"In the best pantomime spirit, readers long to tell Handa what's happening just behind her." - The Guardian (U.K.) Handa puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend, Akeyo. Which fruit will Akeyo like best, she wonders - the yellow banana, the sweet guava, the juicy orange, the ripe mango, the spiky pineapple, the creamy avocado, or the tangy passion fruit? As Handa makes the long walk to the next village, carrying the basket on her head, a monkey, ostrich, zebra, elephant, giraffe, antelope, and parrot steal her fruits, one by one. But little do they know that Handa has an even bigger surprise in store! Ideal for reading aloud, Handa's Surprise is now available as a Big Book suited for sharing with groups of young children.

Crazy about dinosaurs, a boy and his dog imagine they see one under every lump of snow until the day they get a big surprise. Includes an illustrated glossary listing various dinosaurs and their characteristics.

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Join Dorothy the Dinosaur and all her friends on a special day out. Ages 2-5. Spend a day with Dorothy the Dinosaur as she has breakfast with her best friend, Wags (lots of cups of rosy tea), goes to school, takes a trip into the city for a spot of shopping, attends her music lesson and gets ready for an important fancy dress party. Phew! What a busy day. Ages 2-5.

To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.

Illus. in full color. Difficult dinosaur names are simplified with phonics.

During a trip hunting for dinosaur fossils, you suddenly find yourself 100 million years in the past. A huge reptile is coming toward you and you must decide what to do next.