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Shortlisted author for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize

Once there was a very scary monster. His fur was wild and weird, he carried a club with giant bristles on it, and his teeth were green and mossy because he never, ever brushed them. All the other animals in the forest were terrified of the monster, and scurried away whenever they saw him coming. But one day, the very scary monster started to hiccup. He tried everything he could, but the hiccups would not go away! In the end, the monster must turn to the other animals in the forest for help. Together, they come up with an ingenious plan to get rid of those pesky hiccups. The Scariest Monster in the World is a humorous, beautifully illustrated tale which all young readers will enjoy.

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  • Publication date: 7th June 2011
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 8.54" x 11.22" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907152085

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"Lee Weatherly is better known for her teen novels, but this story for children of 3 to 5 certainly works well, with warmth and humour, and Algy Craig Hall’s illustrations are a perfect match... good fun to read aloud."
– School Librarian

The whole gang from Clip-Clop and Jingle-Jingle are back, and this time they're taking to the high seas. But the water's looking choppy, and the waves are getting bigger! Will the farmyard friends manage to stay dry, or will they tumble out of their little boat and in to the deep blue sea?

NEW format for a hugely successful picture book

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  • Publication date: 7th April 2016
  • Age range: 0-3 years
  • Dimensions: 6.65" x 6.73" 26 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907967085

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  • Publication date: 1st April 2012
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 9.84" x 10.75" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907967238
  • Publication date: May 2011
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 10.12" x 11.06" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907152726

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Time to meet the snow babies! This is the perfect seasonal gift to introduce all those wide-eyed, soft, fluffy, cuddly andcute babies who live in the snow. Includes penguin chicks, seal pups, polar bear cubs, and many more.

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  • Publication date: 4th October 2018
  • Age range: 0-5 years
  • Dimensions: 6.18" x 6.54" 26 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1910716779
  • Publication date: 7th October 2014
  • Age range: 0-5 years
  • Dimensions: 8 1/2" x 8 1/2" 26 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907152238

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Otter Moon is a beautifully illustrated tale of nature and adventure. Flibberty is a young otter who spends his nights on the riverbank, dreaming and staring at the moon. But one day, the King of the River gives him a task that takes him far away from home. As the moon rises over the river, Flibberty sets off on a journey towards the sea, trying to find a great fish, and a silver dish, before daybreak.

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  • Publication date: 13th October 2011
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 11.18" x 10.12" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907152481
  • Publication date: 1st September 2009
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 10 3/4" x 10 1/2" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250690

Reviews

"A hauntingly magical fantasy."
– Northern Echo

"Humphries’s lyrical prose, festooned with internal rhymes and wordplay, is perfectly matched to his beautiful dusky watercolors. They shine with a silvery light, investing the adventure with a suitably majestic magic. First rate."
– Kirkus

Little Monkey explores the jungle, experiencing new sights and sounds and making friends along the way. But what Monkey really wants is monkey-monkey-monkey nuts! Where will he find some? Follow Monkey and find out! A rollicking rainforest romp, full of rhythm and energy. With read-aloud text and lively pictures, Monkey Monkey Monkey is perfect for sharing.

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  • Publication date: 3rd September 2009
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 7.17" x 9.96" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250737
  • Publication date: 3rd March 2009
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 11 1/2" x 10 1/4" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250300

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One day, Little Squirrel finds a beautiful snowflake. Mine, all mine, he thinks happily to himself. But when Little Squirrel's big brothers and sisters see what he has found, they want to play with it too. Little Squirrel doesn't want to share, so he builds himself a tree house and hides away with his beautiful find. But as time goes by, and the tree house begins to feel lonely, Little Squirrel realises that his snowflake would be even more wonderful if he shared it.

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  • Publication date: 1st October 2010
  • Age range: 3-5 years
  • Dimensions: 8 3/4" x 10 3/4" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907152559
  • Publication date: 3rd November 2009
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 8 3/4" x 10 3/4" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250768

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Endorsed by the International Mountain Guide Association and features an introduction by mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington.

