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
There's always one As befits the story of an adventurous bat, Scaredy Bat turns popular convention on its head. Day is dawning in the Dark,…
Continue reading → Scaredy Bat by Jonathan Meres and Anders Frang
It's fairly well known by now that I love all things to do with the sea. You might think that this makes me undiscriminating when…
Continue reading → Look What I Found at the Seaside by Moira Butterfield and Jesus Verona
Cards on the table right from the beginning: I don't like gulls. Living in Lossiemouth, I found them at best a nuisance and sometimes downright…
Continue reading → Stella and the Seagull by Georgina Stevens and Izzy Burton
Pinkie isn't her real name but she's always been called that because she's always been the smallest in the family. And that's how she likes…
Continue reading → Pinkie and Boo by Chae Strathie and Francis Martin
From paw print endpaper to paw print endpaper Ten Little Dogs is a delight. Countdown books are not new of course but they are a…
Linda Newbery's writing career to date begins and ends with animal rights. In between is a diverse selection of topics, themes and genres for a…
Two fun picture books today, one featuring a polar bear and the other a penguin. Both are the work of author/illustrators. Engrossed in the big,…
I adore this sequence of books - as I know I have said before. They're clever and witty and engaging in word and picture. However,…
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…
Continue reading → One Button Benny and the Gigantic Catastrophe by Alan Windram
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