Come and join Barroux on a game of hide-and-seek with a difference! Where’s the Elephant and Where’s the Starfish? (Egmont) are two quasi-wordless picturebooks which carry an incredibly powerful message about the effect Man has on the environment, and more particularly deforestation and sea pollution. Designed in a Where’s Wally? type puzzle book, the hide-and-seek style allows the message behind …
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Finding Winnie
Lindsay Mattick (text) & Sophie Blackall (illustrations) (Orchard books) Finding Winnie won the prestigious Caldecott Medal in the USA a few weeks ago. I’ll admit I have had the book for a while and had put it aside, but the win prompted me to look at it again, and it was a delightful surprise. We all …
Animal Rescue
Patrick George (Patrick George) I have always admired PatrickGeorge’s clever use of acetate in their books (see earlier reviews here and here). Their latest title, Animal Rescue, is based on the same principle, this time encouraging young readers to become ‘rescue heroes’. Each double spread shows an animal in an unnatural habitat. Flipping the acetate to the …
I Want a Mini Tiger
Joyce Dunbar (text) & Lara Jones (illustrations)(Macmillan Children’s Books) A little girl is set on having a pet, but her choices are slightly over-ambitious: she wants a tiny crocodile, a pocket bear, a funky monkey and all sorts of other wild animals. Her brother tries to make her see sense: those animals belong in the wild …