New Children's Books

Bernard's got a problem… He's found a monster in the back garden but his mum and dad are just too busy to notice. So Bernard tries to befriend the monster… and that doesn't go quite to plan! Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781839135354 • Author: David McKee • Publisher: Andersen Press • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 23.5 x 0.6 x 27.31

Mum tells Bluey a lovely baby story - about how Bluey first learned to walk! Baby Bluey could roll, shuffle and even crawl backwards... but Mum was worried that she was never going to learn how to walk. This hilarious picture book is about how we all grow up in different ways. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780241692301 • Author: Bluey • Publisher: Walker Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages: LadyBird • Dimensions: 25.1 x 0.4 x 25.1 cm

Get more for less with The Work’s expertly hand-picked Book Bundles. These are a collection of great quality products, grouped together to give you amazing value. A bundle of ten awesome stories featuring Bluey and her friends! Titles in this collection: • Bluey: Magic Xylophone • Bluey: Bob Bilby • Bluey: Baby Race • Bluey: Swim School • Bluey: My Mum Is the Best • Bluey: Camping • Bluey: Daddy Putdown • Bluey: My Dad is Awesome • Bluey: Typewriter • Bluey: Shadowlands 10 of our favourite kids’ picture books are reduced from £2 to only £1 each, as part of this fantastic bundle! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241727980 • Author: Bluey • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Number of books: 10

Two monsters live on either side of a mountain. Sometimes they talk through the hole in the mountain, but they never see each other. One evening, they get into a silly argument about whether day is departing or night is arriving, which escalates into a rock throwing fight, which eventually destroys the mountain, and enables the monsters to see each other's point of view and live together as friends. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135392 • Author: David McKee • Publisher: Andersen Press • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 23.8 x 0.3 x 27.61

A fantastic new picture book based on the Emmy-award winning preschool series The Adventures of Paddington! It’s Aunt Lucy’s birthday! Paddington wants to make her a very special present using Mr Brown’s old film camera.  But will things go according to plan? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780008479749 • Author: HarperCollins Children's Books • Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 24 • Dimensions: 20.3 x 20.3 x 0.4cm

There are bears on the stairs.  That’s why I don’t like going to bed. It’s the bears on the stairs. But are the bears real, or just a small boy’s crafty tactic for delaying bedtime? Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135309 • Author: Julia Jarman • Publisher: Andersen Press  • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 24.1 x 0.25 x 27.9cm

As your bath water drains down the plughole, that slurping sound is the Bath Monster – dirty bath water is his SECOND favourite food. No one wants to find out what his FIRST favourite food is… until Jackson decides he doesn't believe in the Bath Monster any more, and he is never going to have a bath again. Starving, the Bath Monster comes to see Jackson and it turns out his FIRST favourite food is… not little kids, but mud pies! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135347 • Author: Colin Boyd • Publisher: Andersen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 24.4 x 1 x 28.9cm

Teddies walk, teddies skip, teddies on their way... Teddies on a picnic trip, Hip! Hip! Hip! Hooray! Join the teddies on their big day out! Georgie Birkett's wonderfully colourful artwork and jaunty rhyming text are sure to make this picnic adventure a firm favourite. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135248 • Author: Georgie Birkett • Publisher: Andersen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 24 • Dimensions: 23 x 0.3 x 23cm

Bluey and Bingo love their mum, and she loves them! They do all sorts of fun (and not as fun) things together, like scooter rides, dancing and reading bedtime stories. Discover all of Chilli's special mum skills in this touching and humorous book. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241692226 • Author: Bluey • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Board Book • Pages: 24 • Dimensions: 18.6 x 18.6 x 1.7cm

"Archie awoke with a shout in the night. Only a dream, but what a terrible fright. Well monsters may roar, may growl or just sigh, But monsters are strong, monsters don't cry." But, as Archie learns, sometimes even little monsters don't always have to be brave, especially when Mummy and Daddy monster are at hand to make everything all right! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135385 • Author: Brett Mckee & Ella Burfoot • Publisher: Andersen Press  • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 27.9 x 0.7 x 24.1cm

Celebrate Christmas with Bluey! It's Christmas Eve and Bluey, Bingo and Muffin can't wait to open their presents. But Bluey's dad reminds them that no peeking or no presents! So, they decide to play a game called Verandah Santa to practice no peeking. What will Santa bring them? Join Bluey as she learns the true meaning of being good for Christmas. Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241665510 • Author: Bluey • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 25 x 25 x 0.4cm

