Most Popular Books by Ant Parker

Ginger the cat''s playful walk around the yard brings her more excitement than she expected. Movable flaps conceal portions of the illustrations.

Charlie Chick is good at counting... or is he? Lift the giant flaps on every spread to find out!With wonderful illustrations by Ant Parker, Charlie Chick Counting is the perfect book to teach your little chicks to count from one to ten.

Amazing Animals: Rainforest Romp by Tony Mitton and Ant Parker The author and illustrator of Amazing Machines know what preschoolers like and just how to present information to them. Now they turn their attention to animals, guiding readers on a trek through the South American rainforest to meet some truly amazing creatures. With bouncy rhyming text, a different animal featured on each spread, and plenty of background details, young readers are sure to enjoy the trip.

Sail boats, row boats, ferry boats and speedboats: find them all and discover how they work in this fun-filled picture book. Then take a cruise on an ocean liner, crewed by our favorite animal characters, in a jolly rhyming journey.

Four colorful toy vehicles, ready to roll into action, accompany this colorful, entertaining and informative paperback. Kids will love to play along with these exciting stories about a day in the life of a digger, a tractor, a truck and a jumbo jet, while they discover how the vehicles work and who operates them.

Does Charlie Chick know what each shape is called? Lift the giant flaps on each spread to find out!With stunning paper engineering by Nick Denchfield and wonderful illustrations by Ant Parker, Charlie Chick Shapes is the perfect book to teach your own little chicks all about shapes.

This playful and innovative jigsaw puzzle book introduces the basics of transportation with five amazing machine puzzles. Each sturdy puzzle contains nine large pieces, and the picture is printed underneath for ease of use. Full color. Consumable.

Colourful counting capers with a crowd of mischievous monsters! Young children will love to count the crazy characters as they pop up in this irresistible counting book. Turn the pages to see more and more friendly monsters appear - whether rowing a boat, balancing on board an aeroplane, or bobbing up and down in the sea... until ten are waving you goodbye! A simple, playful rhyming text and vibrant art ensure learning to count has never been such fun!

Young children will love lacing up their hiking boots and joining Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they take a walk through a North American evergreen forest to meet some truly amazing animals!

This bright, bold, and shiny book feeds a toddler''s need for speed! Each vehicle, from a racecar to a motorboat, is featured on a single spread for maximum impact.

Join Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they go on safari to meet some truly amazing animals! From From enormous elephants to lazy lions, there''s a different animal on every spread, plus many additional creatures to spot along the way! This delightful picture book series is the perfect introduction to some really wild animals. Each of the Amazing Animals books features simple, easy-to-read text and bright, fun illustrations of a variety of creatures in their natural habitat.

Join Bird, Mouse and Rabbit as they dive into the North Pacific Ocean to meet some truly amazing animals. From a playful pod of dolphins leaping in the waves to an awesome angler fish lurking in the deep, there''s a different animal on every page, plus many additional creatures to spot along the way! This delightful picture-book series is the perfect introduction to some really wild animals. Each of "The Amazing Animals" books features simple, easy-to-read text and bright, fun illustrations of a variety of animals in their natural habitat.

Join the wacky animal crew for the flight of a lifetime. From the airport to the flight deck, including how the plane flies, safety rules, in-flight and air traffic control, this book should tell children all they need to know.

Hector Sylvester the ostrich is tough. As he swaggers through the jungle, he is more than a match for the slippery snake, the snappy crocodile and the big, bad lion. He frightens them all away. Then he meets incey wincey spider dangling from a tree and Hector Sylvester is no longer bold and brave.

A board book offering big pictures of familiar objects. This " Baby`s Day Book" is diecut to the shape of a beaker to indicate teatime.

Let''s go to the park and play all day Press-out the animal friends and their toys, and bring everyone to the park on the reverse of this concertina book. On the park scene children can animate the animals and help them to fly a kite, rollerskate and play on the slide.

This board book identifies a plow, seed drill, mower, baler, and tractor and labels some of their parts.

Ginger is enjoying his catnap, until a clever mouse wakes him up and leads him on a merry chase.

"Machine-loving toddlers will delight in touching the glossy foiled pictures and learning what the vehicles do, while labels on key machine parts will help build their expanding vocabulary"--Page 4 of cover

Children''s literature continues to receive growing scholarly attention, and this is due, in part, to the increased awareness of the complexity of these works and their importance in the curriculum. While some books may become classics and continue to be read long after their publication, others are the product of contemporary society and reflect the changing values of modern American culture. So, too, those titles that have been singled out for recognition reveal the standards of awards committees. This reference is a guide to works of American children''s fiction that have won awards between 1995 and 1999. Some of the books were published before that period, and thus their recent recognition affirms their enduring value. Included are more than 750 alphabetically arranged entries for authors, titles, characters, and settings related to nearly 250 books. Entries for novels provide plot summaries and critical commentary, while those for authors give biographical information. The volume demonstrates the growing number of multicultural novels and books about nontraditional families, while it also shows the continuing importance of historical fiction and the waning appeal of traditional adventure novels. While the volume will be valuable to librarians and teachers and to scholars of children''s literature, it will also be useful to anyone interested in these works as a commentary on American culture at the close of the twentieth century.

Join Charlie Chick on his latest adventure in this exciting new carousel book with flaps to lift. Open out the three pop-up scenes to join Charlie as he plays a fun game of hide-and-seek with all his friends. Will you work out where everyone''s hiding before Charlie does?

Follow the life cycles of frogs and butterflies as they metamorphose from tadpoles and caterpillars in these entertaining and informative novelty books. There are flaps to lift on every page and a pop-up surprise finale!