Superhero Baby by Patricia Hegarty and Alex Willmore

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 Little Tiger ISBN 9781788815925 £11.99 In 2018 a research project funded by the CLPE and the Arts Council, discovered that only 1% of children’s books featured BAME characters which is a woeful statistic considering in 2017, 32% of schoolchildren in England were of minority ethnic origins. It is therefore refreshing to encounter an everyday picture…

Pug Hug written and illustrated by Zehra Hicks

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Hodder Children’s Books ISBN 9781444949988 £6.99 Pug’s adorable face looks out at us from the cover of this book. He is desperate for a hug. He approaches a variety of different creatures including cat, hamster, rabbit, fish, parrots and crocodile – but none will give him a hug. Pug does not give up and has…

Lenny Makes a Wish written and illustrated by Paula Metcalf

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Oxford University Press ISBN 9780192758866 £6.99 Another book aimed at the EYFS market from Oxford Owls. Lenny the rabbit is out picking spring flowers for his mother when he meets a ‘fish’ swimming all alone in a pond. Being the kindly chap he is, he offers friendship, but of course there is a problem: they…

Belonging Street: Poems and Illustrations by Mandy Coe

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Otter-Barry, ISBN:978191307480-7  £7.99 This is an exuberant anthology with subjects ranging from daily life incidents, concepts of time, the joys of cycling and the greening of cities with riddles, puzzles and contrasting pairs of poems (lake/city or hush a’clock/storm a’clock) along the way. Some poems have a clear rhythm: ‘Tower block, tower block, bridge, bridge,…