Nicola Baxter

A delightful collection of original stories devised especially for young children at bedtime. Sensitively written, with themes and characters young children will welcome and relate to, each story carefully covers the ordinary events of the day, at home or at school, helping parents and children to talk them through. Stories include Twitchety Toes, The Perfect Bed, The Wobbly Tooth, Monster Magic, New Friends, Moon Music, Friendly Fish, Birthday Boy, and many more. Designed to take 3 minutes to read aloud, it is easy to tailor a child’s bedtime routine around these beautifully illustrated tales. Over 35 bedtime stories that sensitively address many of the simple daily challenges and excitements that children face. Parents and children will welcome these soothing stories that encourage sweet dreams and peaceful nights. Quick to read but thoughtfully written, to help put each day's events, whether good or bad, gently to rest. Each story is illustrated with specially commissioned artworks that are a delight to share.

Bedtime for little ones can be a warm loving time, when confidences are shared, and the troubles and joys of the day are resolved, and children fall asleep with a contentment that we can only envy. This collection of stories to share at bedtime has been specifically designed to encourage sweet dreams and peaceful nights. The short, thoughtful tales help to put the excitements or upsets of the day gently to rest, leaving children ready for sleep. The grown-up can select a tale that addresses night-time fears or schoolday worries – or a story about princesses or pirates. Each story is just short (or long) enough, and the magical illustrations will enchant the reader. A delightful collection of over 30 stories that have been specially written with peaceful bedtimes in mind. Charming and beautiful illustrations, which children will love, accompany every story. An index of themes makes it easy to choose the perfect story to end each day. Each story gently address a cause of anxiety or excitement in a child's world such as monsters under the bed, missing friends, thunderstorms and quarrels.

This beautiful hardback anthology brings together 27 best-loved bedtime stories, presented with full-color illustrations and printed page-edges. Climb the beanstalk with Jack, sneak into the bears' cottage with Goldilocks, share Tom Thumb's incredible adventures, and discover what makes the perfect pirate in this incredible collection of children's stories. Packed with best-loved classics, entertaining new tales, and delightful illustrations, this wonderful collection of children's stories is the perfect book to share at bedtime.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Deluxe Children's Classics are exquisitely designed hardcover editions of classic children's literature, beautifully presented with full-colour illustrations, stencilled page-edges, and decorative endpapers. Together, they make a wonderful entryway into these best-loved classics that children can treasure forever.

"Are we there yet?" Banish the boredom of long car journeys and big trips with Games on the Go, a fun and colourful mix of spotting games, drawing challenges, word searches, dingbats and more. A must-pack addition on any family trip, it fits easily inside hand luggage and can be deployed in seconds! Comes with 40 wipe-clean cards and a dry-erase pen, all stored in a small, handy box. Games include: Road trip bingoTurning fingerprints into colourful friendsAmazon rainforest-themed crosswordWildlife watchingDrawing suitcase contentsDingbats and puzzlesMazesDrawing favourite mealsMaking star constellationsDesigning flagsNoughts and crossesDrawing city skylines About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!

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Join all your favourite nursery rhyme characters in this lively illustrated collection. This is a cheerful volume for 3-5 year olds in a special, chunky padded board book format. It includes all the popular nursery rhymes such as "Little Bo Peep", "Jack and Jill", and "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary". It features colourful, fun drawings by a leading children's illustrator. "Old King Cole", "the Three Blind Mice", 'Little Jack Horner", "Humpty Dumpty" - all these children's favourites and more can be found in this enchanting book of nursery rhymes. Bright, colourful and lively drawings bring the familiar characters to life across the page, and the padded format make this book suitable for even the smallest hands. This is a charming book that can you can enjoy reading together with your child, or that more confident readers can try themselves.

