You ever have those weeks where you suffer from “failure to thrive”? This week I made custard so thick we could have repointed the patio with it. I served it in a square bowl with blueberry eyes and a cocoa mouth. It made Ben cry. Then there was the play date where our visitors tried…
Bad Nana is the unstoppable character taking centre stage in this fabulous new series of illustrated younger fiction from Sophy Henn. Get your lemon sherbets and sparkly pink turbans ready… Nana is here! Bad Nana: Older Not Wiser is neatly divided in to three chapters – three perfect bedtime reading chunks. Also the perfect length…
Boy Underwater is the debut novel from Adam Baron. Featuring fabulous illustrations from Benji Davies, it has quickly become one of my favourite MG novels this year. Boy Underwater is a novel that truly gripped me – so many twists and turns that had my heart in my mouth. Baron’s narrative took me on quite…
Woohoo! It’s the next installment of Noah’s adventures. Simon James Green‘s debut novel, Noah Can’t Even, had us giggling in all the right places. Such a joy to delve back in to the life of Noah once again. Green takes us further in to the life of Noah – in this second novel we seem…
Julian Is A Mermaid, a picture book from Jessica Love, is a glorious and exciting celebration about being yourself. Whilst the end papers introduce Julian’s love of swimming underwater, the opening narrative begins with Julian and his Nana on a train. When 3 glamorous mermaids step on to the train Julian is captivated. In the…
Iguana Boy Saves The World With A Triple Cheese Pizza is the laugh out loud chapter book written by James Bishop, and illustrated by Rikin Parekh – and it’s really blooming funny. Dylan lives in a world where everyone has a super power – the only problem is it can take awhile for the power…
I’m becoming a huge fan of Benji Davies’ bold, bright and mesmerising illustration style, so was really pleased to spot Grandad’s Island, a beautiful picture book by him I hadn’t read yet. Grandad’s Island is a simple, heart-warming journey from reality to adventure and back again, in the style of Where the Wild Things Are. Except,…
“That’s right, it’s round two… BOOK CLUB – THE SEQUEL, BIGGER, BOLDER… BOOKIER (yes that’s a made up word!).” My Book Corner is VERY excited to be able to share the news that Tom Fletcher has today launched his second WHSmith Book Club. We’ve also been lucky enough to see the ten books, for 7-11…
I began reading this to Year 3 one afternoon. Within a week half a dozen of the class had sourced their own copy. By the time we had reached the fantastic ending of this one, I looked up to find five eager pupils offering me Book Two (Amelia Fang and the Unicorn Lords) to start…
The New Neighbours is the latest picture book from Sarah McIntyre. When something new is about to happen – excitement builds, then speculations begins and rumours grow bigger and bigger, if left unchecked. That’s exactly what happens when the rats move into the the first floor of a lovely tall block of flats, in the…
Emily Barr’s The Truth and Lies of Ella Black is an incredibly good, tense, page-turner of a book! I was sucked straight into Ella Black’s world of paranoia, anxiety and confusion. The way Emily wrote this, Ella’s tumultuous and frantic thought processes didn’t let go right until the end of the story; the experience of reading this…
The Knight Who Said “NO!” by Lucy Rowland and Kate Hindley has been requested so many times already in our house. Their picture book is all about a little knight called Ned, who starts out saying yes to everything (a parent’s dream child) until alas one day he wakes in a foul mood. And from then…
Over the years I’ve developed a bit of an obsession with verse novels, you can read all about how it started over here. Following the above article, I received some intriguing suggestions re where to look next… hence my discovery of Marilyn Hilton’s beautifully written Full Cicada Moon, published in 2017. Mimi Yoshiko Oliver has…
You’re Safe With Me from Chitra Soundar and Poonam Mistry is the most beautifully illustrated, warm tale that we’ve come across in a long time. “When the moon rose high and the stars twinkled it was bedtime for baby animals.” …and so begins Soundar’s story. However all is not well when the night grows dark…
“Mara frowned, ‘Are you scared of everything, Jamie? Don’t you dream of adventures too?’ I didn’t answer. I kept my eyes firmly on the land ahead.” Following on from Julia Green’s The Wilderness War is the sweeping adventure To the Edge of the World. The story follows Jamie’s life on a remote island in the…
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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!