John Butler

In this counting book, Daisy's mother tells her of the many animals in the world who swim and play and fly while Daisy is asleep, from one tiger hunting in the jungle to ten penguins jumping out of the icy sea.

Describes the various sounds that some domestic animals make.

Offers a series of drowsy animal parents and their young nestlingdown together for the night. Children will be smiling too as they drift off to dreamland on the wings of this sonorous beddy-bye rhyme.

When the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami separates a young African hippopotamus from his mother, he finds a new snuggle partner in Mzee the giant tortoise. Based on a true story.

Follows a mother polar bear and her two cubs from their birth to a dangerous encounter with a hungry male bear, describing how the mother protects her offspring until they can fend for themselves.

A young orangutan gradually learns from his mother how to take care of himself in the rainforest where they live.

Anju the Asian elephant recalls her childhood in Sumatra, and the American circuses and zoos in which she toiled for fifty years, when she is loaded into a trailer truck and taken to a sanctuary. Includes advice on helping elephants and "Elephant Q&A".

Mandy's father promised to take Mandy and James to visit Folan's Racing Stables.

Mandy wonders if a mysterious foal is the ghost of a girl's horse which recently died.