Nick Bromley (text) & Nicola O’Byrne (illustrations) (Nosy Crow) If you think you are settling down for a lovely quiet storytime reading The Ugly Duckling, think again. The book and its tale has been invaded by a crocodile and he is not very happy about being stuck inside! It is up to reader and the little cygnet …
Jane Blatt (text) & Sarah Massini (illustrations) (Nosy Crow) Books Always Everywhere is a joyful celebration of books and enjoying them from the earliest age. What is utterly lovely about this book is how it portrays babies, toddlers and preschoolers reading books wherever they are and whatever they are doing in turn conveying to little readers that this …
Anna McQuinn (text) & Rosalind Beardshaw (illustrations)(Alanna Books) Tuesday is Lulu’s favourite day because on Tuesdays, Lulu and her mummy go to the library. She puts the books she needs to return in her rucksack as well as her library card. When she gets there, she gives her books back, enjoys storytime with the other …
Colin McNaughton (text) & Emma Chichester Clark (illustrations) (Walker Books) A little boy stands alone in a deserted playground, clearly unhappy. As we are witness to his conversation with the narrator it becomes obvious he is not familiar with many classical nursery rhyme characters. But in the distance it seems someone is flying down towards him. …
I have just spent a few days back home and no trip is complete without a tour of the local bookshops!Here is my treasure: I could not resist the wonderful Un Livre by Hervé Tullet (published by Chronicle Books here under the title Press Here), the latest volume of my favourite manga series and the wonderfully entitled …
Daniel Pennac with illustrations by Quentin Blake, translated by Sarah Ardizzone (née Adams) (Walker books) Parents, teachers, librarians,please on no account use these pages as an instrument of torture. These words of caution from the author at the very beginning of the book set the tone of one of my most favourite books. Daniel Pennac is a bestselling French …
Lane Smith(Macmillan Children’s Books) A jackass (read donkey) and an ape (and a little mouse, hidden under his hat!) are sitting, reading. The ape has a book, the jackass a laptop. When the jackass enquires about the ape’s “gadget”, he is surprised to hear that it doesn’t have any gimmicks … just a good old-fashioned book, with pages …
I don’ t think we stop enough to think how lucky we are. My children certainly don’t. To them, getting a new book is just part of their routine. Sometimes I think I have spoilt them. Sometimes I feel I have done right when they come back from someone’s house and the first thing they have noticed is …
