By Fiona Lumbers. Anybody who has been crabbing with their children will like this book. It’s also an appropriate summer read if your soon going to be heading to a British shore with you bucket and line. The story starts on the beach where Clem meets Crab. Crab ends up coming home with Clem after being entangled in some plastic …
By Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. A slightly different book to the usual Donaldson/Scheffler format. This is great for reading to children as it allows for lots of different character voices to be created. Light hearted and fun, so you can’t really go wrong here. There’s also a great audio recording of this available featuring Imelda Staunton and Steven Pacey …
By Lizzy Stewart. This is one for the dads to read to their kids as both dad and daughter go off on a treasure hunting adventure. Dad is slightly stereotyped if I’m honest, but the story is about coming together and realising that life is richer when the journey is shared. The illustrations are very engaging with some nice feature …
By Gemma Koomen. This is a beautiful book, currently in hardback with a lovely matte finish. It is also the authors first book and she should be rightly proud of her achievement. The story concerns ‘tree keepers’, little folk who live a tree essentially and a young girl who befriends a starling. There are wider themes of friendship and belonging …
By Gemma Merino. A lovely tale about a small crocodile who doesn’t quite fit in with the other crocodiles, which turns out to be a fun take on the ugly duckling story. Of course it all works well in the end with a very clever ‘transformation’. This is quite a short story that you will get through quite quickly, however …