the author and illustrator reflecting on the book's enduring relevance now and then.There was once a general who wished to be famous and rule all the land...One day he fell off his horse and landed on the soft grass. It smelled so sweet that he decided to lay there for a while and enjoy the warm sunshine. He saw squirrels, rabbits and hedgehogs and walked through a field of beautiful flowers. From that day on he vowed never again to march his armies across the land and to change the world around him into one of peace and beauty, for which he became the most famous general of all. Michael Foreman OBE, one of the UK's best-loved and most prolific creators of children's books, illustrated The General, his first picture book, in 1961. Now, over sixty years later, it has been reproduced in all its glory, featuring new endnotes from the author and illustrator to bring this well-loved and important story to a new generation of readers.

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The moon is as mysterious to an animal as it is to a young child. A fish looking up at a new moon through rippling water thinks it's a wriggly worm. To a monkey, the crescent moon looks like a delicious banana. To the mice, the half-moon looks like cheese...In this picture book, with die-cuts throughout, the moon takes on many guises, getting bigger and bigger until a full moon shines on a little boy. Only he knows that the glowing orb in the sky is the Moon and it's telling him something: time to go to sleep.

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Explore the world with this lavish book of maps. This collection of 52 highly illustrated maps details not only geographical features and political borders, but also places of interest, iconic personalities, native animals and plants, local peoples, cultural events, and many more fascinating facts associated with each region.This book is a celebration of the world, from its immense mountains to its tiny insects - and everything in between!

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Max Pendragon is probably the worst squire in King Arthur's kingdom - he'd much rather train to be a wizard instead. So when he accidentally invents a spell that turns people into frogs, it seems his wish might come true. But events take an unexpected turn when Max enters the Novices' Spell-Making Competition and finds himself helping Merlin fight an evil sorceress. There's no way Max's unpredictable frogspell could be of any use. Or is there?

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This book combines fact-filled spreads with an interactive building element. Colourful, humorous illustrations explain the mechanics behind each vehicle and their role on a construction site. Then, using a pegboard and over 50 pre-cut parts, budding young engineers can create mini models of these real machines - from bulldozers and dump trucks to cranes and road rollers.

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Ghosts, clairvoyants, UFO-hunters and the paranormal collide . . .Isis, the daughter of a charlatan psychic, can see ghosts - including that of her dead little sister, Angel. Gray is the son of a UFO-chasing conspiracy theorist. The two became friends over the summer, when they fought a deadly ghost together. So why is Gray now ignoring Isis at school? On a field-trip to a local mine, the pupils are 'accidentally' coated in dust, which has very odd side-effects . . . Could this be related to the ley lines and standing stones which have been calling to Isis with strange, ghostly voices? The secretive and powerful Organisation know the truth, but can Isis and Gray find out what's really happening, and save a life, with the help of two ghosts?

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Celebrate the 15th anniversary of the creation of Bob, Man on the Moon, with this special edition. Enjoy the stunning artwork Simon Bartram has become famous for. Bob is everyone's favourite man on the moon, follow him on his crazy adventures. Bob knows everything there is to know about the moon and space, but the new tree that has started growing on the moon has him baffled. Where could it have come from? What type of tree is it?

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Every year the badgers and the otters gather to dance at the Driftwood Ball. But the two groups never mix - they dance in completely different ways. That is, until otter Celia and badger George decide they want to do things differently - they want to dance together, in their own way.

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This fact-filled first information book teaches little ones everything they need to know about the wonderful world of horses and ponies, from the different breeds to how to love and care for such beautiful creatures. Open the stable door to discover which horse or pony lives there and lift up the flaps to learn the various parts of a saddle.

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Illustrated in her appealing iconic style, in Sometimes... a mother elephant assures her child that no matter what he does and who he is, she loves him unconditionally.

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Related titles Write and Wipe: Numbers; author Liza Miller; illustrator Jonathan Lambert; Pippbrook Books; 2013; 978-1-84877-520-6; GBP5.99

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Wanting to prove to his brothers and sister that magic really exists, Leon volunteers to be in Abdul Kazam's magic show and gets transported to a mysterious world. Filled with rabbits, doves, playing cards and magician's assistants - among other things - if a magician can make it disappear, it will end up in the Place Between! When Leon returns, not only do his brothers and sister believe, but we do too. With diecut holes into and out of the Place Between, the reader takes a journey right through the pages of the book, into the mysterious world of Grahame Baker-Smith's breath-taking illustrations.

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Jack's cousins Olly and Issy have come for a sleepover. When they decide to camp in the back garden, Jack quickly convinces them to go on an epic dinosaur hunt - but just who is hunting whom?

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Boris is a very affectionate monster. He likes nothing better than showering everyone with kisses and, though endearing, it can also be very ticklish. The reader is asked to help Boris brush his hair ready for his trip to the park and gets smothered in grateful kisses. The same happens when we feed him, and when he gets to the park none of the other little monsters want to play with him because he is so loud and boisterous.

