Funny rhymes and crazy creatures to make you giggle, open the big spiral bound card pages to first meet a reindeer going Grunt! Grunt! But if you open the flap on the righthand page bottom half first, you will meet the bottom half of a penguin going Honk! Honk! Polar bear, narwhal, wolverine, albatross, for each animal there is not only a beautiful colour artwork in two parts, but facts and their features like the orca, sometimes called a killer whale. I'm certainly not small! You'll see me from a distance with my fin that stands up tall. I am a mighty predator, so nothing catches me. My flippers are so powerful - I speed across the sea. Whoo! Whoo! Mix a penguin with a beluga and of course you get a penuga and so on! Flip the pages and roar with laughter with these 121 possible combinations. 28 colourful pages, 25.5 x 19.5cm. Ages 2-5 years, CE safety approved.

Designed for children but a fantastic revision course with hundreds of specially commissioned colour artworks to enjoy and maps and fact boxes, we believe adults will appreciate the clear layout of this superb resume. Beginning with the ancient lands 500,000 to 700BC and including chapters on Flint and Stone, The First Farmers, Stones of Mystery and Places of the Dead, Metal and Pottery, we then move on to the Celts and Romans 700BC to AD446 with chapters on The Masters of Iron, Druids and Mistletoe, Roads and Towns. The period AD446 to 1066 is entitled Raiders and Settlers and looks at The Age of Arthur, Saxon Swords, The Making of Wales and England, Viking Raids, Alfred and the Danes and Macbeth's Scotland. The following chapters cover Castles and Knights, Palaces and Players, World Power and The Modern Age and includes the Crusades, the Hundred Years War, the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare's Genius, the Spanish Armada, Royalty, Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Factory Age, World Wars, the Cold War, Ireland North and South, Left, Right or Centre and Looking to the Future. With super timeline and fact boxes as we find out about fossilised bones and stone tools, the first mines, Hastings 1066, knights in armour, clashes of faith, treason and gunpowder, asylum seekers, a textile revolution, puffing billies, the Gold Rush, dance music to climate change. 384 magnificent pages for ages 10 and up. 22.8 x 18cm.

Milo the Cat, jet black with huge white googly eyes, features in this brilliant and colourful set of educational flash cards. They show 50 everyday objects like apple, drum, ladybird, cupcake, leaf, dolphin, ball, bee, strawberry and flower which help reinforce phonics, letter recognition and reading skills. Pack measures 14.6 x 10cm, 50 sturdy cards in colour for pre-schoolers aged 2-4 to make early learning fun and easy. CE safety approved.

Beautiful dark marine blue foil pages with big white perforated press-out pieces of seahorses, shells, the narwhal with his tusk, a beautiful mermaid, a crab, fish with their fins, jellyfish, a sea turtle, a lobster, an anchor, a starfish, and beautiful twisted shells. Let your imagination make a splash with narwhals, mermaids and much more. Create your own decorations and colour them in and make a cool collection of ornaments. Press out each piece, colour it in, slot together and make sparkling decorations and use the pages to store the pieces or add stencils to create your own design. Hang as mobiles or for any number of craft projects. Spiral bound, colour.

Children can dress King Arthur, Merlin and Lancelot for scenes including Arthur pulling the sword from the stone and jousting with Sir Lancelot. With over 140 colourful reusable stickers, boots and cloaks and costumes and helmets and swords and battle shields, you can dress Merlin the magician, meet his pet owl, secret map, book of spells and crystal ball, find out about the Holy Grail and dress Sir Galahad, Sir Percival, and Sir Bors and read excerpts from the famous stories such as the death of the king. Sir Bedivere carries the mortally wounded Arthur to the lake where he first received Excalibur all those years ago. The Lady of the Lake appears in a boat once more, this time to carry the king away to the Isle of Avalon. But Arthur will always be ready to return, whenever his kingdom needs him... Dress all the characters for action in this superb quality Usborne Activity large softback, 34pp, 23.9 x 30.6cm. Ages 5-8 years.

Designed for ages 8-11 years or indeed aspiring writers of all any age looking for inspiration and guidance for inspiring adjectives, testing your word choices, faces and features, writing about clothes, under the sea, the busy city, the tropical rainforest or putting yourself into the story. And all about writing dialogue and words for feelings and personality. If you want to add some extra magic to your stories, get help with creating characters, setting scenes and opening a wonderful world of words, here is plenty of space to build your own word bank. Big spiral bound hardback with beautiful fun children's designs and borders and robots, animals and characters and plenty of lined space and suggested words decorating every page.

Four salty seadog pirates, one with a spade, one with a hooked hand, one with a pegleg and one looking out to sea and all wearing big boots with turnups are four of the eight puppet characters in the box set. The other four are pirate flags, a sailing ship and an eagle. Each of the puppets are on sticks and the accompanying sheet of paper gives a few tips on how to start telling stories with your puppets whether they are in the middle of the woods, out at sea, their motive to find hidden treasure and what unexpected occurrence could change their plans. Plus how you will end your story whether they remain friends or are now deadly enemies! The brief history of shadow puppets explains that they were used as long ago as 2,000 years in China and it is believed that French missionaries brought the artform from China to Europe in the 1760s. India and many southeast Asian countries still have their own traditions of shadow puppetry today, often accompanied by dramatic music to enhance the story. For ages 3+, let your imagination go wild.
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An ingenious doodle, fold and colouring in book from the great art publishers Thames & Hudson, use the slit in the front cover and draw through the holes, turn pages to find the surprises, turn the book around and upside down and on its side and follow the arrows and fold backwards and forwards. Fill your book with funny faces and add hats, glasses, big ears, and join Marcia having a cup of tea with Martians on a spaceship or fold the pages to make Mr Bee's nose grow. Draw what smells so good or other characters who live in the tree besides the owl and the squirrel. Fill in the speech bubble with words that Nathan and Natalie are nattering about and fill in the characteristics of identical twins Sam and Charlie and decide if they are boys or girls. We meet Princess Portia and her pooch and can draw in her jewellery and open the huge double double page spread to make noises and use your loudest colours as we tweet and woof and miaow with the animal characters. Best of all are the section of pages cut into three strips where you can mix and match faces and ideas and shapes and colours and hairstyles. 64 large pages, colour, ages three and up.

A parody of the popular seafaring narrative of his time, Jonathan Swift's masterpiece was written 'to vex the world rather than divert it.' Lemuel Gulliver, English surgeon turned ship captain, embarks on four fantastic voyages, each a clash with strange beings and cultures, from the eccentric to the odious. Island by island he meets the savage but tiny Lilliputians, the hideous Yahoos, a stable of talking horses, a race of decrepit immortals, and the ghosts of Julius Caesar and Homer. This very much abridged introduction is for little tots ages 5-8, and much of the enjoyment is from the full page beautiful colour artwork which is especially attractive even to adult collectors of children's books. Slim softback, 48pp.

Jack and the Beanstalk, The Magic Bird, The One-Inch Prince, The Billy Goats Gruff, The Brave Little Tailor, Hop-On-My-Thumb, Theseus and the Minotaur, The Giant Princess, The Princess and the Ogre, and The Valley of Diamonds retold by Sam Baer and others for preschoolers. Bursting with funny and fantastic characters from all around the world including stomping giants, angry ogres, a very greedy troll and a snorting, snarling minotaur lurking in a labyrinth. Boldly coloured appealing new illustrations decorate every page with text wrapped around in fairly large print on bright white quality heavyweight paper in an impressive and collectable hardback of 144 pages with satin pagemarker. Ages 5-8.