Catalina Echeverri (Jonathan Cape) Lion and Mouse are the best of friends, who do everything together. But Lion thinks he is better than Mouse in every way, and spends a lot of time boasting about it. When Mouse finally has enough and disappears, Lion does not even notice at first. Until he needs Mouse’s help, …
Marion Billet (Nosy Crow) Welcome to Littleland, and follow ten cute little furry friends as they go through their day. From going to the park and going shopping to bedtime routines, there is never a dull moment in Littleland. Littleland is a bright and cheerful compendium of all the familiar things in a toddler’s world. …
Corina Fletcher (author, paper engineer) & Britta Teckentrup (illustrator)(Nosy Crow) Ever since their launch nearly two years ago, we have got used to Nosy Crow always going the extra mile when it comes to making children’s experience of stories interactive. Whether it is their award-winning apps, their creative doodling series (Mega Mash-Ups and Magical Mix-Ups) or their new audio …
Kenneth Grahame (text) & David Roberts (illustrations)(Oxford University Press) I only discovered The Wind in the Willows as an adult, another cultural gap attributed to my non-British upbringing, and I was not bowled over by it, I have to admit. But I do believe that if one is to build a library for a child The …
Michelle Robinson is a brand new author who is having a fabulous year with already five books published! She has received acclaim from the New York Times for What to Do if an Elephant Stands on Your Foot, and is definitely a fantastic new voice in the picture book world! Michelle lives in Frome with her family. …
Géraldine Cosneau“Panoramas du monde”(Tate Publishing)This wonderful wide format picture book is in fact an activity book. It contains eight fold-out panoramic scenes of different landscapes (The African Savannah, The Sahara Desert, The Countryside, The North American Forest, The Amazon Rainforest, The Tropical Sea, The Australian Outback, and The Arctic) and over four hundred reusable stickers (“gommettes” in French, very popular …
Jennifer Gray & Amanda Swift, with artwork by Sarah Horne(Quercus) Fuzzy and Coco the guinea-pigs live a rather uneventful together since their respective owners have got married. Coco likes to spend her time pampering herself, while Fuzzy spends his time cooking and is desperate to become a chef. When Fuzzy discovers that celebrity chef Scarlet Cleaver’s ad in the …
Tracey Corderoy, with artwork by Hannah Whitty(Scholastic) It’s Riley the Mouse’s birthday today. He can’t wait for his party and have lots of fun with best friends Starla the Badger and Horatio the Hedgehog. But things don’t quite go to plan when a misunderstanding about a toy boat ends up with Riley and Horatio falling …
Rebecca Cobb (Macmillan Children’s Books) It is lunchtime, but the little girl in the story is far too busy drawing to go and eat. Eventually she sits at the table, reluctantly, but she just will not eat. Then first a crocodile, then a bear, and a finally a wolf appear, and they are all starving. They are …
Simon Puttock (text) & Nadia Shireen (illustrations)(Nosy Crow) Mr and Mrs Deer are desperate for a baby of their own, so when a swaddled little creature is left on their doorstep, Mrs Deer thinks her dream has come true at last, while Mr Deer cannot help feeling concerned by its unorthodox look and constant roaring. But the baby cannot be appeased …
