Olive, Betsy, Mable - give your new dolly a name as you stroke her very soft plush velveteen skin and sit her upright, long legs extended, on your armchair as you meet and greet your new friend. Beautifully dressed in a lace-trimmed embroidered and patterned fine cotton dress with lacy collar, velvet decorations in their hair, stitches for bootees, the 'hair' is a contrasting textured fabric. She has smiling closed eyes, little tiny pink cheeks and a huge flat round head, floppy arms and legs and big round white bottom! That makes the dolly sit upright very easily. There is no choice of colours, we have available a dolly dressed in blue, pink or yellow. Each measures a generous size 40cm tall and has a little label attached to one arm which must be removed before gifting. CE safety approved.

Your new best friend and constant companion is truly super soft and cuddly and HUGE! His shiny two-tone brown button eyes, squidgy soft fabric nose with stitching details for mouth, short arms and extra-long legs will make him also useful as a draught excluder or window seat cushion. He has a fine silky ribbon bow tied at his neck and soft padded feet at the end of his very flexible legs. All the Bibliophile staff has taken one or two teddies already. Teddy height head to toe approx. 3.2ft (39" / 100cm) and arm to arm 26" (66½cm). Plastic wrapped, we can send directly to the recipient's address with a greetings note from you and no price on receipt note to save you posting this large item on. UK delivery only. These bears normally cost a fortune! Bargain price.

One of our favourite children's book writers brings a fun-filled take on the famous nursery tale. When Little Red Riding Hood's Granny invites her for a picnic and a big surprise, Dad tells her to keep to the path and watch out for the Big Bad Wolf. She reminds him that she's not quite so little now! But she doesn't feel quite so brave riding into the woods on her horse Pebbles, even with the song of the wind to guide them. Who's behind that bush? What was that noise? And what is the big surprise at Granny's house? 'She peeped through the letterbox. She could see...She could see...Who? It looked like Granny...but then it didn't look like Granny. Was it the Big Bad Wolf?' The illustrations will have you roaring with laughter as the tale is brought to life by David Melling, creator of Hugless Douglas. In Granny's blue dress and with golden hair piled on top, glasses, but the giveaway long claws, pointy ears and those big bad blue eyes, the refrain through this delightful storybook is 'swish go our leaves, rustling in the breeze. We'll keep you safe. We are the trees.' For ages three and up, 32 pages, 26.5 x 27cm.

Share the joy and magic of these timeless tales with this super heavyweight glamorous box set selection aimed at 6-10 year olds, this is bound to become a family favourite. Comprises The Complete Tales of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Aesop's Favourite Fables, The Velveteen Rabbit by Marjory Williams, A Treasury of Bedtime Stories illustrated by Clinton, Mother Goose illustrated by Grover and all have beautiful full page colour artworks dating from around the 1930s and 40s. Hickety, pickety, my black hen, she lays eggs for gentlemen; Tom, Tom the piper's son, stole a pig and away he run; the sow came in with the saddle, the little pig rocked the cradle, the dish jumped up on the table to see the pot swallow the ladle; Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a tree, up went the pussy-cat, and down went he. Also includes more Mother Goose melodies to sing along to in a collection of more than 100 famous rhymes. The Treasury of Bedtime Stories is aimed at ages five and up and contains more than 50 black and white and colour illustrations filled with wonder and excitement and in a 1930s style and original typography over two columns from the 1933 publication and includes Three Little Bears, Hansel and Gretel, Sleeping Beauty, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Puss In Boots and more. Each is a splendid hardback has approximately 90 pages, 48 in the case of The Velveteen Rabbit which is a facsimile of the 1922 edition with dedication page, right up to 156 pages of Grimm's Fairy Tales with colour illustrations, first published in 1927 and the edition in facsimile from 1934 with very large print. Each of the six hardback volumes has many colour plates throughout, foil decoration on the cover and a laminated colour illustration and all in a very sturdy slipcase for safe keeping.

