New Releases by Ant Parker

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.

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!

In separate stories, JJ suspects a monster when he finds large footprints outside his burrow, and later he sets out with Mole and Squirrel to look for an adventure. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Follow the life cycles of frogs and butterflies as they metamorphose from tadpoles and caterpillars in these entertaining and informative novelty books. There are flaps to lift on every page and a pop-up surprise finale!

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.

Sail boats, row boats, ferry boats and speedboats: find them all and discover how they work in this fun-filled picture book. Then take a cruise on an ocean liner, crewed by our favorite animal characters, in a jolly rhyming journey.

Ginger is enjoying his catnap, until a clever mouse wakes him up and leads him on a merry chase.

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.

Let''s go to the park and play all day Press-out the animal friends and their toys, and bring everyone to the park on the reverse of this concertina book. On the park scene children can animate the animals and help them to fly a kite, rollerskate and play on the slide.

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.

Toddlers learn to count while they touch and feel two puppies panting and five mice munching.

Toddlers learn about colors while they touch and feel pink flapping flamingos and orange sliding snakes.

Toddlers recognize shapes while they touch and feel the round red cushion and the shiny square mirror in the puppy''s house.

Bright illustrations show different items a child may have for a snack.

Describes what needs to be done in order to take a bath.

Hector Sylvester the ostrich is tough. As he swaggers through the jungle, he is more than a match for the slippery snake, the snappy crocodile and the big, bad lion. He frightens them all away. Then he meets incey wincey spider dangling from a tree and Hector Sylvester is no longer bold and brave.

A board book offering big pictures of familiar objects. This " Baby`s Day Book" is diecut to the shape of a beaker to indicate teatime.