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  • Ice in the Jungle

    Ariane Hofmann-Maniyar

    Paperback (Childs Play Intl Ltd, Feb. 1, 2016)
    When Ice’s mother tells her that they’re going to move to an exciting new place, Ice isn’t so sure. She likes her home and her friends, and the fun they have together. The journey takes forever, and their new home is very strange. Everything is different – the weather, the food, the people and the language. Ice tries to make friends, but everyone seems too busy and preoccupied to care.Will anything happen to help Ice feel more at home?A charming debut picture book about the anxieties and hardships of moving, with a heart-warming, positive ending.
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  • The Boy Who Lost His Bumble

    Trudi Esberger

    Hardcover (Child's Play International, April 1, 2015)
    The boy in this debut picture book is fascinated by the bees in his garden, and is puzzled and saddened when they disappear one rainy day. What can have caused them to leave, and is there anything he can do to get his bumble back? Nothing he tries is successful, but things start to look a little brighter with the arrival of Spring. A gentle, quirky introduction to the cycles of nature, with an important and highly topical message about the value of bees to our world.
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  • Baking With Dad

    Aurora Cacciapuoti

    Paperback (Childs Play Intl Ltd, June 15, 2016)
    Today we’re baking with Dad! We have everything we need, including the most important ingredient – Dad himself! But who are we baking for? And who’s going to do the clearing up?
    L

  • One Odd Old Owl

    Paul Adshead

    Paperback (Childs Play Intl Ltd, Jan. 1, 1996)
    Readers can solve the puzzle by counting the birds in the roosting tree as they gather at the urging of an insomniac snail to drown out the snores of a slumbering owl
    G

  • The Red Herring Mystery

    Paul Adshead

    Hardcover (Childs Play Intl Ltd, Sept. 1, 1995)
    The reader, as assistant detective, must gather clues from the text and illustrations to help solve a mystery involving a stately home full of possible suspects and a disappearing fish-shaped ruby.
    G

  • The Very Long Sleep

    Polly Noakes

    Paperback (Child's Play International, Ltd., Oct. 25, 2017)
    Fox, Chipmunk, Marmot and Bear are such good friends that they decide to build a forest home and live in it together. But when winter comes, Chipmunk, Marmot and Little Bear take to their beds. Fox canÂ’t wake them up at all. Fox is lonely and confused, especially when parcels start to arrive for the other three animals. What on earth can be in them, and will the three friends ever wake up?
    J

  • Rabbit Pie

    Penny Ives

    Hardcover (Childs Play Intl Ltd, June 1, 2013)
    The perfect recipe for bedtime! Six adorable rabbits are just one ingredient needed for sweet Rabbit Pie! Combine with a sprinkling of kisses and some warm milk for the ideal bedtime story. Told like a recipe, with delightful illustrations showing the preparations for bedtime, this charming picture book will enchant parents and children alike.
    R

  • All About Cats

    Monika Filipina

    Paperback (Child's Play International, Ltd., April 20, 2017)
    Cats spend the whole day asleep in a chair. Or do they? This hilarious look at what felines might get up to when we leave the house is full of humorous and wild possibilities.YouÂ’ll never look at cats in quite the same way again!
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  • The Ding Dong Bag

    Polly Peters, Jess Stockham

    Paperback (Childs Play Intl Ltd, Sept. 1, 2006)
    Rhyming text describes what happens when two boys collect all the sounds that they hear around the house into a bag.
    G

  • The Sultan's Snakes

    Lorna Turpin

    Paperback (Childs Play Intl Ltd, Dec. 1, 1991)
    In Lorna Turpin's classic story, the snakes play a joke on the Sultan and the reader. Solving the riddles they set solves the story, too.
    R

  • Quick As a Cricket

    Audrey Wood, Don Wood

    Paperback (Childs Play Intl Ltd, Jan. 1, 1997)
    A young boy describes himself as "loud as a lion," "quiet as a clam," "tough as a rhino," and "gentle as a lamb"
    D

  • The Things

    Petronela Dostalova

    Hardcover (Childs Play Intl Ltd, Sept. 1, 2019)
    Thing leads a simple life with its friends, Cactus and Moose the Shadow Puppet... until the day Thing sees Other Thing through the telescope! How will Thing react, and what will happen when Moose the Shadow Puppet suddenly disappears? A quirky story about how generosity, understanding and tolerance can lead to true friendship.
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