Item category 1: Picture Books

Focusing on playtime games, this is one of a series containing traditional rhymes and stories, with colour illustrations by a husband-and-wife team who have illustrated more than 50 children's books.

Follow the family's excitement as they wade through the grass, splash through the river and squelch through the mud in search of the bear. What a surprise awaits in the cave on the other side of the dark forest.

When eccentric Professor Dupont tries to track down his troupe of brightly-coloured cockatoos, they're always just one step ahead of him. This counting book won the 1992 Smarties Children's Choice Award.

There once was a duck who had the bad luck to live with a lazy farmer. While the duck worked, the farmer lay in bed - until one day the other animals decided to take action!

This is a vibrant and brightly coloured picture book, set in Africa, about a girl's eventful journey with a basket of fruit. Other titles by the author include No Problem, Tick-Tock and Where's My Bus?

This is a wonderfully wild and enjoyable midnight fantasy about a pillow that comes to life, illustrated in a strip style by one of the world's favourite illustrators. Other titles by Ormerod include Sunshine, Gemma and The Story of Chicken Licken.

Mudge the smuggler is not the world's best smuggler, in fact he is pretty terrible. So when Granny Grogblossom, the leader of the infamous Grogblossom Gang, enlists his help in smuggling a barrel of brandy, it's bound to end in disaster!