Most Popular Books by John Burningham

A series of comical choices such as, "Would you rather eat spider stew or slug dumplings or mashed worms?" ends with an invitation to bedtime.

Discovering a magical door in her bedroom that leads her to the zoo, a little girl is tempted to bring just one little bear back to her room, and then a menagerie of smaller animals, and then an irresistible medley of big animals, until pandemonium ensues.

While high in the mountains with his parents, Albert falls off a cliff and ends up in Cloudland, where he enjoys playing with the cloud children, but misses his parents.

A long day is drawing to a close, and several creatures are ready for sleep. A cat with a stroller full of kittens needs a place to rest, as does the baby who’s been sailing a boat on the sea. The man in the moon is exhausted, and three tired bears make their weary way up a flight of stairs. Soon, though, each has found a place for the night where they can sleep and wake up ready for a new day. Featuring a simple story and the repeated refrain “Hushabye hush hush,” John Burningham’s latest is the perfect lullabye to soothe even the most restless little one.

Monsieur Gumpy emmène ses amis faire une promenade en voiture. Mais, lorsque le mauvais temps survient, et que la voiture s''embourbe, personne ne veut descendre pour la pousser...

Que préférerais-tu ? Prendre ton petit-déjeuner avec des ours, ton déjeuner avec un lion ou ton dîner avec des canards ? Voler avec des pélicans ou nager avec des poissons ?Et qu''est-ce qui serait pire ? Casser le vase préféré de Mamie, rayer la voiture ou renverser de la peinture sur la moquette ? A partir de 3 ans.

A teacher regrets his decision to disbelieve a student''s outlandish excuses for being tardy.

Mr. Gumpy accepts more and more riders on his boat until the inevitable occurs.

Introduces the concept of opposites through labeled pictures of a boy interacting with a thin pig and a fat pig, a hot dragon and a cold snowman, and other creatures and situations.

A small girl reflects on the comfort she gets from her imaginary friend Aldo.

Album - enfant - rêve - nature - animal.

A single pig is joined by a second, and then by another and another, as humorous difficulties are overcome and children learn to add one pig to the others.

Uses the merry antics of bears to familiarize very young children with the words for numbers.