A nursery picture book, featuring a lively toddler and her baby brother. It is designed to introduce concepts such as opposites, colours, sounds, and shapes and sizes to young children.
Alfie has new yellow boots that are perfect for walking through puddles and stamping in mud. There's something not quite right about them, though - they're making Alfie's feet turn outwards...
Colours, shapes and sizes, sounds, opposites and numbers - these are the concepts introduced to young children in this nursery picture book, which features a lively toddler and her equally engaging baby brother.
Molly is pleased at first when they move into a house with fields behind it, but soon she starts to miss the passers-by in their old busy street. Then she discovers that the next-door garden is full of adventure. The author/illustrator's other books include the Alfie series and Dogger .
Splish, splash, splosh! Stamp, stamp, stamp! Alfie's brand new yellow boots are perfect for splashing through puddles and stamping in mud. But something about them doesn't feel quite right. Whatever could it be?
Alfie is so excited to be the first one home from a shopping expedition that he slams the front door shut, locking his mother and baby sister, Annir Rose, out on the front doorstep. The whole neighbourhood gets involved getting the door open and Alfie restored to his family.
Sam loves playing in Trotter Street with her dog Mick and her friend Barney, despite Mrs Dean's complaining. Mrs Mean , Barney calls her - and that's what he writes by the snow lady that they build in front of her house on Christmas Eve. But what if Mrs Dean isn't as cold-hearted as she seems?
It is an exciting day for Alfie. His painting is entered in the children's painting competition at the Harvest Fair. His friends Bernard, Kevin and Louise have done paintings too, but when the winners are announced not everyone is happy with their prize. Then Alfie comes up with a brilliant solution.