Item category 1: Oversize

All Jim has to do is pass the jam, but unfortunately he's more interested in eating it. Pass the Jam, Jim, is an amusing tale with a quirky rhyming text.

It's Mr Large's birthday and Mrs Large has prepared him a meal. But Mr Large arrives home tired and falls asleep while reading the children their bedtime story and then Mrs Large does the same. The kids put themselves to bed, taking the food with them.

Somewhere in my house is a monster. A monster who eats books. What I need to do is set a clever trap to catch a book munching monster, but someone keeps getting in my way. Children will delight in spotting that the monster isn't the real culprit.

In their search to discover where Spot might be, young readers will enjoy turning the unusually large pages and lifting sizable flaps which enhance the typically simple text and bright colours that make Spot books so appealing.

Willy the chimp is lonely, until he bumps into a gorilla called Hugh Jape. Soon a touching friendship grows between the two. Willy can read to Hugh, and Hugh can save little Willy from the attentions of Buster Nose.

This collection of counting and chanting rhymes have been chosen to support the literacy hour and numeracy hour. They are designed to help young children to learn to count, and to explore and develop an understanding of poetry.

Colour and animals are shown (with a few surprises) together with a simple rhyming text, which contains some repetitive phrases.