Michael Morpurgo (text) & Catherine Rayner (artwork) (Barrington Stoke) Young Clare and her parents spend the summer in Devon every year, staying at Aunty Dora’s house. Trying to escape her parents’ squabbling and her great aunt’s nagging, Clare wanders off and comes across a lost lamb which she returns to its home, a farm which looks …
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BLOG TOUR: Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh’s Curse
Poppy Pym and the Pharaoh’s Curse (Scholastic) is Laura Wood’s début children’s novel, for which she won the inaugural Montegrappa Scholastic Prize for New Children’s Writing in 2014. It tells the story of a little girl, Poppy, who was brought up in a circus after being abandoned there as a baby. But as she grows older, her …
BLOG TOUR: a Q & A with Catherine Rayner
Today the blog tour for Holly Webb’s latest book A Tiger Tale stops here, at Library Mice. As i, I thought it would be interesting to look into the process of illustrating fiction a little more and therefore I am delighted to welcome award-winning illustrator and firm Library Mice favourite, Catherine Rayner, for a Q …
BLOG TOUR: Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor
Library Mice is playing to host to the final stop of the Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor blog tour and I am delighted to offer readers an exclusive extract of the book as well as an opportunity to win the book and other goodies! Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor Jon Scieszka (text) & …
BLOG TOUR: Maisie Hitchins
Holly Webb visited Library Mice a year go to discuss her brand new heroines, Maisie Hitchins (published by Little Tiger Press) and Emily Feather (published by Scholastic) (you can read her guest post here and my reviews here). Holly has now published five adventures, the latest being The Case of the Secret Tunnel , with a sixth one, The Case …
All the Colours of Paradise
Glenda Millard, with artwork by Stephen Michael King (Phoenix Yard Books) All the Colours of Paradise is the fourth installment in the splendid Kingdom of Silk series, which follows the everyday life of bohemian family, who live in the Australian countryside. Though there is a sequential order to the series, there is enough recap in each …
April the Red Goldfish
Marjolaine Leray “Avril le poisson rouge”, translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone (Phoenix Yard Books) April the fish is an unusual kind of red goldfish*. She lives on her own in her fish bowl and spends a lot of time contemplating the meaning of life. Her parents don’t care much for her woes and …
Foxy Tales: The Cunning Plan
Caryl Hart (text) & Alex T Smith (illustration) (Hodder Children’s Books) Foxy Dubois is sick of having to fend for herself and her rather large, forever hungry, grumpy sidekick, Alphonso the Alligator, so she wants to get rich quick to feed both of them and hopefully escape the reptile’s claws and plate once and for …
The Unbelievable Top Secret Diary of Pig
Emer Stamp (Scholastic Children’s Books) Pig love living on his farm with his best friend duck, despite the presence of the Evil Chickens. He loves Farmer who keeps feeding him lots and lots of slops, and keeps calling him his favourite pet name “Roast Pig”. Pig has no idea what is afoot, until Duck breaks the …
Oliver and the Seawigs
Philip Reeve (text) & Sarah McIntyre (illustrations) (Oxford University Press) After many years of exploring the world, Oliver’s parents have decided to settle down in the seaside town of St Porrock’s, much to ten year old Oliver’s delight and relief, as he has grown quite fed up of the explorers’ lifestyle. But even then Oliver’s parents yearn to …