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Featuring the Gruffalo and his friends, the Witch from Room on the Broom and many more popular characters from the supremely talented author and illustrator duo of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, this collection includes 10 activity books that will keep children happily busy for a long time to come. The familiar characters and vibrant colours help make the games, puzzles and colouring-in activities even more exciting and this is a collection that is sure to be returned to again and again. Perfect for party bags and rainy days, some of the books even come with reusable stickers to add to the fun!

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Set in a medieval world, knight-in-training Mike has been entertaining fans of CBeebies since 2011 and is loved by more and more children every day. In this brilliantly interactive 3-book Mike the Knight set, young children aged 3+ can use the full-colour stickers to decorate the bright and bold scenes on each page, use them to complete missions with Mike, and enjoy colouring in their favourite Glendragon characters and tackling the fun activities throughout. A charming collection that will be sure to keep your little knights and wizards busy for hours!

Children with a thirst for creativity and art will love doodling their way through Lucy Cousins' fun activity book that stars Maisy and friends. With fun things to imagine, draw and colour, the book will help children aged 3+ get artistic and gives them the chance to draw squiggles, wiggles, stripes and spots. The perfect first introduction to drawing, this is a great Maisy book packed with encouraging activities.

Including a wonderful collection of write-in activities such as puzzles, wordsearches, dot-to-dots, spot-the-differences, mazes and much, more more, this exciting and colourful activity book from Usborne will mean your child will never be bored on a long journey again! Featuring full-colour pictures throughout, the fun tasks will not only keep boys and girls occupied for hours, but the enjoyable activities will also have them practising valuable skills too, so parents can be sure their young one is being both educated and entertained at the same time.

If you could go anywhere, with anyone, and do anything at all, what would you do? Where would you live, where would you sleep and who would be your friends? What games would you play? Written by the extremely creative and talented team of Pippa Goodheart and Nick Sharratt, You Choose is a book that encourages young readers to use their imagination. With detailed illustrations and fun stickers to adorn the pages with, there is a whole range of scenarios that show just how fun choosing can be!

Animal-mad children aged 3+ will have hours of fun with Muddle Zoo, a brilliant magnetic play book. With 17 animal magnets to place throughout the vibrant pages, the rhyming text makes the book even more appealing. The book focuses on what the animals do after closing time and kids will be delighted to see Giraffe swimming with a rubber ring and placing the magnets of their favourite animals next to their babies ready for bedtime. Illustrated by Jannie Ho, this highly interactive book manages to capture all the fun of the zoo!

With 24 pages to colour in and 60 super stickers to further enhance the pages, Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart's Just Imagine is a fun colouring book that will provide hours of fun and entertainment. Designed to encourage kids to use their imagination, it asks them to just imagine what it would be like to be as small as a mouse, or as big as a house. Wonderfully inventive and interactive, the book has vibrant and detailed illustrations and encourages children to think up their own fantastical stories.

We're going on a bear hunt. We're going to catch a big one. We're not scared! For more than twenty years children and grown-ups alike have enjoyed swish-swashing their way through wavy grass, splash-sploshing through a deep river and tip-toeing through a dark cave in search of a 'real' bear. Michael Rosen's wonderful rhythmic text is perfectly accompanied by Helen Oxenbury's timeless drawings to produce a classic story that can be enjoyed time and time again, at bedtime, playtime and anytime! This fun interactive version of the book adds to the excitement and will get little ones even more engaged in this award-winning tale as they complete the seven 12-piece jigsaws inside.

There's so much going on at Apple Tree Farm and this Usborne activity book means children aged 3+ will be able to join in all the fun. Featuring puzzles, pictures to draw and colour, stickers to stick and so much more, this is a great write-in book packed with fun activities that is sure to keep little ones with creative minds entertained for hours. As well as all this entertainment, there are some lovable farmyard characters to meet along the way, including Poppy, Sam, Rusty, Curly and Woolly. The book has been designed to help children develop essential pre-reading and writing skills, as well as aiding their pencil control.

The wonderfully reassuring Mr Croc is a delightful character that very young children will absolutely fall in love with and these two books see the charming croc brought to life in a brand-new format. Bursting with puzzles to solve, games to play, pictures to colour and more than 200 stickers between the two activity books, toddlers will be occupied for hours as they decorate and complete the pages of Colour and Stick and Puzzle and Play. Full of bright colours and bold lines, this set has tons of child appeal and will keep little ones engaged time and time again as they discover early-learning concepts through spot the difference, matching opposites and search-and-find games. They can even create their very own stories too!

Any little one who loves the sight and sound of a choo-chooing train will be enthralled by this colourful sicker book that provides a wealth of picture-making possibilities. Children aged 3+ can use the interchangeable stickers to create their very own train scenes, featuring stickers of wheels, carriages, engines, drivers and passengers which can all be assembled to make your very own unique pages. Themes and settings also include a busy station, a monorail and underground trains, meaning young children can explore every part of this exciting subject as they exercise their own creativity.

Fans of Giraffe's Can't Dance illustrator Guy Parker-Rees will adore Tom and Millie's Great Big Treasure Hunt. With lots to look at on every page and a lovable hero and heroine, this clever picture book will fascinate little ones. Tom and Millie are on a treasure hunt and, as they explore the beach, town and playground, all their friends join in their search. There's lots to look at and to find, including different colours, numbers and shapes - and every other spread reminds the reader what Tom and Millie have found and what they're still looking for.

The delightful colouring book and sticker book in the My Very First Art Set provide an initial introduction to art for young children and feature illustrations from a range of artists and genres, including Monet and Matisse, Pop Art and traditional Japanese prints. My Very First Art Colouring Book features 15 creative colouring projects that children will enjoy colouring in and doodling, while My Very First Art Sticker Book provides numerous art stickers and things to do with them - children can fill the picture frames, explore close-up details or use specially provided sticker shapes to create their very own artistic masterpieces.

Everyone’s favourite cute little cat is back with some great advice for little girls on life and friendship, not to mention a whole stack of stuff besides! In Hello Kitty: Life, Friendship and Everything, children can learn how to be a great best friend to the people they care about and there are plenty of inspiring ideas for games and activities that they can get up to with their chums. The cute little kitty is like a best friend to many little girls and she delivers some kind and thoughtful messages in this book that will inspire children to love their friends dearly.

The Big Book of Holiday Things to Make and Do is a great activity book that will become a firm favourite with its suggestions for things to make and do all year round. The book also offers seasonal activities for every holiday and is suitable for children aged 4 and above. Amongst the ideas featured are a coral necklace, a pirate cutlass and fairy wings. Each creative activity is clearly explained with simple step-by-step instructions and illustrations and the book also includes over 600 stickers to add brilliant finishing touches to the wonderful creations.