Inspiring Young Readers
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The Elephant Wish posted on 13 Nov 2016
I’m an absolute sucker for big, bold children’s books where the author and the illustrator are gleefully in cahoots
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A Apple Pie posted on 03 Nov 2016
Books introducing young children to the alphabet are some of the most common you will find in any selection of books for younger readers
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I Will Make Miracles posted on 26 Oct 2016
This is a big, imposing book produced in an impressive landscape format with colours that sock you in the eye
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The Snowflake Mistake posted on 22 Oct 2016
I rather like picture books that successfully blend fantasy with reality...
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My Big Book Of Pictures : Mrs Strang’s Play Books posted on 09 Oct 2016
The majority of us are used to buying board books for very young children ...
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What Is A Child posted on 23 Sep 2016
Last year we featured Alemagna’s wonderful A Lion In Paris on our site and so we just had to showcase this one too.
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It's A Book posted on 07 Sep 2016
There really is nothing more satisfying than a beautiful picture book that works with an idea that’s so simple it’s positively sublime.
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The Lines on Nana's Face posted on 02 Sep 2016
It was easy to miss the cover of this one with its soft pastel colours ...
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Baker Cat posted on 22 Aug 2016
For many years I only knew Posy Simmonds as a cartoonist in The Guardian where she gently – and sometimes not so gently – satirised....
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The Magic of Coal by Peggy. M. Hart : A Puffin Picture Book posted on 19 Aug 2016
Soon after Allen Lane had established Penguin paperback books as a viable concern, Noel Carrington, who had been an editor at the Oxford University Press,