There are very few series which remain as popular once several tomes have been released. In fact I can only really think of a handful like so in my school library. One is Wimpy Kid, one is Liz Pichon’s Tom Gates (Scholastic). No matter how many copies of each book we buy, they are never on …
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Christmas Eve at the Mellops’
Tomi Ungerer(Phaidon) On the day before Christmas Eve, Casimir, Isidor, Felix and Ferdinand Mellop all get the same brilliant idea: to surprise the family with a beautiful Christmas tree. Left with four trees, the brothers must find new homes for them, which turns out not to be so straight-forward. But the brothers are a resourceful bunch …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: The True Meaning of Christmas
The two books I am reviewing today stood out amongst the huge offering of new Christmas books for their more unusual, and yet all the more important, Christmas message. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse Helen Ward(Templar) Helen Ward’s retelling of the famous Aesop’s Fable is not strictly a Christmas story, but it is 1930s …
The Santa Trap
Jonathan Emmett (text) & Poly Bernatene (illustrations)(Macmillan Children’s Books) Bradley is a bad, spoilt rich little boy who gets whatever he wants (and more) from his terrified long-suffering parents and still is never satisfied. Particularly by Santa’s presents. Despite writing ginormous lists every year, all Bradley gets from Santa is a pair of socks. See, Santa knows Bradley …