Deep in a snowy forest stands a little pine tree with a special destiny: when it grows up, it's going to be a famous Christmas tree!
Lydia Monks
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Picture Books
Fiction
Early Readers
Poetry
Educational
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The Woolly Bear Caterpillar
On a search for dandelions, the plain and humble woolly bear caterpillar wonders what sort of moth she will become. The other caterpillars don’t just look extraordinary – they’re extraordinarily boastful too. But sometimes pride comes before a fall . . . A...
Counting Creatures
A counting book of animals with fold out flaps and peep-through shaped pages, written as a rhyming guessing game.
Conjuror Cow
Conjuror Cow is putting on a magnificent magic show – but can she make a white rabbit jump out of a hat? Lift the flaps and find out.
What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside
The fourth book in the What the Ladybird Heard series. The clever little ladybird is off on a trip to the seaside, but those two bad men, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, are there too and they're up to their wicked ways again. This time they're planning to cut the mermaid's...
The Girl, the Bear and the Magic Shoes
Josephine has some new running shoes. But will they be able to save her from a bear?
What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday
The third book about the detective Ladybird. This time she’s at the zoo instead of the farm, and the thieves are planning to steal the Queen’s crown, so she needs to think of an extra cunning plan.
What the Ladybird Heard Next
Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox
Ellen gets a big shock when her double appears out of the bathroom mirror, but Mirror-Belle is a double with a difference! She is a princess, and a mischievous one at that. She is sure that Ellen's chicken pox is actually dragon pox - and she is full of ideas about...
Sugarlump and the Unicorn
But Sugarlump learns to be careful what he wishes for, and comes to realise how much he misses the children he left behind. Luckily the unicorn has one more wish to grant . . .