New Releases by Ant Parker

Does Charlie Chick know what each shape is called? Lift the giant flaps on each spread to find out!With stunning paper engineering by Nick Denchfield and wonderful illustrations by Ant Parker, Charlie Chick Shapes is the perfect book to teach your own little chicks all about shapes.

Join Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they trek through a South American rain forest to meet some truly amazing animals! From spider monkeys swingling through the trees to a silky anteater on the prowl for a tasty meal, there''s a different animal on every spread, plus many additional creatures to spot along the way! This delightful picture book series is the perfect introduction to some really wild animals. Each of the Amazing Animals books features simple, easy-to-read text and bright, fun illustrations of a variety of creatures in their natural habitat.

Buckle up to learn all about flying! Amazing Airplanes follows the animal crew, as they become pilots, baggage handlers, and air stewards. Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids love, such as the cockpit, landing gear, and much more. This book is perfect for budding pilots or happy vacationers! From airplanes to fire engines, the internationally bestselling Amazing Machines series is the perfect way for children to learn about all sorts of vehicles! Each book introduces a new vehicle and the jobs it can do. Bright, engaging artwork and simple, rhyming text combine to make these fantastic books for young children. Kids will love getting to know the friendly, animal characters who feature throughout the series and reading about their fast-paced adventures!

Charlie Chick is good at counting... or is he? Lift the giant flaps on every spread to find out!With wonderful illustrations by Ant Parker, Charlie Chick Counting is the perfect book to teach your little chicks to count from one to ten.

Young children will love lacing up their hiking boots and joining Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they take a walk through a North American evergreen forest to meet some truly amazing animals!

Young children will love lacing up their hiking boots and joining Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they take a walk through a North American evergreen forest to meet some truly amazing animals! From a black bear in search of a snack to a stinky skunk with

Young children will love diving into the North Pacific Ocean and joining Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they sail, snorkel, and even climb aboard a mini-sub to meet some truly amazing animals! From a playful pod of dolphins leaping through the waves to a

Rabbit, Bird and Mouse go an underwater trip in a submarine.

A new and exciting addition to our ever-popular Muddle series! Get ready for tonnes of building fun!Meet the Muddle Builders - you''re sure to be impressed, On every job, big or small, they really are the best!'' Another action-packed addition to the Muddle series with detailed and colourful illustrations by Ant Parker. Children will love using the fun magnets to help the builders carry out their tasks and with lots to spot on every page they''ll be kept busy for hours! Read the story and carry out the tasks, or use the magnets to invent your own stories! Comes complete with a handy magnet storage compartment, a carry-handle and clasp!

Join Rabbit, Mouse, and Bird as they travel across the grassy plains of Africa and see the amazing animals there.

Trucks are tough and sturdy. They take on heavy loads, then thunder on their giant tyres down long and heavy roads. Rumble down the road with a team of chirpy animal truckers in this lively picture book. Zippy wordplay, zappy art, plus a picture dictionary make learning about trucks fun!

Join the Zebra family for a fun-packed tour of Busyville and meet Doctor Dog, Fireman Fox and lots more friendly characters for a very busy day in Busyville! Slide open the sturdy moving windows on every spread of this large format board book to reveal some hilarious surprises. Visit Busyville Hospital, explore Busyville High Street and stop off at Busyville Garage for hours of interactive fun!

"Machine-loving toddlers will delight in touching the glossy foiled pictures and learning what the vehicles do, while labels on key machine parts will help build their expanding vocabulary"--Page 4 of cover

This board book identifies a plow, seed drill, mower, baler, and tractor and labels some of their parts.

Colourful counting capers with a crowd of mischievous monsters! Young children will love to count the crazy characters as they pop up in this irresistible counting book. Turn the pages to see more and more friendly monsters appear - whether rowing a boat, balancing on board an aeroplane, or bobbing up and down in the sea... until ten are waving you goodbye! A simple, playful rhyming text and vibrant art ensure learning to count has never been such fun!

Charlie is a little chick with a big appetite! This large-format edition features a padded cover and embedded ''cheep-cheep'' sound-chip for fun. This pop-up book is of interest to young readers.

Fun animal farmers show readers how their crops are planted and harvested using tractors, trailers, plows, and other farm machines.

This playful and innovative jigsaw puzzle book introduces the basics of transportation with five amazing machine puzzles. Each sturdy puzzle contains nine large pieces, and the picture is printed underneath for ease of use. Full color. Consumable.

Whizzing and whistling, rumbling and grumbling, sloshing and squelching, flashing and crashing- the witty and wacky animal crew is back with four amazing machines all ready to leap from the pages of this rambunctious picture book. Young children won''t be able to get enough of the bright, bold, and zany illustrations, and will find the rhyming text so irresistable they will want to hear it over and over again. An informative, illustrated glossary answers all their questions about trains, diggers, fire engines, and rockets.

Four colorful toy vehicles, ready to roll into action, accompany this colorful, entertaining and informative paperback. Kids will love to play along with these exciting stories about a day in the life of a digger, a tractor, a truck and a jumbo jet, while they discover how the vehicles work and who operates them.

My dad can''t dance, my mum can''t sing - but you''ll still love them! * You can help your child to practise his reading by spending 10 minutes a day sharing short stories and simple rhymes. * Books 9-16 of Read with Ladybird are ideal for children who are in the early stages of learning to read. * You can be confident that practising at home with Read with Ladybird will support work done at school.

Children''s literature continues to receive growing scholarly attention, and this is due, in part, to the increased awareness of the complexity of these works and their importance in the curriculum. While some books may become classics and continue to be read long after their publication, others are the product of contemporary society and reflect the changing values of modern American culture. So, too, those titles that have been singled out for recognition reveal the standards of awards committees. This reference is a guide to works of American children''s fiction that have won awards between 1995 and 1999. Some of the books were published before that period, and thus their recent recognition affirms their enduring value. Included are more than 750 alphabetically arranged entries for authors, titles, characters, and settings related to nearly 250 books. Entries for novels provide plot summaries and critical commentary, while those for authors give biographical information. The volume demonstrates the growing number of multicultural novels and books about nontraditional families, while it also shows the continuing importance of historical fiction and the waning appeal of traditional adventure novels. While the volume will be valuable to librarians and teachers and to scholars of children''s literature, it will also be useful to anyone interested in these works as a commentary on American culture at the close of the twentieth century.