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A heart-warming picture book following an inquisitive hare as he discovers that the best place in the world is always with the people you love. "Do you think this is the best place in the world?" Hare asks his friends, Rabbit, Bear, Duck and Owl. Certain there must be somewhere better out there, Hare sets out on an adventure that takes him to mountains higher than the clouds, sun-kissed beaches and starlit deserts. But even the most beautiful place isn't perfect without friends to share it with, and perhaps the best place in the world is actually closer than Hare thinks.With gorgeous artwork in a stunning summer palette, this is a beautiful picture book from the Kate Greenaway Medal-shortlisted illustrator Petr Horacek, who has been described by The Washington Post as "the thinking tot's Eric Carle".

Little Mouse finds the moon so beautiful that she longs to have a piece of it all to herself. What happens when her wish comes true? Little Mouse loves to look up at the moon every night. But one night, when a piece of the moon falls from the sky, she can't resist taking a little nibble. And another. Soon the moon is no longer round. What will happen to it now? Children will be eager to turn the pages and peek through the holes in an amusing tale of temptation featuring Petr Horacek's bold, vibrant illustrations.

Tiny Owl wants to explore the day. Mummy Owl says the day can be dangerous but Tiny Owl isn't scared! So, when Mummy Owl is asleep, Tiny Owl tiptoes out of the nest and flies off. There are all kinds of other birds and animals out during the day, and everything is so colourful! But maybe night-time is best for owls after all.

What happens when Peter's best friend Paul goes missing? He goes to the ends of the earth to find him, of course. 'Just right for the youngest of children ... a perfect picture book.' - Bookseller 'Peter Horáček is one funny guy, as well as a natural-born teacher and a whiz with a paintbrush. Put him down as the thinking tot's Eric Carle.' - Washington Post

A colourful lift-the-flap guessing game perfect for sharing at bedtime. Who is sleeping in the river, under the leaf and in the tree? Lift the flaps to find out and discover a sleepy surprise at the end, in this colourful bedtime board book from acclaimed author/illustrator Petr Horacek.

Simple lift-the-flap counting, from one spotty giraffe to ten swimming fish.

Suzy Goose is fed up with being just like the rest of the flock. She wants to be different - to flap like a bat, squawk like a toucan, slide like a penguin, jump like a kangaroo, and swim like a seal. But when she tries to roar like a lion she gets more than she bargained for.

The little bird is safe in its cage, but will it survive the outside world when it escapes? This sweet, decodable story is written and superbly illustrated by Petr Horacek.

A joyful and beautiful picture book celebrating friendship and sharing

"Suzy Goose wants a star for the top of her Christmas tree. She sees the perfect one right up in the sky bu Whooooosh Splat! getting it is not as easy as it appears. In her third hilarious adventure, Suzy Goose finds out the importance of friendship and the true meaning of Christmas.--Cover.

A charming story about bravery, perfect for fans of Eric Carle. Little Mouse wants to play in the woods. They are dark and full of big scary animals. But Little Mouse isn't afraid of anything – or is she? A charming story about bravery – with a hilarious surprise – from a Kate Greenaway Medal-shortlisted illustrator, who has been described by The Washington Post as "the thinking tot's Eric Carle".

This is a colourful baby board book from a beloved author/illustrator with charming animals and a novelty surprise. "Heehaw," says the donkey. "Miaow," says the cat. Turn the pages and learn all the animal sounds in this fun and lively board book from multi-award-winning author/illustrator Petr Horacek. Part of the Baby Walker series of books for babies, the shaped pages build to a special animal ending. Feature a beautifully illustrated board book with cut-away pages to stimulate your baby's development

Little ones will hover over this colorful look at insect critters as they peek through die-cuts and enjoy a final pop-up surprise.Lucy sees a beautiful butterfly in the garden, along with a bright green beetle, a brilliant blue dragonfly, some red ladybugs, and many more flying and crawling things. But when will the radiant butterfly appear again? Petr Horácek uses his trademark saturated hues and simple shapes to create an enticing view of the world of colors —and a peekaboo look at the slow-paced life abuzz in the backyard garden.

"Who can you find in the woods? Join Little Bunny and peep through the cut-outs on each spread to spy a whole host of woodland animals. And there is a very special someone waiting at the end of the book."--Publisher.

