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 …
Today is Library Mice’s turn to host the blog tour for Little Tiger Press’ Reading Rocks Summer picture books list and I am delighted to welcome illustrator Judi Abbot, who has written and illustrated Train! for Little Tiger Press , but that you might already know as the illustrator of The Biggest Kiss, The Perfect …
Jane Blatt (text) & Sarah Massini (illustrations) (Nosy Crow) Books Always Everywhere is a joyful celebration of books and enjoying them from the earliest age. What is utterly lovely about this book is how it portrays babies, toddlers and preschoolers reading books wherever they are and whatever they are doing in turn conveying to little readers that this …
Gillian Shields (text) & Georgie Birkett (illustrations)(Picture Corgi) Sometimes I Feel Sunny is part of the My First Picture Books series from Picture Corgi which aims at closing the gap between baby board books and longer, traditional picture books. Each book in the series focuses on concepts that toddlers and preschoolers are beginning to grasp, using a …
Tatyana Feeney(Oxford University Press) Small Bunny loves his Blue Blanket and carries it everywhere with him, whether he is on the swings, in the sandpit, painting or just reading quietly. But his Mum thinks Blue Blanket really needs a wash, and newly clean Blue Blanket is just not quite the same. What can Small Bunny do to …
Emily Gravett(Macmillan Children’s Books) It is nearly bedtime for Cedric the dragon but there is just enough time for a quick story. Unfortunately for his mum, Cedric has a favourite book which he wants read again, and again, and again. When Mum fails to deliver, Cedric goes all tantrumy on her, with incendiary consequences! A new Emily …
Camilla Reid (text) & Ailie Busby (illustrations)(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Meet Lulu, cute little red-haired girl, and follow her throughout the day as she goes about her daily activities and discover her world and the people and things that inhabit it. Subtitled “A book about being quite little”, This is Lulu is a perfect book for …
