Category: Picture Book Reviews

  • Ten Little Elves

    Ten Little Elves

    Ten Little Elves, from the team that created Ten Little Monsters, is a thoroughly enjoyable festive treat for little listeners. The reindeer are ill. And. It’s Christmas Eve. Oooops. Ten intrepid little elves set out on a mission of epic proportions to locate the much needed cough drops. Can they save the day? Those who know this…

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  • The Princess and the Christmas Rescue

    The Princess and the Christmas Rescue

    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…

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  • The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

    The Twelve Dogs of Christmas

    The Twelve Days of Christmas from Alison Ritchie and Marisa Morea is joyful dog-themed Christmas fun in a neat picture book format. The jaunty rhyme and rhythm made this great fun to read out loud. With each turn of the page, the appropriate number of dogs get up to festive themed mischief as they prepare…

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  • Penguin Problems

    Penguin Problems

    I’ve been in a terrible temper these last few weeks. Angrily stirring my brandy sodden Christmas cake mix, irritably stringing up twinkly lights and cantankerously clicking through my Amazon orders. Bah Humbug! I’ve had a lot to juggle and instead of doing what I usually do and popping on a bit of Roxette and dancing…

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  • Oliver Elephant

    Oliver Elephant

    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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  • Pick A Pine Tree

    Pick A Pine Tree

    The 1st of December can’t come quick enough for me. Each year. As soon as we are in to December, up goes our tree. Mince pies, a Christmas movie and tree decorating; baubles spill out over the floor as we put it together – then slump exhausted into the chairs to admire our creation. A…

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  • Luna Loves Library Day

    Luna Loves Library Day

    Luna Loves Library Day, written by Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Fiona Lumbers, is a true celebration of libraries and books! It was such a delight to read it with my daughter. Joseph Coelho has written a beautiful and tender story. Luna loves library day – it’s the day she spends with her Dad and they…

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  • Bears Don’t Eat Egg Sandwiches

    Bears Don’t Eat Egg Sandwiches

    I must confess to having a certain level of sympathy for the bear in this story – egg sandwiches? Never quite grown to love them myself.  Fortunately I don’t have a bear to feed! Our main character Jack, from Julie Fulton and Rachel Suzanne’s Bears Don’t Eat Egg Sandwiches, does have a bear to feed.…

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  • Here We Are: Notes For Living On Planet Earth
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    Here We Are: Notes For Living On Planet Earth

    It’s always such a treat when a new Oliver Jeffers’ book pops up, it was even more of a treat to hear the man himself read this book and tell us the touching story behind it. When Oliver’s son was born, and they took him on that first furtive journey home from the hospital, it…

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  • Pirates In Classroom 3

    Pirates In Classroom 3

    Pirates in Classroom 3 is the latest picture book from writer Alison Donald (The New LiBEARian), teaming up with illustrator Ben Whitehouse. When Ms Bitsy steps out of classroom 3, who would have thought that a pirate would arrive? Captain Calamity is searching for the treasure, which he must get to before Pirate Bloodloss. The…

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  • We’re All Wonders

    We’re All Wonders

    ‘The Earth is big enough for all kinds of people.’ The middle grade novel Wonder, from R J Palacio, is a story that we instantly fell in love with on My Book Corner. We’ve since gifted copies to school, friends and family. It’s a heartfelt tale with kindness strongly at its core. With trepidation I opened…

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  • Follow Finn – A Search-and-find maze book

    Follow Finn – A Search-and-find maze book

    Follow Finn is the new title from  Peter Goes, the author of international bestseller Timeline. It sold over 20,000 copies! Let me say from the beginning, this book is a stunner! It’s got ‘gift potential’ written all over it. Rich in detail and brilliantly imaginative, it held our attention for an absolute age. The narrative…

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  • There is NO Dragon In This Story

    There is NO Dragon In This Story

    “My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!” Smaug Good grief, there really is no shortage of mean ol’ dragons in literature – as anyone who’s ever read The Hobbit, Harry Potter or A Song…

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  • The Snow Lion

    The Snow Lion

    The Snow Lion from Jim Helmore and Richard Jones, is a stunningly beautiful picture book which deals tenderly with moving house and making new friends. The opening double page spread depicts Caro and her family travelling to their new home. Through the darkness of the page, illuminated only by the moon, illustrator Richard Jones immediately…

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  • You Choose: In Space

    You Choose: In Space

    You Choose In Space is the exciting follow up to the hugely successfully You Choose picture book which fired up imaginations everywhere. Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt have done it again, encouraging little readers to zoom into space… with exciting results. Let’s begin with those imaginative endpapers – chock-a-block full of wonderful phrases, hinting at the…

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