Peter Bently (text) & Sarah Ogilvie (illustrations) (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books) Sometimes it just feels like parents are only here to nag, nag, nag. But actually if you start to think about it, parents can be quite useful: they mend broken things, they are always around to wipe your hands on, you can sit …
Kazuno Kohora (Macmillan Children’s Books) While everyone else is fast asleep, a very special library opens its doors to animals who come from all over town to visit it and read books there. Staffed by a little librarian and her three assistant owls, together they try to find the perfect read for each and every one of their …
Helen Docherty (text) & Thomas Docherty (illustrations) (Alison Green Books) In every house, in every bed, A bedtime book was being read … But suddenly the story books begin to disappear. There might just be a book thief on the loose! Eliza Browne is keen to solve the mystery and hatches a plan to catch …
Any adult of a “certain age” will have (hopefully) had some experience of Richard Scarry’s books. Scarry was a big part of my childhood even though I didn’t actually realise who he was and that he had written and illustrated some of my favourite books as a child until I rediscovered them with my son. The illustrations were …
Two picture books published in the last couple of months are all about conforming versus being oneself, and both, in very different ways, use being “wild” as a vehicle to express this. But they both approach the subjects from opposite sides which makes them particularly interesting together. Wild Emily Hughes (Flying Eye Books) Wild …
Recently I became part of the Nosy Crow Crew and thought this was a perfect opportunity to showcase some of their lovely picture books. Troll Swap Leigh Hodgkinson Timothy Limpet is a troll that does not much like troll things and behaviour. Tabitha Limpit is a little girl who definitely does not behave like one. …
Gabrielle Vincent “Ernest et Célestine vont pique-niquer”, translated by Sam Alexander (Catnip Publishing) Ernest has promised Celestine they will go on a picnic and the little mouse is very much looking forward to it. When it pours down with the rain the next day, Ernest cannot bear to see Celestine disappointed. So, undeterred by the torrential rain, off …
Mike Brownlow (text) & Simon Rickerty (illustrations) (Orchard Books) Ten little pirates, sailing out to sea, Looking for adventure as happy as can be. So begins the hugely entertaining pirate romp of ten little pirates who as they go on an adventure across the rocky seas seem to be gradually losing their mateys. Albatrosses, hurricanes, and even …
