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World of Anna Hibiscus 8 Books Collection Box Set by Atinuke:Anna Hibiscus:Anna Hibiscus lives in amazing Africa with her mother, her father, her baby twin brothers, and lots and lots of her family. Join her as she splashes in the sea, prepares for a party, sells oranges, and hopes to see sweet, sweet snow!Hooray for Anna Hibiscus!:Anna Hibiscus lives in amazing Africa with her family in a wonderful house in a beautiful garden in a big city. Join Anna as she sings for the president, gets in a terrible tangle with her hair and visits the other side of the city.Go Well, Anna Hibiscus:Anna Hibiscus and her family are going to the village with Grandfather. They travel by bus through mangrove swamp and rainforest, through scrubland and rivers, over hills and mountains.You're Amazing, Anna Hibiscus:In the eighth title of the series about the universally loved Anna Hibiscus, written by internationally renowned Nigerian storyteller Atinuke, Anna Hibiscus is worried: her twin brothers.Welcome Home, Anna Hibiscus:Anna Hibiscus is back home after visiting her grandma in Canada. But it seems that so much has changed while she was away!Have Fun, Anna Hibiscus:Anna Hibiscus has never been away from her home in Africa, surrounded by her parents and baby brothers, as well as all of her aunts and uncles and cousins.Love from Anna Hibiscus:Anna Hibiscus is on holiday with Grandmother and Grandfather in the village where they were born. She befriends the local children there and teaches them their ABC and 123.Good Luck, Anna Hibiscus!:Anna Hibiscus is looking forward to visiting her grandmother in Canada, where she will see snow for the first time!

Beautiful collage illustrations take the reader on an extraordinary visual journey to a primeval wilderness, which like so many others is now threatened. "My father says there has been a forest here for over a hundred million years," Jeannie Baker's young protagonist tells us, and we follow him on a visit to this tropical rain forest. We walk with him among the ancient trees as he pretends it is a time long ago, when animals that are now extinct or rare lived in the forest and aboriginal children played there. But for how much longer will the forest still be there, he wonders? 4 - 8 years 32 pages  

It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need.  4 - 8 years 40 pages

It can be a little scary to be small in a big city, but this child has some good advice for a very special friend in need.  4 - 8 years 40 pages

Readers will be mesmerized by these surreal and gorgeously rendered alphabet letters, cleverly shaped from flora, fauna, and more.At first glance, this elegant alphabet book showcasing both upper- and lowercase letters seems to follow a familiar formula. There’s an acrobat standing atop a horse to form a big letter A and another curled under herself to make a small one. There’s a colony of beetles attached to the leaves they’ve munched, creating a big and a small letter B. But then comes the letter C, made of sea waves evoking the artist Hokusai. Or a lowercase I in the form of a pen that has left an ink smudge, or two kingly beasts that create the letter K. And what of the many letters, equally fantastical and fascinating, whose associations are left to the viewers’ imaginations? Ingenious and intriguing, beautiful and full of stunning detail, this is an alphabet book sure to invite many repeat explorations. Baby - 3 years 48 pages

Maybe you’re good at spotting Waldo. But can you spot the difference? Head to the museum, where even the sharpest eyes are seeing double.Waldo is wandering through the museum, where there are some devilishly difficult differences to decipher. Finding Waldo and his buddies is hard enough, but who can spot the minutiae that separate one Egyptian tablet from another? The dastardly details that make two maritime scenes unalike? The itty-bitty discrepancies between the vintage books and scrolls? With more than five hundred differences to be delineated, this spin on the art of spotting Waldo—now available in paperback—will have fans of all ages lining up to take a look. 5 - 9 years 32 pages

In Guardians of Magic the award-winning, 2015-2017 UK Children's Laureate Chris Riddell weaves together a stunningly illustrated magical quest in which three ordinary children, with extraordinary gifts, come together to defeat the enemies who threaten the mysterious cloud horses. This is the first title in The Cloud Horse Chronicles series. The Kingdom of Thrynne is a place where fairy tales don’t behave, and magic can be found in unexpected places. But magic brings danger to Zam, Phoebe and Bathsheba, because it is forbidden.Now, the future of magic itself is under threat from powerful enemies: those who fear it and, worse, those who want to use it for their own ends.What can three ordinary children do to protect it? 9 - 11 years 320 pages

Nicola Davies, the award-winning author of A First Book of Nature, presents a spellbinding treasury of poems about the animal world, illustrated in breathtaking detail by Petr Horacek. Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, fireflies twinkling in the evening sky and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods - there are animals everywhere. From blue whales to bumblebee bats and everything in between, A First Book of Animals takes you all over the planet to visit all kinds of different creatures. This book is a glorious celebration of life in the wild in all its variety and splendour, and belongs on every child's bookshelf.

