Sue Hendra Books in Order

Oliver the owl stays awake beyond dawn and discovers a woodland very different from the one he knows at night. With his usual friends asleep, he struggles to find someone who will share his excitement about the daytime world.

A cat and mouse puzzle over a green lace that might be a tightrope, toothpaste or spaghetti. A helpful monster guides their guesses until the mystery leads to a practical lesson in tying a shoe.

Animal pictures and lift-the-flap questions introduce young children to colours. Choosing among possible answers turns each page into a guessing game, with the hidden responses also revealing small discoveries about the natural world.

Eyes, arms and bones seem to dance in the darkness at a mysterious Halloween party. As children follow the repeated clues, the gathering invites them to discover who is really celebrating and why appearances can be misleading.

Colourful animals introduce numbers and counting through questions hidden beneath flaps. Young readers choose an answer and reveal it themselves, connecting early number concepts with familiar creatures in an interactive guessing game.

Animals doing contrasting things introduce preschoolers to the idea of opposites. Lift-the-flap questions encourage young readers to choose between possible answers, then uncover how the paired actions or qualities differ from one another.

Familiar objects and animals provide a first introduction to colour, from green frogs to red strawberries. Young readers identify what they see and connect everyday things with colour words through a board book designed for shared exploration.

Young readers identify safari animals by sliding pieces into the positions that complete each picture. Several possible arrangements make every puzzle a small challenge, combining animal recognition with hands-on exploration and repeated opportunities to try again.

Little Dinosaur is hungry and wants to know who has eaten his pineapple. Flaps reveal what other dinosaurs have swallowed, inviting children to count the contents of their bellies while helping solve the mystery of the missing fruit.

Movable picture sliders invite young children to recognize animals on a farm. Each puzzle offers multiple arrangements, encouraging readers to test positions until the pieces form the right creature while exploring a familiar rural setting.

Billy Boat introduces toddlers to a vehicle through a short story and clear pictures. The boat-shaped board book can then stand up as a toy, inviting children to continue its adventures through imaginative play after the reading ends.

Charlie Car takes young readers into a simple vehicle story told through brief text and bright illustrations. Its sturdy car-shaped pages let the closed book become part of pretend play, extending the adventure beyond the story itself.

Percy Plane introduces a young audience to a flying vehicle through a short illustrated story. Shaped like the plane it describes, the sturdy book encourages children to move from looking and listening to inventing further journeys of their own.

Little Mouse helps children explore shapes, numbers, colours, opposites and first words. Flaps, textures, tabs and pop-up surprises turn early learning concepts into things to investigate, encouraging readers to participate as they discover how familiar ideas connect.

In Upsy Down Town, the ordinary world has been turned upside down: the sky belongs in the sea and fish appear where birds should fly. Young readers explore a place where familiar things refuse to follow their usual rules.

Mole’s adventures unfold through pop-up scenes, movable tabs and hidden details beneath flaps. This interactive picture book invites very young readers to help explore his world, using its physical features as part of following the story.

Mole returns in an interactive adventure designed for toddlers to explore with their hands. Pop-up pictures, flaps and movable tabs reveal different parts of the story, encouraging children to revisit his activities and make discoveries as they turn the pages.

Mole’s latest adventure gives young readers a story to explore through pop-up pictures and movable details. Flaps and pull-tabs invite participation, allowing children to uncover the action themselves while following a familiar character through another outing.

Mole sets out on another adventure in a book that invites toddlers to explore as they read. Pop-ups, liftable flaps and pull-tabs reveal the scenes, turning his outing into a sequence of hands-on discoveries.

A digger introduces young children to the noisy work of large machines. Simple text, bright pictures and an accompanying sound invite readers to imagine operating the vehicle while discovering the jobs it helps complete around town.

A dumper truck invites toddlers into the work of moving materials around town. Bright illustrations, brief text and a sound chip let readers imagine themselves at the controls while exploring the role of a busy construction vehicle.

Young readers imagine taking the controls of an excavator as it tackles large, noisy jobs. Simple text and bold pictures introduce the machine’s work, while an accompanying sound adds another way to join in the activity.

A tractor introduces toddlers to the work of a large farm vehicle through simple text and bright pictures. An accompanying sound invites children to imagine starting the engine and taking part in the jobs that keep a farm busy.

Barry brings excitement to an otherwise ordinary underwater world because he is a fish with fingers. His talents for painting, knitting, counting and tickling make the other fish curious, changing what they think is possible beneath the sea.

A rainforest changes as daytime animals settle down and nocturnal creatures become active. Young readers meet the inhabitants of both shifts, comparing how the same busy habitat supports different kinds of life around the clock.

Dave the cat enjoys his meals so much that one day he becomes stuck in his cat flap. His garden friends try to free him, setting up an increasingly ridiculous rescue with a surprising and very noisy solution.

A little mermaid explores the ocean while counting the creatures she encounters. Dolphins, seahorses and other sea animals fill her journey, and hidden treasures on each page invite children to look closely as they practise their numbers.

A game of hide-and-seek sends Puffy into an old shipwreck, where something hairy and frightening lurks in the shadows. Barry the fish with fingers comes to investigate, determined to help his scared friend discover what is really hiding there.

Norman is a slug who longs to become a snail, but first he needs a shell. Trying a succession of unlikely objects leads him to a tempting doughnut and a discovery about the difficulties of becoming someone else.

Wanda welcomes an alien as a friend and shares the things she enjoys, despite their differences. But her other friends have disappeared, leaving a puzzle at the heart of a story about sharing and accepting unfamiliar companions.

