Best Selling Books by Colin Hawkins

The Numberlies are characters who help children learn to count. The stories are fun, but with a serious purpose -- each engaging illustration is a counting game that''s perfect practice for the small smart set.

Mig the Pig makes it big as a TV star.

A facetious guide to witches and witch lore describes their characteristics, behavior, clothing, and magic spells.

An alphabet based on activities which every young child will recognize.

Learn the days of the week with Mr Wolf as he dresses up for the weather and sets off each day on another adventure.

Fat Pat the cat gets some strange visitors in his hat.

Have you ever seen a ghost or heard the howls of the haunted? This book is full of tips on spook-spotting and famous phantoms.

Mig the Pig meets with adventure while wearing a wig and riding in a gig. Turning the narrower pages in the center of the book changes the first letter of the rhyming words.

Pat the cat and friends are back, the hilarious characters who introduced phonetics to beginning readers have taken the next step into shared and independent reading. This story tells all about Zug''s adventures at sea with his little blue tug.

Turn the pages, read the clues and try to guess whose house is whose! The popular husband and wife team, Colin and Jacqui Hawkins are well known for their funny, energetic stories and illustrations which children love. They have a special talent for seeing the world through the eyes of a child. This simple flap book is an ideal introduction to the classic fairy stories. Who lives in the house tucked deep in the woods? (No, it''s not Red Riding Hood.) Who lives in the palace where the prince is giving a Grand Ball? Lift the flap and find out all about your favourite fairy tale characters.

While fishing, Zug and Pug catch a slug, lug him home in a jug, and all fall asleep on a bright red rug.

Tog the dog''s jog lands him in a bog, but a nice hog helps him out with a log.

Fat Pat the cat gets a new hat which causes a magical muddle.

A lively illustrated guide to monsters with information on how to recognise different types of monsters, and unique characteristics of each one. Suggested level: junior, primary.

Come for a ride on the spookiest ghost train ever. Under every flap something horrible lurks. Through the dark tunnel, over the loathsome pit, deep in the scary forest, into the gruesome graveyard, past the haunted chapel and into the creepy crypt - who knows what surprises await you

Number One lives all by himself but he is lonely so he goes in search of a friend.

3Meet Mig the pig, Who1s very big, and rides in a gig. But where1s her wig?2 This oversize illustrated book is ideal for whole class shared reading with beginners. Humorous rhyming stories supported by bold and appealing illustrations provides a range of opportunities to cover aspects of work at the text, word, and sentence levels. The flip-the-page format of the original small book has been retained, allowing the whole class to understand that if they can read MIG they can read PIG, WIG, and lots of other simple words that follow the same CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) pattern. Children will quickly get the idea that they can create and recognize strings of rhyming CVC words simply by changing the initial consonant. A DK Big Book.