Item category 1: Picture Books

The Dorling Kindersley Touch and Feel novelty books use full-colour photographs, a simple text and tactile patches to explore animals, homely objects, the farm and clothing with the very youngest readers in mind.

Not every child welcomes the arrival of Santa Claus. The gentle humour of this book by a top author/artist team is the perfect solution for children afraid of Santa.

Using large, bright pictures and simple rhyming text, this is one in a series of baby board books featuring the award-winning character Mr Bear.

Mucky Pup is getting under his family's feet. It's Christmas Day tomorrow. But Mucky Pup doesn't know what Christmas is. So he goes to find his friend Pig. Perhaps he will know about this Christmas thing. But Pig doesn't and so what anyway?

Oliver has returned from his happy, healthy holiday at his grandparents' houses, and suddenly nothing at home seems good enough. How can Oliver's long-suffering mum make Oliver happy?

When a baby is given a bag of bread to throw to the ducks and geese he holds on to the bread. The birds make such a noise until the baby's brother arrives and gives him an ice-cream. The baby gives them the bread and they all say, "Yum! Yum!".

Rainbow Fish & his friends feed & play in their shoal, but when a big blue whale comes to live close by, they begin to worry. Will this huge creature be a friend or a foe? Will he gobble up all the available food with that enormous mouth of his?

Ruby the donkey is growing old, her coat won't keep her warm in winter and she can't keep herself warm. The other animals in the field join together to make her a coat and she becomes the star at the local school's Nativity play.

John Ryan presents a lively retelling of some of the more well-known events in the life of Daniel. The Very Hungry Lions is created in a style similar to Ryan's other Bible stories, including Mabel and the Tower of Babel and Giant-Killer.