"Who can you find on the farm? Join Little Chick and peep through the cut-outs on each spread to spy a whole host of animals. And there is a very special someone waiting at the end of the book."--Publisher.

A young boy spends his day playing games with his imaginary friend, the Elephant. Real or not, when Grandma and Grandpa are busy, the Elephant proves to be the perfect playmate.

Suzy Goose is fed up with her noisy flock and heads off for a solitary walk in the woods. But Suzy is not alone - Bear, Wolf and Fox follow her deeper into the woods. They all spy dinner! A narrow escape later, Suzy hurries back to her flock.

A peep-through underwater adventure to share with your baby.What can you find under the sea Peep-through the submarine window to find out in this colourful board book from award-winning author-illustrator Petr Horacek.

It's night and the animals are snuggling together to sleep. Turn the cleverly shaped pages and see the bear dozing, the foxes snoring and the mice sleeping in their cosy little homes. Turn the wheel for a surprise ending and make the stars twinkle.

Celebrated illustrator Petr Horácek offers a pop-up introduction to opposites with the help of a variety of creatures.Turn the pages, lift the flaps, and see animals of all shapes and sizes bring the world of opposites to life. From slow snail to fast cheetah, heavy hippo to light butterfly, smooth frog to prickly porcupine, Petr Horácek’s brightly colored pop-up animals and interactive flaps make early learning irresistible and fun.

A heart-warming picture book about a charming bear duo on an adventure to find a best friend.Black Bear is feeling lonely, so he decides to look for a friend. Luckily, he meets Brown Bear, who is in the same situation! The bears decide to search for a friend together. They search everywhere, but their elusive friend is nowhere to be found. Or have they been right there all along? With stunning artwork and heart-warming text, this is a beautiful picture book from the Kate Greenaway Medal-shortlisted Petr Horácek.

Mouse is little and so is her house - but her apple is huge. She needs to find a home that is big enough for the both of them. But as she visits all sorts of other creatures to see if she can share their homes, her apple shrinks and shrinks - she's been nibbling it away! Peep through the holes and join Mouse in her search for a new home.

It's night on the farm, but the animals are topsy-turvy. The moon will only smile when things are put right. He must now light the stars, one by one. Can you count them all?

Turn the shaped pages and join in with all the noises the car makes as it travels through town, along the busy road, over the zebra crossing, and down the hill to Granny's house.

A sturdy new edition of a classic novelty board book for babies and toddlers.Watch mouse run about the house! Over the chair, across the table, through the shoe... Why is he in such a rush? Turn the cut-away pages and follow mouse all the way to his hole - just in time before the cat arrives!

A colourful baby board book from a beloved author/illustrator with charming creatures and novelty surprises.The beetles are creeping and the snails are slithering. Follow the endearing insects through the book with clever shaped pages. Turn the wheel for a surprise ending and help the butterflies in the meadow flutter their colourful wings!

What is that beautiful red, shiny thing hanging from the tree? Little Mouse thinks it's a marble, but Mole is sure it's a balloon and Rabbit says it's a ball. None of them can reach it by themselves, so how will they discover what it really is? Enjoy lifting the flap to reveal the tasty surprise at the end.

Inventive first concept books for babies and toddlers who are just discovering the world around them — in all its color and contrast!What color are strawberries? Bananas? Grapes? Flip the pages to find out! What happens when you mix these and other wonderful colors together? Peek in the bowl on the last spread for a tasty surprise.

Hop in! The bold illustrations and playful sound words in these two board books with die-cut pages will beckon to preschoolers who love things that go.What could be more fun than an old-fashioned train ride? Off go the passengers, past the town, into the woods (SHHH, SHHH), over the bridge (CLACK, CLACK), into the tunnel (TOOT, TOOT), and back out into the sunshine. Who could guess that the destination is ? a day at the seaside?

In this charming board book by Petr Horacek, Snail explores where different animals live. Babies and toddlers will delight in the interactive wheel that reveals Snail's surprising home—on his back—at the end of the story.

Two googly eyes, six hairy legs, two transparent wings... it's ME! The house fly. But people don't like me being in the house. A funny look at the life of a fly who doesn't quite understand why no one likes him. Bright illustrations that leave a smile on your face. Ages 3+.

