Santa Post from Emma Yarlett is adorable!! Full of Christmas cheer, fabulous dollops of humour and of course, those letters! “There were only five sleeps until Christmas when… WHOOOSH! Something fell down Santa’s chimney.” The VERY late Santa post is a letter from Amy. A lovely bit of paper engineering means you can unfold Amy’s…
The Twelve Days of Christmas has been given the Alex T Smith treatment, and it’s brilliantly bonkers… as you might expect. Eloise’s grandma LOVES sending her gifts. They start off traditional and what you might expect, given the title, but Alex T Smith has cleverly lulled his reader into thinking one thing before… Grandma goes…
Hmmm, what if we HAVE got the story of Father Christmas completely and utterly wrong. What if… Mrs Claus had a LOT more to do with it. Because, we don’t really hear much about her story do we? Until now… Meet Blanche Claus, an orphan living on the streets. It’s winter, it’s cold and an…
Jessica Townsend’s Hollowpox was at the very top of my highly anticipated reads of 2020, and I confess to doing a little happy dance when it arrived at my local indie two days ahead of its official publication date. Like its tricksy lanes, you never know where you are going to end up when you…
Oh, I ADORE this story. Super funny, and, as a teacher I think I found it DOUBLY so. You know when some children do that double take when they spot a teacher OUTSIDE of school? That! Aaron Reynolds and Emma Reynolds (no relation!) have captured it brilliantly in their picture book. Meet the fabulous Miranda…
This book is not for the faint hearted! There’s Slobber, dribble and gore galore, hairy moments and scary moments, a greedy, gruesome, vomiting beast, stinky exotic birds and so much more! ‘The Beast and the Bethany’ is an absolutely brilliant, gloriously dark, romp of a read! Geniusly addictive and packed with the kind of macabre…
The next book in the Anisha, Accidental Detective series has landed, and it’s fabulous! Anisha is the energetic, loveable star of the series, and in this one she again finds herself in the middle of a tricky situation. The practice run for the Science demo went wrong… and when I say wrong, I mean disastrously…
“Hello! Ooh, look who it is! It is Claude. Claude is a dog. Claude is a small, plump dog. Claude is a small, plump dog who is quite the snappy dresser.” HE IS BACK! Yippee! Claude is here, with his trusty side-kick the most fabulous, Sir Bobblysock. Against Mr Bobblysock’s better judgement the pair venture…
A super special guest post from Philip Ardagh, author of THE PIRATE CAPTAN’S CAT & THE RAILWAY CAT, illustrated by Rob Biddulph. This is a gorgeous new series, perfect for newly independent readers – lots of fun, with lots of heart… and cat-shaped fluffiness and adventures. You’ll notice that the title of my blog is…
My Book Corner would like to reassure our loyal and caring readers that… no author was harmed during the creation of this post with Sophie Wills, author of The Orphans of St Halibut’s. Furthermore, we can report that the intervention ended peacefully. Phew! This is the sworn confession of Sophie Wills, author, and thief. It…
Embark on a rollercoaster of childhood imagination with the delightful character that is Albert Talbot, Master of Disguise. This book is an entertaining take on the innate ability children have to create a wonderful world of play, using just the bare minimum of props and their imaginations. Ben Manley and Aurélie Guillerey have created a…
Welcome to The Orphans of St Halibut’s you are opening the page to a fabulous debut chapter book – a devilish mix of A Series of Unfortunate Events (there are a few sticky ends at the beginning!). a clever goat, a dodgy bakery and some dastardly villains. But none are a match for the eclectic…
** Pop over to our Twitter account, for your chance to win 1 of 2 copies of this book! ** What a gloriously fun concept, brilliantly executed by Andy Seed and Nick East. What would a Bengal Tiger… or a Polar Bear… or Giant Anteater… or even a Tree-toed Sloth say if you managed to…
Zombierella, from Joseph Coelho and Freya Hartas, is guaranteed to make you shiver and giggle all at once. This is a deliciously funny, wonderfully subversive take on Cinderella. Told with Joseph’s masterful command of words, this verse novel is brilliant fun. Poor Cinderella. Such a terrible predicament. Stuck with her horrendous step sisters, and to…
Without a doubt this everso slightly bonkers book is one of the funniest, most original and random pieces of children’s literature you will read this year! Knight Sir Louis, by the Brothers McLeod, is a book that plays with the convention of being a book, as much as does tell a very funny, beautifully random…
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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…