Friday, 29 October 2010
Who's driving?
Labels:
Gecko Press,
Leo Timmers,
Who's driving
Who's driving?
Written and Illustrated by Leo Timmers
Amazon Link: £5.39
Published by Gecko Press
Bold and colourful cover art can instantly sell a book to you and this is definitely one of the first staple lessons any would-be children's book author or illustrator should have drummed...
Noddy: A Very Special Birthday
Noddy in Toyland - A Very Special Birthday
Allegedly written by Enid Blyton
Amazon Link: £3.99
Published by Harper Collins Children's Books
Oh dear. Charlotte spotted this book amongst the others at the library, and try as I might to dissuade her from taking it out, we ended...
Hairy Maclary, SIT!
Labels:
Hairy Maclary,
Lynley Dodd,
Puffin Childrens Books,
SIT
Hairy Maclary, SIT!
Written and Illustrated by Lynley Dodd
Amazon Link: £4.49
Published by Puffin Children's Books
Not really a dog person but after several recommendations to read the Hairy Maclary books, we thought we'd pick one up from our local library. Hairy Maclary, SIT is the...
Oops! Says Olly Bear
Oops! Says Olly Bear
Written and Illustrated by Tony Kenyon
Amazon Link: £0.01
Published by Orion Children's Books
Any parents with restless toddlers will instantly identify with this little tale of a little bear who won't stay put when put to bed.
Olly the Bear can't sleep, wants...
Thursday, 28 October 2010
Lily takes a walk
Labels:
Happy Cat Books,
Lily Takes a Walk,
Satoshi Kitamura
Lily Takes a Walk
Written and Illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura
Amazon Link: £3.35
Published by Happy Cat Books
An ordinary day, an ordinary girl, an ordinary walk with her ordinary dog. Or at least that's how it seems in Satoshi Kitamura's simple but engaging book. The devil is in...
The Runaway Dinner
Labels:
Allan Ahlberg,
Bruce Ingman,
The Runaway Dinner,
Walker Books
The Runaway Dinner
Written by Allan Ahlberg
Illustrated by Bruce Ingman
Amazon Link: £4.11
Published by Walker Books
An absolutely bonkers, crazy and chaotic tale (which is actually true, by the way, well sort of). Allan Ahlberg's tale tells of a young boy named Banjo Cannon who spends...
Friday, 22 October 2010
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
Written and Illustrated by Melanie Watt
Amazon Link: £5.24
Published by Catnip / Happy Cat Books
Scaredy Squirrel offers another self-help guide for nervous types - this time he deals with the trials and tribulations of making a new friend.
Spotting...
The Bear under the Stairs
The Bear under the Stairs
Written and Illustrated by Helen Cooper
Amazon Link: £4.56
Published by Picture Corgi
Hmmmmm! Not sure what to make of this book. On the one hand it has a life lesson about not being scared of the dark contained within its pages. On the other hand it's...
Mr Pod and Mr Piccalilli
Mr Pod and Mr Piccalilli
Written by Penny Dolan
Illustrated by Nick Sharratt
Amazon Link: £5.39
Published by Walker Books
Mr Pod has a cat named Tod. Mr Piccalilli has a cat named Millie. What happens when these cats go missing one day?
A rather touching little story of two lonely...
If Mum and Me were Mermaids
If Mum and Me were Mermaids
Written by Pauline Stewart
Illustrated by Miriam Latimer
Amazon Link: £4.49
Published by Hodder Children's Books
Surely at one time or another, every little girl dreams of being a mermaid, and every little girl certainly would love to be a mermaid with their...
Monday, 18 October 2010
Smile! (starring Sunny McCloud)
Labels:
Leigh Hodgkinson,
Orchard Press,
Smile,
Sunny McCloud
Smile! (Starring Sunny McCloud)
Written and Illustrated by Leigh Hodgkinson
Amazon Link: £4.99
Published by Orchard Press
Sunny McCloud is normally happy go lucky, yep that's her in a nutshell. But something awful has happened. Sunny has lost her smile.
This super-cute book...
The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed
The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed
Written and Illustrated by Helen Cooper
Amazon Link: £4.49
Published by Corgi Children's Books
Sometimes, a book's artwork jumps out at you from the cover - enough to grab your attention and make you want to investigate further. The Baby Who Wouldn't...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Scaredy Squirrel
Labels:
Happy Cat Books,
Melanie Watt,
Scaredy Squirrel
Scaredy Squirrel
Written and Illustrated by Melanie Watt
Amazon Link: £4.59
Published by Happy Cat Books
He's lean, he's keen, he's absolutely petrified of everything outside the tree where he lives. That's Scaredy Squirrel. The book plays out like a survival manual for...
Willy and Hugh
Willy and Hugh
Written and Illustrated by Anthony Browne
Amazon Link: £1.50
Published by Red Fox Children's Books
Anthony Brown's slightly neurotic but ultimately laid back Chimpanzee hero Willy is a real oddity. He's a personable little chap, he dresses nattily and always polishes...
That Rabbit Belongs To Emily Brown by Cressida Cowell and Neal Layton (Hodder Children's Books)
Labels:
Cressida Cowell,
Neal Layton,
Orchard Books,
Stanley the Rabbit,
This Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown
This Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown
Written by Cressida Cowell
Illustrated by Neal Layton
Amazon Link: £3.99
Published by Orchard Press
Emily Brown, space exploring hero, seafaring adventurer and schoolgirl. After enjoying "Emily Brown and the Thing" but being gently told off by...
