The ear by Piret Raud
First published in Estonian as Kõrv, 2019 This is such an odd little book. It tells the tale of an ear who wakes one day to find that their head is...
10 April 2019
Hortense and the shadow by Natalia O'Hara
This is a really beautifully illustrated book and a girl named Hortense. She doesn’t like her shadow, it is always following her around, so one day she gets rid of it....
29 May 2018
My worst book ever by Allan Ahlberg
A really entertaining book that explains all the work that goes into creating a picture book, and all things that went wrong when Ahlberg tried to create his book about crocodiles...
23 March 2018
Boo Who? by Ben Clanton
It can be hard to make new friends, especially when you are different that the other children. And in this case the new kid in the group is a ghost who...
4 January 2018
Triangle by Mac Barnett
One of the great things about working in a library is that you come across books that you usually would have no reason to really look at. Like children’s books, especially...
13 October 2017
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen
illustrated by Quentin Blake This book opens with a picture of the author, smiling. The words tell a different story. They tell us that this is a picture of Michael Rosen...
26 January 2014
Dragon loves Penguin by Debi Gliori
The gret thing about working in a library is getting to flick through so many books that I might otherwise never even glance at. Children’s picture books tick those boxes. It...
10 January 2014
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