“Absolutely gorgeous… Each spread is crammed full of fun and humorous illustrations. You and your toddler can share in the excitement of finding one of the many characters in the book and follow that character throughout all the pages in the book, every page is crammed with stories” – Love Reading

This large-format board book is ideal for any family planning a trip to the seaside. Beautifully illustrated with fun and humour, it lets readers share in all the excitement of the seaside as they follow the characters from page to page.

There is so much to see – every page is crammed with stories to find and adventures to tell. Can you find them all?

British Book Design and Production Awards 2009 Around the World with Mouk was Highly Commended.

Meet Mouk, the adorable and intrepid little bear, who sets off on a journey around the world. Join him as he discovers different cultures and makes new friends around the globe.

Bursting with colour and authentic detail, Around the World with Mouk is a remarkable book of fabulously detailed illustration, reminiscent of the best work of Richard Scarry, but with an international twist. Mouk invites his readers to explore with him eleven vividly illustrated countries and to join in the fun with 40 re-usable stickers. The book is suitable for all active youngsters and is virtually indestructible, with extra-thick and glossy paper, and padded covers. Its large format means that there are hundreds of different scenes and adventures to explore.

Here is a superb activity book bursting with creative ideas. By the same team behind the hugely successful Big Book for Little Hands, The Big Book of Shapes is crammed full of things for young children to enjoy, letting every reader invent their own colourful world out of squares, circles and triangles. The large format and spiral binding make the book easy to use, and the heavy paper is suitable for pencils, felt-tips, crayons or paint.

What child hasn’t wished that, for just one day, they could be a monkey, a bear or a crocodile? Each page of this enchanting book encourages young readers to let their imaginations run wild, while gently reminding them that in the end, the best person to be is themselves. This charming combination of endearing images and memorable and humourous rhymes will keep young readers entranced, again and again.

Laura Leuck is the author of several popular monster books, including Santa Claws and two Children’s Book-of-the-Month Club Selections, Jeepers Creepers: A Monstrous ABC and My Monster Mama Loves Me So.

Meet Monday. He’s a penguin who likes to stay warm. His best friends are Yesterday and Tomorrow. They like playing the piano together and they like spring, summer and autumn. But when winter comes, Monday’s house is blown away in a snowstorm. You can feel the snowflakes on the page, and, as the pages grow thinner, poor Monday starts to disappear. What will happen when the snow stops? Monday is an endearing, magical tale for young and old alike from one of Europes foremost illustrators. Anne Herbauts is the author and illustrator of over 20 children’s books. Born in Belgium in 1976 and a graduate of the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts, her distinctive work won her the prestigious Grand Prix de l’Illustration award in 2009. She now divides her time between Belgium and France.

Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986) was arguably the most influential British sculptor of the twentieth century. Brought up in Castleford in Yorkshire, Moore ended his life fabulously wealthy, completing commissions for large-scale public sculptures in countries around the world.

The scale of Moore’s success in later life has tended to obscure the radical nature of his achievement. Rejecting the influence of his teachers and inspired by works from other cultures he saw in museums, Moore championed direct carving, evolving abstract forms derived from the human body. Tate Britain’s new exhibition Henry Moore re-examines his importance, concentrating on the period from the 1920s through to the early 1960s. Moore’s life and work are introduced by Chris Stephens, a leading authority on both Moore and the British art scene of the period. Separate essays explore his relationships in the 1930s with both British and international avant-garde figures, including Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Pablo Picasso and Herbert Read; his move to Perry Green in Hertfordshire during the Blitz and the subsequent founding of the Henry Moore Foundation; and his lasting influence on British art following his death.

Uniquely, Henry Moore will include statements by contemporary artists on the important influence of Moore on their own work, as well as a photo-essay and an illustrated chronology. With Moore’s reputation once more in the ascendant, after the huge public response to recent exhibitions such as the one held at Kew Gardens in 2008, this thorough and perceptive reassessment is long overdue.

From the luminous landscapes of Turner, Cozens and Girtin, through to the evocative watercolours of William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelites, the ‘golden age’ of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British watercolour has defined a powerful ideal of British art. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, and including four searching essays, this richly illustrated book celebrates the greatest artists of the genre while throwing new light on this much-loved medium. As well as works by acknowledged masters, paintings by modern artists including John Piper, Graham Sutherland and Anish Kapoor are presented alongside lesser-known works of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Works by amateur and long-overlooked artists are also featured, providing a thought-provoking new exploration of the richness and variety of watercolour in Britain.

Gabriel Orozco was born in Veracruz in Mexico in 1962. Since the early 1990s, his career has been characterised by constant surprise and innovation. He roams freely and fluently between drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting, creating a body of work that resists categorisation. Ranging from subtle interventions in the landscape to meticulously executed sculptures and quick snapshots, art intermingles with reality and idea is inseparable from experience.

This volume, designed in collaboration with the artist, offers a comprehensive examination of Orozco’s career from the late 1980s to the present. Critical essays by Ann Temkin, Briony Fer, and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh provide new approaches to grounding Orozco’s work in the larger landscape of contemporary art. They are complemented by a richly illustrated chronology that combines biographical information with focused discussions of selected objects. Each entry pays particular attention to Orozco’s material practice and introduces the artist’s own reflections on the work he has created.

Accompanying a major touring retrospective exhibition, this extensively illustrated survey is the most thorough examination of Orozco’s achievements published to date.

Accompanying the Tate Liverpool exhibition, this book examines the intriguing relationship between renowned British artist Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, one of the most subversive sculptors of the 20th century. Having seen Tate’s 1982 Tinguely retrospective while still a student, Landy has drawn inspiration from the artist for some of his most well known works, including Break Down 2001 during which he destroyed each and every one of his possessions in a public performance. For many years Landy has been preoccupied by Tinguely’s seminal, auto-destructive sculpture Homage to New York. The book is richly illustrated with works by Tinguely, rarely seen photographs of Homage to New York taken by David Gahr as it unfolded on 17 March 1960, and some of the many H2NY drawings Landy has made in response.

Written by Henry Moore in the 1930s, these powerful, polemical texts lay out his ideas about sculpture, calling for truth to materials, openness to artistic traditions in other cultures and understanding of the importance of scale. Illustrated with archival photographs showing Moore at work, this book gives new insights into the working methods and inspiration of Britain’s most influential sculptor, speaking directly to anyone interested in the possibilities of the medium today.