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 …
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BLOG TOUR: a Q & A with Catherine Rayner
Today the blog tour for Holly Webb’s latest book A Tiger Tale stops here, at Library Mice. As i, I thought it would be interesting to look into the process of illustrating fiction a little more and therefore I am delighted to welcome award-winning illustrator and firm Library Mice favourite, Catherine Rayner, for a Q …
Lost Christmas
David Logan(Quercus) A year ago, Goose had the perfect life: loving parents, Christmas around the corner, a new puppy. But this was all taken away from him suddenly when his parents were killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve. Now, a year on, he lives with his grandmother who is slowing losing to dementia, and is …
PICTURE BOOK CAROUSEL: The Saga of Knuffle Bunny
Mo Willems (Walker Books) I didn’t discover Mo Willems via his famous Pigeon books. My first encounter with his work was the first Knuffle Bunny book, Knuffle Bunny: a Cautionary Tale , and was bowled over by the fantastically imaginative use of pastel coloured illustrations superimposed with sepia photographs of Brooklyn. The result is so drastically …
No and Me
Delphine de Vigan No et moi, translated by George Miller (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Lou Bertignac is a high-IQ 13 year-old stuck in a class of 15 year-olds. The only student who deigns speak to her is 17 year-old Lucas, a rebel with a soft heart who she and all the other girls find irresistible (for those who …
The Heart and The Bottle
Oliver Jeffers (Harper Collins Children’s Books) A little girl, who is thirsty for knowledge and in awe of how the world works, shares a very special relationship with her grandfather. When he dies, she is confronted with his empty chair and a sense of loss that she cannot start to comprehend. Finding herself unable to …
Love, Aubrey
Suzanne LaFleur(Puffin) Eleven year-old Aubrey’s life has been turned upside down by a terrible event, and one day she finds herself living alone. After two weeks of surviving on crackers and cheese and tinned spaghetti, she is finally rescued by her grandmother who turns up at the house, worried from the lack of news. Suddenly, …