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Read-aloud adventures starring Little Red, a little scarlet steam engine with a very big heart, plus puzzle-packed activity books for every season.
New for Halloween
A little ghost has missed the last Ghost Train home, and at midnight the tracks vanish for a whole year. A gently spooky rhyming read-aloud for ages 3 to 7.
Now with a colouring edition too: read the story, then make every page your own.
The Bath Book Company is a small independent children’s publisher in Bath. We make rhyming picture books that are a joy to read aloud: the kind your little one knows by heart by the third bedtime, and asks for again anyway.
Each Little Red book follows him through a different time of year: snowy, sunny or just a little bit spooky, and never scary. Alongside them we make seasonal activity books full of mazes, word searches, colouring and jokes, plus a few gift books for the grown-ups.
We’re the children’s side of Walcot Press, which publishes fiction for grown-ups.
A gently spooky Halloween adventure
When a little ghost misses the last Ghost Train home, Little Red sets off through tunnels, over silver tracks and across a bridge made of moonlight to get him there before midnight.
If they don’t make it, the ghost tracks vanish for a whole year.
Spooky, but never scary.
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The same story, ready to colour in
Every picture from the Halloween adventure as black-and-white line art, alongside the full rhyming story, ready for pencils or crayons.
Will their Little Red be red… or rainbow? Perfect for half-term and Boo Baskets.
Buy on AmazonWhere it all began
The very first Little Red adventure: a snowy, rhyming Christmas Eve journey through the North Pole with a train full of presents, and a small red engine who won’t give up until every one is delivered.
Buy on AmazonA sunny seaside journey
After Christmas, even a hard-working engine needs a holiday. Little Red chuffs off to Cornwall, Monaco, Venice, Greece, the Caribbean and Miami, all in one rhyming summer.
Buy on AmazonPuzzle and activity books for each season of the year: mazes, word searches, crosswords, dot-to-dot, colouring, jokes and more. Paperbacks, printed on demand by Amazon.
Spring puzzles, games and activities to fill the Easter holidays.
Puzzles and activities to keep little hands busy over the school holidays.
The Little Red Halloween story as a colouring book: every picture ready for pencils or crayons.
Over 40 puzzles: mazes, word searches, crosswords, dot-to-dot, word scrambles, colouring, spot the difference and poems.
Spooky facts and jokes, drawing, colouring, crosswords, word searches, mazes and cut-out face masks.
Puzzles, festive facts, poems and jokes for children of all ages.
Mazes, word searches, crosswords, cryptograms, dot-to-dot and colouring for the whole family.
Fill-in books, journals and planners that make an easy stocking filler.
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A free page from the Make It Your Own edition. Pop in your email and we’ll send it straight to your inbox. Print it, grab the crayons, and share the finished masterpiece with us on Instagram at @thebathbookcompany.
Love it? The whole colouring book is out now, £6.99.
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