I’m going to the beach. I’ve got my goggles and snorkel, my bucket and spade, my flippers and trunks and my big yellow float. The character in this story has no name but he takes the reader with him on a trip to the beach. Making sure that he has everything he needs, he travels not only to the beach but up into the sky in an aeroplane and even a helicopter, out into the ocean on a ...

When one little dinosaur finds it hard to fit in, and another big dinosaur feels a little bit left out, they find that it is just being yourself that is the real secret to feeling perfect. In a celebration of friendship and being yourself that will appeal to readers big and small

Michael Forman gives children a wonderful picturebook to enjoy and learn from. The egg containing the little ...

Sniff, sniff, snuffle, snuffle. Join Snuffle the elephant as he explores the world around him and encounters a curious little green seedling.

Snuffle is a very curious baby elephant, keen to explore and find out more about the world around him. When he finds a little green shoot growing out of the ground he is very curious about what it might be. It doesn’t seem to be something tha ...

In Marvin Wanted  More Marvin is not a happy sheep. He is smaller than all the other sheep; he can’t run as fast or jump as high, so he decides to eat! But no matter how much he eats he still wants more. However Marvin goes too far and suddenly drastic action has to be taken.

Joseph Theobald's illustrative style is instantly recognisable. The colour palette i ...

Synopsis: Trixie can’t wait to show off her special Knuffle Bunny at school, but she’s horrified to find that another child has the same toy. Arguments ensue, and the children accidentally take the wrong bunnies home. A desperate night-time mission through the streets of New York sets things straight, and culminates in a new friendship.

Review: This humorous se ...

The creator of ‘Tom and the Island of Dinosaurs’ now presents ‘Tom and the Dinosaur Egg’ being the story of an egg, an unusual pet and an epic journey.

Tom and his grandfather still live in their lighthouse by the savage rocks and the wild sea. Often Tom visits the beach to explore and one morning after a particularly stormy night he is collecti ...

Fly with Tom on his amazing and daring rescue to a lost island of dinosaurs!

Tom and his grandfather live in a lighthouse by the sea. They look after all the boats, on dark stormy nights they shine their lights and on lovely calm days they take their boat and set to sea. They have a lovely life but Tom yearns for an adventure. One soon comes along when he finds a bottle washed up on the ...

If you could choose to go anywhere, where would you go? who would you like as a friend? How would you travel? And what would you do for fun? Go on...You Choose.

This is not Desert Island discs for children but a fabulous conceptual picture book for . Often when faced with the statement ‘You Choose’ children and adults alike are flummoxed, for it is very often a difficult dec ...

Synopsis: Josh fed the elephant with the wrong stuff. And I let the nursery hamster escape. But it wasn’t until things went wrong on Kevin’s birthday that Mummy did the really amazing thing!

Review :Our heroine has to spend so much time on the naughty step, she becomes good at it. Pity long suffering mum who has to cope with her, her brother, Josh, who has his ...

Synopsis Two small sisters go fishing in a magic pond that appears after the rain. They find a Bog Baby and decide to make him their secret. They take him home and care for him, providing what they think replicates his natural habitat and diet but which is in fact too clean and refined and he becomes sick. When Mum is let in on the secret she helps the sisters do the right thing.

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