This year has been a year of (re)discovery of comics for me. There are several reasons why that is happened. One is that Zoe from Playing by the book have been talking comics a lot this year. The other is I have discovered a complete new (to me) genre in comics writing, whether it is for …
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Me, the Queen and Christopher
Giles Andreae (text) & Tony Ross (illustrations)(Orchard Books) When Freya is invited to meet the Queen and have tea at Buckingham Palace, she buys a pretty new dress and practises her curtsey, but nothing can quite prepare her for the discovery of what really happens behind the scenes at the palace, as she discovers that Queen lives a …
Wonder
R.J. Palacio(Bodley Head) August Pullman is a bright, happy ten-year-old who until now has been home-schooled by his parents, in an attempt to protect him from people’s cruel reactions to his facial abnormalities. But now he is starting school for the first time at Beecher Prep and he is petrified. Will people accept him as …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Rebecca Elliott
I came across Rebecca Elliott’s first book for Lion Children’s Books, Just Because, quite late, as it was first published last year. When I finally found out about it, two further books were already on the way to being published. These three books,which I am focusing on today are beautifully crafted, but also touch on some very tough social …