Item category 2: Storytime & Novelty

Join in the simple, catchy rhyme in this madcap banana adventure. Featuring bananas in pyjamas, a llama panorama, an inflatable banana boat and lots of other silly nonsense that children will love. With a catchy counting rhythm, this is a great way to help children learn to count in a fun, access...

This is a tale of a small frog who learns the dangers of the garden from his friend the dragonfly. Frog survives his meetings with other creatures and all the dangers in the garden and finally finds his natural habitat in a beautifully safe pond.

What would you do if you were settling down for a quiet bedtime story and you realised that a crocodile had fallen into your storybook and was - not to put too fine a point on it - furious? Would you slam that book shut, cram it in the bookshelf for evermore or would you be brave enough to peek? ...

Help us, Patcho and Pigeon! It's the day of the ice cream festival and the evil Dr Jelly is causing trouble. We need you, our city's finest superheroes, to come and save the day.

Take care as you turn the pages - each one conceals a terrifying dinosaur waiting to leap off the pages of this pop-up book. Illustrations are brought to life in a riot of colour and detail as you turn each page to see a 3D scene emerge.

A little mouse hurries home across the farm, meeting the animals on the way but managing to avoid the farm cat. Each animal is animated as a pop-up feature or pull-the-tab.

Peter and Paul are the best of friends, but when Peter gets lost in a terrible storm he can't find Paul anywhere. With the help of a big blue whale Puffin Peter sets off to find him. They find all kinds of birds that match Peter's description but none of them is quite like Paul.

A witch and her cat fly over forests, rivers and mountains on their broomstick until a stormy wind blows away the witch's hat, bow and wand. They are retrieved by a dog, a bird and a frog, but each animal asks for a ride. Is there room on the broom? This is a large format version of Julia Donalds...

Enter the jungle and explore this noisy collection of animal poems for young children from one of Britain's best-selling contemporary poets Giles Andreae. David Wojtowycz's artwork illustrates the poems.