Most Popular Books by Jan Ormerod

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...

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

Dad comes home and plays with baby.

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

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

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

A pregnant mother does her exercises together with her small baby and the cat.

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 and again! 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 and wiggling and, while they''re having all this fun, they will also be learning to recognise and count their numbers from 1 to 10. A kind of rebus abacus on the last spread reinforces the counting concept.

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

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.

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

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.

A lively, noisy, funny text that encourages very young children to walk and talk like the animals-including waddling like a penguin, stomping like a rhino and jiving and jiggling and jumping and wiggling to the monkey bop! Hugely entertaining with plenty of scope for interaction and play. Thisis pure, infectious fun, now available as a big book for a bigger and better bop!

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.

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.

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

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

Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, p, e.

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.

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.

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

''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.

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.

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

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

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.

It''s party time for ten children, each one celebrating a different birthday from first to tenth. This is an introduction to the concept of numbers.

Even though her baby brother is bald like an egg and moves like a puppy, a little girl decides that he is really just like her.

In this illustrated book, Jan Ormerod uses animals to highlight the special qualities which make each child unique.

Hide and seek novelty book

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