The Night Garden

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The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator.

Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get. When the dog next door is killed with a garden fork, Christopher becomes quietly persistent in his desire to find out what has happened and tugs away at the world around him until a lot of secrets unravel messily.

Haddon makes an intelligent stab at how it feels to, for example, not know how to read the faces of the people around you, to be perpetually spooked by certain colours and certain levels of noise, to hate being touched to the point of violent reaction. Life is difficult for the difficult and prickly Christopher in ways that he only partly understands; this avoids most of the obvious pitfalls of novels about disability because it demands that we respect--perhaps admire--him rather than pity him. --Roz Kaveney

Suitable for Peppa Pig fans, this title contains six little books in a little case.

Features Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka, the Tombliboos, the Pontipines and the Haahoos as they each settle down for bedtime.

A slipcase that contains six board books that present a story from the land of Nara and feature the four main Pipling characters; Lau Lau, Nok Tok, Yo Jojo and De Li.

Suitable for toddlers, this title contains six board books in their very own little slipcase.

Yojojo wants to give something special to his Pipling friends, but doesn't know what to give. The other Piplings suggest their ideas, but none of them are quite right. Yojojo soon discovers that he had the perfect gift all along.

A magical Ninky Nonk sound book that lets you join Igglepiggle, Upsy Daisy, Makka Pakka, the Tombliboos and more. It comes along with your favourite 'Night Garden' friends as you press the sound button to make the Ninky Nonk sound.