Most Popular Books by ALISON JAY

Record your thoughts and memories, safeguard your photos and special keepsakes, and write a letter for your child to open on their eighteenth birthday

On Christmas Eve a man buys presents for the woman he loves, beginning with a partridge in a pear tree. The couple travel through town and the gifts pile up, until they get to a Christmas party so magnificent it is a little overwhelming ... leading them to slip back to the quiet of home, where their partridge is waiting. This visual feast from acclaimed illustrator Alison Jay is the perfect festive gift.

Readers can prod a squishy hot-air balloon, feel the rough wood of a rowing boat or the smooth wings of an aeroplane, stroke a galloping horse''s mane or a racing car''s bonnet and touch a yacht''s sail. This is the next in a series of touch and feel books that present Alison Jay''s perennially popular crackle-glazed artwork style.

Following on from the successful boxset ''My First Picture Blocks'', these midsize chunky board books work on the next stage of picture-exploration and vocabulary development.

Published simultaneously in New York by Dutton Children''s Books under title: 1 2 3, a child''s first counting book.

Follow the farmer from dawn until dinnertime and meet all of the animal families who live on his farm. With wild creatures to spot, and visual stories to follow from one page to the next, this is a book to be enjoyed again and again.

Twelve prayers-drawn from the ages and from today''s lyrical poets-celebrate the changing moods and seasons of the year. A book of prayers for every month of the year.

"Follow Alison Jay down a magical path to Dreamland, on a fairy-tale counting adventure from one to ten and back again." - back cover. Alison Jay''s signature illustration style brings a child''s fist numbers and ABC to life. There is much more hiding in the illustrations than at first appears...

Explore the crackle-glazed world of Alison Jay''s unique illustrations in this beautifully produced jigsaw book. Rhyming text and detailed illustrations encourage observation skills while the jigsaw format stimulates interaction with the printed page. In Story Time, each spread features a jigsaw of a nursery rhyme or fairy tale and asks the reader to find a special object. Parent and child can have fun spotting the object and working out which fairy tale or nursery rhyme the illustration is about.

A wonderful wall frieze for Christmas, featuring spreads from Alison Jay''s much loved titles Alphabets and Numbers

Alison Jay''s crackle-glazed picture books have been reformatted into a miniature board book collection, complete with slipcase. Perfect for little hands and with simplified text, young children can enjoy learning about first concepts with their parents.

A modern rhyme retells the events of the famous race between the boastful hare and the persevering tortoise.

This visual feast from acclaimed illustrator Alison Jay includes four of her best-selling books in a wonderful treasury to share.

In this first word book for the very young, the simple format and primitive-style paintings invite children to participate. Watchful readers will note that each turn of a page reveals a new perspective on what has come before--and what''s to follow. The effect invites imaginative storytelling. Full color.

"Come on a journey through Alison Jay''s magical festive world! Discover all the things that make Christmas the most special time of the year and see if you can spot two lucky children who are on their own Christmas Eve adventure."--Publisher.

In this alphabet book, a is for apple and z is for zoo.