It's a beautiful morning at the Marmot Mountaineering School when an enormous avalanche blocks the path back to High Alp Village. How will the students ever get home? Join Mark and his friends on their exciting journey as they slide over Grumpy Gorge, trek across Sorbet Glacier and scale the Applestrudelhorn. The book features a play section, packed with facts and tips on safe mountaineering, and comes complete with a replica carabiner. Perfect for little adventurers!

Mark the Mountain Guide is written by Mark Seaton, a mountain guide who lives and works in the European Alps.

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  • Publication date: 4th August 2011
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 9.49" x 7.09" 48 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907967092
  • Publication date: 4th October 2008
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 7 1/4" x 9 3/4" 48 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417971

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Winner of the V&A Book Illustration Award 2007

Little Smudge is the story of a small black stain and it's triumph over loneliness and exclusion. The illustrations cleverly incorporate shapes from well-known paintings, creating a charming tale that offers a gentle introduction to art education.

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  • Publication date: 1st January 2007
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 8.27" x 11.02mm 48 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417230
  • Publication date: 28th August 2006
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 9" x 11 1/4" 48 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417223

Rolling, flying, noisy, bouncy, fast, floating and gigantic vehicles! This bright and bold book is bursting with transport of every shape and and size for every environment. So let's talk about vehicles with this entertaining, and informative book, perfect for sharing.

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  • Publication date: 4th September 2014
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 9.65" x 9.65" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250720

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  • Publication date: 23rd September 2014
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 10" x 10" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250386

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Huge, stamping, massive and tiny, creeping, roaring, flying and fabulous! Dinosaurs come in all shapes and sizes. So let's talk about dinosaurs and discover their fascinating world with this entertaining and informative book, perfect for sharing.

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  • Publication date: 10th July 2015
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 9.65" x 9.65" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1910126417

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Prickly, squishy, friendly, poisonous, stripy, huge and fabulous animals! This bright and bold book is bursting with animals of every shape and size, color and pattern and from every environment. So let's talk about animals with this entertaining, informative book perfect for sharing.

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  • Publication date: 4th September 2014
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 9.65" x 9.65" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1910126158

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  • Publication date: 23rd September 2014
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 10" x 10" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250355

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Meet little Mole on an epic adventure to discover just how big the world really is.

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  • Publication date: January 2008
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 8.98" x 11.18" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417629

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  • Publication date: September 2007
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 9" x 11 1/4" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1910716915

RRP $17.99 / Can.$26.99

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Reviews

"Large, vibrantly colored double spreads and an absorbing story help make this an imagination stretching picture book."
– Books for Keeps

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Children around the world say "hello" in their own languages, each and every day. Learn greetings in 43 languages from around the globe, from French to Swahili, and Urdu to Welsh. Each page includes a greeting in a different language, along with clear and simple phonetic spellings.

Manja Stojic's warm and appealing paintings represent diverse children from all over the world. Hello World! promotes language learning and encourages young readers to understand and appreciate languages and cultures beyond their own.

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  • Publication date: 3rd September 2009
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 4 1/2" x 9 3/4" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250638
  • Publication date: 3rd September 2009
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 9 1/4" x 10" 40 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1906250621

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"An early learning marvel."
– Bookseller

Ha Ha, Baby! is a wonderful story about a grumpy little baby. Just how far will this family go to get their little one to laugh? With bright and colorful illustrations and a bouncy, jovial text Ha Ha Baby will bring a smile to the face of all young readers. A fun family tale about clowning around.

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  • Publication date: 4th September 2008
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 9.8" x 11" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417162
  • Publication date: 4th March 2008
  • Age range: 3-6 years
  • Dimensions: 10" x 11" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417124

RRP £11.99

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Translated by Martin Cleaver. A whale and a seagull dance silently on a moon-drenched beach. A grasshopper pays a fortune for a speck of dust. A squirrel and an ant discover a mysterious feast, with an invisible host, in the depths of a forest. Toon Tellegen's whimsical animal tales are perfectly complemented by Jessica Ahlberg's delicate illustrations in this collection of lyrical stories that will captivate readers of all ages.

