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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
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Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.

Picture storybook lists for preschool, home and nursery
Themed story book titles for preschool and home ..
Each category below will take you through to a collection of themed  titles that support young children's imagination, their learning and development. 


 

PSE themes - books for maths - books for literacy - celebrations - seasons 

Themed storybooks to support children's learning
Genral themes are alphabetised

 Being active - picture books promoting outdoor play

 Bubble themed stories
Outdoor and indoor physical play book titles ..
Bubble themed story books

 Colour themed preschool picture books

 Day - night, light and dark
Colour themed story books for children - preschool and home
Books to explore reflection, shadow, light, day and night ..

 Dinosaur themed nursery books

 Dragon themed preschool books  
Dinosaur themed story books for preschool and home
Dragon themed books for inclusive play ..




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 Fairy, princess story books
 Growing plants 
 ICT themed storybooks



Fairy, princess and folklore characters ..
Books for growing - seeds, plants, fruit, vegetables and gardening, outdoor book activiites
ICT preschool story books to support and explore aspects of information, communication and technology

 Jungle picture story books
 Life cycles - themed books
 Minibeast insect bug books



Jungle themed story books
Story books for lifecycles
Minibeast story books for preschool - worms, bees, snails, ladybugs, spiders, beetles ..

 Our multicultural world
 Nut themed picture books
 Ocean under the sea books



Multicultural picture storybooks
Nut themed storybooks
Story books for themed, sea, water and ocean play

 Penguin storybooks
 People who help us
 Pirate picture books



Penguin themed children's picture story books
People who help us - emergency services, mums, dads, preschool, librarians, doctors, vets ..
Pirate themed story books for preschool and home



 Space storybooks
  Teddy bear picnic books
  Vehicles transport books



Space themed books for preschool story time..
Picnic themed picture story books
Story books for preschool - vehicle theme, cars, buses, lorries, van, bikes ..


 Weather
World Conservation
I
nfluence the world

 empowering children

Weather themed books for preschool and home
Conservation and world awareness ..

 Personal social emotional preschool nursery themed storybooks
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 All about me ourselves
who I am and all about me    
 Routines and daily events
What my day looks like
 Where we all live

Ourselves-about me, helping others and celebrating diversity ..
Book titles to support children's awareness of risk, safety, care and well-being
Homes, places and events that make home a community



   What I eat
 What I wear
  My Friendships



Healthy food choices and stories that support and promote nutrition, fruit and vegetables
Clothes for learning and awareness ..
Friend related picture story books



 Feelings and emotions
 My senses
 Staying safe protecting myself



Feelings - moods, emotions, facial expressions ..
Senses - explore sensory elements through story book titles ..
Books to support safeguarding, risk, children's resilience, confidence and self esteem

 Reassurance and comfort

 Transitions - times of change
 
Visiting hospital  



Story books to support children's attachments
Transitions - support children's move between significant events
Hospital book titles for children information, reassurance and well-being


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 Storybooks to support preschool and nursery mathematics numeracy

 Numbers
 Language
 Time
 
Number and quantity - books to explore amounts
Shape books, sizes and positional language ..
My Grandmother's clock


 Storybooks to support preschool nursery literacy

  Making a mark
 Letters words alphabet
 Song, rhythm and rhyme
 I spy themed books
Books to promote a range of mark making activities
Books that focus on letters, words, text, reading and building language
Books to explore song, rhythm and rhyme ..

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 Times of celebration  

 Halloween books
 Yuletide Christmas books
 Chinese new year
Halloween book titles to enjoy spooky festivities ..
Christmas Yule book titles for exploring this festive time of year ..
Chinese new year book titles for childrens learning and play

 My Birthday themed books
  Valentine's day

Birthday themed stories to celebrate children's age
Valentine day books for home and preschool ..

 
 The four seasons
 Summer themed preschool storybooks
 Autumn themed preschool storybooks
 Winter themed preschool storybooks
 Spring themed preschool storybooks
Summer themed story books
Autumn themed story books for preschool
Winter themed story books for children - preschool and home
Spring themed story books for preschool
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The wish cat story book for preschool early years nursery story time
The wish cat by Ragnhild Scamell and Gaby Hansen
This is a wonderful book title perfect for any rescue center wanting to promote the positive aspects of owning older cats as well as preschool early years setting's as they strive to share the message of responsible pet ownership.

Holly's house has a cat flap, a small door in a big door .. but Holly's home has no cat.
One night she makes a wish on a falling star for a tiny cuddly kitten, one that can jump in and out of the house door's cat flap. What lands next, to Holly's surprise is the scruffiest most raggedy Tom cat she had ever seen. Not until she gets to know Tom does she realise that wishing for a kitten wasn't necessarily the only answer to what she was wanting.