With the help of an adorable plush finger puppet, Little Nutbrown Hare springs to life in a game of hide-and-seek.Prompted by a refrain of "Where are you, Little Nutbrown Hare?" fans of Guess How Much I Love You will be happy to help act out a story starring their favorite furry pair. As Big Nutbrown Hare searches near a big tree, beside some flowers, and among the ferns, a Little Nutbrown Hare puppet pokes through on every spread, just waiting to bounce up and down and call out "Here I am!"

Cat has no idea what he wants — until it’s right in front of him.Cat is very hungry. But cat food is dry and dull and not at all yummy. So what in the world should Cat eat instead? Turtle eats worms, but worms are too wiggly. Fox eats rabbits, but rabbits are too bouncy. What everyone else loves to eat is thoroughly unappetizing to Cat. Until, by chance, the thing Cat really wants to eat appears right in front of him. What could it be? Christopher Silas Neal’s retro-style illustrations and easy-to-follow story are the perfect match for even the pickiest eaters — and the patient souls that feed them. 4 - 6 years 40 pages

Merdyn the Wild is from the Dark Ages. He's the world's greatest Warlock (don't call him a wizard), banished to the 21st century for bad behaviour, and he's about to create a whole load of trouble for Rose, aged 12.Rose is a totally ordinary girl, on a mission to mend her broken family.Bubbles is Rose's guinea pig. He just poos a lot.When Rose bumps into Merdyn and discovers what he is, she quickly realises that he could be just what she needs. Rose agrees to help Merdyn navigate the confusing ways of the modern world (things like: the lidded bowl in the bathroom is NOT a sink, it's a TOILET, so definitely DON'T wash your face in it) if Merdyn gives her a spell to fix her family in return.Now they just need to hide him in the shed without Rose's mum noticing, track down Merdyn's magic staff and find a way to send Merdyn back through time to the Dark Ages. What could possibly go wrong...? 7 - 11 years

Stop! Ons is hier!” roep Haas. Vos sit die tasse neer. “Is jy seker dat dit hier is?” vra hy.“Ek sien net sand. En water. En twee bome.” Die derde boek in die bekroonde reeks oor Vos en Haas sluit ten opsigte van die leesvlak en die verhaallyn by die vorige twee dele aan. Vos en Haas op die eiland is geskryf in kort sinne, met ’n effens meer gevorderde woordeskat wat rekening hou met die jong leser se begripsvermoe. Die wisselende lettergroottes ondersteun die intonasie en beklemtoning wanneer daar hardop gelees word

Lees net hier: "Haai, Vos! Haai, Haas!" Dit is Uil wat so roep. Hy sit in sy boom en wink deur die venster. "Dis snaaks," se Haas. "Baie snaaks," se Vos. Want vandat Uil 'n eier het, wil hy niemand sien nie. Vos en Haas, uit Sylvia Vanden Heede en illustreerder The Tjong-Khing se eerste Vos en Haas-"groeiboek", het die harte van ontelbare eerste lesers verower. Uiteindelik was daar 'n dik boek wat hulle heeltemal op hul eie kon lees. Nou is daar meer van Vos en Haas! Die stories en die karakters in Tot siens, Vos en Haas bou voort op die eerste boek, en ook die moeilikheidsgraad vorm 'n perfekte vervolg daarop. Soos die jong leser se vermoe groei, word die taalgebruik van die boek geleidelik moeiliker. Die stories is net so oorspronklik en vermaaklik as in die eerste boek.

Wolf is wild. Hond is mak. Wolf bly in die bos op 'n berg. Hond het 'n baas en 'n mandjie. 'n Kat pla vir Wolf. Hond moet hom help. Wat gaan hulle doen? Dit is 'n prettige storie vir beginner-lesers deur die skrywer van die veelbekroonde boeke oor Vos en Haas. Hierdie boek begin met eenvoudige woorde en kort sinne en word dan geleidelik 'n bietjie moeiliker. Die boek is egter so boeiend en snaaks dat die beginner-lesertjie dit nie eens sal agterkom nie!

Pluim besluit dis tyd om weg te kom uit die stad – en die lee hok in die heining lyk na 'n aanloklike alternatiewe woonplek. Die vierde boek in die bekroonde reeks oor Vos en Haas sluit ten opsigte van die leesvlak en die verhaallyn by die vorige drie dele aan.