One Button Benny loves to practice his moves for the weekly robot dance with his friends. Thump, jump and… crash! Down, down, down Benny and his friends fall into the dinosaur cave below. Benny presses his magic button as he tries to rescue his friends from the jaws of the HUGE dinosaur. Will his plan…
Soaring through the air faster than she’d ever thought possible, Emba Oak awakens from yet another exhilarating dream where her dragon genes allow her to fly. The scales on her body and the need to control the fire that burns deep within her, makes her question if the dreams she’s been having are in fact…
Pip and Parker are the best of friends. Pip gets sad when the leaves fall off the trees and her milk goes pink when a strawberry lands in it but Parker knows just what to do to help her smile again. Sometimes your friends know exactly what to say when you’re having a bad…
First science books for curious minds! Available now. Tell me about…Human Body Did you know that there are 206 bones inside the human body? That the heart is the same size as a fist and it squeezes 90 times every minute to pump body around your body? This incredible book has everything you need…
Scott Evans, aptly known as The Reader Teacher, has put together an incredibly comprehensive guide, full of practical advice and solutions, to help teachers and adults encourage young learners to develop a love of reading. In his introduction, Scott describes reading as being ‘the most important thing we can teach in our schools’ and goes…
A picture book’s re-readability factor is one of my biggest considerations when picking out a story for my own children, or choosing one as a gift – something that make my kids shout “read it again”, it makes me want to shout about them too. Here are three recent gems that ticked that all-important…
Delighted to welcome the wonderful Zoey Allen to the blog today with a piece about her picture book MY MOMMA ZO, and why it is so important to have books like this on the shelves. Written alongside Kelly Allen, and told from the curious child Molly, this empowering story shows us the warmth and support of…
With fishy smells, pungent pongs and frightful whiffs, Haarville’s not a place many people travel too – they’d need to find it first! Hidden in the murky mist that constantly surrounds its coastline and strangely missing from every seafarers map, a treacherous reef awaits any unfortunate souls who lose their bearings and find themselves on…
Karl Newson’s rhyming rhythm will carry you effortlessly to the top of a mountain and out to sea as bush baby searches for the best way to express his love – should he write a message? Buy a gift? Build a rocket? What about the animals around him – how might they do it? Never…
Thrilled to be revealing the delightfully eerie cover of Emma Read’s newest adventure – The Housetrap! Illustrated by the fabulous Coralie Muce, the Escher-esque art is sure to attract spooky book fans ! An edge-of-your-seat adventure packed full of puzzles, spooks and mystery! When Claude’s little sister, Amity, runs off in forbidden Badwell…
Milo has an idea for a story but he doesn’t know to start. He asks all his family for help and one by one they encourage him to create his own fantastic tale. Wolves, monsters, sticky fingers and sharp-toothed tigers all play a part in his brilliant new adventure. Do you have an idea for…
What a treat to have author Hannah Foley on the blog today, generously sharing her experience of writing the dual timeline in her latest book – The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair. The writers among us will be heartened to hear that, while stories and their structures don’t always come easily, an unexpected image…
How the daily walk in the covid months not only helped me in those challenging months – but also gave me the idea for the Wildsmith series. Do you remember what you were doing in the summer of 2020? I…
Freedom. Fairness. Family. Three powerful things that centre around Bera’s life and how she sees her place in this sometimes dangerous world she calls home. The strong need to be the woman she wants to be and life the life she wants to live are quickly overshadowed by her Valla duty when she discovers that…
Morag Hood is an award-winning picture book author and illustrator from Edinburgh. Her colourful and humorous books have been translated into several languages and distributed by Scottish Book Trust to thousands of pupils in Scotland. She loves playing with the relationship between text and image to create unexpected and funny results. Words about…
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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…