The Baddies by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
The Baddies are mean and the baddies are scary and the baddies just love to be bad. When a little girl moves into a cottage, the Baddies – a troll, a witch and a ghost – decide to give her a fright....
View ArticleBlog Tour: Faber Book of Bedtime Stories – spotlight on Fairygodmothers Don’t...
Q&A with Ayesha Braganza Tell us about your storyMy story is called Fairy Godmothers Don’t Exist. It is a riotous tale with wands, wishes and footballs. It is all about Naz and his hopeless Fairy...
View ArticleReview: We Disagree About This Tree by Ross Collins
‘Now just relax and you will see how Christmassy a tree can be with decoration left to me.’ Polar Bear and Mouse have got a tree. They are the best of friends – and what could possibly go wrong when...
View ArticleThe Magic of the Ballet by Vivian French and Lauren O’Hara
Join in the movement and magic of the ballet with this collection of seven classical stories. This was clearly written with children in mind and it includes family favourites such as The Nutcracker,...
View ArticleBlue by Sarah Christou
Blue is a secret. He’s the monster that the child in the story feels and sees. Blue makes the child worry about everything and hold back from joining in with friends. Then, one day, the child tells a...
View ArticleBlog Tour: Cara Matheson, creator of Finding Floss, on how her Cockapoo...
The best writing buddy? My dog! I was never a dog person…or a cat person, or any type of pet person at all. I never wavered when my children begged and pleaded for a dog. The answer was always a firm...
View ArticleThe Princess And The (Greedy) Pea by Leigh Hodgkinson
This is the story of a greedy pea who swallowed a sprout. And Slurped up some soup. And gobbled a cake … and so the text begins, in the style of There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, with the pea...
View ArticlePercy The Post-Penguin by Genevieve Aspinall
Percy the penguin has a problem. He runs a post office in the South Pole, but nobody knows it is there. Percy never has any post to deliver. He sets out to change this, and, with determination and...
View ArticleHow Does Santa Go Down The Chimney? by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
How does Santa get down the chimney? Just how does he do it? Maybe he tightens his belt or gets kicked down by his reindeer. And what if there is no chimney at all? This book speculates over the...
View ArticleBunnies In A Sleigh by Philip Ardagh and Ben Mantle
It is Christmas Eve and all is going well in Santa’s North Pole workshop. All is going well, that is, until some mischievous little bunnies fill the Elves with candy canes that make their tummies so...
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