Old Bear

Author	Peter Sís
ISBN	0374399697

A trip around a city block is like a trip around the world!

Peeking out through a die-cut window on the jacket, Madlenka invites the reader to enter her world. And what a world it is! On the surface, it looks like an ordinary city block, but as we meet Madlenka's neighbors -- the French baker, the...

Author	Martin Waddell
ISBN	0744507960

4.5 STARS Awww, shucks. This is so darn cute! I really enjoyed this gentle tale (that is not without humor) about Little Bear who can't get to sleep because of his fear of the dark, and patient and resourceful Big Bear who helps him through his fears (even though Big Bear has a very exciting part of his book...

Author	Phyllis Krasilovsky
ISBN	0749704977

This by far hasn't been the first time I've read The Cow Who Fell in the Canal, but I recently realised I hadn't added it to Goodreads and so it demanded a reread.

What a lovely children's book! The story of Henrietta and her adventure has always been a personal favourite, and now I get to share it...

Author	Raymond Briggs
ISBN	0679887768

Raymond Briggs, creator of The Snowman, tells a magical Christmas story that will appeal to everyone who wants to believe in Santa Claus. Meet Father Christmas: a very human gift-giver with a tough job to do. You'll find out that he sometimes gets a little grumpy living at the icy North Pole and squeezing...

Author	John Burningham
ISBN	0099200619

This is a cute tale of a puny baby who doesn't like to eat...UNTIL...it's discovered that it (the baby is always referred to as "it" or "the baby," so I guess the gender is left up to the reader. Clever, huh?) LOVES avocados.



Just one avocado a day seems to imbue the tot with Popeye-like...

Author	Elsa Beskow
ISBN	0863154980

Like with the vast majority of Floris Books of Edinburgh's editions that feature so-called translations, that present English language renderings of classical continental Western European children's literature picture books, Elsa Beskow's Peter in Blueberry Land (the original 1901 Swedish...

Author	Rosemary Wells
ISBN	0142300047

Bestselling author Rosemary Wells tells a heartfelt holiday story The Chicago Tribune calls "One of the best."

It's Christmas day and Morris is missing. He was there to open his present--a teddy bear--and to watch his older sisters and brother open their gifts. His siblings went off to play...

Author	Lynley Dodd
ISBN	1582461481

From the creator of Hairy Maclary comes a new series starring a rascally cat named Slinky Malinki. “What was he up to? At night, to be brief, Slinky Malinki turned into a THIEF.” But by morning, Slinky comes to realize that crime doesn’t pay.This story spins off a character first introduced in HAIRY...

Author	Edward Lear
ISBN	0744567947

The Quangle Wangle Quee sat on top of the Crumpetty Tree, but you could not see his face because of his hundred and two feet wide Beaver Hat.

The Quangle Wangle gets visited by an array of imaginary beasts such as a pobble who has not toes and loves to dance on the hat of the Quangle Wangle Quee.

This...

Author	Graham Oakley
ISBN	0333493370

Buying this book is a mix of whimsy and preparedness. I say that I have two other of the authors books that I adored as a child so it was inevitable that I tried his most famous books. Some may say I'm getting clucky and feathering the future eka-Brendon's nest. They may have a point...

I adored both...

Author	Eve Sutton
ISBN	0140502424

Don't mind me, this is for my cat.

So. This book told me that "the cat from France liked to sing and dance".

See? Here.



When I talked to you about this talent you're supposed to share with your fellow French cats -



Oh, yes. You did that. Just FLEE. Because...

Author	Janet Ahlberg
ISBN	0140503013

Janet and Allan Ahlberg's hilarious picture book, Burglar Bill.
Burglar Bill is an entertaining picture book by the iconic British husband and wife picture book team Janet and Allan Ahlberg, creators of Peepo! Perfect as a bedtime story and for children learning to read!

Who's that creeping...

Author	Jill Murphy
ISBN	0333631986

The hour was late and Mr Bear was tired. But he could not sleep - however he tried and wherever he tried.

SNORE, SNORE went Mrs Bear.

TICK-TOCK, TICK-TOCK went the clock.

Would he never get to sleep?

The familiar noises, repetition and beautiful illustrations make...

Author	Pamela Allen
ISBN	0207172854

When reading this to a small group of children, some of them enjoyed this, others thought it just silly and a couple thought it to be on the lame side. So a very mixed reaction.


Those that liked it got a kick out of Mr Archimedes trying to figure out what was happening with the bath water. One child...

Author	Gabrielle Vincent
ISBN	0688008569

All of Gabrielle Vincent's books about Ernest and Celestine are adorable. Celestine is a young mouse, and Ernest is an adult bear, and they are the best of friends. There isn't any backstory as to why Ernest is caring for Celestine as he would his own daughter, but it doesn't really matter why ... what matters...

Author	Shirley Hughes
ISBN	0099256053

We all know and love Alfie right? I do. He's an iconic character, created by the equally iconic Shirley Hughes, and this is one of my favourite titles starring him and his younger sister Annie Rose.

But, before I talk about this, I need to segue slightly. The other day I was discussing comic books...

Author	Nick Butterworth
ISBN	0007169736

Percy the park keeper always feeds the animals in the park where he lives. But one cold winter’s night Percy discovers that his little friends need more than food, and he must think of a way to help them find a warm place to sleep for the night. Percy’s hut is nice and warm, but he discovers that if you...

Author	Antonia Barber
ISBN	1844289109

*LOVE*

"At the far end of England, a land of rocks and moorland stretches itself out into a blue-green sea. ... One of these harbours is so small and the entrance between its great stone breakwaters is so narrow that fishermen called it 'the Mousehole'. The people who lived in the cottages around...

Author	Niki Daly
ISBN	0374437203

Perfectly South African, and perfectly universal. Lively, funny, with a big crisis and a happy resolution, and an author's note that, unfortunately, is half-covered by my library's binding (still, I get the gist, and it is a good one to share with older children).

I honestly tried to talk myself...

Author	Kate Greenaway
ISBN	0873282167

Kate Greenaway (1846-1901) was one of the most popular British book illustrators of the Victorian era. A contemporary of Randolph Caldecott and Walter Crane, she attracted a wide audience in the United States and England, and many of her books were even translated into German and French.

One...

Author	Annette Tison
ISBN	2878812301

This is charming and weird but not as weird as the rest of the series. I like when the rest of the Barba family is in play, doing bizarre semi-human things together with their giant shapechanging bodies.

So, the early picture of Barbapapa growing in the earth as he's watered like a flower and then...

Author	Elina Karjalainen
ISBN	9510082449

Kokonaisen vuoden ui Uppo-Nalle maailman meriä. Se toivoo löytävänsä rauhallisen sataman, jossa on valkeaa hiekkaa ja joku ystävällinen mikä tahansa odottamassa.
Reeta on pieni tyttö valkealla hiekkarannalla. Reetan kotona on Laulava Lintukoira, villi ja menevä otus, mutta...

Author

Mira Lobe

I have read it over 100 times as a child. I grew up with this book. When my children were born I asked my family overseas to buy it and send it. Now, both my children are over the age of 20. Together, we read "Das Kleine Ich Bin Ich" another 100 times.

It is the rhyming that is so catching. It is fun, it is...

Author	Astrid Lindgren
ISBN	9129596009

Oh that Lotta. What a brave and determined little girl. Sure, now she expresses herself by crying and stealing (I'm sure it was justified in her mind that the bike wasn't getting used anyway). But she's just turned five, after all! And it is her birthday, and she does appreciate all her other presents....