Nothing beats sitting with a baby or toddler on the knee and sharing a book.
The words provide a language of communication long before conversation is possible and the joy in recognising them over many re-readings provides endless shared pleasure while the pictures can be enjoyed first jointly and then by the child alone as they pour over the images they love.
Included in our selection are a range of really sturdy and interactive books suitable for the bedroom, the car, the bath, the buggy and the playroom. Books that even the tiniest baby will enjoy alone and with their parents.
Titles in this section will be refreshed each month with a range of new and older titles that we feel should not to be missed by any baby or toddler.
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Wilbur's Book of Colours
Valerie Thomas
June 2013 Book of the Month Wilbur, the crafty feline side kick of the much-loved Winnie the Witch, stars in these handsome board books each of which vividly represents a key concept. Black Wilbur meets a red beastie, blue birds...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Valerie Thomas
June 2013 Book of the Month Wilbur, the crafty feline side kick of the much-loved Winnie the Witch, stars in these handsome board books each of which vividly represents a key concept. Black Wilbur meets a red beastie, blue birds...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Books of the Month | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Emily Gravett
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2013 Prize-winning Emily Gravett has hit the jackpot again with a brilliant and original picture book that will delight adults as much as children. Everyone knows that the best bedtime stories can...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards | Carnegie/Greenaway
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/09/2012
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Emily Gravett
Shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2013 Prize-winning Emily Gravett has hit the jackpot again with a brilliant and original picture book that will delight adults as much as children. Everyone knows that the best bedtime stories can...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Book Awards | Carnegie/Greenaway
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/09/2012
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Maisy's First 123 A Maisy Concept Book
Lucy Cousins
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - learn to count with your favourite mouse in this brand new look-and-touch board book! Lovable Maisy Mouse is counting her favourite animals. Help her count one, two, three, four, five...butterfiles, tortoises, fizzy fish, swirly...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Maisy
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Lucy Cousins
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - learn to count with your favourite mouse in this brand new look-and-touch board book! Lovable Maisy Mouse is counting her favourite animals. Help her count one, two, three, four, five...butterfiles, tortoises, fizzy fish, swirly...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Maisy
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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It's a Little Book
Lane Smith
A playful exchange between an uninformed young donkey and a book-loving young ape brings Lane Smith's bestselling It's a Book to an even younger audience. This fun and satisfying board book is perfect for small hands, so now the message...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 09/05/2013
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Lane Smith
A playful exchange between an uninformed young donkey and a book-loving young ape brings Lane Smith's bestselling It's a Book to an even younger audience. This fun and satisfying board book is perfect for small hands, so now the message...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 09/05/2013
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Stick Man's First Words
Julia Donaldson
This sturdy, colourful board book is the perfect way for Stick Man's youngest fans to learn their first words - with numbers, colours, animal sounds and more!
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Julia Donaldson
This sturdy, colourful board book is the perfect way for Stick Man's youngest fans to learn their first words - with numbers, colours, animal sounds and more!
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Time for Bed
Petr Horacek
Bedtime is made fun in this chunky board book. Lift the flaps to uncover all the different things that have to be done before bedtime! There’s tidying up the toys, eating supper, having a bath and more – all...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Petr Horacek
Bedtime is made fun in this chunky board book. Lift the flaps to uncover all the different things that have to be done before bedtime! There’s tidying up the toys, eating supper, having a bath and more – all...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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What Makes My Dad Happy
Tania Cox
Following the success of such Mother's and Father's day books as I Love My Mum and Kisses for Daddy, Tania Cox and Lorette Broekstra have paired up to create What Makes My Mum Happy and What Makes My Dad Happy...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2012
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Tania Cox
Following the success of such Mother's and Father's day books as I Love My Mum and Kisses for Daddy, Tania Cox and Lorette Broekstra have paired up to create What Makes My Mum Happy and What Makes My Dad Happy...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/08/2012
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The Baby's Catalogue
Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg
A new paperback edition of this classic celebration of babies – their dinners, prams, accidents, gardens, bedtimes and bath times, books, pets and even their Mums and Dads. Everything that is familiar to a baby is beautifully captured in Janet...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2013
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Janet Ahlberg, Allan Ahlberg
A new paperback edition of this classic celebration of babies – their dinners, prams, accidents, gardens, bedtimes and bath times, books, pets and even their Mums and Dads. Everything that is familiar to a baby is beautifully captured in Janet...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2013
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A Bus Called Heaven
Bob Graham
A beautiful story about friendship, the strength of community and a little girl who finally comes into her own.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Picture Book Party
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Bob Graham
A beautiful story about friendship, the strength of community and a little girl who finally comes into her own.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Picture Book Party
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Maisy's First Colours A Maisy Concept Book
Lucy Cousins
Enjoy Maisy’s favourite colours – a basket full of oranges, a bunch of yellow bananas, some lovely green peas. Little fingers can feel the shiny images of them in the bumpy pictures on every page. This gorgeous board book combines...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Maisy
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Lucy Cousins
Enjoy Maisy’s favourite colours – a basket full of oranges, a bunch of yellow bananas, some lovely green peas. Little fingers can feel the shiny images of them in the bumpy pictures on every page. This gorgeous board book combines...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Maisy
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Wilbur's Book of Opposites
Valerie Thomas
Wilbur takes a look at opposites. Front and back, long and short, slow and fast. And, most opposite of all are Wilbur and Winnie who nonetheless fit together perfectly!
