Snow White in New York by Fiona French, Oxford University Press A beautiful retelling of the Snow White Fairy Tale with illustrations full of contrast and originality. Set in the ‘Big Apple of 1920’s America, Snow White’s wicked stepmother is ‘Queen of the Underworld’ who the New York tabloids call the ‘classiest dame in New…
Robin’s Winter Song by Suzanne Barton Robin wakes one Autumn Day to find a flurry of activity; the finches are getting ready to fly south and Squirrel is burying his nuts. Winter is coming and everyone is preparing. Robin thinks ‘Winter’ must be very scary. After snuggling up to Bear in his cave Robin wakes…
Little Tiger ISBN 9781838910334 £11.99 An appealing informative book where we meet a bird who takes us “a tour of the skies” and introduces us to other birds. Vivid orange colour runs throughout the book and has impact. Facts are clearly presented and are accessible. I particularly like the picture of the bird with captions…
Hodder Children’s Books ISBN 9781444956429 £6.99 The book opens with Evie enjoying the best part of the day – story time with Dad. Evie is worrying about moving from nursery to big school. Evie and Dad visit Madame Lexi’s Uniform Emporium. When she puts on her uniform she finds a teeny-tiny unicorn called Bobby in…
Hachette Children’s Books ISBN 978444955910 £12.99 More or less exactly what you’d expect from another in the successful and popular series of Oi Frog and Oi Dog books. This is another comically and colourfully illustrated book of quirky animals and the rhyming places that bossy frog says they can sit. This time, however, frog is attempting…
Holder Children’s Books ISBN 97814449463-7 £12.99 Like all youngsters, Sophie the sea-otter is curious and from her vantage point floating on top of her mum, she becomes transfixed by the point at which the sea meets the sky: the horizon. Ignoring her mother’s advice that no-one should try to reach it, she slips away while…
Studio Press ISBN 9781787417823 £6.99 It is almost Christmas Eve and suddenly Mr Claus faces a crisis. Elves have decorated Mr Claus’ sleigh with tinsel and the rockets have exploded. There is no way to deliver Christmas presents. Mr Claus tries to find a creature that can help. Polar bears, narwhals, kittiwakes and arctic foxes…
Hodder ISBN 9781444954661 £6.99 This book is great fun. The glittery cover suggests the delights that are within. At last all the Christmas presents have been delivered so Santa and his team of elves can relax and have their Boxing-night party. The North Pole is full of crackers, including one the size of a bus,…
Orchard ISBN 9781408357620 £12.99 A refreshingly different Christmas book from the author of Giraffes Can’t Dance. Father Christmas is feeling old, so he advertises for “someone young and different” to do the job. A young monster applies. Father Christmas trains him, and he starts in the grotto. When the children see he is a monster they…