Books for Under 5s
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Board Books
Farm Animals
Make Believe Ideas 978184879776
A simple introduction to farm animals with clear and very cute photos.
Five Little Ducks
Ladybird 9781409307945
A colourful version of
the well know nursery rhyme with glittery pictures on the cover and the sound of
ducks returning home at the end. Cute!
HELMORE, Jim
Stripy Horse: Just For You
Egmont 9781405253055
A lovely introduction to colour as Stripy Horse explores all different colours
of his stripes. A colourful, fun book that all little ones will enjoy!
Whose Baby?
Ladybird 9781409308089
A colourful lift-the-flap book of animal babies hiding. Can the children
guess what the animals are? Lots of clues with an element of surprise.
Other titles in this series include: 'Whose Hat'
Counting and Alphabet Books
LESSAC, Frane
Island Counting 1 2 3
Walker 9781844282463
A Caribbean island is the setting of this one to ten counting book.
STICKLAND, Paul
Dinosaur Numbers
Ragged Bears 9781857143300
Using rhythm and rhythm and brightly coloured dinosaurs, children are invited to
count from one to ten
TARBETT, Debbie
Ten Tiny Tadpoles
Little Tiger Press 9781845063542
A fun counting book from ten to one, with a pop-up page illustrating the ten
frogs they have grown into.
Books for Sharing
BUCKINGHAM, Matt
Bright Stanley and the Cave Monster
Little Tiger Press 9781848950184
Stanley and his friends explore and under sea cave but get scared when they see
shadow and think it is a cave monster.
An adventurous story with lots of sparkly pictures throughout. A lovely sharing
book.
BUTTERWORTH, Nick
Tiger
HarperCollins 9780007119745
Tiger is a kitten but he imagines himself as a real tiger, doing all the things
that tigers do.
LEWIS, Kim
Hooray For Harry
Walker 9781844280414
Harry has lost his blanket. His friends, Ted and Lulu, help him to look for it.
SCAMELL, Ragnhild
Ouch!
Little Tiger Press 9781845062576
Hedgehog has built a nest for her winter sleep but she has built it under an
apple tree. An apple falls and sticks on her spines. All her friends try to help
to remove it but they only aggravate the problem.
STIEGEMEYER, Julie
Cheep! Cheep!
Bloomsbury 9780747582038
Three chicks, sleeping on their perch, are woken by the hatching of a fourth
chick.
