Maddie’s favourite books.

For the toddler in your life. These are a few of Maddie’s current favourites, the ones she requests again and again! ‘Doctor Fairytale’ is new and top of the charts at the moment but she still chooses the board books from when she was a baby like ‘Hooray for Fish’ and ‘Shark in the Park’.

Doctor Fairytale by Catherine Jacob + Huang Giang

In a magical fairytale land, Doctor Fairytale and her dog, Nurse Pup, travel far and wide to help injured or poorly people! Rapunzel's head is hurting from her mother climbing her long locks, Goldilocks has splinters in her bottom from the Bears' broken chairs, and Cinderella has blistered toes from walking home without a shoe!

£12.99 HB

Meg’s Car by Helen Nicole + Jan Pienkowski

It's a lovely day to drive to a picnic, so Meg casts a spell to make a car for her and Mog. But - CRUNCH! It isn't long before they realise a car might be more trouble than it's worth!The Meg and Mog stories have been casting their spell over readers for over 50 years.

£6.99 PB

One Snowy Night by Nick Butterworth

Percy the park keeper always feeds the animals in the park where he lives. But one cold winter’s night Percy discovers that his little friends need more than food and he must find a way to help them.

Celebrate over thirty years of Percy the Park Keeper and his animal friends.

£7.99 PB or BB

The Moon Seed by Sally Anne Garland

The Moon Seed is a reimagining of the real events following the Apollo 14 mission, where an astronaut brought along a bag of seeds. This is the story of one of the seeds, back on Earth...but longing to return to the moon. A beautiful and heart-warming tale.

£7.99 PB

Jack and the Flumflum Tree by Julia Donaldson

Jack's Granny is sick with a bad case of the moozles! And the only cure is the fruit of the flumflum tree which grows on the faraway Isle of Blowyernose. It's a perilous journey, but Jack bravely sets sail with a motley crew of three and a large patchwork sack that Granny has filled with an odd assortment of items. An action packed rhyming adventure.

£7.99 PB

The Going to Bed Book by Sandra Boynton

There is something about Boynton’s random and silly humour that appeals to us.

No child likes going to bed and as every parent knows, their little treasures will try and delay it for as long as possible! Discover all the antics children get up to before going to bed, in this hilarious board book.

£6.99 large BB

Don’t Wake Up Tiger by Britta Teckentrup

Tiger is fast asleep but - oh dear! - she's lying completely in the way. Just how will the animals get past without waking her up? Where exactly are they going with all those big shiny balloons?It's a good job that the reader is there to help keep Tiger asleep, isn't it.

£6.99 BB

Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins

Swim with Little Fish and all his friends in this exuberant under-the-sea board book from the creator of Maisy. Meet Little Fish and all his fishy friends in this splishy-sploshy riot of colour and rhyme under the sea. A simple, bright, board book delight from award-winning artist Lucy Cousins, creator of Maisy.

£7.99 BB

Soft and Sticky by Jeanne Willis

Soft and Sticky are best friends, but Soft’s fluff always gets up Sticky’s nose, and Sticky sticks like glue to Soft! After one last argument, they decide to end their friendship – life will be better apart, won’t it? But they soon find they miss each other much more than they imagined... Another hilarious story from award-winning children's author, Jeanne Willis.

£7.99 PB

Follow That Tractor! by Georgie Taylor

Explore the colourful illustrations as you trace the grooved trails on each page with your fingers and follow the tractor through the five different farmyard pictures. Each scene is full of lots of neighing, oinking and baaing farm animals to spot, too. There are bumpy textures to find and feel, plus peep-through windows lead you through the pages as you follow that tractor and find out where it is going.

£7.99 BB

A Squash and a Squeeze by Julia Donaldson

A little old lady lives all by herself in her house but she's not happy - it's just too small, even for one. Whatever can she do? The wise old man knows: bring in a flappy, scratchy, greedy, noisy crowd of farmyard animals.

When she pushes them all out again, she'll be amazed at how big her house feels

£7.99 PB

Shark in the Park by Nick Sharratt

Timothy Pope has a brand new telescope and he's testing it out at the park. Peep through the die-cut holes in this book to see if you can spy a shark. Is that really a shark? Turn the page and find out. A delightful, entertaining story - with its rhyming text and ingenious die-cut pages, it's a book children will want to read again and again.

£7.99 PB