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Whether your toddler is just discovering the joy of page turning, or your five-year-old is ready to take off on imaginary adventures of their own, we have a book to enthral!
FARMING BABY BOOKS
From Penguin Children’s Books
Prices see below
Age Birth +
You Choose Farm (£6.49) is a board book focusing on the fun of farm life, with rhyming text and vivid, recognisable illustrations from Nick Sharratt. An ingenious lift-the-flap ending adds an extra layer of fun.
Spot Goes to the Farm (£7.49) is a classic lift-the-flap adventure featuring everyone’s favourite literary puppy! Help Spot search behind gates, under straw and inside barns to discover where the animals are hiding.
Uh Oh Niko! The Farm (£7.35) is an interactive board book from popular author Chris Chatterton. packed with push-and-pull sliders and flaps. Help Niko feed the chickens, pick juicy apples, ride the tractor and more! Children will love joining in with the rhyming text and playing along with the story.
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FIRST STEPS: I DON’T NEED A DUMMY, I CAN GET TO SLEEP, I CAN BRUSH MY TEETH
Price £5.99 each
From Acturus Publishing
Age 2+
Growing up is an adventure – and sometimes even the bravest little adventurers need some help! The First Steps series is a great way to prepare children for change and reinforce good habits as they acquire new key life skills.
Each book is written with patience, sensitivity and expertise, and colourfully illustrated to capture a child’s interest and empower them to gain a new skill.
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BUFFALO FLUFFALO
By Bess Kalb, illustrated by Erin Kraan
From Puffin
Price £8.99 paperback
Age 3+
Comedy writer Bess Kalb was inspired to write this by reading the word ‘Buffalo’ aloud to her own child and noticing its originality. Buffalo Fluffalo is puffed up with pomp and self-importance. He likes being a lone buffalo! But when a huge rain shower pours down from the clouds, revealing a soggy pipsqueak, will the other animals see through his bluff, fluff and bravado?
This humorous rhyming picture book touches on dealing with insecurity, self-acceptance and how to show compassion.
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I AM DANDY THE DORMOUSE
By Pam Ayres, illustrated by Nicola O’Byrne
From Pan Macmillan
Price £12.99 hardback
Age 3+
Bestselling author and comedian Pam Ayres and award-winning illustrator Nicola O’Byrne join forces in this charming picture book introducing children to the themes of wildlife and conservation through a rhyming story, simple facts and stunning illustrations.
The story follows Dandy the dormouse in his extraordinary
adventures high up in trees, foraging in the nocturnal world. From the loss of his habitat to the amazing green bridges humans have created above roads that allow Dandy to find his mate Dinky, children discover the resilience of one of Britain’s rarest mammals.
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DINOSAUR CLUB; CALL OF THE PARASAUROLOPHUS
By Rex Stone
Price £6.99
From DK
Ages 5+
Flip back in time to the world of dinos with these character-driven Dinosaur Club adventure stories, perfect for early readers or read aloud sessions.
Jamie, a keen member of The Dinosaur Club, has just moved to Ammonite Bay, a stretch of coastline famous for its fossils.
Here he meets Tess, who shows him a secret cave with a wall covered in fossils. They go through a tunnel at the back and discover some dino footprints. When they walk along them, the two new friends find themselves back in the time of the dinosaurs!
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