D.M. Mullan’s Curious Tales is a series of peculiar modern fables from author D.M. Mullan and illustrator Kirsteen Harris-Jones. How cool does this sound? So excited to be revealing Kirsteen’s cover. Right. Here… With a classic rhyming style and wonderfully quirky illustrations, each book centres around a unique little individual and tells their story all…
Super excited that Patience Agbabi’s second novel in the Leap Cycle series, The Time-Thief, is flying on to the shelves. It’s a real treat! The wonderful, energetic Elle is back – with her gift for time-travel, she’s leaping back to a London that’s very different from today. The result is a thrilling adventure, rich in…
Barbara Henderson’s latest novel, The Chessmen Thief, is about to hit the shelves. Full of intriguing characters, we couldn’t resist picking her brain and asking all about… creating characters. I had known for some time that I wanted to write a Viking story. I had known for around a year that I might want to…
John Condon has been writing picture book stories for six years. Before that he wrote screenplays and made short movies, a couple of which you can still find floating around on the web. His first picture book, The Wondrous Dinosaurium, was published by Maverick Arts in 2018, and has been nominated for several awards (it…
The Dodos Did It by Alice McKinley is a joyful dodo-filled romp with the very important warning… be careful what you wish for! Jack is dodo obsessed. Everything he owns is connected to dodos – lamps, toys… you name it. He has it. But even Jack knows that these are no substitute for the real…
From the moment I glanced at those wonderful endpapers I just knew I was going to love this one, and then I read Peter’s opening lines… “King Albert-Horatio-Otto the Third had so many clothes it was simply absurd. He had outfits for yoga and stroking his cat He never ate cheese without changing his hat.”…
Publishing in April 2021 and ideal for early readers, THE TINDIMS AND THE TEN GREEN BOTTLES continues the whimsical adventures of The Tindims of Rubbish Island, written by Sally Gardner and illustrated by Lydia Corry, the series features an entertaining cast of miniature characters and expert recyclers, who live by the motto, ‘What is rubbish…
I LOVED what Radiya Hafiza created here, Rumaysa is a Rapunzel retelling set in a fictional version of South Asia and it is EVERYthing. Rumaysa was stolen from her parents as a child. She was imprisoned in a tower, her only friends being books (lots of books!) and Zabina, a talking owl who flies by…
Roll up! Roll Up! For the fabulous An Alien in the Jam Factory, the simply hilarious debut chapter book from the fabulous Chrissie Sains. With illustrations from Jenny Taylor, An Alien in the Jam Factory features Scooter McLay. His cerebral palsy affects how quickly he can move his body, but his hyper-creative brain is a…
I’m such a fan of this series – the evocative writing, the brilliantly drawn characters, the wonderful worlds L D Lapinski creates, plus the top-notch pacing – I have been on the EDGE OF MY SEAT waiting for book 2. The premise of this series had me hooked from the very beginning. In the Strangeworlds…
This is a series that I’ve fallen head over heels in love with. I adored the first one in the series – Too Small Tola, by Atinuke and Onyinye Iwu, which introduced the fabulous Tola and her family. This second one – gosh, it really does pull at your heart strings. It’s so full of…
LOOK! who has popped into My Book Corner today. It’s the absolutely lovely Kate Foster. Kate writes children’s books about dogs and friendship and family! The fabulous PAWS will be jumping onto the shelves soon (NOW for our Australian readers! Lucky ducks!). So, of course, we waved our infamous questions under Kate’s nose… and she…
I loved this picture book so much – full of warmth, love and fabulous adventures. My Daddies! by Gareth Peter and Garry Parsons is guaranteed to make you smile. “My daddies are amazing. They’re funny, kind and smart. And when they read me stories… exciting journeys start…” Well, you know I LOVE books about books.…
You KNOW how much I enjoyed Emmy Levels Up from Helen Harvey, right? Warm, funny, heartfelt and so sensitively written… I’ve barely stopped talking about it since I finished it! Well, I NEEED you to see how good it really is. So. How about… a sneaky read of the opening chapter?? Perfect way to get…
Maybe… is the latest picture book from Chris Haughton, and it’s an absolute CORKER! Three little monkeys sitting in a tree, with a super strict warning NOT to go down to the mango tree… there are tigers down there. Left alone, what do you think they get up to? Hmmmm, turns out the warnings were…
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Ooh, this sounds fantastic!
Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…