Encouraging precious moments with your children
It’s Wanda’s birthday, and as a special treat, the alien takes her to visit his planet for the first time. Everything is very different on the alien planet: aliens don’t brush their teeth – they brush their toes; and they don’t sleep on beds – they sleep on clouds!
But will Wanda’s special birthday party be a little bit too strange?
Birthdays can never come quickly enough!
Toast is a very excited little field mouse – in just a few sleeps it will be his birthday. Toast and Mummy fill their time with all sorts of preparations for the party while Daddy fills his time frantically trying to finish a special, secret present. Toast and Daddy want to know just how many sleeps are left – but for very different reasons!
Brown Bear is very excited about getting his birthday presents – but is very disappointed to find that his friends have given him sticks, mud and stones. What can he do with them? He gets in a real huff, until he discovers what fun they can be. Then it’s a question of how to say sorry to his friends…
In Spot?s Birthday Party, Spot and his friends celebrate by playing a game of hide-and-seek, with a little help from the lift-the-flaps for which Spot books have become famous. Once everyone has been found, it?s time for a party with lots of presents!
It’s Monkey’s birthday and everyone’s invited! But who will win the Best-Dressed prize? Lioness, in her slinky dress? Or maybe Hippo, in her tutu? Whoever wins, these animals are going to boogie all night long!
It’s Angelina’s birthday and there’s going to be a party. But when Angelina breaks her bike while racing her best friend, Alice, she thinks the day is ruined. There is, however, a solution to the problem and Angelina’s birthday turns out to be the happiest – and the most surprising – one ever.
The Little Princess wants to have two birthdays, just like the Queen, which means twice as many presents every year! When she realises how much fun two birthdays are, she decides she wants three, then four. But the more birthdays she has, the less special they are. Perhaps having one birthday a year isn’t so boring after all…
Lift the flaps to open the presents and find out what is in the basket – the best present of all!
It’s hard to be patient when you’re only a very little bear, and Little Pip cannot wait until his birthday. And he’s driving Papa Grizzle nuts! Every day he wakes up and asks the same question. Poor Daddy Grizzle . . . and poor Pip! How will he be able to wait until the big day? Luckily, Pip has his big Daddy Grizzle there to help. An hilarious and endearing story that every parent will recognise!
This gorgeous book might just be the perfect birthday read for three to five year olds! It’s Lily Mouse’s birthday but she doesn’t know what she will wish for when the time comes to blow out the candles on her special cake. How will Lily decide what her birthday wish should be? Little ones can follow Lily’s birthday tale and delight in the fantastic ending with birthday candles that light up and a Happy Birthday tune!
It’s Peppa’s birthday and she is very excited. There is going to be a party – with presents and games and a cake – hooray! There will even be a special show from Magic Daddy. Abracadabra! But will Peppa’s birthday wish come true when she blows out her candles?
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A little girl chooses a birthday present for her friend John, all by herself. She really doesn’t want to give it to him, but mum enoourages her. After an enjoyable afternoon with tea, cakes and games, it’s time to go home. John doesn’t want to give her one of his birthday balloons, but his mum persuades him. A warm and funny depiction of a girl’s first experience of a birthday party. Helen Oxenbury’s First Storybooks perfectly describe the small but memorable events of childhood. The words are a delight and are perfect for reading aloud, while the pictures offer warm, affectionate visions of a child’s world, which parents and children will instantly recognize and love.
Topsy and Tim are always finding fun adventures in the real world, and this story is reassuring for young children having first experiences of their own. It’s Topsy and Tim’s birthday and that means a party! Follow their adventures as they hang the decorations, open their presents and share the fun with all their friends.
After organizing three fun birthday parties in one week, Mr. Birthday is upset when he learns that there is another birthday coming, but he cannot remember whose birthday it is.
The Moomin family and their friends are the delightful creation of Tove Jansson, and are full of a particular humour and magic that has enchanted generations of children and adults alike. Using the author’s original characters and artwork, Moomin and the Birthday Button is part of a stunning new range of children’s titles launching in the year of the Moomins’ 65th anniversary celebrations.
In this, the first of a new series of picture books, Moomintroll wakes up full of excitement. It’s his birthday! But when it appears that his friends have forgotten all about his special day, Moomintroll is very upset. Even Moominmamma finds it hard to comfort him! Then there’s a knock at the door . . . Who can it be, and what will happen next?
Although Little Miss Birthday has a perfect record for giving people the best birthday presents, she is stumped when she must find a gift for Mr. Wrong.
The day before Kipper’s birthday he prepares his party invitations and makes a cake. He invites everyone to his party tomorrow, but doesn’t deliver the invitations until the next day. Hence all sorts of confusion. When exactly is my birthday, wonders Kipper. Is it today or was it yesterday? Maybe it’s tomorrow. However, when his friends finally arrive, they bring the perfect present.
Harry and his dinosaurs love birthday parties, so Harry’s disappointed when big sister, Sam, says she’s going to one – alone. Not only is it Mr Oakley’s birthday, but Harry finds out that it’s the dinosaurs’ one hundred millionth birthday too! Harry decides to throw a surprise birthday party and soon even Sam helps to make the party treats. Mum invites Mr Oakley over and he is very surprised when he arrives; in fact, everyone agrees that it’s the best birthday party ever!
It’s Winnie’s birthday and she’s celebrating in style with a garden party. She uses all sorts of magic to invite the guests and transform her garden into the perfect party venue. There are presents to unwrap and games to play but then things start to go wrong when Winnie toots on the magic trumpet that cousin Cuthbert has given her. All her guests disappear! Winnie’s party is suddenly in danger of being a rather bothersome occasion but, true to form, Winnie soon has everything back under control and she ends the party with a stunning edible surprise for all her guests to enjoy.
It’s Maisy the mouse’s birthday! Pull the tabs, lift the flaps and celebrate in this novelty classic! Maisy’s having a birthday party and there are lots of fun things to do. Lift the flaps, pull the tabs and watch her open her presents, play party games and blow out the candles on her cake. You can even join in singing “Happy Birthday” to Maisy!
If you go down to Dragon Wood today, you’re in for a big surprise. With cakes and candles, fearsome dragons and best friends too, there’s nothing quite like a birthday in Dragon Wood…
A curious little Dragon has a very important football match, and it’s his best friend, the Benjamin’s birthday too. Will his team win the match? And what exactly is a birthday party? Find out in this new picture book, the magical sequel to the much-loved Guess What I Found in Dragon Wood.
When the man with the yellow hat tells George that he is planning a surprise, of course George is curious. Before long George finds a hat, noisemakers, decorations and games. It must be a birthday! But whose birthday is it? That’s the surprise! Curious George stars in his own movie, featuring the vocal talents of Will Ferrell and Drew Barrymore.
Angelina Mouseling races her friend Alice on her bicycle but bumps into a rock and smashes up her bike! Mr and Mrs Mouseling tell her she must earn some money for a new one and so Angelina and Alice do jobs for people in the town. Everyone turns up to her birthday party on bikes and Angelina is amazed to find that all the members of her family have joined together to buy her a new bike as a surprise. Angelina and her friends go off on a wonderful celebration bicycle ride.