A sweet and funny picture book about kindness, creativity and how to make a hat for a mountain. Nara loves to make hats of all shapes and sizes for the animals who visit her workshop in the forest. Then one day she receives a letter from Mr Mountain: he wants a hat, too. Nara is up for the challenge, and knits him an enormous woolly hat . . . which is perfect until it shrinks in the rain. The leaf hat is eaten, the stick hat burns to the ground. What other material can she try? The exploration of different materials and their properties makes A Hat for Mr Mountain the perfect picture book for primary STEM lessons

Nobody likes the Sprout family, who are nicknamed the Stinky Sprouts.They re not like the cool carrot club, the funny turnips or the handsome leeks. They are stinky and green and left out of everything! So, one Christmas, the Sprouts hatch a plan to become the most popular vegetables around. They pretend to be a new kind of vegetable by dipping themselves in cranberry sauce as a disguise. Soon, everyone is talking about the great new vegetables that have moved into the kitchen. They are loved by all! Their plot comes undone, however, when the cranberry sauce melts and drips off. The other vegetables discover that it was the Stinky Sprouts all along. But, they also realise that they really enjoyed the company of the disguised Sprouts and were too harsh on them before. The Sprouts are finally accepted for who they are and they all live happily ever after!