Dare you peek through the 3-D windows? Open the gates, peek through the windows and spy through the doors of a creepy, creaky old mansion - if you feel brave enough! Pop-up layered pages allow the reader to explore the engaging illustrations. It is ideal for ages 6 to 11 (if not afraid of ghosts). Spooky sparkly glitter on the cover enhances children's excitement and enjoyment of the frightening fun. Are you sitting comfortably in a well-lit room? Are your nearest and dearest beside you? If so, steel your nerves and prepare to be led though a chilling churchyard, past gloopy green stuff, a witch, her cat and her bubbling cauldron, and through the iron gates of an ancient house. Approach the window ledge and peer inside at the cobwebs strewn everywhere, at the slimy things, the scuttling things, the clanking things and the floating things. Look through the wooden door into the echoing hall, down the sinister stone corridor, then up the creaking staircase to a curious bedroom with a creepy cupboard. Dare you open it? Be warned: what you will find in the depths of this cupboard, beyond the ranks of cloaks, coats and boots, may be the most monstrous being you have ever seen! Young readers will love this thrilling tale, and the exciting pop-up 3-D illustrations will take them right into the heart of the house.

This book helps you find out about farm animals and their cute babies in this beautifully illustrated book for little ones. You can see chickens and their fluffy chicks, a mother pig and her dozen muddy piglets, and woolly sheep with their lovely lambs. There are also cute calves, crazy kids (of the goat variety!) and ducks enjoying a dunking in the water. It features detailed pictures by Gaby Henson and informative captions by Nicola Baxter make this a perfect book for young animal-lovers who want to know more. You can meet six families of farm animals in this delightful book. Here young readers will learn how mother hens lay eggs. Usually, the farmer collects these for us to eat, but sometimes he lets the hen sit on them...until they hatch out into little chicks! When baby ducks hatch out, they are similarly soft and fluffy. It is not long before they can swim as strongly as their parents - they love to splash! Elsewhere on the farm, a mother pig has twelve piglets to look after - that's a lot of mouths to feed! Nearby, mother cows and goats produce milk for their babies - it is full of all the good things they need. Many people like milk, too, and it can be made into delicious cheese. You can also see where wool comes from to make our clothes: the soft coats of sheep, called fleeces. When sheep are sheared, it is like they are having a haircut! See all this and more in this adorable book.

This title features ten fantastic tales of frightful fun. Beware: gruesome fairy tale characters at large...but not all of them are as bad as they seem. Meet a gentle giant and a wise ogre, visit a party that shook the world, and join a troll's search for treasure. Lively drawings by leading children's illustrator Ken Morton bring all the odd and awful individuals to life. It is perfect for reading aloud to young children or for confident readers to enjoy by themselves. If you want to find out who won the ugliest ogre contest, what really happened between the troll and the Billy Goats Gruff, or why giants cannot be trusted with electricity, then this is the book for you! There has been a lot of misinformation over the years about the monsters of legend. Ogres might not be the friendliest of folk, but their cooking is out of this world - and it almost never includes small children. Giants are big, of course, but they are as harmless as kittens - except when they try to do their own rewiring. As for trolls, they couldn't care less about billy goats. The single thing they are interested in is neither hairy nor hooved, it is yellow and shiny - gold. If you want to find out more about the truth behind fairy tale fibs, read on...

Write on and wipe off with your own crayons and cloth! This is a brilliant hands-on book that helps children practise writing their numbers, complete with crayons and wiper-cloth, with follow-the-dot exercises for different numerals on each page. Colourful characters and exercises help children to create tricky numbers and also to learn to count. A blank board at the end of the book is a perfect space to practise all the numbers learnt. The join-the-dots drawing and writing exercises and colourful characters on each page encourage small fingers to try to learn the numbers and eventually to practise writing them. It's easy to practise writing number shapes with this special book. Draw on the pages with your eight colourful crayons, then simply wipe them clean to try again. Have fun!

