Item category 2: Stories for sharing

This humorous tale describes how aliens, rather than visiting Earth to take over the planet, really visit to steal your pants.

Fish come from all over the ocean to see Puffy the Puffer Fish's amazing bubbles. Big bubbles, small bubbles, square bubbles - they've never seen anything quite so amazing. That is until Barry arrives on the scene. Barry is a fish with fingers and he's going to put them to great use!

Exuberantly coloured artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to looking and learning about colours. Each spread leads seamlessly into the next and young children will delight in the colourful animals and simple repetitive language.

Flap, hop, peck and sing along with lots and lots of busy birds in this fun action rhyme story by multi-award-winning author Lucy Cousins.

'I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet'. This classic lift-the-flap book has been a favourite with toddlers ever since it was first published in 1982.

Dinosaur fast, dinosaur slow, Dinosaur roar! - and away we go! This title combines an infectiously rhythmic text with lovable, colourful dinosaurs to explore opposites.

Goldy wants one thing, and one thing only - to be a star. On the sunny island this gecko calls home, it's always The Goldy Show, morning 'til night. But when you're dazzled by the limelight, it's easy to lose sight of the world around you. And when Goldy's performance starts to go wrong, the litt...

Join two seafaring pirates and their captain on a nautical adventure to find a treasure chest. Add to that a text that is read aloud to the tune of 'Row, Row, Row Your Boat' and you have a book that will be enjoyed time and time again!

This is a rhyming story of a mouse and a monster. Little mouse goes for a walk in a dangerous forest. To scare off his enemies he invents tales of a fantastical creature called the Gruffalo. So imagine his surprise when he meets a real gruffalo.