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What's black and white and red all over? This Deadpool colouring book . . . once you're done with it!Join Deadpool, everyone's favourite Merc with a Mouth, for a rip-roaring ride through his chequered past - in stunning black and white! Colour the man himself, plus old friends and enemies ranging from Wolverine and Captain America to Thanos himself. What's Deadpool doing on that unicorn? We don't know and it's probably better not to ask. Just pick up those pencils and remember: LOTS OF RED.

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Count down to Christmas with this enchanting, advent calendar-style book. Lift the flap, peek inside the window, and discover what chapter to read tonight, all the way up to Christmas!A magical story set in the snowy North Pole that follows Santa as he prepares for his big flight before Christmas! It's time to round up the reindeer, wrap the presents, rally the elves and whizz about on the snowmobile. Perfect for gifting to loved ones, the book's intricately-foiled front cover functions like an advent calendar, with tiny dated doors that open to reveal what page number the next chapter in the story is on. Each page is filled with humorous adventures and bright, colourful illustrations, introducing children to a cast of Christmas characters and conventions, and creating a joyful keepsake that can be reused for years to come. Ho-ho-happy reading!

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Grab your javelin and your discus - it's time to race in the ancient Greek Olympics!As a young boy in the city-state of Athens, the time has come to prove yourself in ancient Greek society. Following several years in school, your father pushes you to participate in the most famous athletic competition to exist - the Olympics. The training is treacherous, the equipment is excruciating, and the rivalries are rotten. Discover the awe-inspiring origins of the Olympics, what vigorous rules had to be followed, and just how you might go about surviving - or even winning - these ancient games.The You Wouldn't Want to Be series transports readers to the grisliest times and places in history, perfect for reluctant readers. The first-person narrative approach puts children in the shoes of the some of the unluckiest people ever to have lived.

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Discover the riotous world of Ancient Egypt with this rip-roaring facts and jokes book, perfect for 7-9 year olds!Laugh along as you learn in this hilarious, fact-packed joke book all about Ancient Egypt. Featuring dozens of gut-busting gags, this book combines history and humour, uncovering the gross and gruesome aspects of ancient life, such as monstrous mummies, fearsome Pharaohs and treasure-filled tombs. Hold onto your sides and dive right in!

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The latest picture book in the bestselling The Colour Monster series, from talented author-illustrator Anna Llenas, that encourages conversations about consent, mental health and wellbeing. One day, Nuna was in situation where she didn't know how to say no and it left her feeling strange and confused. So she goes to see Colour Monster who is now a doctor and who can help to heal emotions, especially those that are big and difficult to understand. To begin with, Nuna cannot find the right words. But with the help of Colour Monster and his emotions toolkit, Nuna learns how to use tools and techniques that will make her feel better. Together they try things like deep breathing, arts and crafts, blowing bubbles and dancing until she starts to feel calmer. Now will Nuna be able to talk about what's bothering her? This story addresses complex themes around consent, saying no and mental wellbeing in a sensitive, age-appropriate way. Through Anna's experience as an art therapist, she has interwoven techniques that can make these conversations easier. Including big, fold-out pages, children can look inside the emotions toolkit, making use of the ideas for themselves (with the support of a grown-up when needed). The ideal conversation starter for readers of The Colour Monster, The Colour Monster Goes to School and Don't Hug Doug.

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A remarkable friendship, a close-guarded secret and a quest to the sea. Be swept away by Hannah Peck's new novel for readers aged 9 and up.Like many rivers, the banks of the Lyde hold a hoard of forgotten things: pottery, trinkets, a shard of glass. They also hold a Memory. In the days of this story, the buried Memories were forgotten by most. But not by all . . . When Adderley discovers Ef - a being who seems part human and part fish - in the river by her home, she is drawn into an adventure that challenges everything she's learnt about the world. Ef is searching for a special stone that she says has been stolen from her people. Could this be the key to the drought that is destroying Adderley's home? Together, Adderley and Ef resolve to recover the stone and return it to its true home, but the river waters are not always on their side and the journey is filled with danger. Perfect for fans of Emma Carroll, Kiran Millwood Hargrav

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All of nature is beautiful. This stunning book shows how a variety of amazing creatures have evolved to look and behave the way they do.As humans, we like our animals to be cuddly and furry, or smooth and sleek. We shy away from those creatures that, to us, look odd. But we should drop those opinions - everything has evolved for a reason, and is perfect in its own way.Take a look at the vampire squid, or the duck-billed golden line barbel - both have evolved in interesting and amazing ways to find food, deter predators or attract a mate. Everything is perfect. Everything is beautiful. Illustrated with stunning watercolour images, this book will be treasured by families around the world. Its message is positive and life-affirming for children, for humans, for the whole of nature.The perfect book for fans of Hidden Planet by Ben Rothery and The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell.

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