Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781743368800 £6.99 Kind Mr Yilmaz from next door gives Tom a daffodil. But it looks nothing like a daffodil as it is in bulb form, and it’s hard for Tom to believe it could ever become a flower. Tom thinks of more and more imaginative ways of describing the plant as…
Otter-Barry books ISBN 9781910959992 £11.99 Mr and Mrs Tati are happily married, but Mrs Tati is sad because she would like a baby. Mr Tati visits a Baby Shop and is disappointed to find he cannot purchase a baby. Then he sees a man selling baby pigs and buys one for his wife. Mrs Tati is…
Barrington Stoke ISBN 978178125915 £6.99 This book is tremendous fun and draws in the reader from the very start with its eye-catching yellow gatefold cover and shiny title. In Blake’s imitable style the tale is told of George, an extraordinary frog who is noticed dancing on a lily pad by a by now long dead…
Walker Books ISBN 9781406358254 £11.99 The first page of this story left me feeling like there was a lot of information that I had missed, and I was left questioning if I were reading a sequel that would only make sense if I had read what had come before it. A large number of characters…
Words and Pictures ISBN 9781910277393 £11.99 The Snowbear is a simple tale of children’s imagination… and Snow. In much the same way as Max’s room comes alive in Where the Wild Things Are, so too does the Snowbear. The morning after the snow has fallen blanketing the world in white and when Iggy and Martina have finished…
Hodder ISBN 9781444931600 £5.99 How poignant it has been to read this last novel by the late, wonderfully irreverent, Babette Cole. Once again, her feisty, non-stereotypical Princess Smartypants, aided by her stalwart friends are required to solve a problem, this time in the neighbouring Fairy Land. She learns from her own fairy godmother that recently,…
Orchard Books ISBN 9781408347072 £4.99 This is the first in a series of books about characters from a popular TV cartoon show. The Powerpuff Girls, after an error in their production by their father the Professor, have superpowers and use them to fight baddies. In this tale, each is out for herself as they try to…
Little Brown Books for Young Readers (Hachette Children’s Group) ISBN 9781510200920 £7.99 The fourth story featuring Polly and her best friend, Neil the Puffin, is set in the run up to Christmas Day. Polly is fed up waiting for Christmas and for Neil’s egg to hatch and is even more distressed when she visits Father…
Words and Pictures ISBN 9781784937799 Hardback £12.99 Once upon a Jungle is an eye catching, beautifully illustrated introduction to the eco system and food chain of the jungle. Set against a black background the cover and each page feature jewel bright, colour illustrations of jungle creatures and plants. Whilst some leap from each page there are…
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