Waiting for Wolf – Sandra Dieckmann. Essentially a story about coping with death, this story captures a beautiful friendship between fox and wolf, until, sadly one day wolf is no longer around. Fox eventually sees the joy in his memories in what is a very positive, though still emotional ending. It is of course heart wrenching, but the stylish and …
Wild by Emily Hughes. This is brilliant. The striking cover alone of this book is enough to grab your attention! In short, it’s about a feral child, brought up by animals in the wild, who gets taken back to civilisation and expected to readjust. Part Jungle book, part social experiment, it succeeds in tapping into the free spirit in all …
The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield. This has been out a few years now so some of you may know it. It has become a bestseller, an award winner and a classic. It’s also spawned a sequel which I hope to review soon. ‘Heartwarming’, ‘delightful’ and ‘stunning’ are all words used to describe this book and quite rightly …
Kitchen Disco by Clare Foges and Al Murphy. This one’s a bit of fun! The fruit are moving and grooving when the lights go out and it’s time to party! There’s not much more to the story than that, but the characters (the contents of the fruit bowl) and their dance moves are all given a moment of description that …
The Snow Lion by Jim Helmore and Richard Jones. When you have read a lot of children’s books you start picking up on similar themes. This book’s central premise is around a little girl who has had to move into a new house and happens to find a magical friend. It’s a familiar premise but not an unwelcome one. The …
Starbird by Sharon King-Chai. A mythical style tale which which starts of with the Moon King capturing the fabled and only ‘Starbird’ as a gift for his daughter. The Starbid’s signing delights and enchants, however a caged environment is no place for it and the daughter soon let’s the bird fly free. An enraged Moon King sets about to capture …
The Ups and Downs of the Castle Mice by Michael Bond and Emily Sutton. The creator of Paddington has brought another heartwarming tale to us with this, the second in his Castle Mice stories. It’s a rather old fashioned set up in many ways. A family of mice all dressed up in victorian finery reside in a dolls house, which …
Journey by Arron Becker. This book that first came out in 2014 has gone onto claim many accolades and awards as well as spawn two sequel book ‘Quest’ and ‘Return’. Looking through it is quite an extraordinary experience as there are no words for a start, but then there doesn’t need to be any. The stunning illustrations carry the viewer …
The Moonlight Zoo by Maudie Powell-Tuck and Karl James Mountford. In many ways this a simple story of a girl, Eva, looking for her lost cat who finds a magical world under her bed, however it has been so beautifully realised that it is elevated above many other books I have seen. The illustrations are really lovely and draw from …
Imagine by John Lennon and Jean Jullien. This is an Amnesty International book that takes the lyrics from John Lennon’s classic song (you know them) and puts some simple illustrations to them to create this children’s picture book. The words of course are highly symbolic and conjure up ones own imagery. Here they have been paired up with a hero …
