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.

This charming book features big bear and little bear having fun with rhyming games.

Big Brother knows why Little Brother cries and what he wants, but when Little Brother takes Big Brother's truck Big Brother cries. He gives the truck back and they hug one another because they realise they're just brothers.

Combining a phonics-based text with a funny story, the books in this new series are aimed at beginner readers. The pictures give clues to the words and fold out flaps on some pages give children the chance to guess what will happen next.

This story is about a family of skeletons who spend a night on the town looking for people to haunt and riding on the skeleton animals at the zoo. With rhyming text and plenty of repetition, this book will build confidence in beginner readers.

This is a rhyming story of a mouse and a monster. Little mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous forest. To scare off his enemies he invents tales of a fantastical creature called the Gruffalo. So imagine his surprise when he meets the real Gruffalo.

In this sequel to the highly successful Sssh!, Santa has overslept and spends all of Christmas Eve hurrying to deliver his presents on time. One accident follows another, delaying him further but finally he is finished, or is he?

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.

The Talk-About-Books series was designed to enhance a baby's or toddler's first collection of books. Each story explores a different aspect of the young child's world using photographs of a variety of children in natural settings.

This is a simple, multi-layered concept book for small children who are just learning to count. The book starts with one moose, ends with 20 mice, and contains all kinds of animals in between.