New Releases by Colin Hawkins

The Numberlies are characters who live in Numbertown who aim to help children learn to count. This is story number five which intends to be fun and to help children practise their counting as each illustration is a counting game. There are ten storybooks which progress in stages.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Pat the cat and friends are back, the hilarious characters who introduced phonetics to beginning readers have taken the next step into shared and independent reading. This story tells all about Zug''s adventures at sea with his little blue tug.

Meet the Gorys - a fangtastic vampire family. Mr Gory is always dead on his feet after a day at the undertaker''s, and he loves to come home to have supper with Mrs Gory and the children. Next time you are in the neighbourhood, why not drop in for a bite?

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

Each of this series of five large-format, fun rhyming books focuses on a different vowel sound. The flip-the-pages help children to learn how to build new words easily. The Big Books are ideal for sharing with a whole class of beginning readers and building words with consonant-vowel- consonant patterns. The Hawkins Rhyme and Read books are recommended support material for the National Literacy Strategy.

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

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.

Pat the cat and friends are back, the hilarious characters who introduced phonetics to beginning readers have taken the next step into shared and independent reading. This is the story of Pat''s new hat and the magical muddle it causes.

Do-the-actions-to-the-rhyme small board books final spread of each book has an inventive piece of paper engineering. Unsuitable for extensive public library use. 2-5 yrs.

Readers stick their fingers through holes in the pages to help create happy animals, who skip, walk, or kick their way along.

Illustrates action words from A to Z, beginning with asking and ending with zooming.

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 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.

Does your granny like wearing long black gowns and tall pointed hats? Does she enjoy dancing around the garden at midnight, or talking to her cat? Then maybe your granny is a witch