Head north is usually my mantra but I have a sneaking fascination for Antarctica which is, of course, the polar opposite. So I couldn't pass…
Continue reading → Antarctica: the melting continent by Karen Romano Young and Angela Hsieh
In my early thirties, having read much about the Impressionists and seen as many of their paintings as I could, I finally made it to…
Continue reading → Ella in the Garden of Giverny by Daniel Fehr and Monika Vaicenaviciene
Barrington Stoke's Little Gems books are well named. They are genuinely lovely books to read, to own and to delight in. The stories are always…
Continue reading → Elisabeth and the Box of Colours by Katherine Woodfine and Rebecca Cobb
Elys Dolan's books are always a joy and this one about the shenanigans elected leaders get up to is no less clever and amusing. As…
Continue reading → Mayor Bunny’s Chocolate Town by Elys Dolan
It must be a thankless task trying to select the people to include in a book like this so thank you to the team at…
Continue reading → Great Britons by Imogen Russell Williams and Sara Mulvanny
The Northern Lights have been frequent visitors, especially recently, to my former home of Lossiemouth on the southern side of the Moray Firth. More dramatically,…
Continue reading → The Lights that Dance in the Night by Yuval Zommer
Before I even saw it, I knew this would be my kind of book. And it is. It's full of maps and plans and stories…
I've always wanted to know why. It's why I became a librarian, in fact. My original plan was to become a reference librarian. During my…
The Hideaway is a work of art. I rarely get precious or over-excited about books as objects. I buy and collect them for their contents.…
I wish What On Earth Books had been around when I was a child. They publish the sort of books I'd have loved. Fortunately I've…
Continue reading → Amazing Rivers by Julie Vosburgh Agnone and Kerry Hyndman
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