Science tells us that young children develop best when they are read to. In this follow-up to Read to Your Baby Every Day, soothe your toddler with retellings of traditional folk tales, fairy tales and fables from around the world paired with images of Chloe Giordano’s charming hand-embroidered illustrations on cloth. Every tale is the perfect length to read aloud to your toddler before bedtime and carries a message of empathy, friendship and care for the world around us. Bond with your toddler and help them grow as you read to them these timeless stories:THE THREE WISHES, Scandinavia
THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER, Ancient Rome
BRER RABBIT AND THE WELL, North America
HOW THE BEAR LOST HIS TAIL, Iroquois
THE MAGIC PEAR TREE, China
WHY THE BANANAS BELONG TO THE MONKEY, Brazil
THE FISHERMAN AND THE GENIE, Syria
THE STONECUTTER, Japan
THE RAINBOW SERPENT, Indigenous Australia
THE CLEVER LITTLE TURTLE, Mexico
THE SCRUFFY DUCKLING, Denmark
THE LION AND THE THORN, Ancient Greece
ANANSI AND THE TURTLE, Caribbean
KING MIDAS, Ancient Greece
A BAG FULL OF STORIES, Cambodia
THE MICE AND THE ELEPHANTS, India
SNOWFLAKE, THE SNOW CHILD, Russia
WHY CATS CHASE MICE, Nigeria
HOW THE WREN BECAME KING OF THE BIRDS, Ireland
THE FEAST, Mali

Read To Your Toddler Every Day: 20 folktales to read aloud (Stitched Storytime, 2)

Children's Books

Brownridge, Lucy

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Frances Lincoln Children's Books

A beautifully written collection of short retellings of well loved fairy tales, folk tales and fables from around the world. Each a perfect length to read aloud to your toddler before bedtime. Illustrated with charming embroidered artwork by Chloe Giordano.

Read To Your Toddler Every Day

Literature & Fiction

Portrait of an Artist: Claude Monet /anglais

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

QUARRY

A beautifully told art story for children, looking at Claude Monet's life through his masterpieces. Accompanied by stunning original illustrations from Caroline Bonne-Muller. â??â??â??â??â?? - The Portrait of an Artist series is an excellent introduction to art and its importance to our world. Claude Monet is one of the best loved artists of all time. Find out how this special young painter strove to capture light and feeling in his paintings and how together with a group of talented friends, he came to start the most famous art movement of all time, Impressionism. In his long life he experienced war and heartbreak, love and the joy of family. See how his life shaped each piece of art he made and that throughout it all he never stopped trying to paint the ever changing light and glimmering water. In the end he built himself a garden filled with both, with waterlilies floating on dappled ponds setting the scene for his last, infamous masterpieces. A Monet masterpiece is featured on every spread. This art story also includes a closer look at 10 of Monet's masterpieces at the back.

Portrait of an Artist: Claude Monet: Discover the Artist Behind the Masterpieces

Biographies & Memoirs

Wide Eyed Editions

Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe /anglais

Teen & Young Adult

<div>A beautifully told art story for children, looking at Georgia O'Keeffe's&nbsp;life through her&nbsp;masterpieces. Accompanied by stunning original illustrations from Alice Wietzel.&nbsp; &#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733;&#9733; -&nbsp;The Portrait of an Artist series&nbsp;is an excellent introduction to art and its importance to our world. Georgia O'Keeffe is known as the Mother of American Modernism, discover why in this first story book about Georgia O'Keeffe. From humble beginnings living on a prairie farm, to taking the New York art scene by storm, to living a solitary life in the New Mexican desert, find out how Georgia's extraordinary life unfolded and how each place changed the ways her paintings came out. See how her life shaped her much loved masterpieces and find out why she is such an important figure in the history of art. An O'Keeffe&nbsp;masterpiece is featured on every spread. This art story also includes a closer look at 10 of O'Keeffe's masterpieces at the back.</div>

Portrait of an Artist: Georgia O'Keeffe: Discover the Artist Behind the Masterpieces

Biographies

Journey back in time to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods with Illumisaurus, coming face-to-face with prehistory’s most spectacular dinosaurs, plants and animals. Bring this lost world to kaleidoscopic life with your magic three-colour viewing lens (included). 
With your lens in hand, discover amazing places and the creatures that roamed them many millions of years ago. Your green lens reveals a location, spanning 9 ancient land masses across millions of years. Learn how these places transformed over time to become the habitats of the most spectacular life on Earth. Your red lens brings to life the mightiest beasts ever to walk the planet: the dinosaurs. Meet a T. rex up close, run with packs of velociraptors and marvel at the gigantic brachiosaurus as you discover how these animals came to rule the Earth. Your blue lens uncovers the wildlife that lived alongside and after the dinosaurs, including monstrous dragonflies, woolly mammoths and fungi taller than trees. Fact pages fill in the details and guide you through a world bursting with life and colour. 
The latest in the bestselling Illumi series, Illumisaurus is a hidden-world adventure with a fascinating scientific angle, and the perfect gift fordinosaur enthusiasts 7 years and older. Innovative illustrations from award-winning design duo Carnovsky make this a natural history like no other, with hundreds of places, plants and creatures to discover on three layers of detailed artwork.\nHow many dinosaurs will you find on your prehistoric journey?\nSee 3 images in 1 with the eye-boggling Illumi series, featuring magic-lens artwork from creative design duo Carnovsky. Dinosaurs, animals, the human body, and even ghosts are envisioned like never before in this groundbreaking series. The explosions of colour on each page are in fact three distinct layers of illustrations, each exploring a different aspect of a fascinating subject. Use the three-colour lens to reveal the hidden details on each one, then read all about the topic on in-depth fact pages. There’s always something new to discover in Illumi!\nAlso available from the Illumi series: Illuminatlas, Illuminature, Illuminightmare and Illumanatomy.

