Books to help your child cover the basics before they start school.
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Fletcher’s Colours

Julia Rawlinson and Tiphanie Beeke

Learn about the different colours Fletcher and his friends encounter in the forest featuring the characters from the Fletcher picture books.

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The Leaf Thief: Colours

Alice Hemming and Nicola Slater

Join Squirrel and Bird on a flip-the-flap adventure! Squirrel and his best friend Bird are having so much fun spotting colours, can you spot them too?

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Colours of Things!

Pippa Goodhart and Emily Rand

Colours of Things! is a stylish preschool picture book which will encourage children to practise choosing, categorising and spotting familiar everyday objects. With an engaging, rhyming text by Pippa Goodhart, author of the bestselling You Choose! series, and gorgeous rainbow illustrations from award-winning Emily Rand.

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Cows are Pink!

Becky Davies and Gareth Lucas

Cows are pink, aren’t they? And horses are yellow? That can’t be right! Turn the peep-through pages to transform these funny coloured farm animals back to how they should look. Little ones will hoot with laughter at the mixed-up pairings in this hilarious and interactive introduction to farm animals and first colours – from pink cows and yellow horses to red sheep.

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The Crayons’ Book of Colours

Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers

It’s Duncan’s birthday, and the crayons all want to make him a card! With their fun and quirky illustrations of fire engines, dragons, even wheat, the creative crayons each have something special to contribute. But when they come together, they can create a truly spectactular celebration!

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Little Fish’s Colours

Lucy Cousins

I am Little Fish, swimming in the sea. I love spotting colours. Can you spot with me?” Join Little Fish on a fun adventure, spotting colours along the way!

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My Very First Colours With the Very Hungry Caterpillar

Eric Carle

Read along with the very hungry caterpillar and discover bright and colourful animal friends! Each page of this chunky board book has been thoughtfully designed with a peep-through flap to encourage little ones to join in and guess the colour. Perfect for getting very little ones excited about learning their very first colours.

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Crazy Colours

Dr Seuss

Aimed at tiny tots and toddlers, this book is part of a series of board books that is designed to teach young children simple concepts from colours and numbers to opposites and animals. Adapted from some of Dr Seuss’ most popular books, each title contains bright, bold illustrations.

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Let’s Look at Colours

Marion Deuchars

Let’s look at colours! With beautiful artwork from best-selling author and illustrator Marion Deuchars, this book is the perfect introduction to colours.

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Elmer Search and Find Colours

David McKee

Jam-packed full of things to spot, questions to answer and details to discover, all from Elmer’s colourful world. Help young children learn their colours while searching each busy scene, developing their powers of observation, visual acuity, and their number and language skills.

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Book of Colours

Oliver Jeffers

Explore planet Earth in all its colourful glory in this board book inspired by the bestselling picture book ‘Here We Are’ from artist Oliver Jeffers.

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Paddington: Colours

Michael Bond

As Paddington goes for a walk he is on the look out for the colours that are all around him from the bright red bus, the blue flowers and the green front door. This eye-catching board book is a first introduction for little ones to the colours.

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My First Colours

Shirley Hughes

Learning your colours is fun and easy with Katie and her baby brother, Olly. Join them as they explore their friendly and familiar world and all it contains in this first look at colours. From the beautiful blue sky, bright red berries or green peas and green leaves, there are so many colours to learn about.

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