Keith believes his unusual hat gives him magical abilities, and the other cats expect him to prove it. When the hat disappears, he must discover whether he can still find a way to help his friends.

For Wanda’s birthday, her alien friend takes her to his home planet, where everyday habits work in unfamiliar ways. As strange discoveries pile up, she wonders whether this unusual celebration might be more different than she expected.

Barry and Norman lead children through colouring pages, dot-to-dot pictures, spot-the-difference puzzles and other activities. Stickers provide another way to join in, extending their colourful world into a collection of games and creative tasks.

Wanda and her alien friend discover a frightened little creature and take it home. Their ideas about caring for it clash, and finding its mother proves difficult when their unexpected guest has plans of its own.

Alan the Bear urgently needs the toilet, but distractions and obstacles keep delaying him. With friends trying to help and a familiar wriggling dance becoming harder to resist, he must find a way to get there in time.

Evil Pea is loose again, spreading chaos through the supermarket. Supertato faces a fresh emergency that may require help from his vegetable friends, as the gang gathers to tackle their mischievous frozen enemy together.

Rain spoils Wanda’s plans for a camping trip, so her alien friend suggests visiting his planet instead. His favorite places seem perfect to him, but finding a campsite that suits them both takes more understanding than expected.

Hungry Dave discovers his food bowl is empty and turns to the garden animals for help finding breakfast. Their suggestions lead him from one meal to another, until eating the dog’s food produces an unexpected result.

Norman unwraps an unexpected sack of presents before discovering that they fell from Father Christmas’s sleigh and belong to another family. Realizing his mistake, the little slug must work out how to deliver them before Christmas is spoiled.

Dave wakes to discover a large orange stranger occupying his bed. The visitor looks remarkably like him, creating a puzzling encounter as the cat tries to understand who has appeared and why his familiar sleeping place is taken.

The supermarket vegetables cannot get to sleep, and Supertato needs a bedtime story to help them settle down. With Evil Pea causing trouble, the potato superhero faces another challenge before everyone can enjoy a peaceful night.

Simon lives among socks that head off on adventures in matching pairs, but he is always left behind. Searching for a partner becomes a journey into friendship and difference as the lonely striped sock tries to find where he belongs.

Cake is delighted to receive an invitation to his first birthday party and arrives eager to join the celebration. But burning candles and the guests’ familiar song gradually reveal that his role in the occasion may be very different from theirs.

Norman wants a new shell, but his possible choices come with unexpected drawbacks. An ice cream is chilly and an apple is already occupied, leaving the determined slug to keep looking for something that truly suits him.

A lonely snowball sets off down a mountain hoping to find fun in town. When he trips and begins rolling, he grows larger and collects an increasingly unlikely assortment of passengers and objects along the way.

Alan the Bear is supposed to be settling down for the night, but bedtime does not come quietly. Joined by Robot and Giraffe, he moves through a familiar routine that children can explore by lifting flaps and counting down.

Alan the Bear and his friends Robot and Giraffe have been invited to Claude’s birthday party. Young readers lift flaps to help them prepare, then join the friends as they arrive to celebrate and enjoy the occasion together.

The supermarket vegetables are getting ready for a carnival, but someone wants to ruin their celebrations. Supertato and his friends must deal with the disruption before their plans for a festive party turn into disaster.

A witch brings Christopher Pumpkin to life to help prepare a terrifying party in her castle. Unlike the other pumpkins, he prefers bunting and cakes to cobwebs and frightening food, leaving him to find his own way to contribute.

Barry the fish with fingers shares five activities he enjoys, including painting and knitting. Young readers help him count them on his fingers while discovering how familiar hobbies and time with friends fill his underwater world.

A Christmas tree would rather bake, cycle and skate than stand still wearing decorations. The ornaments need him to cooperate so they can fulfil their festive purpose, and a determined little bell searches for a solution everyone can enjoy.

While the supermarket vegetables enjoy reading at night, Evil Pea insists that books are useless. Supertato and his friends face the challenge of changing his mind in a short adventure celebrating the pleasures of books.

One egg stands upside down, much to the confusion of the other eggs. Their attempts to make it look like everyone else lead to increasingly silly solutions in a picture book about accepting differences.

When Bernard’s bottom starts making strange noises, he decides he needs a replacement. His friends offer increasingly unsuitable suggestions, sending the robot on a ridiculous search for a bottom that will work properly.

Supertato assembles his vegetable friends to teach Evil Pea a lesson. As the Super Squad gathers supplies for its mission, an unlikely connection between cupcakes and defeating their enemy brings teamwork into the supermarket spotlight.

Island and his friends discover a mysterious visitor washed ashore. Their guessing game introduces a treasure chest with hopes of rescue, bringing an unexpected adventure about friendship and finding value beyond the things inside a box.

Strange sounds, shadowy shapes and unsettling movements disturb the supermarket at night. Supertato and his vegetable friends investigate the spooky activity, trying to discover what is behind the frightening events unfolding around them.

A book washes up on the island without its story, just as a hungry shark grows bored. Island and his friends must discover whether storytelling can keep the shark entertained and stop them becoming lunch.

A look at baby photographs reveals that Supertato did not always have superpowers. Evil Pea overhears and sees an opportunity to defeat his enemy, setting his sights on a time machine and a trip into the past.

The supermarket stages Jack and the Beanstalk, with Evil Pea playing Jack and Supertato as his mother. Magic beans, a towering beanstalk and a giant melon turn the vegetables’ pantomime into another unpredictable adventure.

Gordon the balloon travels the world with a circus, learning how to avoid the dangers that could burst him. When a storm strands everyone on an island, his unusual abilities may offer their only chance of escape.