In a towering forest, where summer had been, the cool air bit fresh and the mosses grew green...while, up in a tree, swung a flighty young squirrel, who everyone knew as 'Spontaneous Cyril'. A story of foresty folk, plentiful mushrooms and seeds for the winter, delightful pinecones with pine-nuts inside, a wild nutty race with his friend Bruce and their forest friends as they tumble through the water and over the waterfall, giggling. 'The BEST thing to share is a laugh with your friend.' Join the greedy squirrels in this laugh-out-loud tale. Colourful board book. Ages 2-5, 32 pages, 29 x 20cm from the creators of The Lion Inside and reminiscent of Julia Donaldson.

A highly illustrated gift book containing a festive flurry of classic and modern Christmas poems, chosen and illustrated by the Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. There are traditional verse such as The Night Before Christmas, The Twelve Days of Christmas, Deck the Halls, We Wish You a Merry Christmas, I Saw Three Ships, and We Three Kings. The poems are by Wendy Cope, John Agard, Neil Gaiman, Dylan Thomas, Roger McGough, Ogden Nash, Sylvia Plath, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Burns, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Zephaniah and Jackie Kay among them. With index of first lines and of poets, decorated with fabulous line art, 120pp with satin pagemarker.

A winning combination of two Children's Laureates where Riddell's vibrant pictures fizz off the page. Drawing a band of mischievous monkeys, tigers, lions, elephants and bears as they tippy-tap, boing-boing, wiggle-wiggle, have time for lunch munch munch, crunch crunch, meet a little girl called Mo in a puddle and say hello and goodbye to Dolly, Solly, Holly, Molly, Wally, and Ollie. Even the littlest readers ages 1-5 can join in the fun with this board book of irresistible action rhymes. 20 pages, 17 x 19.4cm.