For ages 4-6 we have two festive activity books and four colouring pencils in yellow, red, green and blue, and best of all over 100 colour stickers of different sizes with festive images of snowmen, gifts, reindeer, Santa etc. Keep little ones away from digital screens and their little hands busy colouring in the big outlined pages of the colouring book with jolly characters and toys and children. Then turning to the smaller softback Little Elf's Festive Games Christmas Activity Fun with tinsel tangles, discover patterns to work out which presents are missing in each row, matching pairs, a jolly jigsaw, a sleigh race, rooftop riddles and finding the right house for Santa's deliveries among the dozens of activities. Use some of the larger stickers to make counters for the Sleigh Play game on pages 10-11. It all comes in a resealable large gift bag. Colour.

Learn the alphabet with Dr. Seuss no less, aka Theodor Seuss Geisel, one of the most beloved children's book authors of all time. From The Cat In the Hat onwards he created iconic characters, story and an art style beloved of generations of adults and children. Beginner books are made for children learning to read all by themselves and this is aimed at 1-4 year olds. We are lucky to have found this now rare 1991 edition in mint condition and imported it from the USA, a facsimile reprint of the 1963 original bursting with fabulous colour illustrations. Big A, little a. What begins with A? Aunt Annie's alligator! And there she sits with her red hat and seat on the back of the rather cheerful long green alligator spread across two pages of this fun, funny first book. Put it in the hands of any child please. 64 page hardback.

Meet the Scout Elves and give each one a name by filling in the labels including the St Bernard dog as we enter a winter wonderland and find our way through the forest with all the animals to the hideout with colourful gift-wrapped presents and stacks of letters being sorted. There is Christmas cooking with gingerbread, candy canes to count, spot the odd one out, a Christmas market full of cheer, toys galore in the toy shop and a cosy Christmas Eve scene with grandpa snoring, mummy busy, and the children and pets excited surrounded by colourful toys. In another big double page artwork one dog and one reindeer are not the same as the others. Can you find them? Enjoy a Christmas feast of fun, 40 pages ages 5-8, 20.6 x 29cm.

A real squidgy bright yellow rubbery 4" curved banana with cute black eyes and a black seam is actually stuck on the front of this Cute Fruit journal packed with quirky quizzes and fill-in fun. Make delicious fruity smoothies and tasty treats, write a story and choose characters like Adorable Apple or Wicked Watermelon, create beautiful crafts to decorate your bedroom and unleash your creativity and log your thoughts, especially in the month by month section with ideas like things I did, my favourite moments and things to look forward to. If you like clothes, write out your wish list and draw yourself in a dream outfit in the space provided. There is a food fun quiz, comic strips, planning a perfect picnic, best friends and what you like to do together and you can write down all your favourite things like singers and bands, hobbies, words, colour etc. With adorable strawberry, pear, orange, kiwi and party time apple among the fruity friends to our squishy banana. Stickered £3.99. 64 page softback designed for 7-10 year olds.

From the creators of 'Room on the Broom' and designed for ages 3-7, here is the classic story which has become a bestselling phenomenon, an award winning rhyming story of a mouse and a monster. It has found its way into the hearts and bedtimes of an entire generation of children over the past 25 years and will continue to enchant children for years to come. 'A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood. A fox saw the mouse and the mouse looked good.' But the mouse was going to have lunch with the Gruffalo. 'He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws, and terrible teeth in his terrible jaws... and his favourite food is roasted fox. But there is no such thing as a Gruffalo!? Or is there? He has knobbly knees and turned-out toes and a poisonous wart at the end of his nose. His eyes are orange, his tongue is black. He has purple prickles all over his back. Oh help! Oh no! IT'S A GRUFFALO!' A gorgeous Penguin board book, very large sized all in colour.

Join Teddy, Santa, Rudolph and Snowman, cute, funny characters and festive scenes which are great to colour with fun on every page. Big outlined artworks will send little ones to the North Pole and back and keep them occupied for hours. 32 page softback, 15 x 21cm.