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Valerie Thomas
Wilbur takes a look at opposites. Front and back, long and short, slow and fast. And, most opposite of all are Wilbur and Winnie who nonetheless fit together perfectly!
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Wilbur's Book of Numbers
Valerie Thomas
Help Wilbur to count from one to ten! There is one Wilbur, two pointy shoes belonging to Meg, three broomsticks...Wilbur counts through all the things that matter to him in his busy life with Winnie.
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Valerie Thomas
Help Wilbur to count from one to ten! There is one Wilbur, two pointy shoes belonging to Meg, three broomsticks...Wilbur counts through all the things that matter to him in his busy life with Winnie.
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Drat That Cat!
Tony Ross
Best-selling Tony Ross tells the story of a cunning cat who knows just how to outwit its owners! Suzy Cat lives with the Baggots. She can be very well-behaved. But she can be ...Trouble. Sharpening her claws on the...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Tony Ross
Best-selling Tony Ross tells the story of a cunning cat who knows just how to outwit its owners! Suzy Cat lives with the Baggots. She can be very well-behaved. But she can be ...Trouble. Sharpening her claws on the...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 06/06/2013
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Wilbur's Book of First Words
Valerie Thomas
Wilbur’s first words help him – and the young readers who follow him – to name all the things around him in his life with Winnie! Wilbur’s house, his bowl, the biscuits he loves and Winnie, who he loves...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Valerie Thomas
Wilbur’s first words help him – and the young readers who follow him – to name all the things around him in his life with Winnie! Wilbur’s house, his bowl, the biscuits he loves and Winnie, who he loves...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 06/06/2013
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Oh No, George!
Chris Haughton
Shortlisted for the 2013 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Award-winning Chris Haughton’s George is a dog with a terrible habit of getting into trouble! He wants to be good and he tries to be...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Carnegie/Greenaway | Picture Book Party
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/02/2013
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Chris Haughton
Shortlisted for the 2013 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2013 Award-winning Chris Haughton’s George is a dog with a terrible habit of getting into trouble! He wants to be good and he tries to be...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Carnegie/Greenaway | Picture Book Party
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/02/2013
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Are You Sad, Little Bear?
Rachel Rivett
A gentle and beautifully illustrated story about the bereavement of a loved one. Little Bear sees the patterns of living and dying in the natural world and learns to accept them.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2013
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Rachel Rivett
A gentle and beautifully illustrated story about the bereavement of a loved one. Little Bear sees the patterns of living and dying in the natural world and learns to accept them.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2013
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The Fabulous Foskett Family Circus
John Yeoman, Quentin Blake
Take a ringside seat for this glorious romp of a book from a master picture book illustrator in top gear! Quentin Blake originally created the images of the eccentric and multi-talented Foskett family to decorate a hospital ward. They are combined...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2013
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John Yeoman, Quentin Blake
Take a ringside seat for this glorious romp of a book from a master picture book illustrator in top gear! Quentin Blake originally created the images of the eccentric and multi-talented Foskett family to decorate a hospital ward. They are combined...
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Ruff
Jane Hissey
A brand new paperback edition of the beautifully illustrated classic picture book featuring Ruff and all his friends including the wonderful Old Bear from popular author-illustrator Jane Hissey.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2013
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Jane Hissey
A brand new paperback edition of the beautifully illustrated classic picture book featuring Ruff and all his friends including the wonderful Old Bear from popular author-illustrator Jane Hissey.
