OUP ISBN 9780192746177 £6.99 This book is enormous fun. We go into Santa’s workshop and see all the commotion. Santa and his elves are preparing for the busiest Christmas ever. Penguins join the team of elves and things become chaotic. A polar bear is brought in to deal with the penguins, but all does not…
words and pictures (Quarto Group) ISBN 9781910277515 £11.99 Rusty is a robot living far, far away on Planet Robotone. He squeaks, and he doesn’t like it. He squeaked in the daytime and squeaked through the night. He squeaked so much it gave him a fright. Then the chilling line, ‘If he couldn’t like his squeak,…
words and pictures ISBN 9781910277720 £11.99 A young boy is bored, and his mum tells him to go outside. A ‘ball of fur wearing a pink hat’ rides past and the boy hops on his bike and joins him. Although the boy talks to him, the friendly white creature does not speak. The creature eats…
Hodder Children’s Books ISBN 9781444934212 £12.99 This is fourth in the ‘Queen’ collection of picture books by author/illustrator Steve Antony, following The Queen’s Hat, The Queen’s Handbag and The Queen’s Present. Through sparse, but well-chosen text, we follow the Queen’s unexpected trip through the solar system, until she is sucked into a black hole. Fortunately, she is rescued…
Otter Barry Books ISBN 9781910959183 £11.99 A retelling of the traditional story of the fisherman and his wife, with, in the best oral tradition, an individual ‘take’ on the tale. The Grimm version focuses on the dissatisfied wife and a hen-pecked husband, never satisfied with the increasingly opulent lifestyle they wish for until in the…
Little Tiger ISBN 9781848690 £11.99 The lonely little Panda who bemoans the lack of a friend as he sits in the dewy forest at the start of the book, becomes an ever more endearingly comic character as the story progresses. He spies a female one day and racks his brains over how they might become…
Lincoln Children’s Books ISBN 9781847809735 £14.99 A thought-provoking book that follows over 40 children round the world over 24 hours. It is fascinating to explore differences and similarities in everyday routines and ways of life. In the Outback, Australia, the children do not go to school because they live too far away. They listen to…
Hodder Children’s Books ISBN 9781444932522 £6.99 This wonderful book from the team that created Oi Frog! And Oi Dog! has been issued in paperback. Frog has decided that cats should sit on gnats. Cat is not happy because gnats are “gnibbly” and bite him on the bottom. Dog tries to suggest other rhyming combinations, but to no avail. Then…
Tiny Owl ISBN 9781910328187 £12.99 A story about five brothers waiting for the arrival of a new baby in their family. The brothers are expecting another brother and are surprised when the new baby turns out to be a girl, leading them to wonder what she will be like, will enjoy doing and will grow…
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