One Hundred Bones from Yuval Zommer is a fun picture book about a dog who digs up plenty of bones … then finds a new home too! Scruff is different from all his other friends. Without a home to go to, he doesn’t lead quite the same pampered life as Percy the pug and Ada…
Black Dog by Levi Pinfold is a beautiful picture book about fear, about over coming fear. It’s also a picture book with a wonderfully large, feel good dose of old fashioned charm emanating from those delightful illustrations. It all begins when Mr Hope spies ‘a black dog the size of a tiger’ outside his house. The…
Dog Loves Drawing, the follow up to the award winning Dog Loves Books, is a clever little picture book which delights young readers immensely. Dog’s adoration for books is firmly established, however, when he receives a parcel containing a book with NO words and NO pictures … he is more than a little confused. This…
Dog is an independent little character, his love of books is all consuming so he decides to go ahead and set up his own little book shop in the award winning Dog Loves Books by Louise Yates. This little dog is a canine after my own heart – he just can’t get enough of books.…
With striking images conveying a myriad of emotions A Ball For Daisy tracks the up and down emotions of playing with a ball, loosing it … then finding a new one! Daisy is a cute dog, drawn with great style by Chris Raschka. Giant, thick lines scribble across the page in a deceptively innocent…
Olive is a dog. A dog. But, as so often happens to the best of us … she mishears the lyrics to a well know ditty …
Time for Bed, Fred! is the delightful awarding winning picture book from Irish author & illustrator Yasmeen Ismail. Yasmeen’s debut picture book made it on to many prestigious award lists, and it’s easy to see why … this is the perfect book to read out loud to little ones. It makes a great bedtime tale…
Oh No, George! by the award winning illustrator and author, Chris Haughton.
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Ooh, this sounds fantastic!
Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…