Are you a bear considering keeping your very own bees? Can't get enough of delicious honey? Then this is the book for you! With invaluable tips such as how to make a tiny crown for your queen bee, you can become a master beekeeper in no time! Learn how to care for your new buzzy friends in easy-to-follow steps - but don't forget to absolutely never hug the bees. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135255 • Author: Pip Cornell  • Publisher: Andersen Press  • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 24.6 x 0.8 x 28.7cm

Everyone loves Dasher, Santa’s speedy star reindeer. But few have heard of Basher, his crafty twin brother. The twin reindeer looked the same, but where Dasher was nice, Basher . . . was not. This Christmas Basher sets a sneaky scheme in motion to steal all the presents and paint Dasher as the culprit. Christmas day is in jeopardy! But is this whodunit as simple as it seems? Find out in this funny story full of festive fun. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781805448679 • Author: Tim Bugbird • Publisher: Make Believe Ideas • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 26.5 x 26 x 0.4cm

This classic fairy tale is brought to life by the inimitable Tony Ross in a beautiful hardback edition of his first ever picture book, 40 years after it was published for the first time.  Discover the story of mischievous Goldilocks and her adventures in the three bears' house through the glorious illustrations and charming text. A Perfect story for bedtime! Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135231 • Author: Tony Ross • Publisher: Andersen Press • Format: Paperback • Pages: 28

Surely there’s somewhere a bear can go away from prying eyes? When a shy bear feels the urge to go, there’s only one thing on his mind: finding a private place where he can poo in peace. But a whole host of woodland animals – who have no qualms about pooing wherever they please – just won’t leave him alone. Providing an answer to the age-old question, Does a Bear Poo in the Woods? is a funny, laugh-along picture book, brought to life by Jonny Leighton’s hilarious rhyming text and Mike Byrne’s firmly tongue-in-cheek illustrations. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781780557151 • Author: Mike Byrne • Publisher: Michael O'Mara • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 27.8 x 24 x 0.4cm

It’s Christmas time and every tree on Sidney Street is beautifully decorated – except for one! This rebellious tree would rather sit at the table and pull crackers on Christmas day than stand in a corner wearing glittery decorations! Bauble, Belle and the Tinsel Snake need the tree to behave, so they can fulfil their decorating destinies, but the argumentative tree just won’t stand still and be decorated. Then Belle has a crafty idea. . . Oh, Christmas Tree! is another hilarious Christmas book from the creative pair behind the bestselling Snowball, Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. This festively funny story is full of their usual warmth and wit, with brilliant characters and a bouncy rhyming text. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781509827503 • Author: Sue Hendra & Paul Linnet • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 25.7 x 25.7 x 0.4cm

Discover all there is to know about the past year of Minecraft in this exciting annual. Stuffed to the brim with updates, activities, step-by-step builds and tips and tricks for the game, this book is a must-have for any minecrafter. This year's annual includes an awesome mining boardgame, loads of fun activities and tips on smithing templates, archaeology and how to survive a pillager raid.  Plus discover a blocky brownie recipe, awesome buillds and survival challenges for you to complete in-game! Product Information: • ISBN: 9780008615673 • Author: HarperCollins • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format: Hardback • Pages: 72 • Dimensions: 22 x 29.3 x 1.2cm

Little Dennis doesn't want to go to sleep because there might be something under his bed.  Dennis isn't afraid of monsters - after all, he's a monster himself. He's afraid that humans will get him. His mother says that humans are only in made-up stories, but Dennis is not convinced. Rollicking rhyme and delightfully detailed illustrations make this story of a bedtime surprise the perfect book for little monsters. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781839135408 • Author: Jeanne Willis • Publisher: Andersen Press • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  32 • Dimensions: 24.13 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm

Ever since Angus was a wee baby monster, living below the surface of Loch Ness, his parents tried to teach him to be a proper monster.  But as Angus grows bigger, he gets sloppy. Puggy-nit shells (peanuts) are piling up; his grottie (dirty) laundry is in a heap; tatties (potatoes) litter the floor. It’s a mountain of a mess! And as Angus’s trash heap grows, pushing him away from the comforts of home, a surprising Loch Ness sighting of his own awaits on the surface of the lake… Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781839135323 • Author: Helen Lester • Publisher: Andersen Press  • Format: Paperback • Pages: 32 • Dimensions: 24 x 0.4 x 28cm