My Very Own Space Pippa Goodhart (text) & Rebecca Crane (artwork) (Flying Eye Books) Jack the little rabbit wants to read his book in peace and is desperate for space away from all the cacophony around him. Out of frustration he draws a big red line on the floor to delimit where his own space is. …
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BLOG TOUR: Can I Join Your Club?
John Kelly (text) & Steph Laberis (artwork) (Little Tiger Press) Duck wants to join a club. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy. The Lion club expects members to be able to roar, the Snake club wants members to be able to hiss … every club he approaches denies him membership. Disillusioned, Duck finally realises that the only …
Clare and her Captain
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 …
FRENCH FRIDAY FABULOUS FIVE! Marianne Dubuc presents Five Fabulous Books About Friendship
Today I am thrilled to welcome Marianne Dubuc for a French Friday/Fabulous Five mash-up, so to speak. Marianne is from Québec and is the author and illustrator of the internationally acclaimed The Lion and the Bird, published by Book Island and translated from French by translator extraordinaire Sarah Ardizzone. The Lion and the Bird tells the story of an unlikely …
Goodbye Stranger
Rebecca Stead (Andersen Press) At age 8, Bridge was involved in a serious accident where she nearly died. Now she often feels a bit of an oddball, and despite sticking together through thick and thin, promising never to fight, she and her friends Tab and Emily are finding it harder and harder to keep that …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: board books for little ones
There are plenty of things to discover and explore in the brightly coloured pages of Baby Touch: Busy Baby (Ladybird), encouraged by lots of touch-and-feel patches on the pages. This is a large format board book perfect for sharing, and it comes with an accompanying CD which includes ten instrumental tracks. We have always been …
Crunch!
Carolina Rabei (Child’s Play) Crunch the guinea pig loves his food. A lot. And he spends an awful lot of time eating it. But when Cheddar the mouse turns up uninvited looking for some food. Crunch grumpily refuses despite having plenty and being offered a hug in exchange. Soon after Cheddar leaves, Crunch starts to …
Remix
Non Pratt (Walker Books) Didn’t get a Glastonbury ticket this year? Missing the festival atmosphere? You can nonetheless experience camping, first-aid tents, burger vans, cocky rockstars and even manky festival toilets in Non Pratt’s new book Remix. Kaz and Ruby have been best friends since the first day of secondary school. Ruby is as loud as …
Apple and Rain
Sarah Crossan (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Apple has been brought up by her rather strict Irish Catholic grandmother after her mother walked out on her one doomed Christmas morning. Since then she has not stopped hoping that one day she would return. When she eventually returns, out of the blue, it could not be at a better time: …