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: 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 …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Dogs, dogs, dogs!
Smelly Louie Catherine Rayner (Macmillan Children’s Books) Louie smells, and it is definitely not of roses. But he loves his smell, and after he is given a bath by his well-meaning family, he is adamant that I will find his smell again, so off he goes on a journey fill of pong and adventure. Rayner’s …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Reading Rocks picture books
This summer publisher Little Tiger Press brings to life some of its new picture book titles with a new campaign called Reading Rocks. Watch out for competitions, videos (check out their Youtube channel) and live events nationwide. Celebrations kicked off with a blog tour, and here is a summary in case you missed it: Abigail‘s author-illustrator …
The Tales of Olga da Polga
Michael Bond with illustrations by Catherine Rayner(Oxford University Press) Olga da Polga is no ordinary guinea-pig. Opinionated, self-observed and rather greedy, she is , as the narrator describers her at the beginning of the tale, “the sort of guinea-pig who would go places”. When she finally leaves the pet shop for her new home and life, she finds herself …
Iris and Isaac
Catherine Rayner (Little Tiger Press) Polar bears Iris and Isaac are not friends anymore! They are having difficulty agreeing about the way they can share the nest that Iris has made (someone has too big a bottom!) and so both stomp off in a huff, in opposite directions. As they both wander on the ice …