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 30/04/2013
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And the Cars Go...
William Bee
An exuberantly noisy books for all those who love a racket and anything that moves! A racing car, a school bus, a Rolls Royce with a Duke and Duchess aboard – all of these and more get stuck in a...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Picture Book Party
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2013
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William Bee
An exuberantly noisy books for all those who love a racket and anything that moves! A racing car, a school bus, a Rolls Royce with a Duke and Duchess aboard – all of these and more get stuck in a...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Picture Book Party
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2013
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I Love My Daddy
Giles Andreae, Emma Dodd
A lovely chunky board book of a favourite title. In a simple rhyming text all the wonderful thing dad does with his toddler child is touchingly celebrated.
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 02/05/2013
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Giles Andreae, Emma Dodd
A lovely chunky board book of a favourite title. In a simple rhyming text all the wonderful thing dad does with his toddler child is touchingly celebrated.
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 02/05/2013
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Can I Come Too?
Brian Patten
Award-winning Nicola Bayley’s stunning illustrations of animals from the tiny mouse, who leads an expedition of curious friends on a great adventure, to the enormous whale ‘the biggest creature in the world’ who is their find, captivate readers as they...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Brian Patten
Award-winning Nicola Bayley’s stunning illustrations of animals from the tiny mouse, who leads an expedition of curious friends on a great adventure, to the enormous whale ‘the biggest creature in the world’ who is their find, captivate readers as they...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Hardback - Released: 02/05/2013
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Zog
Julia Donaldson
Award winning author/ illustrator Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler tell a rollicking story of fire breathing dragons, sword-swishing knights and a princess with a difference. Schoolboy, Zog has a lot of learning about flying, breathing fire and princesses. Being a...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 04/04/2013
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Julia Donaldson
Award winning author/ illustrator Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler tell a rollicking story of fire breathing dragons, sword-swishing knights and a princess with a difference. Schoolboy, Zog has a lot of learning about flying, breathing fire and princesses. Being a...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Board book - Released: 04/04/2013
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I Want to Be!
Tony Ross
Bright and attractive, with simple text accessible to those from around 18 months plus. Girls particularly like the feisty and sometimes rather precocious princess and identify with her easily. A great book for toddlers as they’re growing up.
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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Tony Ross
Bright and attractive, with simple text accessible to those from around 18 months plus. Girls particularly like the feisty and sometimes rather precocious princess and identify with her easily. A great book for toddlers as they’re growing up.
Featured in: 3+ readers | 5+ readers | Baby and Toddler
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2013
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The Wheels on the Bus with Audio-CD
Jan Ormerod
Everyone knows that the wheels on the bus go round and round. But what happens when the bus trundles into a wildlife park? Forget 'the wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish', this rhyme has far more excitement to...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Mixed media product - Released: 04/04/2013
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Jan Ormerod
Everyone knows that the wheels on the bus go round and round. But what happens when the bus trundles into a wildlife park? Forget 'the wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish', this rhyme has far more excitement to...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler
Format: Mixed media product - Released: 04/04/2013
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Tip Tap Went the Crab
Tim Hopgood
Bubbling with energy, prize winning Tim Hopgood’s illustrations are also full of warmth and plenty of colour. A chirpy crab with very big eyes tip taps as it counts its way around the seashore in Tip Tap went the Crab. Click...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 11/04/2013
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Tim Hopgood
Bubbling with energy, prize winning Tim Hopgood’s illustrations are also full of warmth and plenty of colour. A chirpy crab with very big eyes tip taps as it counts its way around the seashore in Tip Tap went the Crab. Click...
Featured in: 3+ readers | Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 11/04/2013
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Baby's Very First Touchy-feely Lift-the-flap Playbook
Fiona Watt
As babies begin to interact with the world, they will love to reach out and play with the holes, tactile patches and flaps in this vibrantly colourful book. This first book will help babies learn about turning the pages, looking...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 01/04/2013
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Fiona Watt
As babies begin to interact with the world, they will love to reach out and play with the holes, tactile patches and flaps in this vibrantly colourful book. This first book will help babies learn about turning the pages, looking...
Featured in: Baby and Toddler | Summer Reading 2013
Format: Board book - Released: 01/04/2013
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