If you know this blog well, you will know my penchant for picturebooks which promote books, shared reading and reading for pleasure; you might even be aware I am writing a MA dissertation about this right now, though I won’t bore you with those details. So, as you can imagine therefore, I loved The Snatchabook (see my review …
The Snatchabook is one of my favourite reads of 2013, a wonderful feel-good story about the power of books and stories (you can read my review here). It was created by husband and wife team Helen and Thomas Docherty, who had already collaborated on the wonderful Ruby Nettleship and the Ice Lolly Adventure (you can …
Helen Docherty (text) & Thomas Docherty (illustrations) (Alison Green Books) In every house, in every bed, A bedtime book was being read … But suddenly the story books begin to disappear. There might just be a book thief on the loose! Eliza Browne is keen to solve the mystery and hatches a plan to catch …
Thomas Docherty (Templar Publishing) Ruby Nettleship loves to climb, slide, run and jump and when she is not doing that, she likes to dream of magical adventures. She also dreams that someone will come and sort out the park near her house because the slide doesn’t slide, the roundabout doesn’t go round and only one …
