Micah Player (Chronicle Books) Join Lily as she jet-sets across the world with her parents and her beloved toy zebra Zeborah, hopping from country to country. A real gem for fans of retro-style illustration, Lately Lily is rather gorgeous! It has a simple text particularly suitable for newly independent readers, but will work well as a read-aloud …
Peter Brown (Macmillan Children’s Books) Bobby’s teacher is a monster and she roars at him constantly while in class. Bobby would much rather be outside in the park where he can forget all about his woes in the classroom. Except that one day, when he reaches his favourite spot in the park, he finds an unwelcome …
Oliver Jeffers (HarperCollins Children’s Books) Very few illustrators have caught the hearts of those in the Library Mice household quite like Oliver Jeffers has. We have been fans for ever, and I mean ALL of us. We have laughed at cried at all his picturebooks. We even travelled all the way to London just so …
Caryl Hart (text) & Sarah Warburton (illustrations)(Nosy Crow) Princess Ruby is a very spoilt princess and as her birthday approaches, she makes demand after demand, which become gradually more ludicrous. When the fateful day arrives, she eventually is content with her lot, until a disaster threatens to take it all away. But when push comes to …
Salina Yoon (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) When Bear finds a lost stuffed toy bunny in the forest, he is determined to reunite it with its owner, worried that the bunny is lonely. But while he puts every effort into finding the bunny’s home, he gradually becomes more and more attached to this newfound friend. What will …
Anne Vittur Kennedy (Walker Books) When the farmer is away, the animals shall play …. and boy, don’t they have fun! From going boating to picnics, from rollrecoaster rides to ballroom dancing, the animals are having a whale of a time behind the farmer’s back! Much child participation is anticipated when reading this book aloud …
Julian Tuwim (text) & Bohdan Butenko (illustrations) Pan Maluśkiewicz i Wieloryb, translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Book Island) Translated children’s literature is still, sadly, a rather rare occurrence in this country, and though Library Mice tends to focus on children’s literature translated from the French, for obvious reasons, it is always with great joy …
Today I inaugurate a new feature on Library Mice. I am struggling at the moment to write a lot of reviews because of other commitments, but I am still constantly coming across wonderful, imaginative and magical picturebooks. So I have decided to feature one picturebook a week, whether it is a newly published one or …
