Shirley Hughes (Red Fox) The summer holidays are getting close (or might have even started for some), so what more delightful than to dive into a picturebook which oozes the simple pleasures of summer? Penguin Random House’s inspired decision to reissue f Lucy and Tom at the Seaside is much welcome, particularly as it coincides with the …
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PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Colours
Concept books come in all shapes and sizes and not only offer great opportunities for interaction and shared learning but are often books that preschoolers go back to to read alone. Therefore a good concept book needs to be a little bit more than just a list of colours to prompt engagement and pleasure from its …
A picture book a week: Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion
Alex T Smith (Scholastic Children’s Books) Alex T Smith takes the fractured fairy tale genre to a whole new level of ingenuity with this brilliantly executed version of Little Red Riding Hood. When Little Red sets off to visit her poorly auntie Rosie, she meets many friendly animals, until the Lion appears on her path. He …
WANTED! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar
Emily Mackenzie (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Ralfy is a rabbit like no other. While his friends dream of tender lettuce and crunchy carrots, he can only think about books. Books, books, books. He just can’t get enough of them. Unfortunately his obsession is out of control and has led him to turn to crime: he has …
A picturebook a week: The Wonder
Faye Hanson (Templar) Do you remember being told to stop daydreaming when you were a child? Do you remember being told to pay more attention to things around you, to stop staring at the window, to stop having your head in the clouds? The little boy in this story love to use his imagination, much to …
FABULOUS FIVE: Elli Woollard presents five fabulous books written in verse
Today I am thrilled to be welcoming Elli Woollard to Library Mice for the latest Fabulous Five feature. Her début book, Woozy the Wizard: a Spell to Get Well, is the first in a series illustrated by Al Muphy and published by Faber & Faber. In his first adventure Woozy is trying to help the villagers of …
I Am The Wolf … and Here I Come!
Bénédicte Guettier (Gecko Press) Je m’habille et … je te croque, translated from the French by Pénélope Todd Guettier was a big presence in my children’s early experiences with books and it is a pleasure to see her translated into English. Inspired by the French comptine (song/nursery rhyme) Promenons-nous dans les bois (you will plenty of renditions of …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Dogs, dogs, dogs!
Smelly Louie Catherine Rayner (Macmillan Children’s Books) Louie smells, and it is definitely not of roses. But he loves his smell, and after he is given a bath by his well-meaning family, he is adamant that I will find his smell again, so off he goes on a journey fill of pong and adventure. Rayner’s …