New Releases by M. Christina Butler

This heartwarming story of friendship and determination features the return of the beloved Little Hedgehog and his friends as they search the forest for their friend Fox before night falls. In this installment of the Little Hedgehog & Friends series, Fox is in a terrible mood. Little Hedgehog and his friends try many different things to make Fox feel better--they give him hot chocolate and cookies, and Little Hedgehog even gives him his treasured red hat. Fox begins to feel his bad mood start to fade, but when more unfortunate things happen, his bad mood returns, and he stomps off into the forest. Will Little Hedgehog and the others be able to find Fox before it gets dark? This sweet story introduces themes of friendship, determination, and gratitude. Little Hedgehog and the other woodland animals are the best of friends! Their exciting adventures take them to different places in the forest and center around friendship, teamwork, determination, and gratitude. Each of the books in the Little Hedgehog & Friends series promotes being helpful, building a sense of community among friends and neighbors, and learning how to be a leader with a can-do attitude while working together to solve problems.

It's almost time for the Little Hedgehog's Christmas party--but someone has taken ALL of the berries and pine cones in the woods that the friends were planning to use for decorations! Can Little Hedgehog and his friends figure out who it is? It's almost time for Little Hedgehog's Christmas party, and Little Hedgehog waits patiently for his friends to come over with the decorations. But when they get to his house, they're very upset! Someone has taken ALL of the holly berries and ALL of the pine cones in the woods, and now, there is nothing to decorate Little Hedgehog's house with. So the friends set out to see if they can figure out what's going on. Along the way, they find some very BIG footprints. Who could they belong to? Little Hedgehog and the other woodland animals are the best of friends! Their exciting adventures take them to different places in the forest and center around friendship, teamwork, determination, and gratitude. Each of the books in the Little Hedgehog & Friends series promotes being helpful, building a sense of community among friends and neighbors, and learning how to be a leader with a can-do attitude while working together to solve problems.

Little Hedgehog's friends, the baby mice, have one Christmas wish: to build snow mice. But there just isn't enough snow! Little Hedgehog and the baby mice set out to search for more snow and along the way share the extra snow with their friends -- learning the true meaning of Christmas. The baby mice can't wait to build snow mice. But when they wake up on Christmas Eve, almost all of the snow has melted! So Little Hedgehog takes the friends to go look for snow, collecting it in his bobble hat. On the way home, the baby mice share the snow with Grandpa Squirrel, the beavers, and Fox. But when they are ready to build their snow mice, the last tiny snowflake is melting at the bottom of the hat! "Christmas just won't be the same," sniff the mice. But then they remember the joy brought to others by sharing the snow, and realize that spending Christmas with their friends is what makes it truly magical. Little Hedgehog and the other woodland animals are the best of friends! Their exciting adventures take them to different places in the forest and center around friendship, teamwork, determination, and gratitude. Each of the books in the Little Hedgehog & Friends series promotes being helpful, building a sense of community among friends and neighbors, and learning how to be a leader with a can-do attitude while working together to solve problems.

Everyone's favourite hedgehog is back for a brand new adventure! This time, Little Hedgehog and his friends have a puzzle to solve . . . Strange creaking sounds are coming from the woods! And Fox is sure he saw Little Hedgehog down by the river in the middle of the night. Will the friends solve the mystery of the very noisy night . . . ? Little Hedgehog (and his little red hat!) returns in the tenth book of the best-selling Little Hedgehog series. With charmingly wintry illustrations from Tina Macnaughton and soft touch-and-feel flocking throughout, One Noisy Night is a wonderful story of friendship and bravery.

Upon awakening from his long winter's nap, Frog spends a happy day playing with his friends but when he reaches his pond after dark, he sees a huge pond monster and needs his friends' help to face it.

It's Christmas Eve, and Santa is sick! He can't deliver the presents, so he asks Little Hedgehog to do it for him. Little Hedgehog eagerly sets out with Santa's sled, but there are too many presents for one small hedgehog to handle. How will Little Hedgehog ever deliver them in time for everyone to have a very special Christmas?

