If you're looking for a little stocking filler for someone tiny, that won't break the bank, that they won't grow out of in two seconds flat AND has an educational element to it, then you should have a look at this My First Christmas Collection.

It's comprises four little board books in a presentation slip case and Red House Books are selling them for £2.49 instead of £4.99.

• Click HERE to go over to Red House

I'm such a fan of little chunky board books; every child should fall in love with books and reading, and introducing them to books and stories as early on in their little lives as possible is the best way to achieve this.

My youngest ADORES books and reading, he has tons of them, and we started off him off with lots of chunky board books like this My First Christmas Collection.

Each book features a different Christmas character and has 10 pages, they're not going to be complicated AT all - just simple pictures with simple words on and pages chunky enough for chubby baby hands to be able to get to grips with; awesome.

Try delivery codes FREERED or 117FREE for free delivery (some people have had to try them a couple of times to get them to work), failing that there'll be a single item delivery charge of £1.95.

Happy Chunky Book Reading

Regular PlayPennies readers will know that I'm a fan of books, either just buying them to add to your own children's library or for giving as presents.  You can pick up two of these lovely 'That's Not My' Usborne board books for £6 at Play - I had a quick look-see over at Amazon and each are priced at £3.99, so you'll save yourself a couple of quid here.

• Click HERE to go over to Play

'That's Not My' books aren't just your bog-standard board books, oh no!  They are touchy-feely board books with each page having a different textured something on it to bring the characters to life and really help your little one engage with the whole story

The stories are simple and the books have been designed to develop language and sensory awareness, whilst loving every single minute of it.

There are LOTS of 'That's Not My' books to choose from - 30 of them, in fact - there are some Christmas themed ones if you want to buy specifically for Crimbo, there are cute ones, girly ones and typical 'boy' ones too.

There's no charge for UK mainland delivery so £6 is all you're going to pay for each two books you choose, the tricky thing is deciding which pairs of 'That's Not My' books to order!

Thanks to fragger at HUKD

WHSmith ran this deal last year and it proved to be VERY popular.

If you want to bag yourself a Gruffalo's Child and Monkey Puzzle Board Book box set, with a free height chart, for £5 instead of £11.98, then I suggest you put click one into your basket sooner rather than later!

• Click HERE to go over to WHSmith

I can recite The Gruffalo in my sleep but I'm not at all familiar with the sequel - The Gruffalo's Child.

Apparently, one dark night the Gruffalo's child disobeys her father’s warnings and ventures out into the snow. After all, the Big Bad Mouse doesn’t really exist . . . does he?

It sounds AWESOME and I might just have to buy myself my youngest a copy; he's a little bookworm and really enjoys all the other Julia Donaldson books he has.

The Monkey Puzzle is about a baby monkey who's lost his mother, can Butterfly help him find her?

Yes, but only after a lot of trial and error as Butterfly misunderstands Monkey's descriptions and leads him to all kinds of animals which clearly AREN'T his mother; my son never fails to find this utterly hilarious, "Silly butterfly!" he says.

You can arrange to collect your Gruffalo's Child and Monkey Puzzle Board Book box set from a WHSmith store, or you can have it delivered to your home for....

Well I'm not sure actually as the delivery pricing has confused me!  Have a look HERE - it says, for books:

• Saver delivery = 69p per item - £1.30 per order.

So if you ordered just this one thing, does that mean you'd pay 69 pence or £1.30?!

Your guess is as good as mine!  But with a WHSmith store in, pretty much, every town, I'd just go and collect it for free the next time you're passing.

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD.

Guess How Much I Love You is one of my favourite childrens' stories of ALL time and Amazon are selling the board book version for £3.18,  instead of £4.99

• Click HERE to go over to Amazon

The Guess How Much I Love You story, along with its illustrations, are SO beautiful they almost make my heart ache with joy.

I know what it feels like to try and tell someone just HOW much you love them; there just aren't enough words, or ways, to quantify it!  In Guess How Much I Love You, Little Nutbrown Hare and Big Nutbrown Hare discover that love isn’t something you can easily measure.

What I can easily measure is just how much I LOVE this book.

There are  various different versions of Guess How Much I Love you - paperback, a sweetheart edition but this one is the board book version which makes it perfect for young hands just getting to grips with turning pages.

I must confess to being rather tempted to buy the sweetheart edition of Guess How Much I Love You just for me (I think I'm a bit grown up for board books now), just to keep, just to look at, just to fall in love with all over again.

