Rebel Dogs! Heroic Tales of Trusty Hounds, by Kimberlie Hamilton, is an engaging book for doggy fans packed with tales of trusty hounds and canine facts – so many opportunities for ‘Did you know…?’ The tales of doggy derring-do were so engagingly written, I was hooked and read it cover to cover. The usual suspects…
What a fun and beautiful picture book Who’s Going to Bed? is! Abie Longstaff’s lyrical text and the soft and dreamy quality of Eve Coy’s illustrations make for a really stunning book.
A good non-fiction addition to a school library – though beware – I did turn the pages feeling like a majorly under-achieving adult!
The Stolen Spear by Saviour Pirotta, illustrated by Davide Ortu Wolf dreams of being brave. Every night he prays to the spirits to make him the bravest boy the village has ever known. But every day he wakes up and nothing has changed. When a sacred spear goes missing from a burial site, Wolf is…
The Big-little mouse seems to believe she isn’t scared of the really big, scary animals in the woods. And, to prove it, she goes in there alone. The other animals think she is brave, and when she comes across scary animals like bears and wolves she just says she isn’t scared and would they like…
A fantastical Victorian-esk world with colourful, real characters to enthrall you to the very end. When I picked up Wildspark by Vashti Hardy, I expected not to enjoy it as much as her wonderful debut, Brightstorm. How wrong I was. Wildspark was even more enthralling to me, perhaps because I identified with main character, Prue,…
This is an astonishing book. Not just because of its effortless, innocent, and engaging prose. Not just because its main character is an incredibly intelligent and emotionally aware gorilla who you immediately want to be friends with. And not just because its story is a meandering, thought-provoking, epic journey through the cultures, people and history…
I absolutely adored the previous books in the ‘Adventures of Pug’ series, so I had high hopes for the newest one, Pirate Pug: The Dog Who Rocked the Boat (Bloomsbury). I was not disappointed! This time Pug and his owner, Lady Miranda, are off on a seaside holiday… and straight into an adventure. First of…
A rip-roaring adventure with an unusual branch of magic… The Last Spell Breather by Julie Pike, published by OUP in July, is a seat grabbing adventure packed with an unusual branch of magic. Young Rayne is no ordinary girl – she’s an apprentice Spell Breather, destined to look after her village folk through the power…
The Boy Who Flew, from Fleur Hitchcock, is a gripping adventure with plenty of chilling twists and turns. Athan Wilde spends every possible moment with Mr Chen, who lives in the shop opposite his house. This suits Athan’s family perfectly – nan has always thought him to be unlucky and very inconvenient, and his mum…
Once in awhile a gorgeous children’s book comes along that you just know is going to be a tour-de-force of sumptuous, old-fashioned and involving storytelling…and Mira Bartok’s The Wonderling is that book. It is an epic romp across a strange yet familiar Victorian steam-punk land, and at its heart is a one-eared fox “groundling” (which…
In my experience, mice are usually in the jaws of my cat in my bedroom or at the very least her plaything, being tossed in the air like a hot crumpet. They are neither as useful to me or as adorable as the little mouse in this quaint rhyming story about the blossoming unlikely friendship…
The next new series from Jennifer Killick has kicked off. And, it’s a real cracker if book one – Mo, Lottie and the Junkers – is anything to go by. Fresh, original and chock-a-block full of Jennifer’s trademark witty dialogue.
The Titanic Detective Agency is the latest novel from Lindsay Littleson. When Bertha Watt boards the unsinkable RMS Titanic she embraces life on the sea as her family makes the bold decision to cross the Atlantic for a better life in America. It’s not long before Bertha’s instincts tell her things on board are not…
Long before we all started doing the endless scroll through Netflix, we’d rifle through the TV guide for the juiciest picks. That was back in the olden days, you know, the 80s, when we all had those faux wooden tellies on legs. Anyway, once we’d found the perfect film (The Goonies, Labyrinth, Willow), Mum would…
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Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
His books are a great way help kids read while soaking up important Science concepts without even knowing it. Ironically,…
Ooh, this sounds fantastic!