These classic stories have been combined with beautiful new illustrations to bring the magic of Ladybird Tales to a new generation. Children have always loved these stories, and reading them together is an experience to treasure. Retold by Vera Southgate.

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This classic version of Jack and the Beanstalk is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful new illustrations of the kind children like best — full of richness and detail. An essential part of any child's bookshelf, Ladybird Tales are perfect for sharing together and creating memories to treasure forever.

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. This hardback version of Rapunzel is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best — full of richness and detail.

Meet Raa Raa the noisy lion, who loves going on noisy adventures with his little jungle friends! Help Raa Raa sing along with his friends in this fun, noisy rhyming book. Tap your feet to a jungle beat you'll want to hear again and again! This delightful book is based on the amazing new animated pre-school show, which encourages youngsters to play with the sounds around them to develop their communication skills.

This colourful first picture dictionary contains over 300 everyday words and pictures, perfect for growing preschool children's vocabulary and helping them develop the skills needed for first reading. Each page is a differently themed scene, from kitchen and bathroom to town and park, with words placed next to clear images to help with word recognition. It also contains a useful index to help find individual words.

Introduce preschool children to the happenings on a busy building site with Ladybird's Dig it! Build it! This informative big noisy book has eight different, realistic sounds that really bring the noises of a working building site to life. Follow Builder Ben as he and his team of jolly builders begin work on a new house. From clearing the site to digging foundations, laying walls, putting on the roof and fitting out the interiors, each different stage of building is clearly laid out, with additional labels that pick out interesting features or builders' equipment to talk about together, and a ladybird to spot on every page. Children will love pressing the colourful sound buttons to join in with the story and making the noises of a whirring drill, chugging digger, banging hammer, sloshing cement mixer and more! Dig it! Build it! is a fun and educational sound book for all young children interested in builders, diggers and what happens on a building site.

This is the first ever official annual to accompany the ground-breaking video game, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.

Celebrate mummies with this adorable book brought to you by Peppa Pig and her little brother, George! This delightful story shows the many reasons why Peppa and George love their mummy, from her comforting cuddles to her fierce firefighting. This is the perfect present for Mummy Pigs everywhere!

Join your favourite slightly bossy little pig, as Peppa meets the Queen. This is a perfect storybook to share with your little piggies at home in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

«This beautiful hardback Ladybird Classic edition of «Alice in Wonderland» by Lewis Carroll is a perfect first illustrated introduction to the classic story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the best-loved parts of the «Alice in Wonderland» story, such as the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat. Beautiful full-colour illustrations throughout also help to bring all of these classic characters to life. Other exciting titles in the «Ladybird Classics» series include «Treasure Island», «Black Beauty», «The Secret Garden», «Oliver Twist» and «Gulliver's Travels».»

Ladybird Toddler Touch: First Words is perfect for young children who are starting to explore the world around them. It is full of interesting new words and pictures that are familiar to toddlers, along with interesting finger trails on every page, flaps to lift, and plenty of things to touch and feel. Ideal for parent or carer and child to look at together, Toddler Touch: First Words is bright and colourful, and will help toddlers to learn new words in a fun way.