How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

Author	Shaun Tan
ISBN	0968876838

When a child awakens with dark leaves drifting into her bedroom, she feels that 'sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to, and things go from bad to worse.'

Feelings too complex for words are rendered into an imaginary landscape where the child wanders, oblivious to the glimmer...

Author	David Wiesner
ISBN	0618194576

A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam--anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted...

Author	Martin Waddell
ISBN	0744592704

4 Cuteness ★'s


Awe, I love owls! So when I saw this book at the store I just had to buy it for my little niece just so I could read it to her lol :) This book is pretty simple with some repetition, it uses great rhyming patterns and it's poetic. It is easy to understand and has real-life situations...

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Janet Ahlberg

'Each Peach Pear Plum' - the classic picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg - is a timeless picture book classic from the bestselling illustrator/author team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo!. Each beautifully illustrated page encourages young children to interact with the picture to...

Author	William Grill
ISBN	1909263109

Winner of the 2015 Kate Greenaway Medal
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2014
Best Children’s Book of 2014, Wall Street Journal
Best Children’s Book of 2014, Brain Pickings
A 2015 USBBY Outstanding International Book

Young, up-and-coming illustrator William...

Author	Ted Hughes
ISBN	0571226124

When you write a review of a kid's book, there really should be a way to give it two different star ratings. One for you, and one for the kids you've read it to.

For me, this book might be a three star book. Four if I was feeling generous. I find it wordy and ponderous. Overwrought. The plot is pretty...

Author	Malorie Blackman
ISBN	0440866154

Despite his Mum's insistence, Sam doesn't want to be friends with Davey, he thinks Davey's a first class, grade A, top of the dung heap moron. But one day Davey saves Sam's life and a bond is formed between them. Sam is still embarrassed to be seen with Davey, but little by little he has to admit, when it's...

Author	David Almond
ISBN	0440229081

Well, that was excellent.

This book is a brief mouthful of myth and hope and atmosphere. Reasons to read it?

1. There's a magical, irritable man in the narrator's garage. He likes Chinese take out and dead mice.

2. There is a wise and judgmental girl-neighbor who becomes the...

Author	Alexis Deacon
ISBN	0374306672

The story of an alienated alien

Beegu's spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to understand her; windblown leaves won't stay still...

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Shirley Hughes

I had almost forgotten just how good this is. Shirley Hughes manages to tread that fine line between emotionally affecting and twee without ever falling into the cutesy pie.
The story of how Dave loses his beloved Dogger was always a favourite, especially with daughter number one, who had her own...

Author	Marcia Williams
ISBN	0763635324

Marcia Williams captures the Great War through a child’s eyes with a fascinating fictional scrapbook including real mementos of the day.

Meet ten-year-old Archie, his family, and best friend in a scrapbook Archie has made himself, full of comic strips and plenty of other memorabilia....

Author	Oliver Jeffers
ISBN	0399254528

A picture book about grief. A little girl likes to read with her grandfather as he sits in his rocking chair, and then one day she faces an empty chair. Yes, it's that subtle, the chair is just empty, no explanation, really. Her grandpa is gone, and since she feels like she can't risk too much strain on her...

Author	Max Velthuijs
ISBN	9025846742

Wanneer tijdens een overstroming al het voedsel op is, gaat Kikker er op uit om hulp te halen. Prentenboek met eenvoudige illustraties in kleur. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.

Het regent buiten en Kikker danst van plezier. Hij houdt van regen. Dit plezier vergaat hem snel wanneer de rivier overstroomt....

Author	Nicola Davies
ISBN	0763666335

An allegorical tale of hope takes on new life in this stirring, gorgeously illustrated story.

On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman’s bag. But the frail old woman, holding on with the strength of heroes, says the thief can’t have it without giving...

Author	Anthony Browne
ISBN	0744552397

The illustrations are brilliant, and could easily tell most, if not all, of the story. There are so many different opportunities for this book. Be it grammatical features or picture analysis. It bridges the world of reality with that of fairy tales which in itself creates lots of writing opportunities....

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John Burningham

I can very well envision my 4-year-old self throwing this book to a corner of the room, screaming "what is this shit," and logging in to GoodReads to write a one-star review that goes "I can very well envision my 24-year-old self throwing this book to a corner of the room, screaming "what is this shit," and...

Author	Ann Cameron
ISBN	0754063224

What a fun little book! I really enjoyed reading through the stories . The descriptive language was a joy to imagine. I loved the lines ‘when he laughed , the sun laughs in the window pane’ and ‘it will taste like a night on the sea.’ The stories were great fun and I really got the sense of being inside...

Author	Anne Fine
ISBN	0374317798

The hilarious confessions of a ferocious feline

Poor Ellie is horrified when her cat, Tuffy, drags a dead bird into the house. Then a mouse. Before long, another apparent victim arrives though the cat-door. Can softhearted Ellie get her beloved pet to change his wild, wild ways before he ends...