Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781760634353 £11.99 An un-scary monster has just eaten his friend! This book is his search for someone to replace his friend – and shows how hard it can be to find friends sometimes. The illustrations are large, bold and very simple, filled with colour against bold black backgrounds. Does the monster…
Otter Barry books ISBN 9781910959350 £11.99 Pig spots Mole beside the road with a large box and offers him a lift. When asked about the contents Mole’s retort is ‘NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!’ Pig considers this very rude and slams on his brakes, ejecting Mole from the car. Intrigued by the mysterious box Pig is…
Lincoln Children’s Books Quarto ISBN 9780178603108 £11.99 Erik is part of a wolf pack. He is growing up and does not like being told what to do. He feels trapped by the pack rules so he decides to go off on his own. Initially this is liberating, and Erik has fun. He climbs higher than…
Hachette Children’s ISBN 9781444941999 £12.99 A new addition to the Emily Brown series by well-known author Cressida Cowell (of How to Train your Dragon fame) and illustrator Neal Layton. It is Christmas Eve and Father Christmas is having all sorts of problems. Fortunately, he finds himself right outside Emily Brown’s bedroom and she and her rabbit, Stanley,…
Orchard Books ISBN 97-1408346143 £6.99 Fans of the Charlie and Lola picture book series will be thrilled to read another episode in their lives. Charlie’s narration always begins, ‘I have this little sister Lola. She is small and very funny’. There follows much sibling dialogue, in this case on Lola’s current obsession: dogs. They talk…
Quarto Publishing Group USA ISBN 9781633223868 £7.99 This is basically an alphabet book with pictures to illustrate each letter of the alphabet, a funny sentence to capture the two letters shown on each page, for example, ‘Alligator rides a Bicycle. Cow jumps over the doughnut’ and two lines of blackboard at the bottom on which…
Otter Barry Books ISBN 9781910959367 £12.99 A sumptuous picture book for sharing with a young child, Can You See a Little Bear? engagingly introduces the concepts of opposites and rhyming words which young children love to guess and join in with, whilst inviting them to ask imaginative questions. Each of Jackie Morris’ lavish illustrations has a depth…
OUP ISBN 9780192759467 £6.99 A gentle story about dinosaurs and belonging. A dinosaur egg is blown out of its nest and down a hill. It is lost and upset. Five different dinosaurs try to find out who the egg belongs to. We learn about the key characteristics of dinosaur species such as a Stegosaurus’ spikes…
Quarto ISBN 9781633225114 £10.99 This is an ABC book which looks at the theme of Mindfulness. This is a topic which has been growing in importance over the last few years and it has been difficult to find materials that target the youngest children. The author has managed to find themes based around this concept,…
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