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  • Publication date: September 2009
  • Age range: 5+ years
  • Dimensions: 6 7/8" x 4 7/8" 160 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1-906250-93-5

RRP $12.95

Reviews

"Toon's stories are beautifully told, quirky and delightful... they're a joy!"
– Wendy Cooling, MBE, Founder of Bookstart

"You cannot read this book and understand how anyone but Ahlberg could have illustrated it. She is the E.H. Shepard of the 21st century."
– Elizabeth Bird, School Library Journal

"Toon Tellegen's 'The Squirrel's Birthday and Other Parties' and 'Letters to Anyone and Everyone' are, quite simply, two of the loveliest and most charming collections of stories I have EVER had the pleasure of reading."
– Alison Morris, Publishers Weekly

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Nominated for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award

The third volume in Jane Ray's stunning story collection featuring The Lion and The Unicorn, Brer Wolf, The Singing Ringing Tree, Theseus and the Minotaur and many more. Beautifully illustrated and designed with stories that keep you turning the pages. A perfect gift.

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  • Publication date: 15th November 2022
  • Age range: 5+ years
  • Dimensions: 6 9/10" x 9 7/10" 176 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1-914912-13-9

RRP $18.99 / Can $24.99

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"...stunning illustrations . . .this is a wonderful collection to share."
– The Guardian

"Only an author and artist of Jane Ray’s dazzling talent could do justice to this stunning collection . . ."
– Shirley Hughes OBE

"The three books are a delightful, sensory pleasure – great stories, wonderful illustration and books that have been produced to be loved and handled."
– The Letterpress Project

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Nominated for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award

This is the first extraordinary volume of tales collected, retold and illustrated by Jane Ray, one of the world's leading artists of stunning picture books. This volume, The Emperor's Nightingale and Other Feathery Tales, includes many favorites such as The Happy Prince, and The Owl and The Pussy Cat and lesser known, but equally enjoyable stories such as Jorinda and Joringel.

Download the Jane Ray Collection brochure.

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  • Publication date: 15th November 2022
  • Age range: 5+ years
  • Dimensions: 6 9/10" x 9 7/10" 176 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1-914912-11-5

RRP $18.99 / Can $24.99

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  • Publication date: 5th September 2013
  • Age range: 5+ years
  • Dimensions: 9.64 x 6.88 inches portrait 160pp + separate ends
  • ISBN: 978-1-907152-90-0

RRP $19.95 / Can. $21.95

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Reviews

"Only an author and artist of Jane Ray’s dazzling talent could do justice to this stunning collection of bird stories, which she has told with elegant simplicity and illustrated in full colour throughout. This is the perfect gift to make a child’s imagination soar."
– Shirley Hughes OBE

". . . stunning illustrations . . . this is a wonderful collection to share . . ."
– Julia Eccleshare, Love Reading and the Guardian children’s book editor

"A book to be relished for its text, art and overall design."
– Booklist

". . . visually stunning . . .a gorgeous collection."
– School Library Journal

"The three books are a delightful, sensory pleasure – great stories, wonderful illustration and books that have been produced to be loved and handled."
– The Letterpress Project

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Winner of The Marsh Award 2011 for the best book in translation.

Translated by Martin Cleaver. Discover a collection of extraordinary letters in this newly-formatted magical volume of short stories. In Letters to Anyone and Everyone, Toon Tellegen conjures up a world where the creatures of the earth can send a letter to the sun (and get an answer); where you can actually write a letter to a letter; and where just writing something down can make it true. Whimsical tales are perfectly complemented by Jessica Ahlberg's delicate illustrations in this collection of lyrical stories that will captivate readers of all ages.

