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Dig Dig Digging by Margaret Mayo
Age Range: 1 to 4 If you are looking for appealing, non fiction picture books for the littlest people ‘Dig Dig Digging’ is one of our favourites. My daughter absolutely adored this book when she was...
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You Choose by Pippa Goodhart
Age Range: 3+ Our first picture book of the year is not a story. It’s non fiction but not in the sense that it is an information book. I would call this book a discussion book. A really fun discussion...
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Sticker Dolly Dressing: Dolls by Fiona Watt, Vici Leyhane and Stella Baggott...
Age Range: 4 to 7 The Sticker Dolly Dressing activity book was my daughter’s favourite Christmas present. She loves stickers and was busy with this book for several days. Three dolls, Ellie, Daisy and...
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Big Red Bath by Julia Jarman
Age Range: 2 to 6 The Big Red Bath was a great book to read when my daughter went through her not wanting to have a bath phase! We wanted to show her that having a bath could be fun and this story...
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K is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo by Giles Andreae
Age Range: 3+ K is for Kissing a Cool Kangaroo weaves the alphabet together with a great rhyming text and bold, colourful pictures and Giles Andreae uses a wide range of characters and objects to...
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Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae
Age Range: 3 to 7 This is a fabulous, rhyming, non fiction picture book that introduces a wide range of fish and animals. I have bought this for several children as a present, used it in the classroom...
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Jasper’s Beanstalk by Nick Butterworth
Age Range: 2 to 6 With the weather getting warmer and spring on its way we are starting to think about our garden and have already planted lettuce and basil seeds. Jasper’s Beanstalk is a great story...
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Mucky Duck by Sally Grindley
Age Range: 2 to 5 The Story: Mucky Duck is a white duck who lives on a pond in Oliver’s garden. She loves to cook, dig in the garden, play football and paint so she gets dirty very quickly. This means...
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Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Age Range: 2 to 5 What happens when you mix primary colours together? This is a really simple story that introduces children to the concept of colour mixing in a fun way and inspired us to get our...
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Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
Age Range: 0 to 5 I’m very curious to know which picture book you would choose to take a child through their first five years? If you were to ask me which picture book I would choose to take a baby...
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Handa’s Surprise by Eileen Browne
Age Range: 3 to 6 The Story: Handa puts seven different pieces of fruit into her basket to take to her friend Ayeko. On the way to Ayeko’s village a variety of animals help themselves to a piece of...
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Tom & Millie’s Great Big Treasure Hunt – Guy Parker-Rees
Age Range: 2 to 6 Tom & Millie’s Great Big Treasure Hunt is a first adventure story which introduces counting, colours and shapes through Guy Parker-Rees’ fantastically detailed illustrations. We...
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Say Goodnight to the Sleepy Animals! Ian Whybrow/Ed Eaves
Age Range: 2 to 4 My daughter loves this simple story with its touch and feel animals and its repetitive, rhyming text. It’s a perfect bedtime read for the littlest of people. The Story: Cat goes for...
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The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Age Range: 2 to 6 We have so many spiders around and so many spiders’ webs to look at that my daughter decided that The Very Busy Spider was a good book to read so she could see how spiders make their...
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Press Here by Herve Tullet
Age Range: 3+ Press Here is very original, very unique and like no other book that we have on our bookshelf. It’s not a storybook, more an interactive game book which is best read aloud especially when...
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Learning with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Eric Carle
Age Range: 2 to 8 Happy 45th birthday to The Very Hungry Caterpillar! Such a great book to use to promote learning in the Early Year’s classroom. Eric Carle’s timeless story has been enjoyed by several...
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Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska & Daniel Mizielinski
Age Range: 5+ The World Cup is over but conversations about the different countries that took part have given us lots of opportunities for learning geography. We’ve been poring over the pages in Maps...
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Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr/Eric Carle
Age Range: 1 to 5 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See? is a colourful first book for babies, a great book for a beginner reader and I have also read the English version many times to non native...
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Learning with Elmer by David McKee
Age Range: 3 to 8 Elmer is celebrating his 25th birthday this year! We have read many of the Elmer stories which have been translated into over 40 languages. The first Elmer story is still my favourite...
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Picture Books for European Day of Languages
September 26th is European Day of Languages. The European Day of Languages is jointly organised by The Council of Europe and the European Union and celebrates linguistic diversity in Europe. I have...
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