This high-contrast fold-out book with finger wiggle holes encourages key developmental skills while you have fun together. • Bold black-and-white images with splashes of colour for your baby’s developing vision • Use the finger wiggle holes to entertain your baby as you read and play with the book together • The simple text will help your baby with sound making and introduces new vocabulary • Suitable from birth to 1 year Sharing books with your baby is one of the most beneficial things you can do to give them a head start in life. Playtime! provides a fun opportunity to engage with your baby face-to-face and, while you play, your baby will be building strength and flexibility in their upper body. One side features all your favourite animals and by putting your finger through the hole it becomes an elephant's trunk trumpeting loudly or a puppy’s tail wagging excitedly. On the other side is a wiggle train and only you know where the wiggly worm will pop out next. Your baby will love the anticipation and will turn their head towards the movement. So go on. Read to your baby. It’s good for them! Safety tested and printed on FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council) board. Playtime! is the ideal companion to Tummy Time!

Bind: hardback

Pages: 6

Dimensions: 140 x 210 mm

Publication Date: 15-02-2024

"Tummy time - placing a baby on his or her stomach only while awake and supervised - can help your baby develop strong neck and shoulder muscles, and promote motor skills." - Mayo Clinic. And this book will keep babies' brains busy, too, while their muscles are hard at work. The high-contrast images on one side are mesmerising because, although young babies' vision is blurry, they can see bold patterns with sharp light-dark contrast and saturated colour. Babies are also hard-wired to recognise faces, so there are baby photos on the other side to delight your baby, and an embedded mirror - because babies love looking at themselves! The book can be spread out in front of them, or read like a book so you can enjoy reading time together.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 2

Dimensions: 140 x 210 mm

Say 'hello' to this bright, bold first word book built for babies, with bumpy pages, flaps, finger trails and tabs for easy page-turning. By SEEING and FEELING the images, and then HEARING someone say the words, young children are using three senses to acquire language and make an association between picture and word. It has tabs and flaps to develop gross motor skills, and bumpy finger trails for fine motor skills. Each double page has a theme based on familiar things - animals, family, park, mealtime and on the road -and a gentle rhyming text leads you through the book. Perfect for children 1 to 3 years.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 10

Dimensions: 210 x 210 mm

Publication Date: 02-06-2022

Did you know that farmers sometimes put duck eggs under broody hens to hatch them? The duckling and hen fall in love and it's as natural as natural can be... until the duckling starts swimming! CLUCK CLUCK DUCK is a lift-the-flap book, the first in the series about the humorous goings-on at Funny Farm. Each book has an early-learning concept underlying the story and CLUCK CLUCK DUCK introduces early maths skills. There is a page of pop-up chicks for the children to count - four little eggs, four little chicks...plus one! An uplifting, warm-hearted story of acceptance and family love, publishing alongside TRACTOR TRACTOR, a book of opposites starring an old and new tractor who form the very best of friendships.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 10

Dimensions: 170 x 180 mm

Publication Date: 01-03-2022

One big tractor, shiny and new. One small tractor, rusty and blue... TRACTOR TRACTOR is the second book in a series of lift-the-flap books about the humorous goings-on at Funny Farm. Each book has an early-learning aspect and TRACTOR TRACTOR is all about opposites. It has sliders too, so children can make the tractors move forward and back, fast and slow. It's harvest time and Red arrives shiny, fast and strong. Blue is an old faithful - small and rusty but wise and calm. So when Red decides to race home after a hard day's harvesting, Blue lets him go, only to find Red in a ditch, no longer shiny and clean but the dirtiest - and smelliest! - tractor he's ever seen. A warm-hearted story that shows, despite being opposites, young and old can make a great team, and the very best of friends.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 10

Dimensions: 170 x 180 mm

Publication Date: 01-03-2022

The Most Important Animal of All is a beautiful picture book, illustrated by award-winning Hannah Bailey, where a teacher challenges her class to decide which is the most important animal of all. Seven children champion a different animal for the top spot. * Is it BEES as master pollinators, or BATS who are night-time predators as well as pollinators? * Is it ELEPHANTS who shape their landscapes and spread seeds, or BEAVERS who create watery habitats? * Is it TIGERS or SHARKS who keep populations in balance so there is food for all? * Is it tiny KRILL, food for so many whales and sea creatures? Learn all about these keystone species, plus see photographs of them up close and in their habitats. At the back there's information about other important animals, such as wolves, hummingbirds and coral. This is a positive and gentle primer for young children from 5 years old about the more worrying issues of habitat loss, endangered species and climate change. "Only if we understand, can we care. Only if we care, we will help. Only if we help, we shall be saved." Dr Jane Goodall.

Bind: paperback

Pages: 40

Dimensions: 235 x 275 mm

Publication Date: 27-01-2022

That's Mathematics is a maths book like no other. It's a vibrant, colourful book for young children showing them that maths is useful, interesting, fun and EVERYWHERE! They use it every day when they count, share, play, do sport, make cakes or move to music. Aimed at children from 5 to 8 years, the youngest can enjoy it as a picture book, reading Lehrer's rhyming song lyrics and looking at Elina Braslina's joyful illustrations. They will pick up a basic understanding of real-world maths and learn some core maths language along the way. Older children are challenged to 'Try This' and 'Explore This' by author Chris Smith, who is a maths teacher, musician and all-round maths enthusiast. The activities are designed to deepen their curiosity and knowledge. There are supporting online activities to continue the fun, plus notes for parents to encourage you to get involved and help you discuss topics covered and keep the learning going after the book is closed.

Bind: hardback

Pages: 32

Dimensions: 220 x 260 mm

Publication Date: 01-03-2023