NOVELTY BOOKS SERIES
Felt Flaps Where’s Mr Pirate? Ingela P Arrhenius (illus) 24th June, board, £6.99, 9781788005685
Where’s Mrs
f Car?
with a flap to lift on every page. Illustrated with wit and heart, this book celebrates the colours and diversity of our cities.
Pat-a-Cake SERIES
Clap Hands Kat Uno (illus) board, £6.99, 97815263824 Here Come the Cars 10th June, 67 Here Come the Tractors 4th February, 74
Where’s Mrs Car Camilla Reid,
Ingela P Arrhenius (illus) 4th March, 9781839940613
Clap hands and play with this range of exciting toddler touch-and-feel books. With textures to feel and a fun matching game at the end.
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Hide and Peek Laura Hambleton (illus) 1st April, board, £5.99, 97815263825 Creepy Crawlies 35
Where’s Mrs Doctor Ingela P Arrhenius (illus) 29th April, 9781839942914 The original, award- winning Felt Flap series, perfect for babies and toddlers. Each title has five spreads with friendly characters to find behind colourful felt flaps.
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Peekaboo Camilla Reid,
Ingela P Arrhenius (illus) board, £7.99, 97817880057
Peekaboo Sun 1st July, vol 6 46
Peekaboo House 3rd June, vol 5 77
On the Farm 42 With new friends to meet, colours to name, things to spot and lots to count, these peek-through books are perfect to share with little ones.
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Peek-a-Boo Baby Zoe Waring (illus) board, £5.99, 97815263828 Miaow 13th May, 25 Roar 13th May, 32 Buzz 4th March, 49 Peek-a-Boo, every baby’s favourite game, is brought to life in these fun, bright, lift-the-flap board books. Simple questions and pictures of cute animals will have babies squealing with delight.
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Peekaboo Cow 4th March, vol 4 84 New slider board series from the team behind the Felt Flaps.
What Do Animals Do All Day? 8th July, board, £6.99, 97815263831 Honeybee 36
Elephant 43 With lift-the-flap games and a fun ’Did You Know?’ fact on every page, these bright, interactive books will teach little ones what animals do all day.
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100 First Words: City Edward Underwood (illus) 3rd June, board, £12.99, 9781788006644 Large-format board book
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Bath Time Gwé (illus) 13th May, bath, £7.99, 97815263831 Turtle 81 Whale 98 These bath books change colour in water. Perfect to share with babies at bath time.
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Where’s Brian’s Bottom? Rob Jones 4th February, board, £6.99, 9781843654667 Brian is a very long sausage dog. He’s so long he’s lost his bottom. Fun two-metre-long concertina book.
Penguin Books
Puffin Funny Stories for 6 Year Olds 1st April, audiobook, £6.99, 9780241504154 Puffin Funny Stories for 7 Year Olds 9780241504178 Puffin Funny Stories for 8 Year Olds 9780241504192 Collections of original audio stories for raising lots of laughs and giggles.
Phaidon
This is Still Not a Book Jean Jullien 15th March, board, £12.95, 9781838662745 Playfully deceptive, joyously interactive follow-up to award- winning author and illustrator’s bestselling This Is Not A Book.
Puffin
Moomin Baby: Buzzy Book Tove Jansson 17th June, ragbook, £9.99, 9780241454343
Super soft buggy book. Pull the tag and feel it jiggle.
Scholastic Non-Fiction
Now Go to Sleep! Matt Carr 6th May, pb, £6.99, 9780702306235 Shirley Sheep comes to the rescue in this follow-up to Now Wash Your Hands. Funny and calming story to make the most of night-time routines.
Unicorn Mosaic Sticker Book 1st July, pb, £6.99, 9780702307898 Youngsters can create 14 beautiful unicorn mosaics with this sticker activity book.
Barn in a Box John Townsend, Yauhen Paleski (illus) 28th March, boxed pack, £12.99, 9781913337971 The farm animals in the nine mini-books in this boxed set are the subject of rhyming stories about what they’re getting up to in the warm and cosy barn.
