Best Selling Books by Helen Oxenbury

A collection of twenty-five stories and rhymes for the very young including works by Helen Oxenbury, Anthony Browne, and Rosemary Wells.

After choosing a gift for her friend''s birthday, a young girl has trouble relinquishing it.

Because his toy monkey Pippo keeps falling off the back of his bike, Tom envies Stephanie for having a big new bike with a passenger seat at the back.

A collection of well-illustrated short verses, many of them humorous.

The reissue of a classic first storybook to celebrate Helen Oxenbury''s work. Mum is too tired to cook so Dad offers to take the family out for supper. But the youngest person present can’t sit still and has to go to the toilet at the wrong time. Then someone falls over him when he decides to hide under the table. A warm and funny depiction of a child’s first trip to a restaurant – which quickly turns into a disaster. Helen Oxenbury’s First Storybooks perfectly describe the small but memorable events of childhood. The words are a delight and are perfect for reading aloud, and the pictures warm, affectionate visions of a child’s world, which parents and children will instantly recognize and love.

A little girl is not looking forward to her first day at nursery school until she makes friends with another new girl.

A small child''s first ballet class is nearly a disaster.

Tom and his toy monkey, Pippo, go out for a walk and fall into a mud puddle.

A collection of three classic tales that illustrate how clever individuals sometimes outsmart themselves.

Tom likes his father to read to him and his toy monkey, Pippo, but when his father gets tired Tom "reads" to Pippo himself.

Colorful drawings illustrate numbers, counting, for example, one lion and fifty ladybugs.

Pippo the toy monkey gets washed in the washing machine after playing in the mud with Tom.

A three-stories-in-one edition on toddler life from the First Picture Book series.

A young boy spends the day indoors with his toy monkey.

This marvellous collection of stories about memorable moments in childhood were Helen Oxenbury''s first titles for Walker Books, and are widely regarded as a definitive collection of picture books for the very young. Beautifully illustrated in Helen Oxenbury''s inimitable style, these are books to be read aloud; warm, affectionate visions of a child''s world which children and their parents will instantly recognize and love.