Seaside Sing-Along
Nosy Crow is one of my favourite publishers. I love their production values as well as the books themselves. This lovely little board book makes…
One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe by Alan Windram
Benny, a cute and friendly robot, has one button that is to be pressed only in the event of an emergency. We've met Benny before…
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My Lockdown Books: Sixty
Two reviews for one today. I've added these books to my picture book collection but they're not simple and they can be enjoyed by fluent…
My Lockdown Books: Fifty Nine
In 1914, a year of significant anniversaries, Flying Eye Books chose to mark a less heralded one in Shackleton’s Journey. This beautiful book, written and…
What On Earth Books
What On Earth Books are new to me but Laura Smythe who works as part of the publicity team is not and she sent me…
My Lockdown Books: Forty Five
Every so often, but not often enough, a book comes across my desk that makes me laugh and laugh. Cue: Weasels by Elys Dolan and…
My Lockdown Books: Ten
I adore the Ottoline books, both as items and for the content. This one is my favourite, though, because it has Norway and the sea…
My Lockdown Books: Seven
The first books I seriously set about collecting were the Chalet School books by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. I acquired the first one (actually the seventeenth…
Kate Greenaway Medal
Alongside the Carnegie Medal sits its sister prize the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. The nominations list for it has also been published today. The nominating…
8th December
The Distance Enchanted is the only book by Mary Gervaise I have read and I understand that it is atypical of her output. I think…
