Encouraging precious moments with your children
One cherry, one cheetah
Two dogs, two balls, one big, one small
Three bears, three bowls, three silver spoons
With playful words and beautiful animal paintings, this spectacular counting book features numbers up to ten in words and numerals, illustrated in watercolour, with gold and silver leaf, and including elephants, tigers, swans, mice and more.
Six presents, five balloons, four pieces of cake …all lead to one birthday hug! A delightful celebration of numbers with everyone’s favourite bear, Hugless Douglas.
How many owls can you find in this playful book of numbers? Count to five with Billy Blue Owl as he searches for his friends. Bright artwork, finger-holes and a cheerful rhyming story make learning come alive!
Count to ten in this delightful Splosh the duck board book from the bestselling author David Melling.
This bright, bold rhyming story from the creator of Hugless Douglas is a wonderfully funny introduction to numbers and counting for the very young and great to read aloud.
Count from one to ten with the adorable Splosh and his hilarious fluffy duck friends as they waddle, quack and flap along the diving board. Will they be brave enough to dive into the paddling pool?
Get to know how numbers feel with Baby Touch and Feel Numbers, let them touch and learn about numbers one to ten with a cuddly dog, furry cats, shiny fire engines, fuzzy ducklings and more!
Encourage your baby to learn early concepts such as colours, shapes and patterns as they turn each page. The easily recognisable images and labels will encourage recognition and naming of objects while the textured format promotes sensory learning.
This chunky package is perfect for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and young minds to develop. Sturdy pages with rounded corners means Baby Touch and Feel Numbers will provide hours of enjoyment.
Mike Boldt’s bright and playful picture book asks a big question: Which is more important, numbers or letters?
Numbers and letters, the colorful characters in this story, compete to be the stars of this book. Their debate escalates when funny animals and props arrive—starting with 1 alligator, 2 bears, and 3 cars. Who is this book really about?
In the end, the answer is clear. This fresh and funny picture book plays with both numbers and letters in the most imaginative way.
From kittens to cows to bowls of mush, the familiar images from his father’s illustrations inspired Thacher Hurd with the idea for Goodnight Moon 123. These comforting images find new expression in this counting companion to the classic bedtime book.
In this classic Spot book, flaps on every page reveal an increasing number of surprises as every toddler’s favourite puppy, Spot, counts from one to ten, meeting farm animals along the way. One small mouse under some sacks is followed by two squirrels in a tree – all the way to ten cows in a barn. This book is lots of fun and full of surprises – and the perfect early learning tool for children learning to count.
A hysterical lift-the-flap sensation from the one-and-only Nick Sharratt! Count from one to ten – and back again – with a prancing parade of batty baa-lambs and crazy caterpillars. Lift the flaps, open the gatefold pages, and discover Wear-a-Bra-Lambs, Bobble-Hatterpillars, Draculaargh-Lambs and Acrobatterpillars. With a counting theme, toddler-resistant flaps and a pop-up finale, this is absolute genius from the much-loved creator of Elephant Wellyphant. Counting these sheep won’t send you to sleep!
Introduce babies and toddlers to counting, and to Beatrix Potter’s famous characters with this Peter Rabbit 123 book! This beautiful padded board book covers numbers 1 to 10, and includes lovely noisy flip-flap tab. Pull the tab, watch the numbers flash by, and see how fast you can count to ten! Join Peter Rabbit, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs Tittlemouse and lots of other animal friends inside.
1, 2, 3 – go! It’s time to count with Alfie… Alfie and Annie Rose make two, and take you on a journey all the way to 10! It takes two to see-saw, and there’s four in Alfie’s family. Alfie’s world is full of numbers: fingers and toes and children playing. You can count on Alfie!
Our exciting new Wilbur toddler and baby board book series is based on the bestselling picture books by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul. Wilbur the cat is cuddly, friendly, and ready to introduce babies and toddlers everywhere to early-learning concepts with a dash of his very own feline mischief.
Designed to introduce numbers to very young children.
Illustrated with Jo Litchfield’s handmade models.
Each page features a robust tab enabling children to quickly locate their favourite scenes.
Familiar scenes and objects encourage number skills
One Moomin, two trees, three umbrellas, four clouds . . .
Count along with Moomintroll all the way from one to ten, and beyond. A companion volume toMoomin’s Little Book of Words, this chunky little board book is just right for little hands and early learning – and there’s plenty of Moomin magic along the way.
Four little books bursting with early learning animal antics!
Nick Sharratt’s trademark bold illustrations and sense of humour make this the really fun way for kids to learn about counting, patterns, colours and opposites. The slipcase contains four colourful and sturdy board books which will keep children entertained for hours! And best of all the handy pocket size means it’s small enough to take with you everywhere!
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 – learn to count with your favourite mouse in this brand new look-and-touch board book!
Lovable Maisy Mouse is counting her favourite animals. Help her count one, two, three, four, five… butterflies, tortoises, fizzy fish, swirly snails and one stripy tiger will guide you through your first numbers in this truly delightful Maisy introduction to counting. This gorgeous board book combines bright, vivid colours with embossing and texture, and makes learning about numbers an exciting, tactile adventure! The joyful final spread – a fun-filled menagerie featuring Maisy and all her animal pals – ties everything together and recaps all the numbers you’ve learned one last time.
Introduce your child to the wonderful world of words and reading with Big Busy Book Words, part of the new board-book series from DK. This book is great for pre-school children who are starting to recognise words and explore the world around them. Seven exciting pictures introduce your child to vital first-word themes such as ‘My Home’ and ‘Colours and Counting’.
