Wren and Rook ISBN: 9780399580437 £12.99 Rachel Ignotofsky is a New York Times bestselling author, illustrator, and designer. She has produced a fantastic book that profiles 50 pioneering female artists. The women are from a wide range of times and cultures and work in different mediums. Some are well-known, like Georgia O’Keeffe, Beatrix Potter and…
Stripes Books ISBN: 9781788950848 £6.99 A journey of discovery for both yeti and human; this trial of trust for both is so consistent with certain current global ecological themes. I, (he who is jealous of Ella), would love to ride around the Himalayas charged with taking photographs of wildlife whilst perhaps seeking a yeti, and…
Bloomsbury Children’s Books ISBN: 9781408899298 £6.99 This is the fourth in a fantastic series of books about inspirational women, often pioneers in their field, who have worked tirelessly to protect some precious aspect of the natural environment. Each double-page spread contains biographical and career highlights along with colourful cartoon illustrations, characters with speech bubbles, notes…
Orion ISBN 978151007564 £7.99 Fly has never known a life other than the orphanage and being a chimney sweep’s assistant, but one day she decides to escape by climbing down a chimney. Unfortunately what she discovers seems even worse than her previous life, because she ends up in a room with a rather large tiger.…
Frances Lincoln ISBN 9781786038104 £17.99 There is a great emphasis on learning words as part of the curriculum, and particularly in extending vocabulary, so that there is not a constant use of terms such as ‘lovely’. The publication of the book “The Lost Words” by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris highlighted the way that we…
Firefly Press ISBN 9781912102029 £6.99 Author Catherine O’Flynn, winner of the Costa First Novel Award for “What was Lost”, has bought us her first children’s book with “Lori and Max”. An entertaining, witty novel which introduces us to school girls Lori – a budding detective, and Max – a troubled newcomer with a complicated but…
Wren and Rook ISBN 9781526362414 £6.99 As we hear more and more news of environmental damage and the peril our planet is in and faces in the future, this engaging book is a very timely. Isabel Thomas is a science writer and children’s author who has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People’s Book…
Stripes Publishing ISBN: 9781788951586 £6.99 This is a new title in the excellent Traiblazers series. Albert Einstein is, indeed, “the greatest mind in physics”. The book opens with interesting background detail and information about Galileo, Isaac Newton, relativity and The Moment of Truth. Then we follow Albert’s life from his childhood through to his great…
Piccadilly Press ISBN 9781848128538 £6.99 Cloudburst is the first in a planned series of books by Wilbur Smith using the same family of characters as in some of his adult books. The young star of the story, Jack Courtney, is taken to the Democratic Republic of Congo by his parents, as they are attending an…