Not since The Gruffalo has a picture book about a mouse had such a twist in the tale!! Julian the mouse is a loner. He avoids the animals above ground because they try to eat him. He avoids the animals below ground because they get in the way. He gets on perfectly happily on his…
What an unusual story this ‘lets-find-a-story’ story is! Translated from the original Spanish, this book is a whirlwind of ideas and jokes for children who are ready for a few more words in their picture books. Each page is a busy mix of story text, illustrations, signposts, and chat. Yes chat – the pictures all…
Nowhere Boy: exploring migration Ahmed leaves Syria with his father to find safety. Max leaves The United States with his family because of his father’s job. Both boys end up in Brussels, Belgium and a strange set of events lead them to live in the same house. Only Max doesn’t know that Ahmed is there.…
Nanda grew bigger. But as she grew, the world grew too. Small Word is such a lovely story of a girl who explores as she grows. The more she explores, the more world she finds and her desire to learn more and explore more just keeps on growing. Circles are an important theme in this…
Up the Mountain by Marianne Dubuc is a Book Island beauty.
Ultimately, what makes this book unique is the story and the way it is told.
You’re Snug With Me is beautiful. Poonam Mistry’s gorgeous cover illustrations invite you to touch and feel. You want to open up the pages and see what is hidden inside – and you aren’t disappointed. Each page’s illustrations are detailed with intricate patterns in wonderful, wintry colours. The pictures are so fascinating it might be…
There is nothing not to love about Paul Howard’s latest memory-testing story game book – I Went Trick-or-Treating
As an eight-year-old, I was always on the lookout for the perfect pony book. I had to wait a good few years, but I might finally have found it!
With a title like this, how could this not be an instant hit? Two siblings I know jumped at the chance to read it and I had to literally wrestle it off them in order to write this review. Jo Simmon’s premise is simple, but genius. A younger boy, fed up of being tormented by…
We Travel So Far: exploring the wonders of our wandering wildlife. This beautiful, hardback book (Laura Knowles & Chris Madden) takes readers on a journey around our Earth as companions of some of the creatures that spend their lives migrating. We travel first through water – crisscrossing the oceans with whales and lobsters and swimming…
“Be careful when you throw something bad inside your black hole. You may find you’ve gotten rid of the good as well.” This is without doubt one of the most wonderful middle grade books I’ve read for a long time. Stella Rodriguez, a space mad eleven-year-old, is followed home one day by a black hole.…
Laura Bridge, versatile reviewer for MyBookCorner, selects her Best Book of 2017… My top pick of my reviews this year was The Song from Somewhere Else by A.F. Harrold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold. Amazing fantasy in a very ‘real-world’ setting where everyday issues of bullying and lost pets intertwine with creatures from parallel worlds and…
The Princess and the Christmas Rescue by Caryl Hart and Sarah Warburton is a clever and engaging rhyming adventure with a Christmas twist. Princess Eliza is not allowed out, so she stays in the castle alone, inventing things. Her parents disapprove and suggest she makes friends and stops getting so messy. Bored and lonely she…
Oliver Elephant is a delightful rhyming Christmas read from writer Lou Peacock and illustrator Helen Stephens. The story is set in a gigantic department store where Mummy and Noah and Evie-May Brown arrive with a very long list, to do the Christmas Shopping. The first spread’s snowy scene, bright decorations and bustling street gets us…
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