Category: Picture Book Reviews

  • The Yes

    Emma Perry

      When a picture book leaps out at you, consumes all your senses & you simply fall in love with it. That. The Yes from Sarah Bee and Satoshi Kitamura. The Yes is a picture book filled with energy, warmth and such a feel good factor that’ll have you punching the air as you reach…

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  • This Is Captain Cook

    Emma Perry

    This is Captain Cook is a fun picture book for all those who’ve enjoyed a school play … in all its wonderful splendour! With a great narrative and fabulous illustrations, Tania McCartney & Christina Booth had me giggling along at the antics of the audience in that front row … and we also happened to…

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  • The Day the Crayons Quit

    Emma Perry

    The Day the Crayons Quit is a picture book full to the brim of the humour that I LOVE discovering in children’s books. Oh, and Drew Daywalt’s fab humour is accompanied by Oliver Jeffers illustrations – yep, this is a treat! The red crayon. Over used? Over it! He quits!! … this is how Duncan’s…

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  • Nuts in Space

    Emma Perry

    Oooo this is a real treat. I found Weasels incredibly amusing, so it was with much anticipation that I delved into Elys Dolan‘s next picture book – Nuts in Space. She kinda had me on that title to be honest! We join our intrepid adventurers having just successfully completed their mission of gathering the Lost…

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  • Weasels

    Emma Perry

    Weasels by Elys Dolan is a totally engrossing picture book, with a cheekily brilliant sense of humour. Whatever you thought weasels did during the day, forget it. Elys Dolan is about to turn any notions of weasels simply lolling around eating nuts & berries right on its head! This group of weasels are on a…

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  • The Way to the Zoo

    Emma Perry

    The Way to the Zoo from John Burningham is picture book which really is special. Full of imagination and warmth, it delights in the wonder of childhood. Sylvie notices a small door in the wall of her bedroom, she thinks she must be dreaming … and so she checks again the next evening. Guess what?…

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  • Don’t Call Me Sweet

    Emma Perry

    Don’t Call Me Sweet from the team of Smriti Prasadam-Halls and Angie Rozelaar is a delightful new picture book. This adorable little monster, (hmm he won’t thank me for calling him that), is just SO over being called sweet. He tries everything to get rid of that label … practising his roars, showing his claws,…

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  • A Walk In Paris

    Emma Perry

    Take a gentle stroll through the delights of Paris in the pages of Salvatore Rubbino’s picture book, A Walk In Paris. Much like the city itself, Rubbino’s creation is a feast for the eyes. A little girl is taken on a trip to Paris by her grandfather, who delights in pointing out the wonderful sites…

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  • What’s Your Favourite Animal?

    Emma Perry

    Picture book lovers are going to adore this latest offering from the wonderful Eric Carle, What’s Your Favourite Animal? Eric has invited a host of wonderful illustrators to tell him about their favourite animal. A simple idea beautifully executed. As you may expect when you give a straightforward brief to a bunch of creative folk,…

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  • Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam

    Emma Perry

    Rhyme & rhythm capture a delightful turn of events in Tracey Corderoy’s picture book, Shifty McGifty & Slipper Sam pride themselves on being robbers. However, even they can’t ignore the fact that, well, they just aren’t that good at it. ‘They got to their house and they flopped down inside, “We’re no good at robbing at…

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  • Open Very Carefully

    Emma Perry

      I love a picture book filled with good humour and wit; Open Very Carefully by Nick Bromley & Nicola O’Byrne is very, very entertaining. Imagine you are trying to retell that classic story, The Ugly Duckling, then from behind the book pops a scaly tail, a tail that belongs to a crocodile … well that…

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  • A New Friend for Marmalade

    Emma Perry

    A New Friend for Marmalade is the warm follow up to the delightful A Year With Marmalade. The first picture book from Alison Reynolds & Heath McKenzie caused quite a stir when it was published in 2012. Why? Gorgeous warmth emanated from the pages of this delightful picture book about friendship. Reynold’s fabulous word choices…

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  • Abigail

    Emma Perry

    Abigail makes counting, well, amusing for sure. Catherine Rayner has created a wonderfully absorbing picture book, filled with stunning paintings of an array of animals. Abigail – isn’t that a cute name for a giraffe? – loves to count. The problem is that she is a little limited in terms of counting material out in…

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  • The Slightly Annoying Elephant

    Emma Perry

    David Walliams has turned his hand to picture books. Yep. It’s a winner. The Slightly Annoying Elephant, like any good picture book … has a lesson to observe … Lesson No 1: always, always read the small print!! Those adverts encouraging you to adopt a cuddly tiger / panda [ insert name of fabulous animal…

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  • Monkey Nut

    Emma Perry

    Just too funny!! Who knew a monkey nut could cause so much trouble? Simon Rickerty has captured that inane little bickering that sometimes *cough* occurs between two little people. ‘It’s mine! It’s mine!’ When a monkey nut suddenly drops to the floor, well … they both want it. ‘They’ being two little spiders, one red…

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