“Are you ready to Explore Small Worlds-even the smallest area of the natural world can be home to a huge variety of life?” This is a gloriously illustrated, big picture book which will allow children to learn about a variety of small habitats that exist in the natural world. Eight different small worlds with rocks,…
The author writes, “Nature is like a magical picture that changes the seasons”. This book helps readers discover of the magic of nature and how it affects seasons in six distinct and wonderful environments around our planet. Beautifully written, with wonderful illustrations, this is the perfect gift for young nature lovers aged 5+. Each double…
Hubble bubble, this cat’s trouble… Who doesn’t love a bedtime story that rhymes? Midnight Magic by Michelle Harrison and illustrated by Elissa Elwick is a wonderful rhyming book with chapters. It bridges the read aloud rhyming stories available for younger children with chapter books enjoyed by first readers. Midnight the Magic kitten is the star of…
In shades of blue, green and white, we follow the Antarctic seasons through the life of a newly calved iceberg. This seemingly barren landscape provides food for many creatures, from the tiniest krill to the largest humpback whales, to penguins, terns and shearwaters, all following the sun on migratory journeys to the frozen desert at…
Is this really a book about a cat getting lost or is it telling us we spend too much time looking at screens of various kinds? Things start off well, with cat’s loving owners giving him much of their time – until the screens take over. Cat begins to think he is invisible! So he…
In Tiger Walk we are given the perfect example of how great art can provide stepping off points for children’s creativity and imagination. After seeing Rousseau’s well known Surprised! painting of a tiger in a tropical storm, Tom is inspired to make his own tiger drawing, which that night comes to life and takes him…
This is a versatile book for young readers (4+) and has information pages at the end of the story of the life cycle of red eyed frogs of the Costa Rica Rainforest. It can be used for both geography, nature studies and for number skills. This beautifully illustrated book starts with ten sticky frog eggs…
This is the first UK publication for this picture book originally published in 2011. This is, in my opinion, a simple but lovely picture book. It takes a fairly absurd situation, a boy buying a rhinoceros as a pet, and makes it quite normal. The pictures begin to tell the story before the text begins,…
This is a most magical picture book that will have young children wanting a treehouse in their gardens. Carter Higgins and Emily Hughes have shown why treehouses are in children’s dreams and the whole book is full of fun and adventure. Imagine a home in a large tree and awe and wonder will capture the…