10 Reasons to Love a Penguin
10 Reasons to Love a Penguin is written by Catherine Barr and illustrated by Hanako Clulow. It is an informative non-fiction book all about… PENGUINS!
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I Am The Seed That Grew The Tree
Read more: I Am The Seed That Grew The TreeI Am The Seed That Grew The Tree contains a nature poem for every day of the year, selected by Fiona Waters and illustrated by Frann Preston Gannon
You’re Snug With Me
Read more: You’re Snug With MeYou’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…
How To Be A Lion
Read more: How To Be A LionHow to be a Lion definitely shows that you don’t have to roar to be heard.
I Went Trick-or-Treating
Read more: I Went Trick-or-TreatingThere is nothing not to love about Paul Howard’s latest memory-testing story game book – I Went Trick-or-Treating
The Dawn Chorus
Read more: The Dawn ChorusIt’s not hard at all to see why The Dawn Chorus, debut picture book from author-illustrator Suzanne Barton, was nominated for the 2015 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.
My Worst Book Ever
Read more: My Worst Book EverMY WORST BOOK EVER by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman is about a picture book doomed from the very start.
Not Yet A Yeti
Read more: Not Yet A YetiNot Yet A Yeti is an excellent tale of no matter who or what you are, your family will always love and support you.
Toby And The Tricky Things
Read more: Toby And The Tricky ThingsPerfect for older siblings who are perhaps struggling to accept Mummy or Daddy’s divided attention, or indeed for any fellow elephant fans!
Froggy Day
Read more: Froggy DayFroggy Day is such an imaginative and hilarious story of a deluge of frogs playing havoc in town!
Daddy Hairdo
Read more: Daddy HairdoDaddy Hairdo, a picture book from Francis Martin and Claire Powell, is great fun! When Amy’s hair just keeps growing, it causes endless trouble. Despite this, Amy REFUSES to go to just any hairdresser. So, her Dad comes to the rescue. After much studying and practising, he comes up with the Daddy Hairdo! Her Dad comes up…
How Rude!
Read more: How Rude!How Rude! is a delightful romp about manners and friendship from Clare Helen Welsh and Olivier Tallec. Dot and Duck are quite the pair. Duck turns up a Dot’s house – adorably kitted out in knitted hat and scarf – and makes quite the entrance. Duck’s manners aren’t quite right. Duck spits out all food offered,…
Time for Bed, Miyuki
Read more: Time for Bed, MiyukiTime for Bed, Miyuki, from Roxane Marie Galliez and Seng Soun Ratanavanh is a deliciously sublime picturebook. Wonderfully produced, with beautifully thick pages… it has the stroke-ability factor that’s awarded to the very best in picture books. French writer Galliez has penned an exquisitely imaginative book about bedtime… and the lengths some children, namely Miyuki, will…
Early Readers: King Carl & Jim and the Big Fish
Read more: Early Readers: King Carl & Jim and the Big FishKing Carl and the Wish – At last! The funfair has come to town. There are so many exciting games to play, which will King Carl play first? A surprise is waiting for him at the hoop stand where he meets a wizard who grants him a wish. If you were given a wish, what…
We Travel So Far
Read more: We Travel So FarWe 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…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…