Andi Watson(Walker) Grace Gibson is moving to a new town, where her father is to be the headteacher of her primary school. The town is called Catastrophe, and it certainly lives up to its name: with its volcano and giant robots roaming the town, this is hardly the welcoming party Grace was expecting. After some …
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Lunchtime
Rebecca Cobb (Macmillan Children’s Books) It is lunchtime, but the little girl in the story is far too busy drawing to go and eat. Eventually she sits at the table, reluctantly, but she just will not eat. Then first a crocodile, then a bear, and a finally a wolf appear, and they are all starving. They are …
Scrummy!
Leigh Hodgkinson(Orchard Books) When her dad tells her that every family has its all mix of yummy stuff that makes it special, Sunny McCloud decides that her own family is very much like a sandwich. So she decides to make one in which each ingredient represents a member of her family. But this turns out into a rather boring snack, so Sunny …
Food is Fun!
Cathy Olmedillas (text) & Rob Lowe (illustrations and design)(The Anorak Press) Created by the duo behind the fabulous Anorak Magazine, this hip and stylish non-fiction book all about food is a feast for the eyes as well as for the brain. Packed full of recipes, games, jokes, vegetable information sheets and historical facts, this beautifully designed book …
Madame Pamplemousse and the Time-Travelling Café
Rupert Kingfisher (text) & Sue Hellard (illustrations)(Bloomsbury) The city of Paris and its treasures (its architecture, shops, cafés and anything remotely old or cultural) are under threat; a new government, with a modernising, terrorising and dictatorial President at its head, is planning to destroy the city and make its inhabitants miserable. Everything remotely pleasant has …