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 …
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 …
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. …
Lauren Child(Orchard Books) Charlie is a very thoughtful, patient and loving brother to his little sister Lola. She never wants to be without him. But sometimes, just sometimes, Charlie would quite like to be without Lola, especially when he wants to play with best friend Marv. So when he finally brings himself to tell Lola …
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 …
Ruper Kingfisher (text) & Sue Hellard (illustrations)(Bloomsbury) Another instalment in the Madame Pamplemousse series, another whimsical adventure, another fabulous Parisian shop … This time we are introduced to a little shop in Isle Saint-Louis which sells all sorts of sweets and chocolates. The owner is Madame Bonbon (it figures). We meet this Madame as she …
Jenny Han(Puffin) Belly is about to turn sweet sixteen and for as long as she can remember, she has spent each summer at her mother’s best friend’s beach house with her mother, her brother, and Susannah and her two boys. Belly has always adulated the older boy, Conrad, but the feelings have never openly been …
Jan Fearnley(Egmont) Arthur the elephant really wants to play. He asks the monkeys, Tiger, Peacock and Cheetah, but they are not having any of it and are being rather nasty to Arthur. Feeling disheartened, he continues on his way until he stumbles across Duck and Frog who are having fun in puddles. They are more than …
Lorena Siminovich(Templar) Lulu’s teacher is running an art competition and Lulu is keen to take part and win! But despite having a very vivid idea of the peacock she wants to recreate in a collage, she can’t quite get the colours right and is feeling disheartened. Loyal friend Alex comes up with a great idea: …
