Today is Library Mice’s stop of the blog tour for Tom Tinn-Disbury’s My Summer with Grandad (New Frontier Publishing), a wonderful story of inter generational bond between a little boy and his grandad. Eric is learning to fish with his grandad and is finding it tricky. When a young seagull gets caught in a fishing …
Benji Davies (Simon & Schuster Children’s Books) Syd and his grandad have always been very close but one day when Syd goes to his house after school, he finds Grandad getting ready for a big adventure. Off they go together, to a beautiful island. But once there, Grandad decides he wants to stay … There is no …
Though Julia Donaldson is most famous for her picture books, she has also written quite a few titles for early readers (you can find a list on her website here).This autumn, she has teamed up with the wonderful Hannah Shaw to write the first two titles of a brand new series for newly independent readers, …
Marta Altés(Macmillan Children’s Books) This little bear’s grandpa is his very special friend, but he is getting old. Sometimes he behaves like an old man, sometimes he behaves like a child. Sometimes he is full of wild stories and adventures, sometimes he seems lost and confused. But that makes him who he is, and that’s …
Lou Kuenzlerwith artwork by Kirsten Collier(Scholastic Children’s Books) Violet is so excited as she has finally reached the height required to ride Plunger, the biggest and scariest rollercoaster around. But just as she is about to get on the ride, disaster strikes: Violet literally shrinks to the size of a fish finger. Her chances of riding Plunger are …
Giles Paley-Phillips (text) & Gabriele Antonini (illustrations)(Maverick Books) Today I am delighted to be the Halloween pit stop of Giles’ blog tour for The Fearsome Beastie! And what better than a story about a scary child-eating monster for your Halloween night read?The beastie in question, purple and scary looking, has a fondness for going down the village just …
Tracey Corduroy (text) & Joe Berger (illustrations)(Nosy Crow) What if your granny was a little bit “out there”? What if people stared at her in the street when you are out shopping with her? What if your friends found her really cool, while you just found her just a little bit embarrassing? And what if …
Nanette Newman (text) & Emma Chichester Clark (illustrations)(Brubaker, Ford & Friends, an imprint of Templar) “What do you want to do when you grow up?” is a question we often ask children, but Lily wants to know what her grandma will be when she grows up. Her grandma replies that she has done all her …
Eva Ibbotsonwith illustrations by Sharon Rentta(Marion Lloyd Books) All Hal has ever wanted is a dog. Not the latest gadgets, the endless toy parcels from the big department stores. Not even a pure-bred, expensive dog. Just a dog he can call his own. But his parents are not keen: his dad spends all his time …
