Best Selling Books by Moira Butterfield

Splash the dolphin searches the ocean for a fallen star to give to his mother. Includes textured illustrations that sparkle.

Includes instructions and "handy hints" for a variety of painting projects, such as straw and splatter painting, stenciling, marbling, and wet paper painting.

Presents a simple script for a play based on the traditional tale, including stage directions, descriptions of the parts in the play, and ideas for making costumes and props.

A collection of survival information presented in quick, easy-to-read summary-style segments that are supplemented with sidebar tips and brief tales of men and women who survived dangers in the wild.

From steamy rainforests to dry deserts and scorching grasslands, this book looks at 12 different weird and wonderful animals describing how they keep cool. It is one of a series on animals that live in various habitats of the world. Each book has a full-colour world map annotated to show where the animals live and includes a list of words to remember.

Learn how to squeak, roar and hoot like the animals do with this bright, fun and silly book aimed at younger readers to engage them in exploring sound! Hoot like an owl, howl like a wolf, and sing like a whale. Everyone needs to get their message and feelings across, animals included! Meet a collection of 12 animals from around the world and discover the sounds they make, and why. The book features a different creature on each spread, along with dynamic type design and illustrations to help the kids mimic each animal noise. The perfect book to read aloud one-to-one, or as a fun activity to engage a group of young children and get them using their voices and moving their bodies!

From dry, dusty scrubland to rich, green grassland, this book looks at how different animals such as a lizard, a lion and a termite live on plains and prairies. It is one of a series on animals that live in various habitats of the world. Each book has a full-colour world map annotated to show where the animals live and includes a list of words to remember.

Provides instructions for making finger puppets, props, and a theater along with an easy-to-follow play script based on the well-known fable.

A bright, fun, read-aloud non-fiction picture book about animals and their feelings for curious young readers. Showing readers how animals are not so different from us! With a different emotion per spread, this funny, moving and adorable picture book explores emotions such as sad, happy, grumpy and kind. Children will love making connections between their own feelings and their favourite animals – including elephants, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, monkeys, deer and much more. With rhythmic text, informative facts and adorable animal characters, this book will help children identify basic feelings, while introducing ideas of empathy and animal welfare.

Read this book and see if you can guess which animals are hidden in the rainforest. Explains animal life and survival in the rainforest''s environment.

"Lots of fun for little hands! Mix and match the heads and bodies of the cute characters in this split-page book--then add the magnetic feet."--Cover back.

Describes parts of a well-known animal and invites the reader to identify it.

Step away from your tablet and take a screen break! With 365 projects, crafts, games, and experiments, there''s off-screen fun for every single day of the year. With straightforward step-by-step instructions and colorful illustrations, these entertaining, budget-friendly projects will keep kids learning all day long. MAKE slime, marble paint, pinatas, and papier-mache GROW strawberries, bottle gardens, and herb pots BAKE cake pops, twist pizzas, and muffins in a mug EXPERIMENT with vinegar rockets, lava lamps, and parachutes INVENT secret messages, spooky stories, and board games PLAY jump rope, balloon volley, ball games, and eye-spy RECYCLE trash into treasure and T-shirts into bags PERFORM magic tricks, shadow plays, and puppet shows.

Turn animal identity into a guessing game Children guess the identity of amazing animals from a series of clues and up-close views. A world map pinpoints each animal''s habitat, and a quick quiz reinforces fun facts.Facts and inventive artwork slowly reveal the wonderful world of the kangaroo.

Presents a simple script for a play based on the traditional tale, including stage directions, descriptions of the parts in the play, and ideas for making costumes and props.

(back cover) Everyone knows that frogs don''t fly, but can you guess who does? Lift the first flap to find the answer and the second flap to find a surprise! This delightful play book is full of fun and perfect for sharing. With bright, cheerful illustrations from well-known children''s book illustrator Sonia Canals and lively text from author Moira Butterfield, this book is ideal for younger children.

Listen to tiny tales from Buzzwing the hardworking honeybee. Combining nonfiction with a splash of fantasy, The Secret Life of Bees is a book to get lost in, time and again.

Identifies parts of jets.

Cross-sections of construction machines.

This book gives clear step-by-step instructions for a whole range of exciting crafts, from pop-up birthday cards to jewelry.

Learn all about the incredible daily routines of animals in this bright, fact-packed sequel to Does a Monkey Get Grumpy? Did you know that some crabs get dressed? Or that young meerkats have to go to ''school''? Or that sloths have very particular pooping habits? From brave plover birds who clean crocodile teeth, to orangutans who make cosy treetop beds, animals have the most fascinating routines - just like us! Whether they''re keeping clean or using tools to catch their dinner, explore the daily habitats of 15 animals across the planet - including sloths, meerkats, alpacas, wolves, foxes, crabs and more. With bouncy rhythmic text and fascinating facts, this book will help children identify daily activities, while teaching them how very similar the lives of humans and animals really are.

"Find Magic Fish and his friends by dipping the pages of this book in the bath or under a tap"--Cover.

This book is about taking successful photographs, whether you want to take impressive professional-looking shots or simply improve your holiday snaps.

Includes detailed cross-sections of ecosystems, such as a rainforest, and structures, such as a beehive, a beaver lodge, a termite city, and a section of Arctic life. Tells how animals make their homes and the importance of conservation through an oversized format of double-page spreads and detailed pictures.

Describes the fighting forces and battles of the Roman legions, covering such topics as recruiting, armor and weapons, auxiliaries, fortifications, marches, sieges, and the religion of the soldiers.

Presents questions about the sounds different animals make such as "Do goats growl?" and "Do hamsters hoot?" with the answers hidden beneath the flaps.

The Secret Life of Birds is a collection of delightful stories and engaging facts, which imparts a love of birds and of nature on the next generation, inspiring them to look after the world around them. Did you know that birds navigate by invisible pathways in the sky, that they can call to each other in thousands of different ways, and they can be as big as a car or as small as a little finger? Let much-travelled Speedy the Swift guide you through this beautiful first guide to birdlife around the globe. Learn about nest-building and bird babies, feathers and beaks, flying journeys, bird calls, really unusual-looking birds, and ways to spot birds, and help them near where you live. Read some beautiful bird folklore stories from around the planet, too. Speedy has learnt much on her travels and she will be a great guide for young readers, perhaps inspiring them to develop a lifelong love of birds. Following on from The Secret of Trees and The Secret Life of Bees, Birds is the next book in the series. Sumptuous and detailed illustrations have pride of place in this magical book that mixes natural history with a splash of fantasy, creating a book to be pored over time and again.

Muddypaws is a heart-warming tale of a boy and his sidekick.

This rhyming touch and say abc book is ideal for children aged 1-3. Tracing the soft letter shapes and making the sounds is the best way to help children learn about the alphabet and develop the skills they need for early reading and writing.

Tabby Cat finds out what happens when she behaves selfishly.

From the icy waters of the Arctic to the snowy plains of the Antarctic, this book looks at 12 different weird and wonderful animals describing how they keep warm. It is one of a series on animals that live in various habitats of the world. Each book has a full-colour world map annotated to show where the animals live and includes a list of words to remember.

This book gives guidance for drawing all kinds of machines from sports cars and space stations to robots and crazy inventions.

Describes some of the animals that live in the coldest climates of the world, including the harp seal, polar bear, snowy owl, Arctic fox, beluga whale, and emperor penguin.

Contains science experiments and tricks for young people on air.