Best Selling Books by Nicola Baxter

A treasury of sleepytime stories about the troubles and triumphs of the warmhearted Cat family.

An exploratory team leaves the LEGO Space Port Centre for the North Pole to search for meteorites.

Who has stolen the royal jewels? The royal procession cannot go ahead without them, and young Princess Arabelle is not pleased! This was to have been her very first procession - but why are the royal guards so reluctant to track down the thief? She soon learns that a dragon has taken the jewels, because only a dragon loves treasure so much that he would steal from the royal family. The guards are reluctant to take on such a mighty beast, but the Princess is not afraid! Follow Arabelle through royal chambers and out into the moonlit forest as saddles her horse and rides off to find the dragon''s cave in the side of the Magic Mountain. However, when she comes face to face with the dragon, the creature is not quite what she had been expecting... Young readers will love this thrilling tale, and the detailed pop-up illustrations will take them right into the heart of the adventure.

When a pregnant woman convinces her husband to take some repunzel from a neighbour''s garden the neighbour, a witch, agrees but only if the child is handed over to her at birth. Kept in a tower, Rapunzel lets down her hair only when the witch comes to call.

Offers a collection of contemporary and traditional tales and verses, divided into such areas as Teddy Bear Tales, Fairy Tales, Animal Tales, A Christmas Treasury, and Nursery Rhymes..

There was once a little girl who loved to draw and paint. Her name was Beatrix Potter. Although she lived in Victorian London, her heart was in the countryside, and her many pets were real friends. One of them, a rabbit called Peter, became as famous as his owner. Beatrix wrote about him in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. This book tells the fascinating story of how Beatrix became an author and made her life at last in the countryside she loved.

The Enormous Turnip is part of the Ladybird Favourite Tales, which are the timeless treasured stories that generations of children have grown up with and loved. These easy-to-read retellings, enhanced by exciting, richly colourful illustrations, faithfully capture all the magic of the original stories.

Introduce children to the joys of poetry with this intricately illustrated collection of classics - a book that will delight both the young and the old. It includes a range of well-known rhymes such as the Owl and the Pussycat; It''s Raining, It''s Pouring and Star Light, Star Bright. It features a wide range of well known writers including Emily Bronte, Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, William Blake and John Keats. It also includes an ''About the Poets'' section with a brief biography for each included poet. How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! So begins Lewis Caroll''s classic rhyme, included in this beautifully illustrated collection of children''s poetry. Carefully selected, the poems open up an enchanting world of rhythm and language, feeling and fantasy to introduce children to a lifetime of pleasure in poetry. The collection gathers together classic poems on a number of themes. Colourful and charming illustrations on every page capture the magic of imaginary worlds.

"The colorful collection is burtsing with playful puppies, bouncing bunnies, and cuddly teddies, wich with a very special story to tell." -- Back cover.

Rosabella, a young princess who wears jeans because they''re so practical, gets help from an enterprising bird when she decides she wants to look more like a princess.

Large color pages with named pictures of related words. Other pictures are of everyday scenes with smaller, named pictures of elements in the scenes bordering the whole. Rhyming text at the bottom of each scene describes some of the action and asks the reader to identify actions taking place in the scene.