21st March 2025 Top sellers


Pippa Goodhart, Nick Sharratt (illus) You Choose Bedtime


Puffin, 5th, £7.99, board, 9780241730577


Choose what toys to play with in the bath and which pyjamas to wear in bed in the latest book in the hugely popular You Choose series, publishing in a smaller board book format for younger readers.


Kes Gray, Jim Field (illus) Oi Dinosaurs! Hachette Children’s Group, 5th, £7.99, PB, 9781444971828


Pterosaurs do not sit on bendy straws and velociraptors do not sit on plug adaptors in the latest instalment in the hilarious Oi Frog and Friends series.


Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, Klas Fahlén (illus) Yves Saint Laurent Frances Lincoln Children’s Books, 5th, £9.99, HB, 9781836006619


Fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is the focus of the newest book in the Little People, Big Dreams series.


0-5 baby & toddler


Rose Ayling-Ellis ( 1) Rose Signs Good Morning!


DK, 5th, £7.99, board, 9780241681862


Learn the signs needed to start the day with Baby Rose and Kitten Casper, who go about their daily routine. Part of a new series from deaf actress Ayling-Ellis, and published simultaneously alongside Rose Signs Good Night! (886).


Carolina Búzio Toddler Talk: All Gone! Nosy Crow, 5th, £7.99, board, 9781805133391


This first in a new series explores the daily life of toddlers and has phrases that help a toddler’s language development, such as: “Feeling hungry? Time to cook! Mix and stir.”


The book was written in consultation with Priya Desai, a children’s speech and language therapist, and will be published alongside Toddler Talk: Let’s Go! (384).


Jo Byatt (illus) Busy Beach Campbell Books, 5th, £7.99, board, 9781035056217


In the latest book in the Busy Book novelty series, toddlers play with a beach ball, build a sandcastle and buy an ice-cream. Busy Safari (200) will also be out in June.


Ross Collins There’s a Mouse in My House


Nosy Crow, 5th, £6.99, board, 9781805136545


Collins’ hilarious story about a bear and the mouse who will not leave his house is being published in a cased board format for younger readers.


Nora Dare, Maria Neradova (illus) Ladybird Lane: Stanley’s Bedtime


Ladybird, 19th, £7.99, board, 9780241618639


In this new series about first experiences, Stanley the rabbit struggles to go to bed. Lift the flaps to help him find his slippers and a toothbrush, and look out for Dotty the helpful ladybird, who is hiding on every spread.


Sarah Finan


Banana, Banana, Banana! Post Wave Children’s Books, 26th, £7.99, board, 9781836270287


This sweet board book celebrates the popular banana – how it looks and feels, as well as how nice it is to taste.


Paul Friedrich The Backwards Alphabet Hachette Children’s Books, 2nd, £14.99, HB, 9781444981742


When Apple goes missing Zebra and Yak set out to find out what happened, in this quirky and funny alphabet book, published with graphic novel-style illustrations.


Pippa Goodhart I Can Count! Macmillan Children’s Books, 26th, £7.99, cased board, 9781035035854


Learn how to count to 10 and back with this colourful spot-and-say title from the author of the You Choose series.


Darcie Olley (illus) There Are 101 Jobs That People Do in This Book


Campbell Books, 26th, £9.99, board, 9781035055340


Find scientists, bakers, doctors, fashion designers and more in this chunky board book about all the different jobs people do. There Are 101 Sea Creatures in This Book, illustrated by Rebecca Jones, will also be out in June (647).


Lou Peacock,


Ingela P Arrhenius (illus) Don’t You Know It’s Bedtime?


Nosy Crow, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9781805135593


Bear is getting ready for bed but keeps getting interrupted. Mouse wants a snack, Crocodile has a broken toothbrush, Lion’s pyjamas are too small and Owl is making a noise. Can Bear help them all get ready for bed? A boldly coloured, comforting story about how tricky it can be to convince small children that they need to sleep.


Roger Priddy Little Baby Learns Animals


Priddy Books, 5th, £9.99, board, 9781916745841


Children learn about animals from different habitats and press out 12 different pieces, which match the illustrations. This book encourages fine motor skills and problem-solving, as well as teaching core vocabulary, says Macmillan, which will also release Little Baby Learns Numbers (858) in June.


