The prospect of welcoming a new baby in a household is one that fills parents-to-be with joy, and yet also with dread if this is not the first child in the family. Explaining the arrival of a new baby can be tricky, and books always come in very handy in such circumstances. I read a …
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I Love My Daddy
Giles Andreae (text) & Emma Dodd (illustrations)(Orchard Books) A follow-up to the very successful I Love My Mummy by the same writer and illustrator team (it won the 2010 Booktrust Early Year Award for babies under one), this heart-warming simple picture book depicts, with a combination of sparse rhyming text and bold and bright illustrations, the loving relationship between …
Morris the Mankiest Monster
Giles Andreae (text) & Sarah McIntyre (illustrations)(David Fickling Books) Meet Morris: He feeds off the snotty green bogiesThat lurk up his big hairy noseAnd sometimes he nibbles the poisonous mouldWhich he scrapes off the ends of his toes Revolting isn’t it? This book claims to be the most revolting book of the year, and it’s …