Tales for Toddler and Twos
A Book of Sleep
This colourful yet gently sleepy story shows animals sleeping in many different ways—standing in fields, curled in nests, or floating in the ocean—all except the owl, who is wide awake.
Chicka chicka boom boom
This fun rhyming story follows each colourful block letter of the alphabet as they try to climb up a coconut tree.
Fish eyes
A counting book depicting the colorful fish a child might see if he turned into a fish himself.
Freight train
Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles.
Good night, Gorilla
A zookeeper says goodnight to all the animals before he leaves for the night, but doesn’t notice that a gorilla has stolen his keys and is unlocking the cages. The animals follow the zookeeper home to say goodnight to him.
Goodnight, Me
Someone’s ready for bed, but it’s going to take a long, long time to say goodnight! Echoing the loving goodnight rituals that will be familiar to many a parent and child, Andrew Daddo’s gentle text, with softly hued illustrations by Emma Quay, is just the thing for coaxing an active toddler to sleep.
Gossie
Gossie is a gosling who likes to wear bright red boots every day, no matter what she is doing, and so she is heartbroken the day the boots are missing and she can't find them anywhere.
Hooray for fish!
Little Fish has all sorts of fishy friends in his underwater home, but loves one of them most of all.
Hop on Pop
Pairs of rhyming words are shown at the top of each page and then put into simple sentences, such as “Day. Play. We play all day.”
My car
Sam tells us all about his car and how it works, using simple words, pictures done in bold colours and simplified geometric shapes.
No More Diapers for Ducky!
When Ducky’s friend Piggy can’t come out to play one day because he’s busy sitting on the potty, Ducky wonders whether he might try out a potty too.
Tails
Rhyming words, textured pictures, and lift-up flaps show children many different animal tails and what they do.
Tall
Fun illustrations and only a few single words tell the story of how various jungle animals help a very little monkey to feel tall.
The chick and the duckling
Duckling sets off to explore the world and Chick follows, copying each activity while shouting “me too!” ...until Duck decides to go for a swim.
The moon came down on Milk Street
When the moon comes down in pieces, different helpers work to set things right again, including the Fire Chief, rescue workers, and helper dogs.
The very hungry caterpillar
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep.
Time to Get Dressed!
As time flies by on a busy morning, Solomon is determined to dress himself, but the process of getting dressed can be a bit tricky.
Tip Tip Dig Dig
One by one, a group of colourful construction vehicles works to help clean up a mess, each making their own sounds or actions.
Where is the green sheep?
With colourful pictures and a rhyming story, readers are introduced to the moon sheep and the star sheep, the near sheep and the far sheep… but where is the green sheep?
Wiggle waggle
This story describes how various animals walk, from the wiggle waggle of a duck to the boing boing boing of a kangaroo.
