Item category 2: Picture books

This warm and humorous book encourages children to compare the past with the present and to discuss their own family history. The story also enables children to see that birth and death are just part of the cycle of life.

Moses describes the emotion of anxiety as it is experienced by young children. Readers will identify with Gordon's humorous and inventive depictions of what it is like to be worried, and will be inspired by the various solutions on offer.

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.

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.

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.