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5-Minute Maisy Stories

By Lucy Cousins
Series: Maisy
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This fun-filled collection contains seven stories starring Maisy and her friends, all crafted to be read in five minutes or less. Great for bedtime, quiet time, or on-the-go, this is the perfect treasury for reading aloud at any time. With stories about bedtime, making lemonade, fun... Read More
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This fun-filled collection contains seven stories starring Maisy and her friends, all crafted to be read in five minutes or less.

Great for bedtime, quiet time, or on-the-go, this is the perfect treasury for reading aloud at any time. With stories about bedtime, making lemonade, fun on the farm, and more, toddlers can pick a new story each time or flip to familiar favourites again and again.

The collection includes:

  • Maisy Dresses Up
  • Maisy’s Morning on the Farm
  • Maisy Goes Shopping
  • Maisy Makes Lemonade
  • Maisy Cleans Up
  • Maisy Takes a Bath
  • Maisy’s Bedtime

Series: Maisy

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  • Maisy's Bedtime
    Have fun getting ready for bed with Maisy! It's bedtime for Maisy and Panda. Read all about the things Maisy has to do before she can go to sleep, including brushing her teeth, putting on her lovely blue pyjamas, and reading her favourite story. But when the lights are out, Maisy still isn't sleepy. Oh wait! Maisy forgot to go...
    By Lucy Cousins
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  • Maisy's Building Site: Pull, Slide and Play!
    Maisy's Building Site: Pull, Slide and Play! invites you to join Maisy in building a house for her friend Ella. With easy-to-use pull, slide, and play tabs on every spread, little ones will love this interactive building adventure. Brrrm! Brrrm! Beep! Beep! Maisy and her friends are hard at work constructing a house for Ella. Engage with the story using...
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  • Maisy's Train
    Toot-toot! Climb on board everyone as we take a lovely journey on Maisy's very own special train! This attractive, shaped Maisy board book provides the perfect introduction to the theme of transport. It is die-cut in the shape of Maisy's bright green train and takes Maisy and all her friends on a journey through tunnels and up and down valleys....
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  • Doctor Maisy
    Doctor Maisy helps Panda when he is sick, but who will help Maisy? In Doctor Maisy, Maisy and Tallulah play hospital. Poor Panda is sick, but feels much better with Doctor Maisy in charge. When it’s Maisy’s turn to need help, Nurse Tallulah comes to the rescue!
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  • Maisy Goes for an Eye Test
    Maisy Goes for an Eye Test is an engaging addition to the Maisy First Experiences series, designed to prepare children for their first visit to the optician. Now available in paperback, this cheerful story helps to familiarise young readers with what to expect during an eye test. Join Maisy and her friend Ella as they head off to see Flamingo...
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  • Maisy's Science: A First Words Book
    It's time to learn with Maisy! This brilliant tabbed board book features fun, themed pages covering key words to help the very young take their first steps into the world of science. Join Maisy as she investigates the world around her. Each spread is themed around different early science concepts: weather, changing seasons, plants and insects, growing, life cycles, parts...
    By Lucy Cousins
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  • Letters from Maisy
    Maisy is on holiday! She writes letters and sends them back to all her friends, including you! Open the envelopes to find games, souvenirs and more. Letters from Maisy takes you on an exciting journey as Maisy hikes up a mountain, visits a market, rows along the river, goes to a funfair and relaxes on the beach. For every adventure,...
    By Lucy Cousins
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  • Maisy Goes on a Bike Ride
    Ready, steady, wobble ... GO! Saddle up for a bike ride with Maisy! Maisy Goes on a Bike Ride by Lucy Cousins introduces Maisy with a new bicycle, eagerly preparing for an adventure with her friends. Whether it's zooming on a bike, trike, scooter, or even a tandem, there are countless adventures to be had. Join Maisy as she travels...
    By Lucy Cousins
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    $2299
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  • Maisy's Rocket
    Fly to space in Maisy's Rocket in this exciting shaped board book. Three, two, one – blast off! Maisy is going to space in her rocket! Join Maisy as she puts on her space suit, delivers food to the astronauts, and carries out essential repairs in this latest addition to the ever-popular Maisy shaped board book series.
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  • Maisy's House: With a pop-out play scene
    You’re all invited to Maisy's House! Join Maisy as she gets up, makes breakfast, paints a picture and has a yummy afternoon tea with Tallulah. This brilliant board book from award-winning author-illustrator Lucy Cousins includes a bonus pop-up play scene featuring pop-out pieces of beloved characters Maisy, Little Black Cat, Panda and Tallulah. Ideal for imaginative play and helping little...
    By Lucy Cousins
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    $1600
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  • Maisy Loves Bees: A Maisy's Planet Book
    Learn all about bees with Maisy in this brand-new series celebrating our planet! Maisy Loves Bees: A Maisy's Planet Book follows Maisy as she discovers the bees in her garden and learns why they are so important for our planet. What do bees do all day? Where do they live? Little ones will find the answers to these questions and...
    By Lucy Cousins
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  • Maisy's Ambulance
    Maisy has a very important job to do in this amazing ambulance-shaped book! Nee-nah, nee-nah! Maisy and Charley are driving their ambulance today. On with the siren and off they go. What an exciting sound! All the traffic parts to make way for the ambulance as it zooms along. Poor Eddie has had a roller-skating tumble, but help is at...
    By Lucy Cousins
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    $1499
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781536256437