Join Rosa and Tom as they travel to the frozen North...and into a whole world of trouble! Silly situations, repeated vocabulary and bright pictures on every page help children to feel confident as they develop their reading skills. The book introduces words such as anchor, iceberg and whale - all of which are encountered by Rosa and Tom. Learning to read is snow trouble at all with this exciting and amusing adventure. It's fun to start reading with this troublesome tale! The book can be used in a number of different ways to help young readers build confidence. You can begin by reading the illustrated words at the edge of each left-hand page with your child. Have an ice time spotting the same terms in the story itself, as explorers Rosa and Tom slip and slide, and have their camera stolen by a polar bear. Finally, all the illustrated words can be found on the last two pages of the book, so you and your child can enjoy checking all the phrases that you can now read together!

This title lets you peek inside the 3D windows. You can peer through the rigging, skulk outside the Captain's cabin, and watch at windows to discover how Katt Cutlass gets his piratical paws on buried treasure. Pop-up layered pages allow the reader to explore the engaging illustrations. It is ideal for 6- to 11-year-olds (sea legs not essential). Sparkly glitter on the cover and the conclusion of the story enhances children's excitement and enjoyment. Ahoy there, shipmates! Katt Cutlass here! Join me in a tale of seafaring skulduggery with all the action and adventure you could wish for. There are pirates - pathetic ones, mind you, like Sloppy Sal and Gloomy Gus. I tell you, it's a miracle our ship, the Skinny Sue, stays afloat with that skurvy bunch at the helm. I don't mind Young Kit the cabin boy, though, since he gave me half of his rations. There's treasure map, drawn by the fearful Vicious Jack, which has the crew's eyeballs bulging with greed. June Goulding can draw better, though - her amusing and detailed pictures really bring my story to life. There's a desert island, where the treasure (and possible danger) may be found. Last but not least, there's a hero: me (well, all right, my sidekick Kit helps a bit). Young cabin boys and girls everywhere will love this thrilling tale, and the exciting pop-up 3D illustrations will take them right into the heart of the escapade.

This title lets you peer through windows and explore deep, dark caves as Princess Arabelle heads off in search of the dragon that has dared to steal the royal jewels! It features three-dimensional layered pages that allow the reader to explore the charming illustrations. It is perfect reading for 6- to 11-year-olds. Sparkly glitter on the cover and the conclusion of the story enhances children's excitement and enjoyment. Who has stolen the royal jewels? The royal procession cannot go ahead without them, and young Princess Arabelle is not pleased! This was to have been her very first procession - but why are the royal guards so reluctant to track down the thief? She soon learns that a dragon has taken the jewels, because only a dragon loves treasure so much that he would steal from the royal family. The guards are reluctant to take on such a mighty beast, but the Princess is not afraid! Follow Arabelle through royal chambers and out into the moonlit forest as saddles her horse and rides off to find the dragon's cave in the side of the Magic Mountain. However, when she comes face to face with the dragon, the creature is not quite what she had been expecting...Young readers will love this thrilling tale, and the detailed pop-up illustrations will take them right into the heart of the adventure.

At Madame Amata's School of Ballet, it is the day of the Grand Gala - but an unfortunate accident means that the show might not go on...This delightful story is told using simple vocabulary and familiar language that youngsters can easily follow. Exquisite illustrations sparkle on every page, making this heart-warming tale even more magical. You can admire the glittering costumes, the sparkly set dressing, and the dancers - the shining stars of tomorrow. It is ideal for sharing with little ones aged 2 to 7. Within the ballet school run by Madame Amata, little girls and boys in sparkly costumes are scampering around, looking for lost ribbons, pestering the ladies who help with their hair, and getting lost just when they are needed. It is the evening of a major performance, in which Madame Amata herself is to dance the leading role - in a costume more glittery and more gorgeous than any of the others. The little ones have been rehearsing for months. They are excited, nervous, and quite impossible to control! However, a few minutes before the Grand Gala is due to start, Madame Amata has a fall, injuring her ankle. In no time at all, the news has spread throughout the auditorium. Surely the show cannot go ahead now! But sitting in the audience is someone who might just be able to help...Shiny details on every page of this beautiful boardbook bring this touching story to life, as the young dancers discover that there is always hope, that the show will go on, and that thanks to their love of ballet the dance will never end.