Bia Melo

A laugh-out-loud counting adventure with a squirrel who just can’t get enough nuts!  Nuts About Nuts is a hilarious book about a determined squirrel who is on a mission to collect as many nuts as possible . . . because one is never enough.  Squirrel LOVES nuts – many, many nuts. Follow Squirrel on a hilarious adventure as they gather more and more nuts for their secret stash, determined to keep every last one to themselves. Watch the chaos unfold as Squirrel struggles to haul ALL the nuts up the hill to their hiding place.   But what happens when a passing bird feels peckish? Can Squirrel learn that sharing might be even better than hoarding?   Children will love counting along as Squirrel’s nut collection grows from one to one hundred . . . and then tumbles back down again. Open the stunning gatefold spread to reveal just how ‘nuts about nuts’ Squirrel really is! This clever design invites kids to engage with the story and practice their counting skills in a playful, hands-on way.  Packed with humour, energy and adorable illustrations by Bia Melo, Nuts About Nuts is the perfect picture book for young children learning to count – and learning to share.

Little Snail loves her big snail family, but sometimes she feels so different to them. She craves something more exciting... a new house. A house that’s interesting, fun and unusual – just like her.Follow a little snail on her thoughtful and amusing quest to find a new house. Little Snail tries out a hilarious array of unexpected homes, completely unlike a snail shell! She tries hanging upside down with bats – a little uncomfortable ­– and a busy burrow packed with many, many rabbit roommates! Children will love Bia Melo’s beautiful, vibrant illustrations just as much as Little Snail’s quirky, bright personality. Will Little Snail find her perfect home? Perhaps it’s closer than she thinks...

A beautiful, fact-filled picture book by vet and writer Cathy Evans which is the perfect introduction to reproduction in the natural world for children. This stunningly presented science book explains the facts of life by looking at sex and reproduction in mammal species. Through short, concise texts and warm, engaging illustrations, we learn about fertilisation, gestation, birth, breastfeeding and early parenting across the mammalian order. Did you know that, unlike other mammals, whale calves are born tail first, so that the mother can push them to the surface to breathe as soon as they emerge? Or that echidnas do not have nipples? Their young lick milk that seeps from pores in their chests. Easy to engage with for kids as young as four, this is a convenient, informative and enjoyable way of learning about babies and where they come from.