You’re Snug With Me is beautiful. Poonam Mistry’s gorgeous cover illustrations invite you to touch and feel. You want to open up the pages and see what is hidden inside – and you aren’t disappointed. Each page’s illustrations are detailed with intricate patterns in wonderful, wintry colours. The pictures are so fascinating it might be…
How to be a Lion definitely shows that you don’t have to roar to be heard.
I LOVE reading the dedication pages of a favourite novel, don’t you? It’s like an extra treat after the story has finished, even better when it tells a little about the author’s journey to publication. But within the limited space of a picture book, there’s really not much room to say anything other than a…
There is nothing not to love about Paul Howard’s latest memory-testing story game book – I Went Trick-or-Treating
It’s not hard at all to see why The Dawn Chorus, debut picture book from author-illustrator Suzanne Barton, was nominated for the 2015 Waterstones Children’s Book Prize.
MY WORST BOOK EVER by Allan Ahlberg and Bruce Ingman is about a picture book doomed from the very start.
Not Yet A Yeti is an excellent tale of no matter who or what you are, your family will always love and support you.
Perfect for older siblings who are perhaps struggling to accept Mummy or Daddy’s divided attention, or indeed for any fellow elephant fans!
Froggy Day is such an imaginative and hilarious story of a deluge of frogs playing havoc in town!
Daddy Hairdo, a picture book from Francis Martin and Claire Powell, is great fun! When Amy’s hair just keeps growing, it causes endless trouble. Despite this, Amy REFUSES to go to just any hairdresser. So, her Dad comes to the rescue. After much studying and practising, he comes up with the Daddy Hairdo! Her Dad comes up…
It’s an absolute honour to welcome Pippa Goodhart, prolific writer of picture books and novels, to My Book Corner today. She gives us the highlights from her career (so far) and shares some invaluable writing tips too. Grab a cuppa, and have a read…
How Rude! is a delightful romp about manners and friendship from Clare Helen Welsh and Olivier Tallec. Dot and Duck are quite the pair. Duck turns up a Dot’s house – adorably kitted out in knitted hat and scarf – and makes quite the entrance. Duck’s manners aren’t quite right. Duck spits out all food offered,…
A warm, ‘unrude’ welcome to picture book writer Clare Helen Welsh. How Rude! is just about to hit the shelves, it’s delightfully funny (read our thoughts here), and was just what we expected from the author of Aerodynamics of Biscuits. Tell us about you in 25 words or less. Primary school teacher, writer, wife and…
Time for Bed, Miyuki, from Roxane Marie Galliez and Seng Soun Ratanavanh is a deliciously sublime picturebook. Wonderfully produced, with beautifully thick pages… it has the stroke-ability factor that’s awarded to the very best in picture books. French writer Galliez has penned an exquisitely imaginative book about bedtime… and the lengths some children, namely Miyuki, will…
King Carl and the Wish – At last! The funfair has come to town. There are so many exciting games to play, which will King Carl play first? A surprise is waiting for him at the hoop stand where he meets a wizard who grants him a wish. If you were given a wish, what…
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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…