Salina Yoon (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) When Bear finds a lost stuffed toy bunny in the forest, he is determined to reunite it with its owner, worried that the bunny is lonely. But while he puts every effort into finding the bunny’s home, he gradually becomes more and more attached to this newfound friend. What will …
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BOOKSTART 20: Our twenty favourite books to share
I’ll happily admit that I go on about Bookstart a lot. I talked about it a little bit here, when the government first announced they were cutting the funding to Booktrust’s bookgifting schemes.Bookstart is 20 years old this year, having been first established in 1992, though it did not become a national scheme until roughly 2000. You can …
Pip and Posy
Axel Scheffler(Nosy Crow) Pip and Posy:The Super ScooterWhen Posy sees Pip on his super scooter, she really, really can’t help wanting it for herself and can’t even wait to ask Pip – she snatches the scooter and rides it away. But she soon runs into some difficulties; will Pip still be cross about her not …
Ribbit Rabbit
Candace Ryan (text) & Mike Lowery (illustrations)(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Frog and Rabbit are best friends, and they do everything together. But sometimes, even the best of friends fall out. So when a new shiny toy robot appears on the scene, clouds soon start to gather, and the two friends get into a fight about it. …
Little Mouse and the Big Cupcake
Thomas Taylor (text) & Jill Barton (illustrations)(Boxer Books) Little Mouse comes across a yummy-looking chocolate-chip. Raspberry-cream cupcake and quite fancies taking it home. Unfortunately, it is rather large and he can’t carry it all the way back. Enters Bird, Frog, Mole and plenty of others who are all quite keen to help, but more importantly …
Iris and Isaac
Catherine Rayner (Little Tiger Press) Polar bears Iris and Isaac are not friends anymore! They are having difficulty agreeing about the way they can share the nest that Iris has made (someone has too big a bottom!) and so both stomp off in a huff, in opposite directions. As they both wander on the ice …