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  • Publication date: 3rd January 2023
  • Age range: 5+ years
  • Dimensions: 6 9/10" x 9 7/10" 160 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1-914912-21-4

RRP $18.99 / CAN $24.99

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Reviews

"The thoughtful and unusual stories have a lightness of touch making these poetic parables a delight for anyone lucky enough to read them."
– The Bookseller

"Beautifully told, quirky, and delightful...they’re a joy!"
– Wendy Cooling, MBE

"A delight for anyone lucky enough to read them."
– The Bookseller

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Frost-coated silence, a chill winter's night. All is quiet in the big dark barn. All is quiet except for a squeak. A squeakity-squeak in the big dark barn. "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy!" squeak two baby owls. "Please, Daddy, please, can we learn how to fly?" In this lyrical story about two baby owls impatient to grow up, stunning collage paintings perfectly capture the warmth and energy of the irresistible babies as they stretch and grow and prepare to test their wings.

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  • Age range: 3-5 years
  • Dimensions: 9.84" x 10.75" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907967849

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  • Publication date: 6th November 2012
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 10.25" x 11" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907967283

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Fine As We Are is an exquisitely illustrated story of sibling rivalry. Little Frog and his mum live happily by the pond. Little Frog likes things the way they are – just the two of them. But he is in for a big surprise when some new little brothers and sisters arrive – lots of them! How will Little Frog learn to cope?

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  • Publication date: 1st January 2009
  • Age range: 2-6 years
  • Dimensions: 5.67" x 9.96" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417742
  • Publication date: 1st April 2008
  • Age range: 2-4 years
  • Dimensions: 11.25" x 10.25" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1905417728

Reviews

"Entertaining and reassuring"
– The Times

"A brilliantly funny twist on coping with the arrival of new siblings"
– Books for Keeps

"A lovely ‘new baby’ story, with smore excellent twists in the tale, suitable for sharing with the very young, but clever enough to share with older pupils as well."
– School Librarian

Translated by Martin Cleaver. The squirrel, the ant, the elephant and friends return in a new collection of short stories from Toon Tellegen. These delightful tales conjure up a magical world where anything can happen: a snail can fly, the sky can turn green, and a tree can get up and walk away. Perfectly complemented by Jessica Ahlberg's delicate illustrations, these charming stories will captivate readers of all ages.

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  • Publication date: April 2012
  • Age range: 5+ years
  • Dimensions: 6 7/8 x 4 15/16 inches 160 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1-907152-36-8

RRP $19.95 / Can.$23.95

Reviews

"Toon's stories are beautifully told, quirky and delightful, with the warmth of the wonderful Pooh stories. Jessica Ahlberg's illustrations perfectly complement the mood of the writing, they're a joy!"
– Wendy Cooling, MBE, Founder of Bookstart

Praise for The Squirrel's Birthday and Other Parties and Letters to Anyone and Everyone: "Two of the loveliest and most charming collections of stories I have EVER had the pleasure of reading. Think A.A. Milne's stories of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin, but a shade quirkier - perfect for anyone old enough to sit and listen, and perfect as family read-alouds."
– Alison Morris, Publishers

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Discover all the delights of spring in this joyful book from Cathy MacLennan. Watch the world come alive with the new season as bunnies hop, birds chirp and butterflies flutter in the bright sunshine. A wonderful read-aloud tale, full of fun-to-imitate sounds, rhythm and movement.

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  • Publication date: 1st January 2012
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 12.75" x 9.5" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907967252
  • Publication date: 5th July 2011
  • Age range: 2-5 years
  • Dimensions: 12.75" x 9.5" 32 pages
  • ISBN: 978-1907152719

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"I know a riddle," the squirrel told the elephant. "Oh," said the elephant. "What do I get if I guess the right answer?" "I don"t know. You'll never guess the answer." "Then I won't try," said the elephant. The squirrel and the ant and friends return for another extraordinary collection of stories from the pen of Toon Tellegen, illustrated by Jessica Ahlberg.

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  • Publication date: 5th September 2013
  • Age range: 5+ Years
  • Dimensions: 6 7/8" x 4 15/16" 160pp + separate ends
  • ISBN: 978-1-907152-39-9

RRP $14.95/Can. $15.95

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