Fred, Sid, Belle and Bill, are Four Silly Skeletons who love to dance. Music gets their bones moving and a-shaking. But when they choose to ignore their dear, sweet Aunty June’s warning, the loveable lot boogie, skip and hop straight down a ‘GREAT BIG DROP!’ With it’s rhythmic and rhyming text, you can’t help but…
Spook-tacular book suggestions for Halloween. Have a browse through our carefully curated collection of Halloween books… all with varying degrees of spookiness! We’ve worked REALLY hard on this list, being careful not to just plonk any old titles in there. The books we’ve found are hands down GREAT reads, because you know we wouldn’t suggest…
Chitra Soundar and Frané Lessac have teamed up to produce the intriguing picture book, Pattan’s Pumpkin, an exciting, vibrant story from India. Here Chitra gives us a great insight in to how the picture book came to be… Pattan’s Pumpkin is proof that Googling is fun and I’m good at it. Long before social media became…
The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth is a great rollicking rhyming picture book from Hollie Hughes and Leigh Hodgkinson. When a mahoosive mammoth wakes up one morning so hungry that he thinks he might vanish – his little friend Bug resolves to help him out. A banana, a tree and a lovely lunch are all given,…
A huge My Book Corner welcome to Hollie Hughes, author of the picture book The Famishing Vanishing Mahoosive Mammoth. Tell us about you in 25 words or less. Unreasonably optimistic dream botherer, ridiculously incompetent as a grown-up, rubbish at small talk, most comfortable in my own head. What makes you happy? My kids, writing,…
Michelle Robinson is the picture book author of A Beginner’s Guide to Bear Spotting, Chicken Nugget and the much anticipated Goodnight Spaceman (launched from space by Tim Peake!) … and that’s just for the beginning of 2016. Absolutely delighted to welcome Michelle to answer My Book Corner’s questions … Tell us about you in 25…
Professor Astro Cat’s Atomic Adventure, is a mind boggling new non fiction tome from the duo who gifted us Professor Astro Cat’s Frontiers of Space in 2013. ‘Did you know that physics is a very important part of our everyday lives? Just go for a walk and you’ll see for yourself. From the wind that…
Huge welcome to picture book author & illustrator Sean Julian, ( The Great Big Sleep), who has popped in to My Book Corner to answer our questions … Tell us about you in 25 words or less. I’m a glass half full type person who would then drink what was in the glass and have…
… HUGE welcome to Viviane Schwarz. Tell us about you in 25 words or less. I make things that I want to exist. I aim for them to be encouraging and accessible. I really like artichokes. What makes you happy? Artichokes. Sleep. Understanding or learning something new. Seeing others happy, at rest or understanding or…
Where Bear? is a delightful picture book for little ones, from the superbly talented Sophy Henn, (Pom Pom Gets The Grumps.) It’s all very well owning a cute little bear cub, but one day that bear is going to grow … and grow … until it really is time to find somewhere more suitable to…
Lisa Stubbs is the creative genuis behind the cute as a button picture book, Lily and Bear. I’m absolutely delighted that she has popped in to My Book Corner today, and what a wonderful insight in to the creation of a picture book she has given us! You are in for a treat … Tell…
The one & only Mo Willems is here, at My Book Corner. On Monday 27th October the shortlist for the RCHB was announced. Voted for entirely by children, it generates such enthusiasm & excitement for discovering new books … I adore that! The unique, and brilliantly humorous Mo Willems made the shortlist in the ‘Books…
Dub Leffler, from Quirindi in NSW, began his visual career as an animator and has worked as a muralist and art teacher. He has illustrated several children’s books and has collaborated with Colin Thompson, Shaun Ran and Banksy. Once there was a boy is the first book Dub has written and illustrated. Tell us about…
It’s that time of year… every step fraught with muddy puddle danger. Park the car in the wrong spot… and suddenly you’re armpit deep in a boghole! And the kids seem to have a sixth sense for seeking out puddles, like little sludge-seeking missiles. No doubt thanks to a certain Pig who shall not be…
I didn’t think I’d turn into my Mum. But I’ve turned into my Mum. With ALL the same catchphrases… *Toddler pokes tongue*… “The wind’ll change and you’ll be stuck like that!”… *Toddler’s 1cm from the tellie*… “Don’t sit so close you’ll ruin your eyes”. And the Mum-equivalent of the red detonation button…. “YOU’VE GOT UNTIL…
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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…