Join us as we discover which fruits Handa will take to Akeyo in Handa's Surprise!

For this year's Book Collection, we are focusing on the adventurous Handa's Surprise. Taking inspiration from the story, we’ve selected products to inspire and support your setting, helping children to develop and enhance their key skills around the seven areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS).

Whether your little ones are re-telling Handa's Surprise using the character set, constructing a hut and basket or exploring textures and materials with our sand and water tray - we have everything you need to prepare your setting for exploration and learning through play! 

Handa's Surprise top picks 

Handa's Surprise literacy finger puppets & book set - 167339

This set will bring the story to life as you can re-tell the story with the puppets in your book nook. This will aid the below areas of learning;

• Communication & Language
•  Literacy
• Understanding the world
• Expressive Arts and Design

Handa's Surprise character set - 244848

This product includes all the characters from Handa's Surprise book. Little ones can storytell, sequence and name animals and characters. 

• Communication & Language 
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development 
• Literacy
• Understanding the world 

Handa's Surprise outdoor sequencing cards - 244872

Perfect for building confidence and essential communication and language skills through discussion, story telling, questions about characters and role play.

•  Communication & Language
• Literacy
• Understanding the world 

Learning resources plastic play tub of fruits - 241369

This will strengthen little ones 'counting skills, vocabulary and spelling by naming different fruits or colours and writing them down.  

• Communication & Language
• Literacy
• Mathematics

Water tray & stand with two lids - X174182

Suitable for age 3+ and allows safe exploration with water, sand, paint, jelly, or other messy play mixtures. Perfect for helping little ones understand the world and express their creative side.

• Communication & Language 
• Physical Development
• Understanding the world
• Expressive Arts and Design

Bumper assorted prints patterend paper - 194735

Product includes animal fabric, sea life papers, different skin tones,  African and Hispanic textile and more. Great for understanding the world and expressive arts and design.

• Expressive Arts and Design
• Understanding the world
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Happy doll families set - 234605

Great fun as part of a small world set up or can be used to encourage discussions about families and diversity.

• Communication & Language 
• Understanding the World 
• Personal, Social and Emotional Development

Little Brian people paint sticks, skin tone colours - 276669

Perfect for all multicultural activities, and helps children understand the world.

• Communication & Language 
• Understanding the world
• Expressive Arts and Design

Wooden components pack - 260479

Ideal for construction and craft projects, and builds children's fine motor skills. Encourages communication & language where children can describe what they're crafting.

• Communication & Language 
• Physical Development 
• Understanding the world 
  Expressive Arts and Design

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More about our ESPO Early Years Book Collections

With so many fun and interesting children's popular book titles, we have brought together products across our ranges to help bring the stories to life and most importantly improve the little one's literacy skills which they can apply to the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) 7 Areas of Learning.

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