Orchard ISBN 9781408363348 £5.99 Ruby likes peace, familiarity and routine. She finds it difficult at the end of the school day when children jostle in the corridor. Ruby loves maths, animals and drawing. She has a tendency to say exactly what she thinks which can make relationships awkward. Her favourite place in the world is…
Stripes Publishing ISBN: 9781788952064 £6.99 Agent Zaiba is an exciting detective mystery. Zaiba attends her cousin’s Mehndi party, a pre-wedding celebration in Hindu and Sikh culture when the bride has the red-orange mehndi “stain” applied to her palms, back of hands, and feet. There is a VIP staying in the hotel and Zaiba is determined to find…
Little Tiger Press ISBN 978-1-912756-02-5 £12.99 This book is one of ‘Colours of the World’ series which provides a wonderful introduction to the natural world for children. Wonderfully illustrated, the book explores the forests and animals around the globe and features the smallest trees to the largest jungles, and the tiniest beetles to the biggest bears. The double page spreads clearly…
Big Picture Press an imprint of Bonnier Books UK ISBN: 9781787418547 £12.99 This is a stunning visual journey around 32 of the World’s cities. Very colourful double postcard- like pages allow the reader to discover key landmarks, the architecture and the cultural treasures of 32 cities. The spreads are full of effective images that show what makes up each city and allow the…
Little Tiger ISBN 9781788951937 £5.99 A pony story with a difference. Not only is Daisy struggling with her emotions because her best friend Mara is in hospital with cancer, but she is also being teased and bullied at school by Jack Wilson. The only thing that seems to be able to lighten her life is coming…
Templar Press ISBN 9781787415331 £14.99 This is such an exciting book. We meet current pets – guinea pig, budgerigar, corn snake, cat, goldfish, dog and horse. Dr Dean Lomax is a palaeontologist and Ichthyosaur expert who traces back each pet’s family tree using fossil clues so we see what the pet’s great, great, great, great, GREAT grandparents looked like. There is…
Wren & Rook ISBN 9781526362117 £14.99 The author is a human spaceflight expert and a huge space enthusiast, and this enthusiasm comes through in all these short stories based on actual events. The stories are in chronological order and go from the Sputnik flight to future space trips to Mars. Each episode is just as…
OUP ISBN 9780192775078 £20 This fabulous edition is a suitable tribute to Pippi Longstocking in her 75th anniversary year. Lauren Child’s superb illustrations enhance the text. Astrid Lindgren published more than one hundred books in her lifetime and is still the most popular children’s author in Sweden. Her books have been translated into more than sixty…
Piccadilly Press ISBN 9781848128118 £14.99 Konnie Huq is already well known to older children and adults as a Blue Peter presenter, and more recently to younger fans as the author and illustrator of the Cookie books. She has now turned her hand to writing a reimagined set of fairy tales, with co-author James Kay. Here we have…