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'I feel just like a penguin,' says Blue Penguin. 'But you're not like us', said the other penguins and they left him all alone. Poor Blue Penguin. Will he be able to convince the other penguins he is one of them after all?

Jonathan and Martha are two lonely worms that live on opposite sides of a tree. One day, a big juicy pear lands on the ground between them. Jonathan nibbles from the left, and Martha nibbles from the right - and soon they are caught in a tangle

A funny, read-aloud farmyard tale about a very greedy goat from award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek.A funny, read-aloud farmyard tale about a very greedy goat from award-winning illustrator Petr Horacek. Goat has had enough of eating grass. She wants to try something different - the dog's food, the pig's potatoes and even the farmer's pants. But things go wrong in this hilarious, but cautionary, farmyard tale from the Kate Greenaway-Medal shortlisted illustrator described by the Washington Post as "the thinking tot's Eric Carle".

A toddler's nightly routine unfolds with an evening ritual on each graduated page, building to a perfectly cozy ending. After playtime is over, it's time for supper, taking a bath, brushing your teeth, and listening to a story. But what comes next? In Petr Horácek's clever board book for very young children, each turn of a shaped page creates a picture that is revealed only at the end, leaving little ones happy to settle into their beds and say good night.

A colourful lift-the-flap book of opposites to share with your baby. Who is the biggest, who is the tallest and who is the noisiest? Lift the flaps and find out in this colourful board book from acclaimed author/illustrator Petr Horacek.

What do cats like? Flip the pages to find out - but watch out for the great surprise.

A peep-through space adventure to share with your baby. 3, 2, 1, blast off! What can you see in space? Peep-through the rocket windows to find out, in this colourful board book from award-winning author-illustrator Petr Horacek.

Pecking, tugging and flying quick quick quick - where could this little bird be off to in such a hurry?

A sturdy new edition of a classic novelty board book for babies and toddlers.Combining graphic pictures with ingeniously simple novelty devices, What Is Black and White? reveals, page by page, that the night is black, the snow is white, the cat is black, the milk is white, and as the final pages are turned there's a big surprise: a zebra!

Tato encyklopedie je dosud největší českou dendrologickou knihou. Je v ní obsaženo na 4500 druhů, poddruhů a kultivarů listnatých dřevin, které se vyskytují v zahradách, parcích i volné přírodě celé střední Evropy, její dosah samozřejmě zasahuje i do značné části Evropy západní. Kromě množství fotografií obsahuje kniha i kresby detailů listů a větviček. Naleznete zde také informace o pěstování a množení listnatých dřevin.

Obrázkový příběh o Lucinčině zahradě plné malých barevných stvoření. Lucinčina zahrada je plná barevných tvorů, kteří bzučí, ševelí a poletují. Ale kde se schovává ten, kterého má ze všech nejraději? Nádherný, pestrobarevný motýl? Krásná kniha, ze které na konci vyletí opravdický motýl. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Klidně spi, velký medvěde, ať se vám něco hezkého zdá, ptáčkové v hnízdě pod hvězdnou oblohou. Petr Horáček je výtvarník a autor velmi úspěšné série dětských knih. Jeho knihy byly přeloženy do několika jazyků a vyhrály řadu mezinárodních cen. Žije a pracuje ve Velké Británii, kam se přestěhoval po studiích. V Portále vyšly jeho úspěšné knihy Papuchalk Petr, Husa Líza, O myšce, která se nebála, aj...

Výpravná publikace pro malé milovníky zvířat s ilustracemi Petra Horáčka. Lední medvědi dovádějící na kře, tygři lovící v džungli, slavíci prozpěvující si v lese… Všude kolem nás žijí nádherná zvířata. V pozoruhodné publikaci se živými ilustracemi oceňovaného výtvarníka Petra Horáčka se děti seznámí s tvory všech barev a velikostí: od obrovských modrých velryb až po netopýry o velikosti čmeláků. Veselé i poetické texty přebásněné Robinem Králem ukazují zvířecí říši v celé její pestrosti a zaujmou všechny malé zoology!