Illumisaurus: Explore the world of dinosaurs with your magic three colour lens (Illumi: See 3 Images in 1)

Animals

<div> Journey back in time to the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods with Illumisaurus, coming face-to-face with prehistory's most spectacular dinosaurs, plants and animals. Bring this lost world to kaleidoscopic life with your magic three-color viewing lens (included). With your lens in hand, discover amazing places and the creatures that roamed them many millions of years ago. <ul> <li>Your green lens reveals a location, spanning 9&nbsp;ancient land masses&nbsp;across millions of years. Learn how these places transformed over time to become the habitats of the most spectacular life on Earth.</li> <li>Your red lens brings to life the mightiest beasts ever to walk the planet: the dinosaurs. Meet a T. rex up close, run with packs of velociraptors and marvel at the gigantic brachiosaurus as you discover how these animals came to rule the Earth.</li> <li>Your blue lens uncovers the wildlife that lived alongside and after the dinosaurs, including monstrous dragonflies, woolly mammoths and fungi taller than trees.</li> <li>Fact pages fill in the details and guide you through a world bursting with life and color.</li> </ul> The latest in the bestselling Illumi series, Illumisaurus is a hidden-world adventure with a fascinating scientific angle, and the perfect gift fordinosaur enthusiasts 7 years and older. Innovative illustrations from award-winning design duo Carnovsky make this a natural history like no other, with hundreds of places, plants and creatures to discover on three layers of detailed artwork. &nbsp; How many dinosaurs will you find on your prehistoric journey? &#8203;See 3 images in 1 with the eye-boggling&nbsp;Illumi&nbsp;series, featuring magic-lens artwork from creative design duo Carnovsky. Dinosaurs, animals, the human body, and even ghosts are envisioned like never before in this groundbreaking series. The explosions of color on each page are in fact three distinct layers of illustrations, each exploring a different aspect of a fascinating subject. Use the three-color lens to reveal the hidden details on each one, then read all about the topic on in-depth fact pages. There's always something new to discover in&nbsp;Illumi! Also available from the Illumi series: Illuminatlas, Illuminature,&nbsp;Illuminightmare,&#8203; and&nbsp;Illumanatomy. </div>

Illumisaurus: Explore the world of dinosaurs with your magic three color lens (Illumi: See 3 Images in 1)

This exquisitely illustrated treasury of narrative nonfiction stories about the natural world, organized season by season and around the world, shows children the infinite beauty and variety of nature in every part of the planet.\nArranged around the full cycle of a calendar year, each month chapter features four stories each from a different part of the world to show that while somewhere it is hot summer, somewhere else is in the middle of winter, while some are dry and others are rainy.\n48 story spreads tell fascinating single stories of animals and nature from each month of the year, showing how the changing of the seasons takes place around the world, promoting an international sense of the weather, seasons and cycles of nature from very big, to ever-so-small.\nThis captivating book will transport readers across the globe, teaching them about the different kinds of weather and wildlife all across the planet.

What Are You Doing Today, Mother Nature?: Travel the world with 48 nature stories, for every month of the year (Nature’s Storybook)

Count down to Christmas with the Cat Family in this lift-the-flap advent book with more than 140 doors to open, as you help them decorate, bake, and prepare the house for the holiday season.Count down the twelve days til Christmas in this delightful advent book. With a nod to nostalgic Victorian advent calendars , open up tiny but sturdy flap ‘doors’ on each one of the 24 pages to reveal little details and surprises .Peer inside the cupboard doors and different-sized tins in the busy Cat Family kitchen to find the missing ingredients for the cake. Open all the front doors on the street when the Cat Family go carol singing.This is a whimsical Christmas book that gives the Victorian advent calendar tradition a contemporary twist for advent calendar door–hungry hands. Every page is rich with Liberty print–style patterns and William Morris–inspired friezes.The Cat Family is full of character and personality , and the picture painted of the holiday season in this charming picture book will fill you and your family with Christmas cheer!

Cat Family Christmas: An Advent Lift-the-Flap Book /anglais

Frances Lincoln

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