Best Selling Books by Colin Hawkins

Children from the age of 4 needs lots of practice in their efforts to become good at reading, writing, and spelling. The activities in these books additionally help develop phonic skills while encouraging young ''authors'' to understand story characters and sturcture.

A cartoon-style pet care manual, with tips on homes, feeding, health and hygiene and sections on handling, grooming and feeding. First published in 1995.

The Numberlies are characters who help children learn to count. The stories are fun, but with a serious purpose -- each engaging illustration is a counting game that''s perfect practice for the small smart set.

The Numberlies are characters who help children learn to count. The stories are fun, but with a serious purpose -- each engaging illustration is a counting game that''s perfect practice for the small smart set.

These simple, engaging rhyming books are a great way to get your kids started with reading. Colin and Jacqui Hawkins first created Pat the Cat to help their daughter to learn to read. The rhyming split pages helped her to recognise lots of new words simply by changing a single letter as she turned each page and she quickly caught on to the basic mechanics of reading. The Hawkins then went on to produce Jen the Hen, Mig the Pig, Tog the Dog and Zug the Bug (also available from DK). Teachers recognised the books as excellent introductions to reading and reviewers compared them to Dr Seuss. Children loved their rhyming humour and parents have been using them successfully ever since!

Old MacDonald''s farm is full of funny characters. Have a look inside and meet all the animals on the farm--there''s even a rather surprising guest This is a comical retelling of the favorite nursery rhyme from a popular team, with lift-the-flap pages that are just right for small hands.

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don''t know why she swallowed the fly—so read along and find out! Meet all the animals that end up in the old lady''s tummy—but what will happen when she starts to get a bit full? This is a comical retelling of the favorite nursery rhyme from a popular team, with lift-the-flap pages that are just right for small hands.

While fishing, Zug and Pug catch a slug, lug him home in a jug, and all fall asleep on a bright red rug.

Part of the Bear Hugs series, this text has a bright and bold design to appeal to young children and includes notes for parents giving friendly advice about shared reading.

An Alphabetically Amazing ABC book with Simply Superb Surprises under Every Flap!

The events of several familiar fairy tales get mixed up in the story of Jack, who takes a job delivering newspapers, until he finds his fortune at the top of a magic beanstalk.

3Meet Mig the pig, Who1s very big, and rides in a gig. But where1s her wig?2 This oversize illustrated book is ideal for whole class shared reading with beginners. Humorous rhyming stories supported by bold and appealing illustrations provides a range of opportunities to cover aspects of work at the text, word, and sentence levels. The flip-the-page format of the original small book has been retained, allowing the whole class to understand that if they can read MIG they can read PIG, WIG, and lots of other simple words that follow the same CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) pattern. Children will quickly get the idea that they can create and recognize strings of rhyming CVC words simply by changing the initial consonant. A DK Big Book.

Jen the hen sends a message to Ken and Ben via Wren to meet at ten in the glen.

Old Mother Hubbard runs errand after errand for her remarkable dog. Flaps conceal parts of the illustrations.

A journey on the amusement park Ghost Train takes the reader through a variety of spooky scenes, with half-pages that lift for even more surprises.

In pictures and rhymes depicts the houses of several well-known characters from folklore and asks the reader to name the characters and find a variety of objects within the houses.

Provides humorous tips on how to recognize and ward off vampires and looks at the daily life of a vampire family called the Von Bluots.

L''auteur dit beaucoup sur le monde mystérieux des sorcières: allure, gestes, habitudes, objets de sorcellerie, etc. Il les démystifie par des définitions et illustrations amusantes. Cependant, le parallélisme continu entre sorcière et grand-mère ne risque-t-il pas de semer la confusion dans la pensée des jeunes lecteurs, et ce, face à l''existence et aux rôles de l''une et de l''autre? Le sens de l''humour et la qualité du graphisme en font une réussite. Mise en pages variée.

Les Hawkins ne craignent pas les sujets brûlants. Après avoir démystifié les sorcières (Michel, 1981) par des définitions et des illustrations amusantes, ils s''attaquent aux vampires. Quel enfant n''en a pas entendu parler? Le sujet est discutable, mais l''humour dont font preuve les auteurs, tant dans le texte que dans l''illustration, est indiscutable. Cet album porte un dur coup aux êtres des ténèbres.