Fancy
That!
Pamela Allen
Penguin, 0140509712
A little red hen, sitting on a nest of eggs, has a fine surprise.
Here's a great opportunity to try out all your poultry noises!
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Mr
Gumpy's Motor Car
John Burningham
Red
Fox, 0099417952
Mr Gumpy is ready to go for a ride in his car,
when the children and the animals ask to come along as well.
All is fine until it begins to rain and the vintage car gets
stuck. Who will get out and push?
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
Hamilton, 024101798X
By the time the tiny caterpillar has eaten his way through the
days of the week and a variety of food he is ready to rest in
his cocoon until at last he emerges as a beautiful butterfly.
Little children delight in this book with its fascinating holes
for fingers to explore and an intriguing range of food. It introduces
the days of the week incidentally, as well as the life cycle
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Hairy
Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
Lynley Dodd
Mallinson Rendel, 0908606206
This catchy story of Hairy Maclary and his friends and their
encounter with Scarface Claw is a great favourite. Even very
young toddlers soon learn to perform Scarface's mighty yowl!
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Time
For Bed
Mem Fox, illustrated by Jane Dyer
Scholastic, 1862911940.
Darkness is falling and as the animal families are getting
ready for the night ahead a small child is tucked into bed.
A comforting story to end the day.
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Time
for Bed, Poppy and Max
Lindsey Gardiner
Little Orchard, 18441217018
It's bedtime, but there is an inevitable routine for Poppy and
her dog before they are ready to be tucked into bed. This is
also a counting book with each item added to a frame around
successive pages - one glass of milk, two biscuits until there
are ten twinkly stars looking down from above. |
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The
Little Yellow Digger
Betty & Alan Gilderdale
Scholastic, 1869432126
It's raining and the Little Yellow Digger gets stuck in the
mud - and then so does the bigger digger and the bigger bigger
digger too! How will they ever get out of the mud?
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Kiss
Good Night, Sam
Amy Hest, illustrated by Anita Jeram
Walker, 0744556791
Sam Bear is tucked into bed on a stormy night but what is
he waiting for? Mother Bear reads to him, tucks his friends
in with him, pours him a drink of milk, but he is still waiting
. . . A delightful story about a very familiar household ritual.
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Splash!
Flora McDonnell
Walker, 07445 55868
The elephants are hot, the tiger and the rhinoceros too, until
the clever baby elephant leads them all down to the cool water.
A simple story with stunning illustrations. The endpapers will
be explored too. |
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Boom,
Baby, Boom, Boom!
Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Patricia MacCarthy
Mother pops her baby into her high chair to eat a lovely lunch,
and retires for some relaxing time on her drums. Little does
she know that the animals peeping in the window will come and
join in baby's lunch. There's lots of fun here - delicious food
to describe, as well as animal noises to mimic as well as the
beating of the drums for the adult to add drama to the telling.
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Dazzling
Diggers
Tony Mitton and Ant Parker
Kingfisher
' . . .Diggers have shovels to scoop and lift, blades that
bulldoze, shunt and shift. . .' A very satisfying picture
book about diggers and the work that they do.
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Dinosaur
Roar!
Paul & Henrietta Stickland
Puffin 0140557024
There are wonderful large coloured pictures of dinosaurs in
this simple concept book -' . . . Dinosaur roar, dinosaur
sqeak, dinosaur fierce, dinosaur meek . . .' The end papers
too, have a most satisfactory display of dinosaurs
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Owl
Babies
Martin Waddell, illustrated by Patrick Benson
Walker 0744531675 (also Board Book 074454923X)
It's night time and the owl children are alone in their tree.
Where is their mother? They huddle together for comfort and
of course, mum does return.
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