How to Look After Your Human: a Dog’s Guide (Frances Lincoln) is a clever little handbook which flips the “owning a pet” manual genre on its head. Here it is Maggie Mayhem, a gorgeous border terrier, who has written the manual with the help of her human, Kim Sears. From the opening page, the tone …
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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 …
Dixie O’Day In the Fast Lane
Shirley Hughes (text) & Clara Vulliamy (illustrations) (Bodley Head) Dixie loves his car and takes good care of it. He loves taking it for a spin with his friend Percy so naturally when the All Day Race is announced, they immediately decide to take part, hoping it is going to be a fun adventure. But …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Nosy Crow
Recently I became part of the Nosy Crow Crew and thought this was a perfect opportunity to showcase some of their lovely picture books. Troll Swap Leigh Hodgkinson Timothy Limpet is a troll that does not much like troll things and behaviour. Tabitha Limpit is a little girl who definitely does not behave like one. …
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 …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: Naugthy doggies!
Two picture books, one of them released very recently, the other one last July, really struck in the Library Mice household. Since the arrival of Bear the chocolate labrador, things have been quite lively. Even the titles of the books say a lot about what it is like to be a dog owner! No! Marta Altés(Child’s …
Dog Loves Drawing
Louise Yates(Jonathan Cape) Dog loves books so much that he opened a bookshop. But his Aunt Dora thinks it is time for something new so she sends him a little something, which turns out to be a sketchbook. This book is not for reading, but for creating your own stories through drawing and writing and as Aunt …
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 …
Claude at the Circus
Alex T. Smith(Hodder Children’s Books) Claude and his best friend Sir Bobblysock are back for a third adventure, hurrah, and of course Claude once again manages to put himself into precarious situations. A perfectly innocent stroll in the park is disturbed with a encounter with some joggers, a frowned-upon nap in the bushes, an unfortunate episode on the golf …