Bonnier Books/Templar Publishing ISBN 9781783708000 £12.99 Ludwig the Sea Dog takes you on an adventure through different stories, meeting some familiar characters and seeing how Ludwig overcomes a barrier to save a friend. The 3D glasses that come with this book ensure that any child is engaged throughout although can make you feel a little dizzy…
Tiger Press ISBN 9781848696792 £12.99 Wilfred and Olbert’s Totally Wild Chase is exactly what it says it will be. Two friends race to find a rare butterfly in order to win the Nature Discover Prize but learn a valuable lesson along the way. The first half of the book shows the two friends competing with each…
words and pictures ISBN 9781910277201 £11.99 It is the 1950s and there are problems in the Post Office. There are holes in mail sacks, letters have been ripped to pieces and stamps have been licked through to the glue. Mice are to blame so the postmaster employs Tibs, son of Toodle, son of Tiddles, son…
Orchard Books ISBN 9781408350843 £4.99 Daisy Meadows is the pseudonym for the four authors of the very successful Rainbow Magic book series. Designed for early readers just beginning their first chapter books, they have hit upon a very clever formula. Fairies and magic have a universal appeal for little girls, but in these tales they feature alongside Rachel and…
Allen & Unwin ISBN 9781743368800 £6.99 Kind Mr Yilmaz from next door gives Tom a daffodil. But it looks nothing like a daffodil as it is in bulb form, and it’s hard for Tom to believe it could ever become a flower. Tom thinks of more and more imaginative ways of describing the plant as…
Barrington Stoke ISBN 978178125915 £6.99 This book is tremendous fun and draws in the reader from the very start with its eye-catching yellow gatefold cover and shiny title. In Blake’s imitable style the tale is told of George, an extraordinary frog who is noticed dancing on a lily pad by a by now long dead…
Walker Books ISBN 9781406358254 £11.99 The first page of this story left me feeling like there was a lot of information that I had missed, and I was left questioning if I were reading a sequel that would only make sense if I had read what had come before it. A large number of characters…
Words and Pictures ISBN 9781910277393 £11.99 The Snowbear is a simple tale of children’s imagination… and Snow. In much the same way as Max’s room comes alive in Where the Wild Things Are, so too does the Snowbear. The morning after the snow has fallen blanketing the world in white and when Iggy and Martina have finished…
Hodder ISBN 9781444931600 £5.99 How poignant it has been to read this last novel by the late, wonderfully irreverent, Babette Cole. Once again, her feisty, non-stereotypical Princess Smartypants, aided by her stalwart friends are required to solve a problem, this time in the neighbouring Fairy Land. She learns from her own fairy godmother that recently,…