A Christmas Bride

Packed full of fun, What the Ladybird Heard at Christmas is a fantastically lively rhyming adventure from the bestselling picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. In a big old house, the ladybird is visiting her friend the spider for the festive season. But those two bad men, Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, are up to no good again.They have a devious plan - to steal the children's Christmas presents from their stockings! It's a good thing that the clever little ladybird has overheard their awful plotting, and she has a cunning plan to make sure they don't get away with it. The fifth title in the Number One bestselling series from the award-winning team of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, which has been enjoyed by over four million children worldwide. Enjoy more adventures with the clever little ladybird in What the Ladybird Heard, What the Ladybird Heard Next, What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday and What the Ladybird Heard at the Seaside.

The Big Christmas Bake is a funny, lively romp through the twelve days of Christmas, taking the elements of the popular carol, and weaving them cleverly into the ingredients for a Twelfth Night Cake. Starting with the partridge and its gift of dried fruit, this rhyming story includes all of the familiar characters from the song as they all contribute to the baking of the magnificent Twelfth Night cake. A trio of french hens bring baking powderSix geese bring eggs, and lots of feathers tooTen lords help carry the cake into the oven ready to bakeAt the end of the story, there is a recipe included to bake your own cake at home, giving this book the potential to be a favorite Christmas story as well as a resource to be used every year in introducing a twelfth-night cake tradition to a family. Characterfully illustrated by Pippa Curnick The Big Christmas Bake is a beautiful, lyrical, and gently humourous Christmas story for the whole family to enjoy.

The Snowman flies again in this follow-up to the much-loved Christmas classic - now celebrating its 10th anniversary!Billy and his mum have moved into a new house just before Christmas, but Billy isn't very full of festive cheer, as his beloved old dog has passed away. So when the snow falls and Billy starts to build a Snowman, he knows exactly what to do - he builds a Snowdog too! Then, later that night, something magical happens... and Billy embarks on the most wonderful snowy adventure.The Snowman is the perfect festive read for ALL the family! Look out for more Snowman titles to read together:For little ones: The Snowman board bookFor younger children: The Snowman classic wordless picture book For readers aged 7+: The Snowman - beloved author Michael Morpurgo has re-imagined Raymond Briggs' classic for a whole new generation of readers

Each big page in this fun-packed book features a jolly Christmas scene, crammed full of things to spot, puzzles to solve and details to doodle and draw, and there are more puzzles and pictures to colour on the back of each sheet.

The ideal stocking-filler for young puzzle-lovers, this book contains 100 festive crosswords to keep little elves and angels full of cheer for the 12 days of Christmas and beyond. Their themes range from Santa and his reindeer, decorations and jolly snowmen to gifts, nativity, carols, songs and holiday food - with a feast of general knowledge besides. The grids grow gradually more challenging as the book progresses and are perfect for quiet times alone or playing with friends and family. Ideal screen-free fun, and great for children's spelling and vocabulary, too. All the answers are at the back of the book.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me a partridge in a pear tree…’ A stunningly illustrated little board book version of the well-known, traditional Christmas song, which is perfect for sharing over the festive season. Each page depicts a different line from the song, brought to life by Violeta Dabija’s lavish and richly coloured illustrations. Little children will love hearing this festive rhyme read aloud, while more confident readers can enjoy it alone.