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Air Miles by John Burningham; Helen Oxenbury
Category: Picture Books
A poignant book about new horizons and saying goodbye from best-loved creators: John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury Miles is a difficult dog who loves to ride in his motor car. He's growing older, but a new challenge awaits when he takes to the skies. A picture book of beauty, infinite possibility, and l ...Show more
Avocado Baby by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
The Hargraves want their new baby to grow up big and strong. But the puny mite will hardly eat a thing. One day Mrs Hargraves finds an avocado in the fruit bowl and the baby gobbles it up. Soon, the strangest things start to happen...
Avocado Baby (Board Book) by John Burningham
Category: Book & Toy
The Hargraves want their new baby to grow up big and strong. But the puny mite will hardly eat a thing. One day Mrs Hargraves finds an avocado in the fruit bowl and the baby gobbles it up. Soon, the strangest things start to happen...
Come Away from the Water, Shirley by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
While Shirley's parents sit on the beach with their knitting and newspapers, Shirley embarks on a fantasy adventure, interrupted only when her parents become over-fussy. The author also wrote "Granpa", "Oi! Get Off Our Train" and "Borka, the Adventures of a Goose with no Feathers".
Courtney by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
Courtney is the dog that nobody wants, but the children think he's lovely. When they take him home, their parents are very disappointed - he's just an old mongrel. But Courtney turns out to be a wonder-dog who can cook, juggle, and even play the violin.
Edwardo the Horriblest Boy in the Whole Wide World by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
Edwardo is an ordinary boy, so sometimes he can be a bit grubby or clumsy, a bit cruel or noisy or rude. The more that he is criticised, the worse he becomes, until one day they call him 'the horriblest boy in the whole wide world'. Just then, Edwardo's luck begins to change, and a series of chance even ...Show more
Granpa by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
Granpa nurses his granddaughter's dolls, mistakes her strawberry-flavoured pretend ice-cream for chocolate, takes her tobogganing in the snow, and falls in with her imaginary plans to captain a ship to Africa, like all good Granpa's should. It is a friendship that children who read this book will long r ...Show more
Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
It's Christmas Eve and there is one present left in Father Christmas's sack. It's for a small boy called Harvey Slumfenburger, who lives far, far away on top of the Roly Poly Mountain. But no journey is too far for Father Christmas!
Harvey Slumfenburger's Christmas Present (PB) by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
The thirtieth anniversary edition of a witty Christmas classic from one of the world's finest children's book makers. It's Christmas Eve and there is one present left in Father Christmas's sack. It's for a small boy called Harvey Slumfenburger, who lives far, far away on top of the Roly Poly Mountain. B ...Show more
Humbert by John Burningham
Category: Children's Books
Humbert the horse pulls the scrap-merchant's cart picking up old iron around the streets of London. When disaster strikes during the Lord Mayor's Show it's Humbert who saves the day and escorts the Lord Mayor to the Mansion House.
More Would You Rather by John Burningham
Category: Picture Books
Would you rather have breakfast with bears, lunch with a lion or dinner with ducks? Would you like to fly with the pelicans or swim with the fish? Would it be worse if an elephant made a terrible smell or you fell over in a field of cows? Ask - and answer - these questions and many more in this funny ...Show more