While You Are Sleeping

A wonderfully warm and atmospheric book, suffused with magic — from the author of the popular and acclaimed Beegu.We are the bedside toys.Do you ever stop to think what we go through,night after night, while you are sleeping?Every day they sit as still as stone but at night the bedside team comes to life — scaring away bad dreams, squishing the bed bugs flat and even checking for monsters. It’s hard work, but in the morning, when the child awakes, the bedside toys are richly rewarded.

Deacon, Alexis

Children's Books

Hutchinson

A wonderfully warm and atmospheric book, suffused with magic — from the author of the popular and acclaimed Beegu.We are the bedside toys.Do you ever stop to think what we go through,night after night, while you are sleeping?Every day they sit as still as stone but at night the bedside team comes to life — scaring away bad dreams, squishing the bed bugs flat and even checking for monsters. It’s hard work, but in the morning, when the child awakes, the bedside toys are richly rewarded.From the Hardcover edition.

Red Fox

The story of an alienated alien Beegu’s spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to understand her; windblown leaves won’t stay still to listen. But at last, on a school playground, Beegu discovers a group of fantastic companions who are happy to let her join their games . . . until a grownup creature spoils the fun. Beegu's spirits are sinking lower than ever just as the mother ship arrives, in this simple, bittersweet picture book that shows us our world through the three eyes of an innocent outsider with the help of stylish art and a wry, understated text.

Beegu

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Being a plush toy might sound like an easy job, but when a newcomer joins their group, the bedside toys show him everything that goes into taking care of a child while he is sleeping. Every night, they make sure that he isn?t too hot or too cold, and that he stays safely in his bed. They chase away bedbugs and bad dreams. And on Christmas Eve they have the very important task of making sure the child does not awake until morning. The new toy ? and the reader ? will find a lot to learn before the night is over. Acclaimed author-artist Alexis Deacon has produced an enchanting bedtime picture book filled with soothing, dreamy pictures and gentle humor.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Slow Loris

Animals

Demco Media

Seven little junkyard critters venture out of their small, dark hole on a charmingly madcap quest for a new home, with laugh-out-loud results. When a band of brothers outgrows the dim confines of their birthplace, there is no other choice but to set out into the world on a grand adventure. Timid and terrified at first, they soon find ingenious ways to simulate the safety of their familiar hole. They bravely cross a muddy sea, climb a discarded mountain, survive an appliance-like labyrinth, and finally reach the edge of the world. What will they see there, and will they ever find a place they can call their own? Loaded with visual humor and breathless commentary by the intrepid crew, this comic book-style tale of solidarity and daring will have readers giggling, cheering, and ready to see the world in a new way.

A Place to Call Home

Candlewick

Venture into the untamed world of Rat Law! Kids will laugh at this funny, frenetic look at group dynamics from an innovative picturebook team. Rat Law says that if you’re a rat, cheese belongs to you. But there are exceptions. For example, if a big rat wants it, cheese belongs to him. Unless a bigger rat wants it, or a quicker one, or a stronger one. And if a big, quick, strong, scary, hairy, dirty rat wants it, well . . . where does it end? A tumble of cumulative adjectives and a frenzy of hungry critters build up to a final note of politeness in a book sure to satisfy kids’ appetites for zany humor.

Cheese Belongs to You!

Bravery plays out in surprising ways when a little finch starts having big thoughts. The finches live in a big flock that makes such a racket nobody can hear themselves think. But one day a small bird wakes up in quiet darkness and has a thought, and he hears it: I am Henry Finch. . . . I could be great. The next day, the Beast comes, and Henry sees his chance—but then a mouth opens wide, and the path to greatness turns out to have some unexpected twists. Delightful illustrations pair with a quirky, funny, and uplifting story for budding philosophers of all ages.

I Am Henry Finch

From award-winning picture book makers Viviane Schwarz and Alexis Deacon comes a story about the struggle for dominance over one piece of cheese... Rat law is simple: if you take a piece of cheese, it belongs to you. So if a bigger rat takes it ... then cheese belongs to them. Unless ... a quicker rat swipes it! Every rat knows rat law; if you are big or quick, strong or scary, hairy or dirty, or, indeed, all of the above. But just who gets to EAT the cheese? More hilarious and innovative storytelling from the brilliant creative duo behind A Place to Call Home. This cumulative text will have readers zooming through the pages at lightning speed ... and clamouring for repeats!

Literature & Fiction

World Literature

WALKER BOOKS LTD.

Walker Books

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While You Are Sleeping

While You Are Sleeping

Beegu

While You Are Sleeping

Slow Loris

A Place to Call Home

Cheese Belongs to You!

I Am Henry Finch

Cheese Belongs to You!

I Am Henry Finch