All the baby creatures want to play during the day except for Platypus’s puggle who only wants to snuggle. Can anyone wake puggle? As everyone eventually settles down to sleep, there’s a surprise in store! Get ready to party! Could you do a magic trick like Hen’s chicks or score a goal like Horse’s foal?…
Cordelia the sausage dog is lovely but not very sensible. She loves to go the park with her human to sniff all the new smells and play in the grass. One day she follows a rabbit into its burrow and her day instantly goes from calm to chaos. Ducklings, bouncing balls, picnic baskets and more…
Damian the bum fish knows his face looks like a bum, everyone tells him so. He tries to laugh about it but sometimes it makes him sad. Tired of hearing about it all the time he decides to go on an ocean adventure to meet other fish and see what’s hidden in the depths of…
PUBLICATION DAY REVIEW! Life as a lighthouse keeper can be lonely at times. Luckily for Cliff, a seagull lands on his head and decides to stay there! Delighted to have company, Cliff is surprised when the townspeople are not happy about him encouraging the seagull. Soon Cliff and his seagull feel so unwelcome, they stop…
Our World: Scotland: by Ross MacKay, Illustrated by Hazel Dunn Our World: NIGERIA by Bunmi Emenanjo, Illustrated by Dianne Ejaita Our World: SPAIN by Susanna Isern, Illustrated by Teresa Bellon Come and join in the fun with these fantastic board books celebrating different cultures and countries from across the world. Where are we off to? Let’s…
Tiny turtle Tula is the first to appear in the Grand Hatching, followed by little brother Tiny. The race to the sea is on. As the other creatures watch they cheer on the hatchlings. Surely Tula will be the first to reach the water! She’s getting so close until she looks behind. Oh no! Tiny…
Mei Mei didn’t mean to break her Ama’s favourite cup! She feels so badly about it, she’s tempted to run away BUT Ama doesn’t say anything and instead gives Mei Mei a slice of delicious cake. Can Mei Mei let the cat, Mimi take the blame for breaking the cup when it was really her…
Poochie Pete has enormous paws. Everything he tries to do, his paws get in the way. Music is his favourite thing in the whole wide world, he’s already tried the trumpet and the flute, but his big paws struggle to play them. Will he ever find an instrument that might be right for his big…
T: I was a teacher for many years, and I’ve seen a lot of new kids struggle finding their place. I also know how much kids love zany adventures and superheroes, so this was a good combo. I was very excited when Nancy Paulsen suggested Dapo as the illustrator. I was already familiar with his…
Rayhan wants to be just like everyone else! It’s Ramadan and it seems as if all his family are fasting except for him, so Rayhan decides he will too. The up side of this is he can avoid eating porridge and salad! Unfortunately the strawberries from the garden prove too tempting and before he knows…
After a long day, it’s time for bed. What happens to your feelings? What do they do at night when you’re asleep? Perhaps Patience washes her combs. Maybe Worry tosses and turns. Could Regret and Sense of Guilt perform a rock concert, with Inner Critic on vocals? There’s so many emotions within us, some of…
Welcome to the world of dinosaurs! ‘A First Book of Dinosaurs’ includes thirty poems and is split into four sections; Meet the Dinosaurs, Eat or be Eaten, Dinosaur Families and The End, or Is It? In the first we meet a selection of dinosaurs, from the Triceratops to the Therizinosaurus and for each we learn…
Rana the snow fox gets lost in a snow storm. Alone and scared, she’s unsure who to trust to help her find her way. She accepts the friendship of a polar bear and they travel through the white-out together to safety. As they go, they take in the beauty of the world they live in,…
A fact and fun filled book, ‘The One and Only You’ is a celebration of individuality. After all , when you consider ‘that, in this the whole wide world of people and animals and plants, and flowers, and oceans and lakes and so, so many other things, too many to count, (go on, try it…
Farah does not like her nose. Every mirror, every window she looks in, her face is reflected back and there is that nose! Her Dadi Ama tells Farah her face is a map of where she comes from, she has her father’s curly hair, her mother’s brown eyes and Dadi Ama’s nose. How can she…
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