Friday, 8 October 2010
Shark in the Park!
Labels:
David Fickling Books,
Nick Sharratt,
Park,
Shark,
Shark in the Park
Shark in the Park!
Written and Illustrated by Nick Sharratt
Amazon Link: £3.69
Published by David Fickling Books
We'd had this book out from the library before, long before I'd started this book blog so when we saw it again we thought we'd give it another read through. By now if you've...
What Pet to Get?
Labels:
Emma Dodd,
Templar Publishing,
What Pet to Get?
What Pet to Get?
Written and Illustrated by Emma Dodd
Amazon Link: £4.49
Published by Templar Publishing
At one point or another, every parent must dread the words "I want a pet!" coming from their child's mouth. I'm absolutely convinced that when the time comes for us,...
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Bear Hunt
Bear Hunt
Written and Illustrated by Anthony Browne
Amazon Link: £4.99
Published by Puffin Children's Books
More bears but this one's not a menacing picnic-stealing bear, he's a very clever and artistic bear with a magic pencil who can draw himself out of trouble at the drop of a...
Winnie's Flying Carpet
Winnie's Flying Carpet
Written by Valerie Thomas
Illustrated by Korky Paul
Amazon Link: £9.89 (hardback)
Published by Oxford University Press
Just when we think we've read all of the Winnie Witch books, another one crops up at our local library and we can't resist picking...
It's the Bear!
Labels:
It's the Bear,
Jez Alborough,
Walker Books
It's the Bear!
Written and Illustrated by Jez Alborough
Amazon Link: £1.79
Published by Walker Books
I'm never quite sure whether this book is attempting to be slightly scary, or whether it's just trying to show that parents who don't listen to or pay attention to their kids could...
Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions
Professor Puffendorf's Secret Potions
Written by Robin Tzannes
Illustrated by Korky Paul
Amazon Link: £4.49
Published by Oxford University Press
Charlotte has always wondered who the mysterious "Doctor Lady" was when she previously had cameo appearances in most of the Winnie Witch...
Emily Brown and the Thing
Emily Brown and the Thing
Written by Cressida Cowell
Illustrated by Neal Layton
Amazon Link: £4.09
Published by Orchard Books
Emily Brown and her rabbit Stanley can't get to sleep (I know the feeling, I've had insomnia all week). The root cause of their sleepless nights...
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Our local library
Labels:
Abingdon Library,
Malthouse,
Oxfordshire
Our local Library (the Malthouse Library in Abingdon, Oxfordshire) has been a favourite haunt of ours for a few years now, even before Charlotte was born. Spread across two floors, the majority of the ground floor is taken up by a massive children's section going from baby books right...
What Do People Do All Day?
What do people do all day?
Written and Illustrated by Richard Scarry
Amazon Link: £4.19
Published by Random House
Normally "What do you do all day?" is the sort of thing your boss will ask you, normally when you've got a teetering in-tray and have been trying to beat an...
A Day at the Airport
A Day at the Airport
Written and Illustrated by Richard Scarry
Amazon Link: £2.36
Published by Random House
Finding an old Richard Scarry book at the in-laws recently, I remembered how I got a huge "Busytown" book for christmas when I was a kid, and how that book was read, and pawed...
Monday, 4 October 2010
The Gruffalo's Child
The Gruffalo's Child
Written by Julia Donaldson
Illustrated by Axel Scheffler
Amazon Link: £3.00
Published by MacMillan Children's Books
Writing a sequel to one of the most well received and best loved modern classic children's books must've been a daunting task. I half expected "The...
Friday, 1 October 2010
Feed me Back
This blog was really started for fun, for a bit of a chronicle of the books I read with my daughter but now others are having a look at it, I thought it would be a good idea to ask what I do write and what I do wrong...
I rather haphazardly put something together in Blogger and keep...
Willy the Champ
Willy the Champ
Written and Illustrated by Anthony Browne
Amazon Link: £4.49
Published by Walker Books
My wife refuses to read these books as they're written, swiftly changing the slightly schoolboy-tittersome "Willy" for Wilemina. My brother took one look at the swimming pool scene...
Mog in the Fog
Labels:
Helen Nicoll,
Jan Pienkowski,
Meg and Mog,
Mog in the Fog,
Panda Bear what do you see? Puffin Books
Mog in the Fog
Written by Helen Nicoll
Illustrated by Jan Peinkowski
Amazon Link: £5.39
Published by Puffin Children's Books
I kept mistyping this one as "Mog in the Dog" which might've made for a mildly more entertaining read than "Mog in the Fog". I am at the mercy of Charlotte who...
I want a sister!
I Want a Sister
Written and Illustrated by Tony Ross
Amazon Link: £4.49
Published by HarperCollins Children's Books
More Little Princess antics and a story that'll have more than a ring of familiarity about it for any of you who have toddlers and are expecting a new baby. The Little...
Fox's Socks
Labels:
Axel Scheffler,
Fox's Socks,
Julia Donaldson,
Macmillan Children's Books,
Tales from Acorn Wood
Fox's Socks
Written by Julia Donaldson
Illustrated by Axel Scheffler
Amazon Link: £3.59
Published by Macmillan Children's Books
The superb writing / illustration team of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler can do no wrong. Bringing us the deliciously dark tales of the Gruffalo, they've...
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