Item category 1: Picture Books

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.

Deep in the woods in an old white cabin, three friends make their soup the same way every day. Everyone has his own job and everyone seems happy until one day Duck decides it's his turn to stir the pumpkin soup and the quarrelling starts.

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.

Every morning a very large and very snappy crocodile shouts 'Stay away from my river! If you come in my river, I'll eat you all!' All the animals are frightened to go in the river until one day the crocodile is ill, and a mouse solves their dilemma.

Ideal as a first read-alone text, this book will help to explain parental breakup to children. Binch's characters are realistic and easy for children to identify with.

All the animals on the farm are sleeping happily - until Dog starts to snore! On and on, he snores through the night while the other animals grow angrier and sleepier by the minute. Something will have to be done.

This lift-the-flap book contains cheerful illustrations, large type and simple stories to delight and entertain young children. In this story, discover the present that Santa has brought for Spot.