A rhyming story about a clever little mouse and a monster. When mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous forest, he invents tales of a fantastic creature called a Gruffalo to scare off his enemies. Imagine his surprise when he meets a real Gruffalo!

Popular Penguin Pete makes his first appearance in a board book. This board book edition of Penguin Pete's first adventure will delight the youngest children, who will readily identify with pint-sized Pete as he longs for the day when he is finally big enough to swim with the other penguins.

Paperback edition of another classic Meg and Mog, from bestselling author and illustrator, Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski. PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER 2006 BUYERS' GUIDE.

Reading Together is a learn-to-read series of picture books for young children and parents to enjoy together. There are four levels, each consisting of six books, offering a variety of reading experiences: stories, poems, rhymes and songs, traditional tales and information books.

Even dragons have to eat. It's nearly bedtime and the baby dragon is getting hungry. Mummy dragon searches for just the right snack among the villagers. Not the mean queen, not the three musketeers, not the old magician... the two dragons scour the town, but the people are too tricky.

Covers board books and novelty books through to classic and contemporary picture books and choices for 0-7s. As with the previous Ultimate Book Guides, it is packed with themed lists and cross-references to other titles, and there are special features on a variety of topics.

From non-sense to lessons learned, this work features forty five rhymes that include the well known ( Itsy Bitsy Spider ) and ( Hickety, Pickety, My Black Hen ). It also includes pictures that speak more than one thousands words in details as the artist riffs in paint on themes present and imagined in each verse.

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head - two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Piggie is invited to her first party. But what will she wear? Gerald, the party expert, knows just how to help... or does he?

What would is be like to be a swashbuckling pirate? Join PiggyWiggy as he sets sail across the seven seas, walking the plank and singing sea shanties on the way. But will he find buried treasure?

Jazzy and his Mama are playing hide-and-seek in the jungle, and every page you turn will take you deeper and deeper into the undergrowth with them. Lift the leaves, peep through the tum-tum trees and pull aside the fliff-fluff flowers for a riot of colour and discoveries along the way!

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Piggie wants to fly. But Gerald knows that she cannot - or can she?

From the author of I SPY -- AN ALPHABET IN ART; and I SPY -- NUMBERS IN ART, another colour illustrated title containing a selection of fine art paintings from artists worldwide and throughout history, combined with a simple game of animal identification.

Meg, Mog and Owl are becalmed in a boat. Meg makes one of her spells and gets more than she bargained for.

Meg, Mog and Owl head off in a canoe for a hunting trip but it doesn't take long for things to start going wrong. First, they forget to tie up the canoe, then they can't find anything to eat and finally disaster looms when they can't light a fire.

When George gives Bartholomew a little black kitten, he tells him to be gentle with her. Nah, says Bartholomew. He wants to play. But the kitten is very small and Bartholomew's games are very boisterous. In sturdy board book format, this story about playing nicely is intended for very young children.

Young Bartholomew is having a grumpy day. Nothing feels right for him. But, as ever, George is at hand to make him feel better - and this time no big voice is required, just a cuddle and a little tenderness.

When the driver leaves the bus temporarily, he gives the reader just one instruction: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you let him drive? Told entirely in speech bubbles, this is a brilliantly original book.

Mog wants to go in a spaceship for his birthday treat...so Meg makes a spell, and off they go!