Series:

Practical Parenting S.

16 total works

Cover of Good Luck Mrs Duck

Good Luck Mrs Duck

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 5 March 2001
This charming text , written in catchy rhyme is set in a farmyard and features all your favourite farmyard animals. Meet Skipperty Sheep, Courteous Cow and Timid Mouse. At the end Mrs Duck has a very special surprise for all her friends on the farm - several little surprises in fact! AGE 2-3

Cover of Practical Pareting: Gift Book

Cover of Tiny Trumpet Plays Hide and Seek
Readers first met this little elephant in Tiny Trumpet and now he's is back again to entertain and delight. This time he sets out on an adventure to find Baby Trumpet's lost teddy. He seaches high and low finding his jungle friends along the way. Lift the flaps to reveal the hidden animals and join Tiny in a game of hide and seek at the end. AGE 2-3

Cover of Busy Babies at the Play Club
We have already met the delightful busy babies going swimming and going to the gym and now they are back. Today they are going to the play club and there is such a lot to see and do. Follow them through their busy day and join in with the songs and rhymes. AGE 1-2

Cover of Baby Friends Come to Play
Jonathan Langley is a highly acclaimed illustrator of children's books and in this book for young children he provides a whole host of things to spot. Lift the flap to reveal the hidden Baby Friends and have fun talking about the pictures. Can you spot the little penguin in each picture? AGE 2-3

Cover of Rocket to the Rescue

Rocket to the Rescue

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 3 July 2000
Jessie and her brother Joe live on Little Oak Farm, which is open to visitors every afternoon, so there's always plenty to do and lots to learn...Jessie and Joe love to help their mum and dad, and especially enjoy herding the sheep with their clever dog, Rocket. Today, they are helping to host a birthday party, and everything goes smoothly until Dad announces that Rocket has gone missing...Where can she have got to? As their visitors go around the farm, Jessie and Joe search everywhere for Rocket. Then a familiar bark sounds and the mystery is solved. Rocket has been busy too, watching over a naughty sheep who's just too greedy for her own good! AGE 3-5

Cover of Teddy's Toys

Teddy's Toys

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 3 July 2000
In this delightful cloth book Teddy shows you all his favourite toys, his shiny aeroplane, his quacky duck and many more. Specially designed for babies from 3 months to 1 year this cloth book will stimulate and entertain. Babies can spot familiar toys, enjoy the bright colours and simple shapes and explore the various sounds and textures of the novelty elements. AGE 0-1

Cover of Busy Babies Go Swimming
Busy babies always have fun. Join them on exciting days out and sing along to the songs! Busy babies love to go swimming with their mums. They splish, they splash, they jump and play. With rhymes to say and songs to sing, swimming has never been so much fun! Busy babies are cuddled and dried in warm fluffy towels and then it is time for lunch. But there are two busy babies who look ready for a nap! AGE 1-2

Cover of Zoo Patterns

Zoo Patterns

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 3 July 2000
Look at the stripy zebra, the patterned snake , the zigzagged parrot and the spotty fish. Enjoy the patterns and then turn the book over and there is the animal that matches that pattern! This title is especially designed to stimulate very young babies. The patterns with strongly contrasting colours will provide a first focus for babies and then the animals will have great appeal as the baby grows older. AGE 0-1

Cover of Family Faces

Family Faces

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 5 March 2001

This is just one title in the wonderful new Practical Parenting range of books for children from birth to five. This title is age banded and perfectly suited to children from 0-1

Babies love to focus on faces and in this interactive flap board book there is a whole family of friendly faces to meet. Simply lift the flap and you can see that member of the family busy doing what they love best!

AGE 0-1

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Noisy Animals

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 5 March 2001

This is just one title in the wonderful new Practical Parenting range of books for children from birth to five. This title is age banded and perfectly suited to children from 0-1.

Lydia Monks’ bright and quirky illustrations are sure to delight. In this board book she introduces babies to a whole host of animals from sleepy pet cats to wild jungle tigers. Bold lettering characteristic to each animal noise encourages parents to use animation whilst making the appropriate noisy noise for each animal.

AGE 0-1

Cover of Busy Babies Go to the Gym
Busy babies always have fun. Join them on exciting days out and sing along to the songs! When the busy babies go to the play gym with their mums there is so much to see and do. They want to play on everything! There are tubes to crawl through, slides to slide down and rockers to rock on. And with songs to sing along to going to the baby gym has never been so much fun! AGE 1-2

Cover of ABC

ABC

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 5 March 2001
AGE 3-5 * Practical Parenting Magazine has a readership of 580,000 and is highly respected. Its authorship and endorsement will be very reassuring to parents. * Perfectly matched to a child's interests and ability and clearly marked with an age guide. * Marketed as part of the new Practical Parenting range, designed to take children right through from birth to starting school. Written within the philosophy that sharing and reading books with children will open their minds and promote a life long love of books.

Cover of Piggy Race

Piggy Race

by Jane Kemp, Clare Walters, and Jonathan Langley

Published 3 July 2000
Jessie and her brother Joe live on Little Oak Farm, which is open to visitors every afternoon, so there's always plenty to do and lots to learn...It's the first Pig Race of the year, and one of Jessie and Joe's favourite days. It's a competitive business, though, and brother and sisters are backing rival pigs...When the visitors arrive there are rosettes to make and one little girl called Lucy is very determined that her pig will win...Jessie is rather hard on Joe, and suddenly Lucy feels sorry for him and decides to support his 'underpig', Titch. Then the race begins and when Titch wins everyone is delighted -- Jessie makes it up with Joe and realises that biggest isn't always best...AGE 3-5

Cover of Tiny Trumpet

Tiny Trumpet

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 3 July 2000
Tiny Trumpet's mum has given him a lovely big red bouncy ball and he can't wait to rush off and play with it! Unfortunately, he just can't seem to get it to do what he wants, and he gets very upset. His friends all take the ball from him and show off with the tricks they can do, and this makes Tiny even more upset. Eventually he gets very cross and squirts water at his friends, just as they throw the ball at him. Suddenly the ball lands on the squirt of water from his trunk and Tiny realises that this is a trick that no one else but an elephant can do! AGE 2-3

Cover of Ten Sleepy Bunnies

Ten Sleepy Bunnies

by Jane Kemp and Clare Walters

Published 3 July 2000
Learn to count from 1 to 10 with the help of some very sleepy bunnies, some leaping frogs and some sparkling fish, amongst a host of other animals. A walk through the country will reveal one busy mole, digging underground. She pops up her head and sees two woolly sheep, who in turn see three bright-eyed birds...Count the animals and don't forget to look extra carefully because there are extra things for you to count in the pictures too! AGE 2-3