Ladybird

Welcome to the magical world of Hello Kitty! Discover baby's first colours with Hello Kitty, her twin sister Mimmy, and her super-cute friends in this gorgeous Hello Kitty Colours board book. Babies and toddlers will love the adorable pictures, and reading with your child will help them learn to recognise colours. This book is perfect for little Hello Kitty fans everywhere.

Mix and match with Hello Kitty and her friends in this big, bright board book. The fun flip-flap pages are filled with shiny foil and touch-and-feels that are just right for little fingers to explore.

Hello Kitty loves to use her imagination and dress up. Little hands can turn the giant tabs to see Hello Kitty, Mimmy, Thomas and other friends around the garden, around town and around the world. Guess who Hello Kitty is pretending to be on each page of this colourful, padded book, and meet some of her best friends along the way! This is the perfect Hello Kitty gift for sharing together.

Welcome to the magical world of Hello Kitty! Explore baby's first shapes with Hello Kitty, her twin sister Mimmy, and her super-cute friends in this gorgeous Hello Kitty Shapes board book. Babies and toddlers will love the adorable pictures, and reading with your child will help them learn to recognise their first shapes. This book is perfect for little Hello Kitty fans everywhere.

Captain Scott, A Ladybird Adventure from History was originally published in 1963. This adventure from history tells the story of Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole — the courage, determination and devotion of five very brave men, who faced many challenges and who sacrificed their lives in a great adventure. This new edition of this beautifully illustrated book marks the 100th anniversary of Scott's expedition and is exactly the same as the original. The events of the fateful expedition are carefully explained and illustrated with twenty-four full page images.

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic Christmas story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including the three spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future, little Tiny Tim and his father, Bob Cratchit and, of course, the old miser Ebenezer Scrooge. This title provides detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, Gulliver's Travels, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist, Peter Pan and Treasure Island.

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of Gulliver's travels and adventures in the strange lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, Oliver Twist and Treasure Island.

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of Oliver's adventures around Victorian London, including tangles with Fagin and his gang of thieves, pretty Nancy, kind-hearted Mr Brownlow and villainous Bill Sikes. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring Dickens' Oliver Twist to life. Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Classics series include Alice in Wonderland, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden, Gulliver's Travels and Treasure Island.

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story, including the mysterious, locked secret garden. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life.

Read it yourself is a learning to read series of classic, traditional stories with four levels of difficulty to suit the stage your child is at with reading. Written in a simple way for young readers, they will build their confidence in learning to read as they progress through each level. Familiar fairy tales and exciting stories will amuse children and encourage them to progress further with this series and become confident readers. Each book in the Read it yourself with Ladybird series is carefully structured to include many everyday words that are vital for first reading/beginner readers. They also contain clear, beautiful pictures for extra support and interest. Extra puzzle questions at the end of each book further help with comprehension. This Read it yourself version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a level 4 title and has a longer story, suitable for more fluent readers.

This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of «Black Beauty» by Anna Sewell is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic horse story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Black Beauty's friendship with Ginger, his treatment at the hands of his owners, and fascinating historical detail about how horses had many different uses in the days before cars. Detailed full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring this classic tale to life.

Based on the traditional fairy tale The Enormous Turnip , this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens when a very, very large turnip doesn't want to be pulled out of the ground! Part of the Ladybird First Favourite Tales series — a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers — this hardback book contains lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. It is ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds.

Based on the traditional fairy tale The Sly Fox and the Little Red Hen, this vibrantly illustrated story is sure to become a favourite in every home. Find out what happens when a naughty fox tries to capture a clever little hen! Part of the Ladybird First Favourite Tales series — a perfect introduction to fairy tales for preschoolers — this hardback book contains lots of funny rhythm and rhyme to delight young children. It is ideal for reading aloud and sharing with 2-4 year olds.

The Ladybird First Words and Pictures series is perfect for helping your toddler's develop early vocabulary. For older children, linking words to pictures is also an important first reading skill. What's That? Big Machines contains clear, bright pictures and words of popular vehicles to look at and talk about, perfect for young children curious about the world around them.

The Ladybird First Words and Pictures series is perfect for helping to develop your toddler's early vocabulary. For older children, linking words to pictures is also an important first reading skill. What's That Favourite Animals contains clear, bright animal pictures and words to look at and talk about, perfect for young children curious about the world around them.

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This hardback version of The Enormous Turnip is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best — full of richness and detail.

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This classic version of Jack and the Beanstalk is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful new illustrations of the kind children like best — full of richness and detail. An essential part of any child's bookshelf, Ladybird Tales are perfect for sharing together and creating memories to treasure forever.

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This hardback version of Rapunzel is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best — full of richness and detail.

Meet Raa Raa the noisy lion, who loves going on noisy adventures with his little jungle friends! Help Raa Raa sing along with his friends in this fun, noisy rhyming book. Tap your feet to a jungle beat you'll want to hear again and again! This delightful book is based on the amazing new animated pre-school show, which encourages youngsters to play with the sounds around them to develop their communication skills.

This colourful first picture dictionary contains over 300 everyday words and pictures, perfect for growing preschool children's vocabulary and helping them develop the skills needed for first reading. Each page is a differently themed scene, from kitchen and bathroom to town and park, with words placed next to clear images to help with word recognition. It also contains a useful index to help find individual words.

Introduce preschool children to the happenings on a busy building site with Ladybird's Dig it! Build it! This informative big noisy book has eight different, realistic sounds that really bring the noises of a working building site to life. Follow Builder Ben as he and his team of jolly builders begin work on a new house. From clearing the site to digging foundations, laying walls, putting on the roof and fitting out the interiors, each different stage of building is clearly laid out, with additional labels that pick out interesting features or builders' equipment to talk about together, and a ladybird to spot on every page. Children will love pressing the colourful sound buttons to join in with the story and making the noises of a whirring drill, chugging digger, banging hammer, sloshing cement mixer and more! Dig it! Build it! is a fun and educational sound book for all young children interested in builders, diggers and what happens on a building site.

The search for Wally begins... in a whole new way! Meet Wally and his friends, discover tremendous travelling tips from his fantastic journeys and create journals, postcards and maps from your own adventures. Full of stupefying searches and amazing activities, celebrate Wally's 25th birthday in this Official Annual.

This is the first ever official annual to accompany the ground-breaking video game, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.

Celebrate mummies with this adorable book brought to you by Peppa Pig and her little brother, George! This delightful story shows the many reasons why Peppa and George love their mummy, from her comforting cuddles to her fierce firefighting. This is the perfect present for Mummy Pigs everywhere!