I have a budding fashion designer at home, and she loves any sort of activity book to do with clothes and fashion. So she was chuffed to find out that Thames & Hudson were publishing two very stylish fashion activity books, one on designing clothes, one on sewing them the latter created and designed by Louise …
Shannon Hale & Dean Hale (text), LeUyen Pham (artwork) (Walker Books) Princess Magnolia is entertaining nosy Duchess Wigtower with hot chocolate and scones when an alarm sounds. Magnolia plays innocent, blaming noisy birds, but really she knows it signifies a monster has entered the realms of her kingdom, and that her alter ego the Princess in …
There are plenty of things to discover and explore in the brightly coloured pages of Baby Touch: Busy Baby (Ladybird), encouraged by lots of touch-and-feel patches on the pages. This is a large format board book perfect for sharing, and it comes with an accompanying CD which includes ten instrumental tracks. We have always been …
Shirley Hughes (Red Fox) The summer holidays are getting close (or might have even started for some), so what more delightful than to dive into a picturebook which oozes the simple pleasures of summer? Penguin Random House’s inspired decision to reissue f Lucy and Tom at the Seaside is much welcome, particularly as it coincides with the …
Kris Humphrey, with artwork by Chellie Carroll (Stripes) Nara is a Whisperer, a Guardian of the Wild. Her companion is a leopard called Flame and when Nara receives a message from the Palace that the kingdom of Meridina about the growing dangers brought by the shape-shifting Narlaw, they both take the journey north from the family …
Cathy Cassidy Cover illustration and artwork by Erin Keen (Puffin) Alice, Yaz and Elaine have always been best friends. Until the end of year 6, when Alice is chosen to be the lead in the school production of Alice in Wonderland, and consequently also gets offered a place in a drama group. She is also …
Non Pratt (Walker Books) Didn’t get a Glastonbury ticket this year? Missing the festival atmosphere? You can nonetheless experience camping, first-aid tents, burger vans, cocky rockstars and even manky festival toilets in Non Pratt’s new book Remix. Kaz and Ruby have been best friends since the first day of secondary school. Ruby is as loud as …
Concept books come in all shapes and sizes and not only offer great opportunities for interaction and shared learning but are often books that preschoolers go back to to read alone. Therefore a good concept book needs to be a little bit more than just a list of colours to prompt engagement and pleasure from its …
