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All Kinds of Bodies: A Lift-the-Flap Book (All Kinds Of...)

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by: Emma Brownjohn

October 07, 2002
read with 4 year old. great paper technology. very colourful. looks at the way every body is different. pull out skeleton at the end labelled with proper bone names which daughter likes to learn! she has read it over & over. Am ordering the 'All kinds of Feelings' book for xmas!

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Sharing a Shell

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by: Julia Donaldson

April 06, 2007
My 2.5 year old got this for her 2nd birthday as our introduction to Julia Donaldson and it is a firm favourite! She loves the rhymes and the pictures, and knows it word for word! I don't get bored of reading it either, which is usually a good sign!

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Elmer's Hide-and-seek (Elmer's Lift the Flap Books)

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by: David McKee

February 01, 2001
Elmer that coloured elephant is our 15 month old child's favourite book. We have put all of his books into a box and when we offer the box to him, again and again he chooses "Elmer's Hide-and-seek" for us to read. This book has helped us to introduce actual hide and seek with his toys and he just loves it. Our son also enjoys opening the flaps to reveal the animals beneath them - very often lifting the flap before the text has been read. Outstanding and another winner from the Elmer series.

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Touchy-feely Nativity (Usborne Touchy Feely Books)

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by: Fiona Watt

August 29, 2008
I had such high hopes for this book (being a big fan of the Touchy-Feely series), so was really disappointed when I sat down to read it with my daughter. The pages are beautiful but the story itself is very disjointed - there's no context and it's as if only every third or fourth line of the full story was printed. And it doesn't mention God anywhere.

If you just want a pretty version of the nativity, this may be fine. But if you are looking for a version of the Christmas story for children, I'd look elsewhere.

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See Inside Castles (Usborne Flap Books)

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by: Katie Daynes

March 25, 2005
This is a wonderfully informative lift the flap book for boys aged 3-8years. The book gives detailed drawn pictures of castles, their development, inside of and castles today with lots of interesting little cameos to keep spotting. There are characters for the children to spot including Lord Simon, Tiggs the cat and Lady Eleanor plus funny incidents to muse over, creating lots of talking points for you and your child. My son, and a number of his friends have this book and its brought out time and time again to be explored and enjoyed. Highly recommended, especially for those budding knights!

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All Kinds of Beliefs: A Lift-the-Flap Book (All Kinds Of...)

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by: Emma Damon

November 06, 2000
I loved this colourful, well-presented 'lift-the-flap' book for 4 to 7 year olds. It looks at the major world religions in a balanced way showing some similarities between them and the important aspects of each one. There is a poster at the back with the main festivals of each religion. Subsequently it promotes understanding and tolerance of religion amongst little ones. This would be an excellent book in any home or classroom.

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Oh Dear!

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by: Rod Campbell

March 22, 2002
I had fond memories of reading this book to my little brother and my reception class when I was four so when I discovered it was still in print I bought a copy for each of my God-children. The phrase "No eggs here, Oh Dear!" is still a favourite in our family even now we are all grown up, and I am pleased to say that my God-children enjoy it as much as we did. A really memorable book!

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Dig Dig Digging

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by: Margaret Mayo

April 25, 2002
This book has hit some kind of magic formula; the illustrations and the rhythm of the words has had my son (18 months) mesmerised every bedtime for weeks. Highly recommended.

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Baby's Very First Book: Farm (Baby's Very First Book)

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from: Macmillan Children's Books

June 22, 2001
My 8 month old son loves this and many times we have managed to stop him crying by showing him this book. For some reason he finds the pink pig extremely amusing!

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That's Not My Kitten (Touchy-Feely Board Books) (Touchy-Feely Board Books)

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by: Fiona Watt

March 28, 2006
A firm favourite as a first book when I started reading properly to my son at about age 6 months. He's really enjoyed it ever since and although he now (at 1 year) is getting a bit more sophisticated, the joy he has in turning the pages is very apparent.

My 3 yr old seems more interested in the textures, but some of them are rather subtle. The more obvious ones seem to attract the 1 yr old more.

Very bold and uncluttered illustrations make this a very good first book.