STROMY pro sídla a krajinu autoři Zdeněk Málek, Petr Horáček, Zdeněk Kiesenbauer,

Zajíčku, ušáčku, v hlubokém lese, co vidíš?“ „Vidím tu medvěda. Usmívá se na mě.“ Co se stane, když zajíček ušáček zabloudí v lese. Dostane se z něj ven? Najde svoji maminku? Hledejte s ním a pomozte mu, aby se s ní šťastně setkal.

Dlouhá cesta je příběh trpaslíka Františka. František je zahradní trpaslík, jehož údělem je stát v zahradě a naslouchat ptačímu štěbetání. Ptáci mají vždy o čem vyprávět. Volně létají po kraji a z výšky pozorují svět. František má ptačí štěbetání rád, ale zároveň by se sám rád do světa podíval. A tak jednoho dne vyjde malou brankou ze zahrady ven, rovnou do polí. Projde lesem, vyleze na kopec a zleze hory... Kudy všude jeho dlouhá cesta povede a kam až se František na své cestě dostane? A najde František nakonec to místo, kde je mu nejlépe?

Najde králíček svoji ponožku? Kam se asi poděla? Není ve skříni? Co když je ve vaně? A nebo je v lese? Králíček má spoustu kamarádů, kteří mu s hledáním rádi pomohou. Taky někdy hledáš zatoulanou ponožku? Kniha je plná okýnek a překlápěcích obrázků a potěší všechny, kdo mají rádi barvy a veselí.

Knížka s celostránkovými ilustracemi pro děti, které mají rády legraci a zároveň příběh o přátelství a odpuštění. Modrá příšera si chtěla hrát, ale králíkovi se nechtělo. A tak příšera udělala něco, co se dělat nemá. A pak to udělala znovu a ještě jednou. Tak, a teď si Modrá příšera doopravdy neměla s kým hrát. Nakladatelská anotace. Kráceno.

Nicola Davies presents a treasury of poems about the animal world, illustrated in great detail by Petr Horáček. Polar bears playing on the ice, tigers hunting in the jungle, fireflies twinkling in the evening sky and nightingales singing in the heart of the woods - there are animals everywhere

Podtitul: Všechno, co o nich potřebuji vědět. Projděte se s námi velkou galerií netřesků z celé Evropy, nahlédněte i do nekonečného světa jejich zahradních kultivarů. Příroda na nich nešetřila drobnými detaily, které z nich činí výrazné a v naprosté většině i nenáročné ozdoby pro každou skalku. V naší knize vás seznámíme se vším podstatným, co o těchto zajímavých rostlinách potřebujete vědět.

Vom Floh bis zum Elefanten, von Kamelen bis zu den Orang-Utans, vom Kolibri bis zum Seeadler, vom Wal bis zum Leuchtkäfer - wie leben all diese Tiere, wie ernähren sie sich und wie bekommen sie ihren Nachwuchs? Kinderbuchautorin und Biologin Nicola Davies erschafft gemeinsam mit Künstler Petr Horáček eine prachtvolle und vielfältige Tierwelt.

Stromy doprevádzajú človeka takmer na každom kroku. Ich význam pre ľudstvo je obrovský a zasahujú do toľkých rôznych odvetví, kde by sme ich ani nečakali. Už od pradávnych dôb bolo drevo zdrojom tepla a ako materiál sa používalo na stavbu príbytkov či výrobu loveckých zbraní a najrôznejších pomôcok. Bez využitie dreva by nestáli ani egyptské pyramídy, ani iné väčšie či menšie stavby z dávnych dôb, ktoré dodnes obdivujeme.

Někdo říkal, že zelení hroši neexistují. A co si o tom myslí zelený hroch? Občas jen stačí rozhlédnout se kolem sebe. Jindy pomůže mít pár dobrých kamarádů, kteří vás mají rádi přesně takové, jací jste.

Publikácia určená širokému spektru čitateľov poradí s pestovaním kríkov v našich klimatických podmienkach a zároveň uľahčí ich poznávanie. Všeobecná úvodná časť pomôže zo správnymh výberom dreviny a s prípravou miesta na pestovanie. Ďalej sa venuje aj starostlivosťi o kríky a spôsoboch ich množenia. Nasleduje slovníková časť, obsahujúca informácie o konkrétnych druhoch a ich nárokoch na pestovanie.

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