Silicone counting board book with festive elves.

Five little elves, as Christmas draws near, get set for their busiest day of the year. Follow five busy elves on a rhyming holiday adventure!

In this version of "The little red hen" set at the North Pole, a penguin and a hare refuse to help an elf plant, grow, and decorate an evergreen tree but nevertheless expect to open the presents found under its branches on Christmas Day.

Celebrate the season with Santa’s little helpers as they pack his big red sleigh full of brightly wrapped presents. Toddlers will be eager to chant along with this fun holiday take on a classic rhyme. With Dan Yaccarino’s vibrant and bold illustrations, this sturdy board book is sure to captivate young readers with its Christmas cheer. Five little elves sitting on a sled. The first one said, “Where’s the man in red?”

A first novelty board book about Santa's elves helping him get ready for Christmas, with push, pull and slide mechanisms.Join Santa's elves as they make, wrap, and pack the presents for Christmas delivery in Busy Elves ! Young children can push, pull and turn the tabs to help the elves on their way - all ready for Santa to set off on his magical Christmas Eve journey!Children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text and wonderful illustrations by Lindsay Dale Scott, part of the popular Busy Book series.

Five little elves wrapping Christmas gifts watch them go as they tie the bows, and run to place them in Santa’s sleigh. Beautiful folk style art illustrates their tale as you read along with your little elf as they hurry alone on Christmas Eve to make way for friendship and Christmas Day.

In this board book with die-cut pages and rhyming text, Santa's elves build toys for Christmas.

Icelandic folklore is rife with tales of elves and hidden people that inhabited hills and rocks in the landscape. But what do those elf stories really tell us about the Iceland of old and the people who lived there? In this book, author Alda Sigmundsdóttir presents twenty translated elf stories from Icelandic folklore, along with fascinating notes on the context from which they sprung. The international media has had a particular infatuation with the Icelanders’ elf belief, generally using it to propagate some kind of “kooky Icelanders” myth. Yet Iceland’s elf folklore, at its core, reflects the plight of a nation living in abject poverty on the edge of the inhabitable world, and its people’s heroic efforts to survive, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. That is what the stories of the elves, or hidden people, are really about. In a country that was, at times, virtually uninhabitable, where poverty was endemic and death and grief a part of daily life, the Icelanders nurtured a belief in a world that existed parallel to their own. This was the world of the hidden people, which more often than not was a projection of the most fervent dreams and desires of the human population. The hidden people lived inside hillocks, cliffs, or boulders, very close to the abodes of the humans. Their homes were furnished with fine, sumptuous objects. Their clothes were luxurious, their adornments beautiful. Their livestock was better and fatter, their sheep yielded more wool than regular sheep, their crops were more bounteous. They even had supernatural powers: they could make themselves visible or invisible at will, and they could see the future. To the Icelanders, stories of elves and hidden people are an integral part of the cultural and psychological fabric of their nation. They are a part of their identity, a reflection of the struggles, hopes, resilience, and endurance of their people. What you will read about in The Little Book of the Hidden People: • The fascination in the international media: why are they so obsessed with elves? • The meaning of elf: what do hidden people stories tell us about the psyche of the Icelanders of old? • The elves' badassery—they could make or break your fortune so you’d better be nice! • The ljúflingar ... hidden men who became the lovers of mortal women • Glamorous and regal: why were the elves so damn good-looking? • The grim realities: what do scholars believe about all those children abducted by elves? ... and so much more!