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First Festivals: Hanukkah

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Picturebook

Discover the celebration of Hanukkah with this bright, interactive lift-the-flap book!

Featuring simple text, gorgeous illustrations and satisfying lift-the-flaps, this book explores common Hanukkah traditions and helps young children understand the importance of this special holiday.

Lift the flaps to reveal the menorah, look inside a synagogue and see what yummy treats are being cooked in the kitchen.

The First Festivals series invites children to explore the world’s culture from the comfort of their home, encourages the development of hand-eye coordination and is recommended for children aged 2 and over.

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First Festivals: Diwali

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Non-fiction, Picturebook

Discover the celebration of Diwali with this bright, interactive lift-the-flap book.

Lift the flaps to reveal the rangoli pattern, look inside the temple and light the diyas!

Featuring simple text, gorgeous illustrations and satisfying lift-the-flaps, this book explores common Diwali traditions and helps young children understand the importance of this special holiday.

The First Festivals series invites children to explore the world’s culture from the comfort of their home, encourages the development of hand-eye coordination and is recommended for children aged 2 and over.

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natural wonders of the world audiobook

Natural Wonders of the World (Audiobook)

Non-fiction

Narrated by Ben Bailey-Smith.

Follow our fearless adventurers Otto (and Missy, the smartest bird in the universe) as they set out on their next action-packed Ladybird Audio Adventure!

On this adventure, we’re going to travel all around the globe and learn more about the seven natural wonders of the world!

Dive amongst the coral in the weird and wonderful Great Barrier Reef in sunny Australia, climb to the coldest heights of Mount Everest and strap in for some splashingly good fun down the rapids at The Grand Canyon. There are many more natural wonders to visit and so much more to learn and discover about them all ,so don’t miss out on this global adventure!

These audiobooks help children learn about their environment on a journey of discovery with narrators Ben Bailey Smith (a.k.a. Doc Brown, rapper, comedian, and writer) and Sophie Aldred (best known for her role as Ace in Doctor Who).

Ladybird Audio Adventures is an award-winning original series for three- to seven-year-olds; an entertaining and engaging way for children to learn about the world around them. Special stories written exclusively for audio so little ones can become their own adventurers with fun sound and musical effects that are perfect for listening at home, before bed and on long journeys.

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Little Red Hen

Picturebook

Based on the classic fairy tale. Little Red Hen wants help planting and cutting the wheat, grinding the flour and making the bread, but the cat, the rat and the dog refuse to join in – until the bread needs eating!

Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird’s best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.

Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.

Little Red Hen is a Level 1 Read it yourself title, suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words.

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Ladybird Homework Helpers: Times Tables Sticker Book

Non-fiction

Help your child to learn, remember and practise their times tables with the Ladybird Times Tables Homework Helper. This bright, interactive activity book is in line with the government’s Primary National Strategy, containing the times tables from 1-12 in the order that children learn them in school. Each page has a range of fun, motivational times table activities to complete and there are also over 60 colourful stickers to reinforce learning in an entertaining way.

The attached CD contains twelve bouncy songs to sing along to, with the times tables from 2-12 and a times tables medley. Listen to the songs alongside the book or on their own for extra practise and sing or say the times table answers each time.

It’s never been more fun to learn the times tables with Ladybird!

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Dinosaurs: Ladybird First Fabulous Facts

Non-fiction

This is a great first non-fiction text aimed at 3-5 year olds. It introduces young children to the conventions of information texts, including contents, headings and captions, in a fun and easily accessible way.

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