Camilla Reid, Carly Gledhill (illus) Is Dot in the Tree? Macmillan Children’s Books, 12th, £7.99, board, 9781035031726


Manoeuvre the tabs to find where Dot is hiding in this interactive title, which also has a surprise mirror ending.


Michelle Robinson, Tony Neal (illus) Kiwi Needs a Wee-Wee


Hachette Children’s Books, 19th, £7.99, PB, 9781444974164


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One of Hachette’s key releases in June is this familiar and funny story about Kiwi, a young bird who wees in all kinds of strange places


until he learns to finally pee on the potty.


Michael Rosen, Helen Oxenbury (illus) We’re Going on a Bear Hunt: Pull, Slide and Play!


Walker Books, 5th, £7.99, board, 9781529525915


Little children can get actively involved in this board book version of Rosen and Oxenbury’s classic story by using their fingers to make the mechanisms move.


Rebecca Weerasekera Curious Baby DK, 5th, £7.99, board, 9780241683262


This high-contrast black, white and green book has raised, tactile pictures, a peep-through cover and a mirror.


Characters Aidan Onn,


Claudia Boldt (illus) Who Did This Poo? Hachette Children’s Books, 19th, £7.99, PB, 9781510231290


This funny and irreverent picture book, adapted from the bestselling board game, has facts about different animals and how they poo.


Rashmi Sirdeshpande Walking with Dinosaurs BBC Children’s Books, 5th, £14.99, HB, 9781405975865


Walking with Dinosaurs, which first aired in 1999, is returning to TV screens this year and will show the individual stories of different dinosaurs. Sirdeshpande worked with the BBC to create this dinosaur storybook based on the show, which has five self-contained narratives for readers aged six to nine.


Picture books Atinuke,


Angela Brooksbank (illus) M Is for Mango Walker Books, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9781406395693


Mo wakes up at his family home in West Africa and really wants a mango for breakfast. Luckily, the monkeys have plenty in their tree. Third in a series of third ABC-inspired picture books after B Is for Baby and L Is for Love.


Ella Bailey When I’m Big Flying Eye Books, 5th, £8.99, PB, 9781838742072


Paperback publication of Bailey’s story about a little dinosaur who heads out to find out who she is and where she came from. A reassuring tale about finding your destiny, pitched at children who are about to start nursery or school.


Beach Poopicorn Simon & Schuster Children’s Books, 19th, £7.99, PB, 9781398531956


After eating a magical flower, a unicorn gains the ability to push anything and everything out of her bum – hats, toys, a digger, the moon – but when it all becomes too much she must come up with a way of stopping these items from overwhelming her world. Gloriously silly.


Peter Bently, Tor Freeman (illus) Dogdunnit


Andersen Press, 5th, £7.99, PB, 9781839131820


Paperback publication of Bently and Freeman’s witty rhyming tale about a series of mysterious crimes, and the dogs who are arrested for having done the deeds. But is Judge Justice Mog who he says he is, and have the dogs been unfairly accused? Witty and fun.


Anne Booth, David Litchfield (illus) Come Back, Gosling


Templar Books, 5th, £12.99, HB, 9781800783072


A little girl and a gosling are best friends who love stories, but their friendship is put to the test when there is one book that the girl will not share. Heartwarming story about what friendship really means from the creative duo behind The Boy, the Troll and the Chalk, which is being published in paperback in June (065).


Peter Brown The Wild Robot on the Island


Piccadilly Press, 24th, £12.99, HB, 9781835871645


Picture book version of Brown’s novel The Wild Robot, about a robot that washes up and must learn to live on an island, which was recently adapted for the big screen.


Anthony Browne Big Gorilla: A Book of Opposites


Walker Books, 5th, £8.99, PB, 9781529523713


Learn about opposites in the new title from Browne, which is jam- packed with stunning illustrations of different primates. Previously published in hardback.


Lou Carter,


Deborah Allwright (illus) There Is No Giant in this Story


Bloomsbury Children’s, 19th, £7.99, PB, 9781526608208


A big, scary giant has come down the beanstalk and the other fairy-tale characters – including


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