Simon & Schuster Children’s Books
Supertato Sticker Skills Paul Linnet, Sue Hendra 13th May, pb, eb, £5.99, 9781398502468 Perfect for fans of the Supertato series, this must-have sticker book is packed with games, activities and hundreds of stickers.
Templar
Pop Inside: Jungle Homes Mariana Ruiz Johnson (illus) 1st April, hb, £16.99, 9781787416918
Enchanting pop-up book takes a peek inside six different jungle habitats. Little ones will love lifting the flaps and opening the gatefolds to make each scene come to life.
Gigantosaurus: The Roarsome Colouring & Activity Book 4th February, pb, £6.99, 9781787418448 Explore Cretacia with this roarsome activity book. Colouring, drawing, word searches and crosswords, spot the difference, mazes and can-you-find? activities plus more than 200 stickers.
Usborne SERIES
Touchy-Feely Sound Books Sam Taplin, Ana Martin Larranaga board, £12.99, 97814749 Don’t Tickle the Pig! 4th March, vol 1 81323 Don’t Tickle the Crocodile! 29th April, vol 2 81330
Poppy and Sam and the Lamb Sam Taplin, Simon Taylor-Kielty 4th March, vol 1, board, £7.99, 9781474981354 Poppy and Sam and the Kitten Sam Taplin, Simon Taylor-Kielty (illus) 29th April, vol 2, 9781474981231
Delightful finger-puppet books in which children can bring animals to life on their adventures on Apple Tree Farm.
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Sound Books Sam Taplin, Federica Iossa (illus) board, £12.99, 97814749 Dinosaur Sounds 4th February, vol 1 76732 Seashore Sounds 27th May, vol 2 90042 Press the pages to hear the sounds of the seashore and the prehistoric world. With bright illustrations and lots to spot on every page.
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Pop-ups Pop-Up-Animals Anna Milbourne 1st April, board, vol 1, £10.99, 9781474968027 Pop-Up Birds Laura Cowan, Giulia Lombardo 27th May, vol 2, 9781474986045 Meticulously crafted and beautifully illustrated books with a pop-up surprise on every spread.
Peep Inside a Fairy Tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears Anna Milbourne, Mar Ferrero (illus) 4th March, board, £9.99, 9781474968805 Beautiful retelling of the classic fairy tale with flaps to lift and delicate, laser- cut holes to peep through.
Don’t Tickle the Unicorn! 27th May, vol 3 93876
Don’t Tickle the Bear! 8th July, vol 4, 9781474976756
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Usborne Book and Jigsaw £9.99, 97814749
Tickle the touchy-feely patches and hear the animals make noises in this brilliantly innovative, humorous series. Winner of the Baby & Toddler award at the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards 2020.
The Tree of Life Alice James, Mar Hernandez 1st April, hb, vol 2 92145 Dinosaur Timeline Book and Jigsaw Rachel Firth, James Gilyard (illus) 4th February, jigsaw, vol 1 86908 Give the gift of curiosity with these brilliant boxed sets, each containing a highly illustrated 300-piece jigsaw and accompanying book.
Walker Books
Love: A Pop-up Celebration Robert Sabuda 4th February, hb, £20, 9781406395709 Gorgeous pop-up book of animals with a heartwarming message of unconditional love, from the acclaimed paper artist.
My RSPB Sticker Activity Book: Rainforest Stephanie Fizer Coleman (illus) 1st July, pb, £5.99, 9781529500585 Learn about rainforest animals and birds with fun things to do and more than 100 stickers.
Wayland SERIES
Infomojis Jon Richards and Ed Simkins pb, £8.99, 978152630 Cars and Vehicles 10th June, vol 4 6968 Planet Earth 10th June, vol 3 7026 Sports 8th April, vol 2 7064 Inventions 8th April, vol 1 8856 Emoji-based fact book that takes infographics to the next evolution— injecting fun into facts.
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Monster Science Joy Lin, Violet Tobacco 8th July, hb, £12.99, 9781526313 The Science Behind Zombies, Mummies and Frankenstein’s Monster vol 2 331 The Science Behind Vampires, Witches and Ghosts vol 1 683 Myth-busting science behind the hottest monsters in pop culture.
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