Chalkboard Alphabet, Walter Foster Jr.

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…

Oi Duck-Billed Platypus! Kes Gray Illustrated by Jim Field

Hodder Children’s Books  ISBN 9781444-937336     £6.99 The Gray/Field partnership have already delighted young readers with Oi Frog!, Oi Dog! and Oi Cat! where animals are given a rhyming item on which to sit, which is much funnier than would first appear.  This new title immediately alerts us to something different – Duck-Billed Platypus?  Whatever rhymes with that?  Or indeed…