Enjoy each page together as intriguing flaps reveal new surprises and labelled pictures encourage the naming of objects and early-reading skills. Help your child prepare for those first days at school with sections on first colour and number skills, all designed to challenge young children and help them to recognise words as they learn to read and develop a strong vocabulary.
Ten friendly fish, on a swim one day.
One sees a starfish and splashes off to play!
Follow the adventures of ten bright, bold, 3D fish as they swim off through the ocean together and visit their sea friends one by one.
It’s snowing in the woods and the animals can’t wait to go out to play! Join them as they get ready to play snowy games in this enchanting counting book with shiny snowflakes to touch and count, that disappear as you turn the pages.
Follow the adventures of ten friendly little gingerbread men in this fun interactive counting book with bright, appealing illustrations and a surprise pop up ending.
This fantastic counting book with a sweet night-time story is perfect for parents to read with their toddlers before nap time or bedtime. As night falls around the world, count the twinkly stars as one-by-one they disappear over the sleepy animals’ heads. A fantastic book for toddlers learning first numbers, Ten Twinkly Stars will help children learn to count down from ten as each sleepy animal goes to bed. With shiny stars that little fingers will love to feel as they count down. As each page turns one less star is visible helping to illustrate the concept of counting down.
This humorous counting book features chunky plastic tadpoles and a fantastic pop-up finale. The moulded tadpoles will help little ones with the counting activity and make it great fun to read time and again!
Winner of a Practical Pre-school Gold Award 2006.
This fantastic counting book with a sweet story is perfect for parents to read with their toddlers before nap time or bedtime. Join the baby farmyard animals as one by one they catch the little kisses before cuddling up with their mummies. A fantastic book for toddlers learning first numbers, Ten Little Kisses will help children learn to count down from ten as each baby farm animal catches a kiss. With shiny red 3D hearts for kisses that little fingers will love to feel as they count down. As each page turns one less ‘kiss’ is visible helping to illustrate the concept of counting down.
Follow the bright, bold bugs as they buzz through the jungle in this fun counting book. With appealing illustrations, chunky plastic bugs to touch and count, and a surprise pop up ending.
Ten crunching caterpillars in the bright sunshine,
One fell asleep, so that left…nine!
Follow the adventures of these bright, bold caterpillars in this funky, rhyming, counting book with a surprise pop-up at the end! The moulded die-cuts of the caterpillars provide a tactile element and will help little ones with the counting activity and make it great fun to read time and again!
Spot’s First Numbers is a bright, colourful touch-and-feel book that teaches babies and toddlers numbers from one to five, featuring Eric Hill’s classic childhood character Spot.
Make learning fun with this first concept book for toddlers. Spot introduces tactile numbers with interesting textures to encourage counting from one balloon to five crayons.
Learning to count is great fun with Eric Hill’s lovable puppy Spot. This chunky book has strong tabs for children to grab on to, to help them turn the pages and find the their way through the book. Big, bright illustrations of fun things from Spot’s world that will be easily identified by toddlers, make it very easy for your little ones to count along. Toddlers love learning how to count and Spot is here to help them!
Learn to count with this quirky cast of animal characters by award-winning illustrator, Britta Teckentrup. Big ideas for little learners!
Our exciting new Wilbur toddler and baby board book series is based on the bestselling picture books by Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul. Wilbur the cat is cuddly, friendly, and ready to introduce babies and toddlers everywhere to early-learning concepts with a dash of his very own feline mischief.
A charmingly illustrated first number book, perfect for introducing the very young to counting up to five. With vibrant colours and things to talk about and count on every page, providing a fun aid to counting and vocabulary building. Sturdy board book with rounded corners.
Invites the reader to count along as Rainbow Fish swims over, under, around, and through the numerals one through ten and different numbers of undersea creatures and plants.
Pull the chunky tabs and reveal the words! A book about counting with adorable pet characters, which helps make learning fun! The bright, bold illustrations are full of humour, and little ones will love pulling the chunky tabs and helping the creatures ‘talk’. The speech bubbles will help them to join in and the mirror ending will encourage them to make some noise themselves! Includes numbers 1-5.
One little girl wakes up to a fairy-tale world. She spies two dancing feet from the Golden Goose tale, three hungry bears just meeting Goldilocks, and four royal mattresses between the princess and the pea. With many objects to count on each colorful page, 1 2 3 is perfect for children learning their numbers 1 though 10.
All the animals are busy lending a hand in the garden in this lively numbers book. The parrots are pulling up carrots, the bears arepicking pears and a swarm of bees are pruning the trees with their miniature shears.
What better attention-getter for small children than primates in all their variety? And who better to render them than Anthony Browne? In this elegant counting book, the author-illustrator outdoes himself with a vivid presentation of primates from gorillas to gibbons, macaques to mandrills, ring-tailed lemurs to spider monkeys. With his striking palette, exquisite attention to detail, and quirky flair for facial expressions, Anthony Browne slyly extends the basic number concept into a look at similarities and differences — portraying an extended family we can count ourselves part of.
This simple lift-the-flap numbers book works hard to support your child’s development. Most importantly, it makes learning fun.
“Star light, star bright, count and wish on the stars
tonight . . .”
A dreamy counting book with rhyming text featuring Moomintroll and his friends to enchant toddlers as they count from 10 bright stars to daybreak!
A delightful picture book specially designed to help young children develop vital early number skills. Scenes include ‘one Fairytale Castle’, ‘four brave pirates’ and ‘ten munching caterpillars’.
Ideal for very young children, this sturdy board book is full of favourite farmyard creatures. With bold illustrations and chunky flaps to lift, this is a perfect introduction to animals and counting.
