Ladybird's Toddler Touch books are the perfect follow-on from Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, stimulating your busy toddler's curiosity through simple rhyming text, touch-&-feels & flaps, as they begin to explore the wider world around them. Instigating a familiar routine helps to structure a young child's day & adds a sense of reassurance & stability as they begin to remember what comes next. Toddler Touch: Bedtime is designed to familiarise toddlers with a practical, reassuring bedtime routine, helping them to wind down & prepare for bed in a fun, interactive way. Each page focuses on a different part of the bedtime routine, from bathtime & putting on night clothes to brushing teeth, putting toys away & listening to a story before being tucked up tight. The book has sturdy tabbed edges for helping to turn the pages, & is full of things to touch & feel, including finger trails to follow throughout, holes to peek through & flaps to lift. It's great fun for an adult & child to share at the end of a busy day! ...

Ladybird's Toddler Touch books are the perfect follow-on from Ladybird's best-selling Baby Touch series, stimulating your busy toddler's curiosity through simple rhyming text, touch-&-feels & flaps, as they begin to explore the wider world around them. Instigating a familiar routine helps to structure a young child's day & adds a sense of reassurance & stability as they begin to remember what comes next. Toddler Touch: Nursery is designed to familiarise toddlers with the sort of activities & daily structured routine they might experience at nursery. Each page focuses on a different part of a day at nursery, from arriving & saying goodbye to parents to finger painting, playing outside, lunch, imaginative play & reading a story. The book has sturdy tabbed edges for helping to turn the pages, & is full of things to touch & feel, including finger trails to follow throughout, holes to peek through & flaps to lift. It's great fun for an adult & child to share & talk about together! ...

This Little Builder is a delightful rhyming touch-&-feel book from Ladybird, with a different busy builder to talk about & a big touchy feely item to explore on every double page. From a shiny hard hat & hi-vis jacket to leathery boots & scratchy rough bricks, each builder-themed tactile area helps to stimulate sensory awareness in older babies & toddlers & teach them the difference between smooth, rough, bumpy, shiny & so on. Learn each builders name & what they are doing by reading the rhymes, then choose a name for the last little builder at the end! With a ladybird to also look for & spot on each page, This Little Builder is perfect for sharing with young children as their attention span & curiosity about books grows. ...

Toddlers & young children will love interacting with the friendly touch-&-feel puppies in this sturdy board book from Ladybird. Have fun reading the rhymes together & finding the feely areas on the puppies each time. Scratch velvety ears, or stroke a fluffy tummy, as each little puppy is different. Then think of a name for the last little puppy at the end! Can you also find the hidden ladybird on every page? A perfect first touch-&-feel book for all young puppy fans, This Little Puppy helps to develop sensory & language awareness in preschool children. ...

Details: Ladybird is searching for her friends, caterpillar & spider. Meet all of her friends in this delightful story
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The unorthodox, complex, sardonically humorous, intriguing policeman Jack Laidlaw makes his debut in an engrossing tale of murder. In Glasgow, the city with the worst slums in Europe, a city of hard men, powerful villains, bitter victims & cynical policemen, Laidlaw uses unconventional methods. ...

The mutant white rat had grown & mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food & brought it back to the Lair. Now the rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy. But the white sluglike thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to & fro & a stickiness drooled from its mouth as it remembered the taste of human fleshï ½ ...

Toys & Games Jigsaw Puzzles Have hours of fun piecing together this lovely Lake Como image! This picture-perfect puzzle



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Features a variety of mapped walks to suit different abilities
- from the casual walker to the experienced hiker. This book provides
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This comprehensive guide to Lake District walks is produced in association with the Rambler's Association. This updated guide combines detailed route descriptions, maps & photographs with information on the local history & wildlife. Among the most spectacular landscapes in Britain, the Lake District offers a unique combination of crag & cafe, of ice-climb & ice-cream shop, or of the slippery gill & the hollyhocks of the cottage garden. It is this that makes the Lake District the perfect place for a walk on the wild
- & yet civilised
- side. The introduction gives information about the topography, geology & history of the area, & describes the flora & fauna inhabiting it. * The main section of the book comprises 30 walks, suitable for all abilities, from young children to experienced walkers. Each walk has a key illustrating principal features, such as level of difficulty & type of terrain, a route profile indicating altitude & distances, as well as a fact file summarising useful information, such as start & finish points, duration, safety advice & points of interest. * Illustrated with colour maps from leading authority, Harveys, each walk is then described in detail with clear, easy-to-follow instructions. The text gives the history of the main landmarks along the way & information about the natural history of the area, & is accompanied by stunning colour photographs.

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