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Em Lynas Books

A raucous, rhyming tale that will have children (and adults) in fits of laughter!

Stoat is playing in his favourite boat when suddenly Goat comes bounding in! Chaos ensues as an angry Stoat tries to chase Goat out of his boat. But before long, Goat and Stoat’s lively antics make the boat wibble and wobble! Uh-oh! Can Stoat float in the water? And will Goat’s colourful coat be ruined?

From the duo behind the bestselling The Cat and the Rat and the Hat comes this hilarious, read-aloud picture book, bursting with comic capers and animal antics.

Features a hilarious, tongue-twister text, slapstick humour, bright neon artwork and colourful characters.

Perfect for fans of Oi Frog!

Every Nosy Crow paperback picture book comes with a free ‘Stories Aloud’ audio recording – just scan the QR code and listen along!

The superbly clever, laugh-out-loud rhyming book is sure to be another hit in the classroom. It’s brilliant to have books that make exploring phonics and spelling patterns so much fun. They’re great for reading for pleasure too.

Following on from The Cat and the Rat and the Hat, and The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat, The Bear and the Hare and the Fair cleverly combines phase 5 phonics with hilarious antics. As the title suggests, Hare persuades Bear from the chair in his lair and off they head to the fair. They tempt each other with different rides and seem to have rather different tastes! But do Bear and Hare dare to go on the rollercoaster?!

With hilarious illustrations, joyous rhymes and great onomatopoeia too, this one is lots of fun to read aloud and join in with.

This is an adorable preschool read.

Bright and colourful illustrations enhance the appeal of the story by drawing the eyes to them while reading. Annabelle learns about life cycles through watching Flower grow, die and reproduce even more flowers throughout the seasons.

Flower gives Annabelle such great joy. I find flowers always brighten my day as they do hers. Repetitive phrases and fairly simple language make this book perfect for emerging and newly independent readers. It’s also a gentle and affirming storytime choice.

The Cat And the Rat And The Hat by Em Lynas and Matt Hunt is going to be a firm favourite of mine for reading to KS1 classes! As a cat-owner (slave?) myself, I absolutely love the scene-setting of the cat on the mat, playing and sleeping and dreaming…only to be interrupted by the rat, swanning around in his great big hat. The ensuing tug-of-war fight is brilliantly illustrated, the back-and-forth pictures giving children lots to notice and comment on. This is where the book really comes into its own as both a class read-aloud and a shared-focus – in a class situation you’ll have children taking sides, you could even act it out with props and be completely raucous!

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