This book uses traditional reading teaching techniques(alliteration, rhyme, repetition, short sentences) to invite youngchildren to read along with an adult. Eight short fairy tales fiton one spread and feature the characters and stories that childrenlove best. With clear, color-coded typography and amusingillustrations, this collection is sure to entertain whileencouraging reading skills and interaction with others. Thefractured fairy tales include: The Three Little Bears, The Princessand the Pea, Billy Goat's Gruff, Cinderella, and more!
"The Puffin Baby and Toddler Treasury" is a timelesscollection of favourite nursery rhymes, lullabies, poems andstories, featuring well-loved characters, such as Spot, The Snowmanand Beatrix Potter's Tom Kitten. Brought to life by some of themost talented children's illustrators, this treasury is perfect forsharing and will make any collection complete.
What are squishy, slimy, icky, creepy, crawly, and fun BugsRead and sing along with lovable hostsalike the ladybug and theinchwormaas they lead the way through a musical adventure thatteaches as it entertains.
The bestselling Wee Sing line is now tailored for the mostmodern Wee Sing fans! These eight classic Wee Sing titles are nowin a great new package—a book and CD in a reusable blister!
-A new edition of a Barefoot bestseller with sales to date of over 4,000 copies. -With a simple counting theme and a CD that introduces nine different musical instruments, this book is ideal for Early Years learning. -Features a music score and a simple introduction to instrument families. -Includes a dual-purpose audio and video CD to listen to the singalong on a CD player or listen and watch the video animation on a Mac or PC.
Frederick Warne is pleased to announce brand-new editions ofthe 8 classic Flower Fairies titles, with all of Barker's originalartwork and poetry included. These works offer a nostalgic lookinto the Romantic Age, each illustration suggesting that beyond thenatural world so truthfully depicted in Barker's paintings theremight co-exist another, just barely visible, world of thefairies. These four titles (Flower Fairies of the Trees, Flower Fairies ofthe Garden, Flower Fairies of the Wayside, and A Flower FairyAlphabet) complete the original collection of Barker's FlowerFairies books. Each book features Barker's poems and full-colorillustrations of at least 19 different Flower Fairies.
Children love to pretend! Whether it’s flying like an airplaneor galloping like a horse, the delightful songs in this collection,set to both classical and contemporary music, will encourage everychild’s imagination to soar!
Wee Sing Mother Goose is the newest addition to theperennially popular Wee Sing line. With nursery rhymefavorites set to great tunes, this book and CD set will have kidseverywhere dancing and singing along!
Cicely Mary Barker's original Flower Fairies books, firstpublished in the 1920s, have been known and loved by generations.Like the pre-Raphaelite painters whom she so admired, Barkerbelieved in re-creating the beauty of nature in art and drawingfrom life. Her Flower Fairies watercolors have a unique combinationof naturalism and fantasy that no imitators have matched. Each of Barker's four seasonal books features poems andfull-color illustrations of at least 19 flowers that bloom during aparticular season.
In "Dirty Beasts" we meet a ghastly menagerie of wonderfullycomic animals that can only have been invented by Roald Dahl. Thereis the toad that jumps to France - at his own peril; the pig whoponders the meaning of life; the anteater who gets the wrong end ofthe stick; and many more. Snigger, titter and laugh at their anticsin this collection of irreverent and absurdly comic verse! In"Revolting Rhymes" think again if you thought you knew the storiesof some of the most popular fairy tales. Here are six of the bestknown retold, with more than a twist or two, by the master of thecomic and the blood-curdling.
Winnie the Pooh: The Complete Collection of Stories andPoems was originally published in 1994, but this beautifullyproduced slip-cased edition has been specially created tocommemorate the 75th anniversary of the publication of the veryfirst stories about Winnie the Pooh. It consists of the classic, well-loved, tried-and-tested storiesby AA Milne, from "Winnie the Pooh" (1926), "The House at PoohCorner" (1928) and the poetry from "When We Were Very Young" (1924)and "Now We Are Six" (1927).
This title contains six of the best-loved nursery tales,retold with surprising and sometimes disgusting twists! Wickedbeasts, brazen crooks and a ghastly giant star in these hilariousnursery rhymes with BITE.
This bestselling collection of classic nursery rhymes includesfavourites such as 'Pat-a-Cake', 'Rock-a-Bye Baby', 'Baa, Baa,Black Sheep' and 'Humpty Dumpty', as well as ABCs, lullabies,finger games, counting rhymes, cumulative tables and nonsenseverse. Illustrated in glorious colour by Faith Jacques.
Did you think Cinderella married the prince and lived happilyever after, or that the three little pigs outsmarted the wolf?Think again! Master storyteller Roald Dahl adds his own darklycomic twists to six favorite tales, complete with rambunctiousrhymes and hilarious surprise endings.
"Bobby Shaftoe, Old Mother Hubbard, Simple Simon, JackSprat, Little Miss Muffet . . . they are all here, along with 200others . . . From start to finish a treasure house ofdelight"--Booklist starred review. "Destined to become aclassic."--The Horn Book. Full-color illustrations. A Horn BookFanfare Book.
This airborne adventure takes readers ballooning over lands near and far, all the way to the stars. The charming singalong song on the accompanying CD keeps spirits high, while the rhyming and playful text introduces all sorts of settings and vocabulary-building words. Includes singalong CD.
Having delighted a generation of readers with Tomie dePaola'sBook of Poems, beloved author/artist Tomie dePaola now selectstwenty-five poems from this wonderful collection for a charming newboard book perfect for very young children. Featuring subjects thatany toddler can recognize-such as nature, the seasons, lovingparents, and bedtime 150 and Tomie's classic illustrations,Tomie's Little Book of Poems will quickly join Tomie's LittleMother Goose and Tomie's Little Christmas Pageant as a nurseryfavorite.
Discover amazing and fascinating sea creatures in the hole in the bottom of the sea! Based on the traditional cumulative song, each verse introduces a new creature and its place in the food chain, with the shark chasing the eel, who chases the squid, who chases the snail. Enhanced CD includes videso animation and audio singalong.