Publisher: Candlewick Press,U.S.

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 October 2026

Country: United States

Imprint: Candlewick Press,U.S.

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Lucy Cousins

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 205.0mm

Height: 275.0mm

Weight: 567g

Pages: 160

Collections

Children's Books Children's Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Lucy Cousins Series: Maisy Young Adult

About the Author

Lucy Cousins is the creator of the beloved Maisy series. She is also the author-illustrator of the widely acclaimed Yummy: Eight Favorite Fairy Tales, a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Children’s Book of the Year, as well as A Good Place; Splish, Splash, Ducky!; I’m the Best; Hooray for Birds!; Hooray for Fish!; and a picture book series about Little Fish.

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    Join Little Fish on an underwater journey, and count from 1 to 10 along the way. Little readers will love Lucy Cousins' bright, bold characters and will delight at the final page, teeming with colourful fish of all shapes and sizes. Inspired by Hooray for Fish!, this charming counting book features the spotty Little Fish and his fishy friends! Perfect...
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  • Maisy's Bedtime
    Have fun getting ready for bed with Maisy! It's bedtime for Maisy and Panda. Read all about the things Maisy has to do before she can go to sleep, including brushing her teeth, putting on her lovely blue pyjamas, and reading her favourite story. But when the lights are out, Maisy still isn't sleepy. Oh wait! Maisy forgot to go...
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  • Goodnight, Little Fish
    A colourful, comforting bedtime story by the award-winning and internationally successful author-illustrator Lucy Cousins. Follow Little Fish as he wishes goodnight to all his friends, from bumble fish to upside-down fish, before cuddling up with Mummy Fish for a lovely long night’s sleep. With beautiful underwater scenes and simple rhymes, this is a wonderfully soothing, lullaby-like bedtime story.
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    Maisy Goes to the Dentist by Lucy Cousins invites young readers to join Maisy and her friends as they accompany Charley on his first visit to the dentist. This story from the Maisy First Experiences series is ideal for preparing little ones for their first dental check-up. Oh no, Charley has a wobbly tooth! Luckily, Maisy and friends are on...
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    Join Little Fish and his friends in this colourful, deep-sea delight with opposite pairs to discover on every page. Hello, I am Little Fish, swimming in the sea. Today I’m learning opposites, come along with me! Explore opposite word pairs with Little Fish in this fun, interactive board book with a lively rhyming text that begs to be read aloud....
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  • Jazzy in the Jungle
    Little readers will love playing hide-and-seek in the jungle with Jazzy the lemur and Mama JoJo! Full of vivid colours and exotic animals, with liftable flaps and die-cut windows to explore on every page! Now available as a board book for the first time. Jazzy in the Jungle is sure to captivate and delight young readers with its interactive features...
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  • Hooray for Birds!
    In an exuberant display of colour, Lucy Cousins invites little ones to imagine themselves as brilliant birds. Birds of all feathers flock together in a fun, rhyme-filled offering by the creator of Maisy. From the rooster’s “cock-a-doodle-doo” at dawn to the owl’s nighttime “tuwit, tuwoo,” the cheeps and tweets of many bright and beautiful avian friends will have children eager...
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    Learn your shapes with Little Fish in this fun, rhyming book. With finger trails for little hands, children will love tracing shapes in this deep-sea delight from Lucy Cousins, creator of Hooray for Fish! Hello! I am Little Fish, swimming in the sea. I love seeing shapes. Come along with me! Join Little Fish on a fun adventure, tracing shapes...
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    Toot-toot! Climb on board everyone as we take a lovely journey on Maisy's very own special train! This attractive, shaped Maisy board book provides the perfect introduction to the theme of transport. It is die-cut in the shape of Maisy's bright green train and takes Maisy and all her friends on a journey through tunnels and up and down valleys....
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