Panda and Penguin live together and share everything, including the beloved tatty old sofa they love to sit on. They decide to go and buy a new one, but none feels quite right, and for good reasons. Fifi Kuo’s The Perfect Sofa (Boxer Books) is absolutely delightful; its succinct text is teamed with bold colourful double-spreads and …
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Beatrice Blue presents five fabulous reads which have inspired her since childhood
Today is National Unicorn Day and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate than to introduce Beatrice Blue’s gorgeous début picturebook Once Upon a Unicorn Horn (Frances Lincoln), which is published as part of the First Editions list, which showcases new talents. June lives with her parents in a magical forest and loves to …
BLOG TOUR: Mick Inkpen’s “The Blue Balloon” is 30 years old!
The Blue Balloon (Hodder Children’s Books), Mick Inkpen’s classic picture book, is 30 years old this year! A favourite of so many families, which uses innovative use of flaps and fold-out pages, it is a true celebration of the importance of play and the power of the imagination for preschoolers. It also highlights how easily it …
BLOG TOUR: The Light in the Night
A newcomer last year with the gorgeous Red and the City, Marie Voigt is back with a new and very different picturebook, The Light in the Night (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books), which is Library Mice picturebook of the week: Betty loves night-time because with the dark comes the time for stories! But Cosmo, the bear in her favourite book, …
BLOG TOUR: Steve Antony’s Amazing
Today is Library Mice’s turn to host a stop of Steve Antony’s blog tour for his latest picturebook Amazing, which is Library Mice Picturebook of the Week this week! I am delighted to welcome Steve back to Library Mice (you can see an earlier, guest post, with his childhood Fabulous Five, here) and he has got …
BLOG TOUR: How Rude!
When Duck shows up at Dot’s tea party, it soon becomes obvious he has left his manners at home. Nothing is quite right for him, and his demands and behaviour become increasingly outrageous, until Dot decides enough is enough. Clare Helen Walsh and Olivier Tallec’s How Rude! (words & pictures) is a prime example of how …
BLOG TOUR: Daddy Hairdo
She might have been born without hair, but Amy, the heroine of Daddy Hairdo by Francis Martin and Claire Powell (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books), certainly makes up for it as she grows up. Soon she has hair so long and luscious it would have Rapunzel green with envy. But with such long hair comes …
BLOG TOUR: I Am the Seed that Grew the Tree
With the first hints of autumnal weather, a magical time comes upon us: it is the season of gift books and other beautiful editions (part of Jólabókaflóðið, as Icelanders would call it), ready for shoppers who seek Christmas gifts. You will be hard pushed this year to find a more beautiful specimen than I Am the Seed that …
FABULOUS FIVE: Bethan Woollvin presents picturebooks with fearless girls
Hansel and Gretel (Two Hoots), the third fractured fairy tale retelling from Bethan Woollvin, takes readers to the woods once more where they come across Willow, a kind and gentle witch who lives alone in her Gingerbread House. Willow is the heroine of this story, rather than the eponymous siblings, a popular motif of twisted fairy …