First Baby Days: Funny Faces

This innovative new series stimulates a baby's developing vision with bright and bold, high-contrast illustrations. These fun and vibrant books are the ideal tools for early shared reading experiences * Baby London * Stimulate a baby's developing vision with these bright and bold, high contrast novelty cased board books. * Parent Talk * Bright, bold and sturdy, this Pat-a-Cake range of baby books features cute characters, excellent pull-tabs and interesting patterns. Designed to stimulate a baby's vision, the books also provide plent of opportunity for engaging babies through sounds. There's lots of fun to be had abroad cars, a train and a rocket in On The Move ('Brm!', 'Choo!', 'Beep!'), and in Funny Faces, babies will enjoy looking at the funny animals, playing peek-a-boo, and seeing themselves in the mirror. Pat-aCake is the new imprint from Hachette. With plans to publish 35 titles in its first year, across five developmental areas, including 'Sensory baby' (covering birth to 18 months) and Talkative Toddler (for children aged 18 to 26 months), the books will add some welcome variety to what is available for the very young. Among those for the under-threes, titles due out next year are Playtime: Favourite playtime rhymes with activites to share (My Very First Rhyme Time), and Chatterbox Baby, a touch-and-feel series of board books, including Farmyard Friends. For more information, visit www.hachette.co.uk. * Nursery World * Part of the First Baby Days series, On the Move and Funny Faces are bright and bold, high contrast novelty-cased board books designed to stimulate a baby's developing vision. The striking illustrations by Mojca Dolinar are complimented in the former by multiple pull-out-tabs, and in the latter by a mirror, while the simple text encourages adult interaction. * Teach Early Years *

Pat-a-Cake takes you and your child on a magical journey. From sharing the very first baby book to watching your little one read all by themselves. The adventure begins here . . . Mojca Dolinar is a Slovenia-based illustrator and designer. She discovered her passion for illustration at an early age. After studying graphic design at the University of Ljubljana she worked as a designer, and now for more than 15 years she has been working in her own studio as an illustrator and designer. Her sketchbook is always close and she uses it as much as she can. She also tries to be creative with different techniques, mixing traditional and digital tools, hand-drawn and digital illustration. Mojca's inspirations are nature and animals - no wonder she likes to illustrate books for children so much!