Best Selling Books by Jan Ormerod

A unique picture book collaboration about having fun, sharing culture and the power of story and dance. A picture book to get the whole town dancing.

When Mom comes back from shopping, a baby enjoys going through her shopping basket.

When an acorn hits him on the head, Chicken Licken alarms the other barnyard birds by telling them the sky is falling.

When Baby gets a nose cold, Mom cheers him up by showing him the noses on a doll, cat, and teddy bear.

Dad comes home and plays with baby.

A little girl and various animals sing their own version of this popular rhyme.

Her mother calls it nonsense when Lizzie pretends that their house is pretty or that a bath is the sea, but it turns out that imagination runs in the family.

All kinds of animals sing their own peculiar version of Here we go round the mulberry bush.

While Mommy and Daddy take care of the baby, Amelia looks after each of her nine toys. She changes Big Ted''s diaper, feeds Panda, and burps Blue Bird - until there''s only one toy left in the bed. Then it''s bedtime for the real baby, and Amelia gets a turn with Mommy and Daddy. A clever adaptation of the famous counting rhyme by award-winning illustrator Jan Ormerod. Ten in a Bed has special sturdy pages that are easy for small hands to turn and strong enough to play with.

After a princess drops her ball into a pond, she offers a green-eyed frog a deal that would enable him to keep her golden ball if he will allow her to play with him and eat and sleep at his house three times.

This exciting and appealing picture book contains everything you need to know about making an elephant''s first day at nursery school fun and happy. Packed full of useful tips about an elephant''s behaviour in a classroom setting, this is a perfect book for any child who has ever dreamed of making more unusual friends during their nursery school day...

Various animals dance to the animal bop, including ostriches, elephants, and monkeys.

A baby plays with cloth, thread, buttons, and other materials while his pregnant mother is using them to make a doll for him.

It''s bath time. But first baby has to get undressed, starting with hat off, then mittens off - until baby''s ready for some bath time fun.

There''s always someone to walk with in our street, always someone willing to lend a hand, to keep an eye on the children, or play with in the park. With her talent for capturing the minutiae of everyday life, the award winning Jan Ormerod has created a marvellous insight into the lives of three sets of neighbours.

''Over in the forest, in a cave so snug, one cubby bear gives his mummy a hug.'' So begins this fun-filled picture book where children will meet busy beavers, tumbling tigers, shuffling warthogs and many more in a count-along rhyme from one to ten that they''ll want to join in with again andagain! A lively, noisy, funny text that encourages very young children to imitate animal movements as they join in a rhythmical text that takes its inspiration from the well-loved nursery rhyme: ''Over in the meadow''. Children will love hugging, digging, rolling, hopping, stretching, flapping andwiggling and, while they''re having all this fun, they will also be learning to recognise and count their numbers from 1 to 10.

101 Things to Do with a Baby shows the many ways in which a little girl deals with a new baby in the family from much-loved and award winning children’s author Jan Ormerod. In Jan Ormerod’s warm, sympathetic and reassuring picture book on family life, and of an older child’s role in it, parents can find the perfect way to share the joys of a new arrival with their eldest child. The little girl in 101 Things discovers that even chores like washing and bathing turn into new games with her baby brother. But how delightful it is when he finally goes to sleep and she can have her parents to herself . . . An ideal children’s book for families expecting a new addition.

Caroline Crocodile goes to a baby shop to see if she can exchange her drooly brother, but finds that the baby panda is a fussy eater, the baby elephant too squirty--and her brother has reason to drool.

A baby does his best to get his sleeping father''s attention.

Readers can find the missing puppies by turning colorful acetate pages.

A little girl gets ready for school on her own while her parents oversleep.

A young girl engages in a midnight romp with pillows from around the house.

After visiting the farm, the children in Ms. MacDonald''s class learn to move and look and sound very different while preparing to present the performance of a lifetime.

''Mother''s hurry. They walk in a hurry and talk in a hurry. And they always want you to hurry.'' Everybody is in such a hurry these days - mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. It seems as if the only people who aren''t in a hurry are grandfathers. With them there is always time to stop... and look... just as long as you like. A gentle story about the warm, happy relationship between the oldest and youngest ones in the family.

Baby plays over, under, and around Dad while he is reading.

This baby book contains four studies of the special relationship between a mother and a young child.

By lifting flaps and pulling tabs, the reader can make Emily demonstrate the movements she does in dance class.

Humorous comparison of animals and a small girl''s baby brother.

It''s nighttime, and the little girl from the companion book Sunshine is now winding down her day: she eats her dinner, takes a bath, and says good-night to her dolls. Her dad reads her a bedtime story, but she''s not quite ready to go to sleep - she gets up for a glass of water, a hug, a reading session with her mom, and then, when both of her parents fall asleep, she''s ready for bed again. Kids love routines and will be able to see themselves in this simple, wordless illustrated story.

As payment for retrieving the princess''s ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

A selection of nursery rhymes with a picture story running along the background of three pre-school siblings going through the day.

Gentle text tells the tale of a small boy finding some quiet on his own.

A simple pictorial presentation of eight common colours.

Hide and seek novelty book

A girl feeds, plays with, and admires her kitten, who will some day become a grown-up cat, a "sit-upon-my-lap cat."

A little girl describes all the things she does like an animal.