Chicken House Books ISBN 9781911077183 £6.99 I loved this book. It tells the tale of orphan Lemonade Witt who is sent to live with her out of time grandfather in a remote part of the US where on arrival she meets a boy who genuinely not only believes in but searches for Bigfoot… We are…
BookLife ISBN 9781786371713 £12.99 This book is part of a series called ‘Journey through the human body’ and is published by an international educational publisher called BookLife, based in the UK. Each of the titles focuses on a specific system within the body and explains its purpose and function in fairly straightforward language. The text…
Quarto ISBN 9781633223967 £9.99 This fascinating book is fun to read and provides weird facts about the human body. Each topic has a double page. The left side is a colourful, bold, humorous image and the right side has the text in two short paragraphs. Did you know that each foot can produce a cup…
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…
Otter-Barry books ISBN 9781910959992 £11.99 Mr and Mrs Tati are happily married, but Mrs Tati is sad because she would like a baby. Mr Tati visits a Baby Shop and is disappointed to find he cannot purchase a baby. Then he sees a man selling baby pigs and buys one for his wife. Mrs Tati is…
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…