Be My Sunflower
From the publisher: A warm and reassuring picture book about finding your courage even when you’d rather play it safe. The children are planting sunflowers at school and Carla gets given a seed called Vernon. All the other children’s seeds …
Ready For Spaghetti
Ready For Spaghetti: Funny Poems for Funny Kids by Michael Rosen – illustrated by Polly Dunbar. Michael Rosen and Polly Dunbar – two of the best-loved talents in our industry – have joined forces for the first time. Michael’s rhymes …
Puddling
Clouds gather, skies darken, rain drops, puddles appear… Let’s go puddling! An interactive story about the joy of muddy puddles, by Emma Perry. Illustrated by Claire Alexander – whose watercolour artwork recreates splashing puddles and raindrops. Claire Alexander is author …
A Little Bit of Respect
A Little Bit of Respect is the third Ploofers book by Claire Alexander. From the publisher: A Little Bit of Respect picks up right where A Little Bit of Courage left off. With a subtle yet powerful message about the …
You Can’t Let an Elephant Drive a Racing Car
You Can’t Let an Elephant Drive a Racing Car – the fifth anarchic animal story by author Patricia Cleveland-Peck and illustrator David Tazzyman. Have you ever seen a weightlifting wombat, or a figure-skating alligator? How about a pole-vaulting hippo, or …
Planet Football
Planet Football by Michelle Robinson – illustrated by Chris Mould. Published by Walker Books, 2022. From Walker Books: Jackson LOVES football. He plays it. He watches it. He eats it. He sleeps it! Jackson lives and breathes football – he …
Tyger
Tyger, author SF Said‘s much anticipated fourth book, came out in October 2022, and was awarded Foyles Children’s Book of the Year 2022. Like previous books Varjak Paw and
Find Out About Animal Tools
Do animals use tools? Well yes, as it turns out. Some sea otters break open shells, there’s a bird that can use drumsticks, some animals even sew. Conservation biologist Martin Jenkins explains in this colourful, gentle introduction for young children. …
Wild Summer
This eagerly awaited sequel to Winter Sleep and Busy Spring, Wild Summer: Life in the Heat is another beautiful picture book about nature. Just like Busy Spring, Wild Summer mixes non-fiction and fiction. The story of the hottest season is …
The Roar
First there was The Hug, and now Tortoise is stuck and cross in The Roar. So it’s tortoise’s turn in the spotlight, in the latest hedgehog & tortoise book by Eoin McLaughlin and Polly Dunbar. In which Tortoise is upended, …