Little Bear will not eat his porridge. So his mother gives it to Old Scary Bear in the woods. Little Bear does not believe in the Scary Bear. But someone has been eating his porridge... Who’s Been Eating My Porrige? is from Level 3 of Ready Steady Read! a fantastic graded reading scheme with four reading levels from Little Tiger Press. Ready Steady Read! makes learning to read fun. Each book contains games and activities to reinforce learning and test comprehension in a way developing readers will enjoy as well as handy parent notes from Prue Goodwin, Lecturer in Literacy and Children's Books. Level 3 is suitable for more confident readers. The stories will help build their confidence, opening up the world of reading and imagination to them. About Level 3: longer sentences with varied structure wider vocabulary high-interest stories of up to 300 words smaller print for experienced readers

Before Little Harvest Mouse closes his eyes each night, he sings a lullaby to his very own moon. Then, one cloudy evening, the moon disappears. And Little Mouse discovers that he is not the only one looking for her. By the author-illustrator team who created the best-selling Little Hedgehog books (One Snowy Night, One Winter's Day) Mouse and the Moon has stunning sparkling glitter on the moon throughout the book and beautiful, atmospheric illustrations by Tina Macnaughton. A lovely bedtime read to curl up with together, this gorgeous book gently explores the importance of sharing and true friendship.

Little Hedgehog and his friends are on an exciting adventure to see a shower of sparkly shooting stars. But soon they find themselves in a spot of bother . . .

A hithau'n Noswyl Nadolig, mae Draenog Bach yn llawn cyffro. Wedi coginio mins peis blasus, mae am fynd ati i addurno'r tŷ ond dyw e ddim yn gwybod ble i ddechrau! Allan ag ef a'r llygod bach i'r goedwig gan hel brigau, celyn, mes, cnau castan ac aeron a threulio'r prynhawn yn eu gludo a'u haddurno. Addasiad Cymraeg o One Christmas Night. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

Little Hedgehog gets his house ready for Christmas, but must make a mad dash in the cold and dark to find presents for his friends.

A bear, a fox, and a rabbit build a snowman, but their efforts to keep it happy and warm almost bring about its demise.

"When Little Hedgehog's cousin, Baby Hedgehog comes to stay, they go on a special day out. But then Baby Hedgehog loses his favourite blanket and the very special day turns into a very big adventure!"--Page 4 of cover.

After awakening early from his winter sleep and wishing for someone to play with, Little Bear is joined by new friends who help him make a snowman.

When Little Hedgehog goes for a walk one rainy day, his new umbrella proves its value in most unexpected ways.

Little Brown Mouse and Little Grey Mouse are the very best of friends. One night, when they see a sparkling wishing star fall into the lake, they hurry down to the river to find it. But there is only one star, and both mice want to make a wish . . .

Upon awakening from his long winter's nap, Frog spends a happy day playing with his friends but when he reaches his pond after dark, he sees a huge pond monster and needs his friends' help to face it.

Endlich Regen: Es regnet stark. Der kleine Igel freut sich, denn nun kann er endlich seinen neuen gepunkteten, glitzernden Schirm und die leuchtendgelbe Regengarnitur gebrauchen. Ganz begeistert watet er durch die grösste Pfütze und lauscht dem Regen, der auf seinen Schirm trommelt. Da trifft er auf den kleinen, klatschnassen Maulwurf. Mitleidig reicht er ihm seinen Schirm. Doch plötzlich erfasst den kleinen Maulwurf eine Windböe und hebt ihn samt Schirm in die Höhe. Gerade rechtzeitig kann ihn der kleine Igel an der Hinterpfote festhalten und retten. Ein neuer Windstoss wirbelt nun beide durch die Luft, und schliesslich landen sie im Wasser. Nun dient der Regenschirm als Boot, und so gelangen die beiden durchnässten Freunde an Land, doch nicht ohne vorher noch eine ganze Mäusefamilie vor dem Ertrinken zu retten. Schliesslich können sich alle in der Dachshöhle bei einer Tasse Kakao erholen. Die niedlichen Bilder mit einzigartig echt wirkenden Applikationen bereichern diese liebevoll erzählte "Fühl doch mal"--Geschichte, die Kindern verdeutlichen, wie beglückend Freundschafts- und Liebesdienste sind. Ab 4 Jahren, *****, Silvia Zanetti.