Deep in their cave kingdom live the snack dragons, fearsome beasts who survive on a diet of princesses. At least, most of them do. Rory…
Continue reading → Rory and the Snack Dragons by Louisa MacDougall and Giulia Cregut
As the title suggests, Kevin is an orange. He is round and orangey; in fact he is one of the orangiest oranges ever. But he's…
Continue reading → Kevin the Orange by Alan Windram and Olla Meyzinger
Go north! has long been my motto. Preferably by boat, but I'll take Uncle Pete's plane. And that's exactly what our intrepid explorer does in…
Continue reading → Uncle Pete and the Polar Bear Rescue by David C Flanagan
You remember One Button Benny? He's the robot with... erm...just one button. But, as you probably also remember, it's an extremely useful button to be…
Scotty, a little black dog, was blown onto the Isle of Mull in the midst of a ferocious storm, the only member of a little…
Continue reading → Scotty Plants a Seed by Conn Iggulden and Lizzy Duncan
As far as Ben is concerned, grizzly bears are the best thing in the whole world. He's disappointed when his parents don't give him one…
Continue reading → Grizzly Ben by Alan Dapre and Alex Ayliffe
Poor little Henny is stuck. Unlike her fluffy friends, she's still mostly in her shell. Her wee wings and tiny hands are free but the…
Loss is hard. It doesn't matter what you lose or how old you are, it's tough. Corrina Campbell, in The Boy who Rescued a Rainbow,…
Continue reading → The Boy who Rescued a Rainbow by Corrina Campbell
What first struck me about this warm and appealing picture book was the use of colour. The way Augusta Kirkwood melds and blends and merges…
Continue reading → Happy Sad by Pippa Goodhart and Augusta Kirkwood
You might remember that we left Uncle Pete planeless at the end of his last adventure. With the help of TM (Tiny Mouse, if you…
Continue reading → Uncle Pete and the Forest of Lost Things by David C Flanagan and Will Hughes
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