Sometimes we feel brave as a lion or shy like a mouse . . . and that zoo inside our heads can make us behave differently on the outside.
Feelings can be hard to understand. You can't see it, but this little boy is part mischievous monkey, part curious llama, and part chameleon, hiding from the world. It feels to him like there's not enough room for all of those jumbling feelings inside, but the zoo in all of us makes us who we are--reaching out to the world from the part you can't see. And sometimes, all it takes to make things right is friendship--and to realize that everyone else has a zoo inside them, too.
This is a picture book that champions our emotions, feelings, and behaviors in a way that makes them feel relatable and easier to understand.
Monster is hungry, and he's coming to find . . . you!
He creeps through the streets, hunting for his favorite snack. You'd better hide because you know what he likes to eat. Something tasty, something sweet. It's . . . cake, of course!
Discover who has the mightiest bite in this hilarious competition between some of the biggest--and the smallest!--animals on Earth.
As a little girl munches on an apple, she thinks she must have the mightiest bite. Suddenly, along comes a parade of animals to compete for the title, including a shark with its 300 teeth in rows, and a T-Rex with 60 huge bone-crunchers! But while each animal is fighting over their claim to the title, there's a clever mosquito at work . . . . Can the hungry mosquito outwit them all, even the little girl?
Even though you might be small, if you just believe, you could be anything at all!
What do you want to be when you grow up? A pirate or a dinosaur hunter, an engineer or a doctor? Through dressing up and imaginary play, there's nothing these four best friends can't be.
Alberta does dreadful things, and she always gets her own way.
So when she doesn't listen to her mother's good advice and enters the wild and dangerous woods, it's no surprise that she tricks a kind stranger and eats their delicious cake. But this stranger is a wolf, wearing a red cape and hood, and she doesn't take kindly to being double-crossed. Will Alberta learn a lesson she will very much regret?
Noah brings his favorite storybook to school for Show and Tell, but the characters escape and begin causing havoc!
Alien's stolen Noah's lunch, Dragon's roaring at the little ones, and Ghost has blocked the toilets. But when Noah finally catches them and begins to read to the class, something truly magical happens. Discover the magic of books . . . when they behave.
Nicola Kent presents . . . ALL THE DOGS!
Big dogs, small dogs, hardly there at all dogs. Two dogs, three dogs, always need a pee dogs! Have fun reading along in this gorgeous doggy picture book and meet ALL the dogs. Which one is your favorite?
All aboard! Anchors up! The passengers are waiting, and there's a busy day ahead. Trains and boats and planes, which one would you ride?
Billy Goat and his best friend Cyril are messing about with the farmer's mobile phone, taking selfies and playing games . . . until they find the number for a troll. Their Grandpa Gruff says trolls are bad, so Billy and Cyril decide to get their own back by sending mean messages. After all, trolls really do stink Don't they?
On Farmer George's farm, the pigs go oink, the sheep go baa, and cows go . . . wait, where did all the cows go?
These mischievous cows have taken to sneaking up on Farmer George and shouting Boo! Luckily, George knows just how to put his impolite herd to good use. This hilarious story is guaranteed to get children giggling!
Old Macdonald loves his phone: it helps him organize his farm. But when the animals each get one of their own, they are soon on their phones all day--Here a tweet, there a chat, WhatsApping the farm cat--and before they know it, no work is getting done!
What can Old Macdonald do? Sing along to the tune of Old Macdonald Had a Farm and see! A hilarious cautionary tale for a new generation of phone-users, from the award-winning partnership of Jeanne Willis and Tony Ross.
Frankie and her sister are unicorn crazy! Today, they're playing their favorite unicorn game, but when their bossy friend Ada arrives with her brother to play, she takes over the game--and takes over Frankie's wheelchair--putting them all in unicorn prison. There is only one thing to do--it's time to be bad unicorns!
The author deftly handles the subject of childhood play and disability from her own personal experience of growing up with a sister with a disability.
Why didn't the other planets invite Earth to their vacation? Soon they'll find out the wonderful truth about Earth's fleas and change their minds . . .
Earth turns up on the vacation she wasn't invited to and finds all the other planets in the solar system in the hot tub--even Pluto! Then she discovers exactly why: it looks like she has fleas! Yuck. Earth asks everyone to take a look inside her atmosphere, and they're amazed by what they see . . . birds, fish, creatures galore, and yes, even fleas.
The Trouble with Earth is the perfect story to teach us to be kind and less quick to judge others.
Elmer and the other elephants are waiting for the storm to end so they can see the beautiful rainbow. But something dreadful has happened--the rainbow has lost its colors Elmer decides to give his own colors to the rainbow. But what will happen to Elmer if he gives the rainbow his own colors? Will he lose them forever?
Everyone knows that little sisters can be an-noy-ing!
So when Ravi gets annoyed with Ruby and breaks her toy car in a rage, everyone goes to bed upset. Ravi wakes up the next morning with a bright red grumpy hat stuck fast on his head! And he can't get rid of it, no matter how hard he tries . . . . Ravi learns how to swap his grumpy hat for happy socks in this uplifting story about siblings, family life, and controlling bad moods.
When a woman appears with a sleeping bag, living in a shop doorway, Jess is full of questions. Where is her home? Why did she leave? And what will happen when the snow comes?
Inspired by a case of unkindness towards an unhoused person outside a bookshop, witnessed by the author and her daughter, this sensitive and nuanced picture book encourages compassion and embracing differences. Told from a child's perspective, we learn together that everybody has a story and a personal concept of what 'home' is.
Pirates, monkeys, galleons and treasure! Isn't it amazing where books can take you?
Astrid is a bookshop mouse, but when she tells her new classmates about her astromouse mom and the incredible adventures she has with her dad, they don't believe her. Only a visit to The Book Nook will show them what they're missing!
Can Hop find a way to escape the wolves in her nightmares, even if they chase her in helicopters? Mommy thinks so . . .
Every night, Hop has night terrors filled with big, scary, hungry-eyed wolves. She knows they only exist in her dreams, but they still seem very real. Her mommy comforts her and has some good advice, but can Hop find the courage to conquer the wolves?
Nobody wants to be friends with a smelly skunk, but Sally is desperate to show the townspeople that she would never let off a stink around friends.
When she bumps into the town robber, it's time to show everyone how useful her stink can be! Multi-award-winning author Peter Bently teams up with illustrator Laurie Stansfield to teach us not to judge a skunk by its stink!
The elephants decide it's their turn to play a trick on Elmer: all of the animals must pretend to forget his birthday tomorrow! But when the day comes the trick doesn't quite go according to plan. The elephants should have listened to Elmer's friends . . .
A new tale to celebrate Elmer the Patchwork Elephant's 30th birthday from master-storyteller David McKee, this is the twenty-seventh Elmer storybook!