Steve Smallman (text) & Lee Wildish (illustrations)(Little Tiger Press) Five bored Vikings went out hiking,Looking for an adventure. something bold and new.So they they’d hunt a dragon.and then tie it to their wagon,Take it home and chop it up to makea dragon stew! On the way our rather clueless vikings meet a sort-of kraken and a …
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I Love Bugs!
Emma Dodd(Orchard Books) I love all bugs … big and small bugs.Join a little bug lover as he takes us around his garden and introduces us to a whole array of creepy-crawlies and other creatures. Whether they are “jumpy leapy”, “spiky spiny”, “whiny buzzy” or “flouncy frilly”, he loves them all. But there is a …
Zog
Julia Donaldson (text) & Axel Scheffler (illustrations)(Alison Green Books, Scholastic) Zog is a very studious little dragon wholikes to always try his best. So every time the dragon teacher, Madam Dragon, teaches his class a new skill, he is always very keen to practice. Unfortunately he is also very accident-prone. It is after one his tumbles …
Cave Baby
Julia Donaldson (text) & Emily Gravett (illustrations)(Macmillan) Cave Baby lives in a cave with Cave Mum, who likes to paint, and Cave Dad, who likes to be “brave”. However both parents (who seem quite self-involved!) do not seem to appreciate when he decides to scribble all over the walls so Cave Baby is banished to his …
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 …
Marc Boutavant for ever (3)
for just ONE DAY Laura Leuck (author) & Marc Boutavant (illustrator) (Tate Publishing) Alll children let their imagination run wild every once in a while and wonder what it would be like to be a buzzing bee, or a monkey, or a grizzly bear. This is exactly what this book illustrates with some fantastic rhyming …
Too Purply!
Jean Reidy (author) & Geneviève Leloup (illustrator)(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) It is time to get dressed to go to school but one little girl (and her very cute tortoise) just cannot make up her mind as to what to wear (anybody with a daughter will definitely be able to relate to that!). Nothing is right! It …