You know my Amazon delivery spiel by now, you don't need me to keep saying it over and over do you?

Happy love guessing!

Those lovely folks at Red House are selling Spot books for at least £2 less than their list price; there are some lovely ones currently up for grabs.

• Click HERE to bag some Spot bargains

My daughter was utterly in love with Spot the Dog when she was little; we had lots of Spot books and her favourite was Spot in the Garden.

That one's not available at Red House but there are other lovely Spot books for you to choose from.

Spot books are ideal for little people who are just getting to grips with looking at books and reading.  Their chunky carbboard pages featuring the very  cute Spot are spot on (hur hur) for encouraging and developing an early love of books.

There's  a collection of two Spot Books for £5.99 (instead of £11.98) which include Spot Can Count and Spot's Birthday Party.

With Easter coming up, Spot's First Easter will make a lovely pressie for someone tiny who'd like to start, or build on, their collection of Spot books; Spot's First Easter will cost you £2.99 instead of £5.99.

There are a few other Spot books on offer at Red House with at least £2 or £3 reductions; enjoy.

Books Direct Bargains have a lovely little deal on this Charlie and Lola Board Book set of three books; at 50p a book you really can't go far wrong!

• Click HERE for some Charlie and Lola book bargains

I love Charlie and Lola!

The other day when I was in the park with my youngest, we saw a boy who was the SPITTING image of Charlie - it was quite unnerving actually and I resisted the temptation to look around for Lola!

I don't know anyone who isn't totally smitten with Charlie and Lola, Charlie has...

"...a little sister Lola, she is small and very funny."

Ahhhh it just reminds me of bed time with my youngest when he was a couple of years younger.

Charlie and Lola were on TV at just the right time for post warm bath, in pyjamas and hot milk viewing which was followed by bed and more Charlie and Lola with bed time stories.

These three board books are ideal for really little book worms, the titles are:

• Charlie and Lola's Things
• Charlie and Lola's Animals
• Charlie and Lola's Opposites

If you spend over £5 with BooksDirectBargains then you'll get free delivery, so it's worth looking around to see whether anything else takes your fancy.

Or perhaps order three sets and keep them in the pressie drawer for those last minute present dramas!

Thanks to j1983 over at HUKD!

WHSmith have some lovely deals on children's books at the moment; I'm particularly taken with these little box sets of board books for titchy kids.

• Click HERE to bag some book bargains

Board books are a great way to introduce littlies to reading.

Developing  a love for books from early on is very important, can you imagine a life without being able to enjoy getting lost in a good story?!

This little board book 'That's Not My...' box set is a lovely touchy-feely collection of little stories; the titles are:

• That's Not My Bunny
• That's Not My Teddy
• That's Not My Monkey
• That's Not My Monster

Each page has a different texture for tiny ones to explore and I've not read a single review that says a bad word about them.

Of That's Not My Teddy:

"I have 'read' books with my son books from when he was a couple of months old, but none light up his face and make him shriek with excitement as this one does."

Of the That's Not My...series as a whole:

"Any parent who hasn't discovered the Usborne touchy-feely 'That's not my X...!' series is missing out. The amount of joy my child has had from this series never fails to amaze me."

These lovely little books as a box set should should retail for £23.96 but are yours for £9.99.

There are lots more book in the That's Not My... children's book series for you to collect too.

Thanks to lucerysmum over at HUKD!

Guess how much I love this Guess How Much I Love You In The Summer board book?!

• Click HERE to fall in love with this book over at The Book Depository

There are some books that are great. There are some that are funny and there are some that become firm favourites. Then there are some that you just fall head over heels in love with - Guess How Much I Love You in the Summer is one of those fall in love with books.

It's a 24 page board book and tells the tale of Little Nutbrown Hare as he goes through the summer time learning all about the colours of the things he sees and comes across, when he's out and about.

He loves the red berries, the green grass and the blue sky but will he guess what the loveliest colour of all is?  I'm not going to tell you, you'll have to buy the book and discover what it is along with your child and Little Nutbrown Hare - no spoilers here at PlayPennies you know!

There are other books in the Guess How Much I Love You series - so you can get more than just one fix of these utterly wonderful books with their stunning illustrations.

The Book Depository have reduced Guess How Much I Love You in the Summer from £4.99 down to £1.73 and the offer free WORLDWIDE delivery! Hurrah!

Thanks to Dinnie over at HUKD!