Count all the way to Christmas Eve with the Cat Family in this lift-the-flap advent calendar-style book with more than 140 doors to open. Help the Cat Family decorate, bake and prepare the house for the holiday season as you count down the twelve days til Christmas. Just like an advent calendar, Cat Family Christmasends with the excitement and anticipation of Christmas Eve.Open up tiny but sturdy flap 'doors' on each one of the 24 pages to reveal little details and surprises. Peer inside the cupboard doors and different-sized tins in the busy Cat Family kitchen to find the missing ingredients for the cake. Open all the front doors on the street when the Cat Family go carol singing.This is a whimsical Christmas book that gives the Victorian advent calendar tradition a contemporary twist for advent calendar door-hungry hands. Every page is rich with Liberty print-style pick-and-mix patterns and William Morris-inspired friezes. The Cat Family are full of character and personality, and the
"A beautiful, gentle, rhyming exploration of grief and mourning." - Joe Coelho, Waterstones Children's LaureateThe Hare-Shaped Hole is a beautiful, touching, and poignant picture book which gently explores themes of grief and loss. Hertle and Bertle were always a pair, though one was a turtle and one was a hare. They were utterly buddies, and best friends forever and whenever you looked, you would find them together...until quite unexpectedly... the end came. When Hertle disappears for good, Bertle can only see a Hertle-shaped hole where his friend should be.He pleads with it, get angry with it, but the hole still won't bring his Hertle back. It seems like hope is lost... until Gerda the kindly bear finds him.She explains that he must fill the hole with his memories of Hertle. And slowly... Bertle begins to feel a little bit better.Powerful and moving text from children's author and poet John Dougherty is paired perfectly with warm illustrations from the wonderfully talented Thomas Doc
Flooded is the funny and beautifully illustrated tale of animals who live in a city that is ever so slowly flooding. The flood comes gradually at first. All the animals ignore the obvious and go about their busy lives, disjointed from one another and preoccupied by their own problems.Eventually, the flood water reaches a height that they can no longer ignore and they have to work together to save their city. All the animals join together in a line and pull out the plug that is drowning the city. This is an exceptionally illustrated story that teaches a message not to let problems fester and with a little team work and community spirit, no problem is insurmountable.
Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023 A new book from award-winning illustrator Mariajo Ilustrajo, Lost is the story of a polar bear who finds himself lost, in a big concrete city. He politely asks the city folk for help but everyone is much too busy and impatient to help the newcomer. He finds himself travelling on the subway only to be noticed, finally by a little girl.The girl takes the homesick bear by the paw and under her innocent wing. Under the nose of her seemingly unaware mum, she feeds him dinner, gives him a bath and they read stories together. When the polar bear wistfully looks at a poster of the North Pole on her bedroom wall, the little girl realises that her friend needs help to get home. This is a story about the power friendship has to help you feel found, and even to transport you home.
Discover the sorcery of The Magic Flute in this musical retelling of the opera - push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing, and singers singing, from Moza
The British Library Pocket Diary 2019 is fully illustrated, with a week-to-view and ribbon marker. It showcases a wide range of remarkable maps, navigational charts and historic plans from t
This stylish range of stationery in partnership with the British Museum takes inspiration from the museum’s wide-ranging collection to create a beautifully designed, fully illustrated week-to-vi
This range of stationery in partnership with the Science Museum showcases fascinating images from the museum’s wide-ranging image library, including vintage posters, original drawings and p
The Quarto Group have won an 8-way auction to a bundle of sketchbooks believed to have been written by an ‘unknown’ adventurer. Discovered by nature enthusiast Teddy Keen on a recent trip to the Carpa
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This book can read your mind. I will just need you to think of something, but whatever you do, don't think of anything SILLY. You know, like a pink elephant . . .When the page is turned, sure enough,
Parents today tend to believe that they face more problems in bringing up their children than ever before. They are certainly offered more advice ? from professional childcare experts, from other pare
In 1855, Miss Jane Ross transcribed the melody played by a piper at an Irish village fair. Had she not, the world would never have heard ?Danny Boy.” If Robert Burns had missed an old man’s quavering
This new reference book is for all those professionals, agents, owners, designers and managers concerned with the many aspects of managing historic gardens, parks and design landscapes. The comprehens
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