Oliver Jeffers(HarperCollins Children’s Books) The boy and the penguin from Lost and Found return in this brand new adventure. The two are still the best of friends and love doing everything together. But there is something that Penguin feels he needs to learn by himself. He wants to learn to fly. As readers, young and old, …
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Spooky Reads (1): Meg Goes to Bed
Helen Nicoll (text) & Jan Pieńkowski (illustrations)(Puffin)What better way to kick off a Halloween feature than to talk one of the greatest witches of a the picture book world: Meg! Mog and Owl are hungry and Meg decides she will conjure a spell to make them spaghetti. But in typical Meg-fashion things don’t go quite …
Zog
Julia Donaldson (text) & Axel Scheffler (illustrations)(Alison Green Books, Scholastic) Zog is a very studious little dragon wholikes to always try his best. So every time the dragon teacher, Madam Dragon, teaches his class a new skill, he is always very keen to practice. Unfortunately he is also very accident-prone. It is after one his tumbles …
Annexed
Sharon Dogar(Andersen Press) Everyone knows Anne Frank’s story, her life hidden at the top of those stairs in Amsterdam, and her untimely death. 31 million copies of her diary, which is translated in 67 languages, have been sold across the world. So we know the story, HER side of the story. But the Franks were …
Before We Say Goodbye
Gabriela Ambrosio(Walker Books) “This is no life. Sooner or later it must finish.”One spring morning in 2002, in Jerusalem. As the city awakes, two teenage girls are already on the go. Myriam, a Jewish girl, is off on the hill, walking off the sorrow of losing her best friend Michael in a suicide bomb in …
Perfect Chemistry
Simone Elkeles(Simon & Schuster) In Fairfield High School, you either come from the Southside or the Northside of the city. And they don’t mix, usually. But they are about to collide, big time.Brittany Ellis is the school’s princess: blonde hair, designer clothes, pom-pom girl, football captain boyfriend. She has it all. Or has she? Behind …