Great Books

A little creature lies in the attic, alone and forgotten. It cannot even remember his own name. One day, the attic door is flung open and so begins Nothing's search to discover who he really is. With a beautiful fold out page at the end.

Kipper is building a tree house for himself and Tiger--and a few surprise guests.

There is one thing that has always been wrong with Threadbear. In his tummy is a squeaker that has never squeaked...Can Father Christmas make his wish come true and give him a squeaky tummy or will it be something much more simple that grants him his wish? The perfect gift for a pre-school child.

The sun is down, the moon is up, and it's past bedtime. But outside the castle, there's an awful lot of noise! Will the princess ever get to sleep? This story is complete with a fold-out page on every spread!

Kipper first appeared on four legs in the Mick Inkpen timeless picture book - The Blue Balloon. This picture book, Kipper, first published in 1991, made him the star of the show and he's been going from strength to strength ever since. Kipper's world is a world where anything can happen and he has enormous child appeal. He is a classic picture character now, loved by children the world over in the same way that Thomas the Tank or Peter Rabbit are loved. In this story, Kipper decides his basket is a mess: he throws out all his much-loved dog-eared toys but then finds his basket very uncomfortable. He decides to find somewhere to sleep: perhaps standing on one leg like a duck would be fun? Or even sitting on a lily pad like a frog. In the end, Kipper decides the best place to be is his lovely, cosy basket full of his favourite toys.

Ten years after it was first published, THE BLUE BALLOON is now a celebrated classic which continues to delight millions of children. This is a beautiful new paperback edition now combined with the recorded version on CD.

Single-word descriptions of a playful dog's antics introduce pairs of opposites.

Kipper and Arnold are on an alphabet adventure! What can they find for each letter? They find ladybugs for L. And toys for T. But what begins with X? That's a hard one.

Kipper and his little friend Arnold are on an alphabet search. It all starts when the young pig Arnold finds an ant. "Aa is for ant. And Arnold." Well, to be perfectly honest, it starts a little earlier, before the book even officially begins, when Kipper the pudgy brown dog tells a zebra, "We won't need you till much, much later." Throughout, as Kipper and Arnold find (and sometimes lose) a buzzing bumblebee, a caterpillar (actually, the caterpillar finds them), a duck, and a menagerie of other alphabetized critters, the earnestly eager zebra appears, ever hopeful that his day in the sun has arrived. "Nn is for No, not now!" Kipper tells him. After "Juice...And a bit of jam, too," "Splish! Splosh! Splash! And six squishy slugs," and V, which is "very, very hard" (when they can't find a volcano, they make a picture of one instead), the zebra asks one last time. "Is it my turn? Is it? Is it?" Kipper is happy to report, "Yy is for Yes!" The zebra stands proudly in the middle of the page, and everyone says, "Zz is for Zebra!" Mick Inkpen's enchanting Kipper stories can be found on TV's Nick Jr. and in his many picture books (Kipper, Kipper's Birthday, Kipper's Snowy Day, and lots more). This Alphabet Adventure, with its adorable details and witty subplots, is sure to win hordes of new fans. (Ages 2 to 5) --Emilie Coulter

Find another four Little Kipper Stories for the very young in this charming hardback book, which comes complete with its own adorable bookmark. Learn more about Kipper's antics in: Hiss!, Butterfly, Miaow! and Swing.

Kipper has made a new year resolution not to throw snowballs at Tiger. He manages to keep to this for a whole month, but in February it snows! This wonderful picture book explores the fun that Kipper and Tiger have every month of the year, through the photos that Kipper takes. And at the end of the year, Kipper finds out that Tiger has a long memory and hasn't forgotten the snowball in February!