A charming, heartwarming tale, Ruby Red Shoes: A Very Aware Hare is about a hare who treats everyone's feelings with great care.
Ruby Red Shoes is a white hare who lives in a prettily painted caravan with her grandmother. Ruby is gentle, cheerful and enchanting. She is a very aware hare and loves animals and people, trees and nature, flowers and sunshine – not forgetting red shoes . . . She also loves to travel! But home is where her heart lies and she loves nothing better than tending to her chickens, drinking peppermint tea and eating strawberry jam.
Featuring gorgeous full-colour illustrations. This is the first installment in Kate Knapp's Ruby Red Shoes series – follow Ruby on her next adventure in Ruby Red Shoes Goes to Paris.
Where's the best place to try out the most powerful torch there is? Kipper and Tiger decide that it must be in the middle of the woods at the bottom of Big Hill. But just what is that big animal with horns that they can see on the other side of the tent? Perhaps it would be safer to camp in Kipper's room? Kipper fans, new and old, will be delighted with this wonderful new book and tape set. Dawn French's brilliant reading emphasises the humour and poignancy of this tale and will encourage children to read along too!
You'll love Harvey - the busiest beaver in the world! Harvey has a new cupboard. ""What will you put in it?"" asks Chip. Harvey doesn't know but anyway it has to be painted first. ""What colour shall we paint it?"" asks Chip. Harvey doesn't know that either! ""Let's paint it with lots of different colours!"" says Chip. And so they do, with Chip becoming very messy and colourful himself along the way. Young readers will enjoy following Harvey and Chip's progress as the cupboard is transformed, and learning the practical details of basic decorating along the way. And the solution of what to put in it is very satisfying indeed! At the end of the book, there are step-by-step instructions for doing your own decorating and a colour mixing chart as well.
Come for a tour of Noisy Farm with Sam the farm dog! Visit the animals, lift the flaps and join in with the noises. Rod Campbell is at his best in the board book edition of this popular title.
Sheltie is accused of causing mischief at a time when he is safely in his paddock. It seems he has a double, Topper, and only Emma can tell them apart. When the two ponies get mixed up, Topper's owners take Sheltie by mistake and Emma struggles to find them before she loses Sheltie for ever.
Morris is ginger and very fat. He’s a cat who loves snoozing and eating… but that won’t catch him a mouse. Another lively story for beginner readers about this lovable puss.
Morris is good at licking and purring. His mother wants him to be good at running and jumping, and bouncing and pouncing. For Morris is fat… too fat. Mum says “no more food until you have caught a mouse” But how will Morris ever catch a mouse when all he dreams about is food. But there’s a mouse in the house whose mother thinks he’s too fat as well. And until he’s been chased by a cat, he knows he won’t get thin. So Morris and the mouse come to an agreement whereby they get their food without even flexing a muscle! Wonderfully inventive text and perfect for beginner readers from this well-known author.
This title features brand-new stories from a host of best-loved authors - Michael Broad, Julia Green, Holly Webb, Caroline Pitcher, Malachy Doyle, Karen Wallace, Penny Dolan and Elizabeth Baguley. It includes illustrations by Alison Edgson.
The Chipmunks and The Chipettes are enjoying the time of their lives on a spectacular cruise ship until ...'munk overboard! When the gang follows Alvin to the shore of a deserted island far away from their travel accommodations, they wonder: will Dave come to their rescue-or are they washed up for good?
It's Christmas at Animal Ark and Mandy and her best friend James have a fantastic idea - a party for all the pets in the village! But Mandy's festive mood collapses when Tess, a wounded stray sheepdog, turns up. Can Mandy save poor Tess's life?
