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Brilliant festive picture books to create the perfect Christmas!
By Junior on 11/11/2011 10:19:06
Our selection of brand new and classic picture books that celebrate the festive season
The Snowman Sound Book by Raymond Briggs (Puffin, £6.99)So powerful were Briggs’ illustrations and so evocative was the music in the animated film that it is easy to forget that this classic children’s story is told only in pictures. Here, Briggs
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Junior's Top Festive Reads For Babies And Toddlers
By Junior on 10/11/2011 11:38:32
Get into the spirit of the season with these cosy christmas books
That's Not My Snowman by Fiona Watt and Rachel Wells (Usborne, £5.99)A festive take on the excellent “touchy feely” series, each picture in this book has textured details – a soft hat, bumpy buttons – that help little hands to learn how to compare
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Children's author Georgia Byng on her favourite books
By on 22/10/2007 16:05:20
Georgia Byng, author of the incredibly hypnotic Molly Moon's books, admits to being Raymond Briggs' number one fan, as she reveals her five all-time favourite children's books
Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs Puffin, £5.99I was so impressed with this book when I was a child that I actually wrote to Mr Briggs to tell him that I had a brilliant idea for a Father Christmas sequel. He wrote back sending me a
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Junior’s Top Tiny Characters From Literature And Film
By Fiona McKim on 07/12/2011 16:01:47
These diminutive darlings punch well above their weight
Tom ThumbNo larger than his father’s most dexterous digit, Tom Thumb is a character of English folklore who has been involved in a number of size-related accidents. As well as falling into his mother’s Christmas batter and being boiled into a
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The story behind Bottom’s Up!
By Catherine O'Dolan on 10/03/2009 12:17:26
A Junior interview with author Jeanne Willis and illustrator Adam Stower on their brilliant picturebook collaboration
with mirth as I do so because it’s such an amusing subject, even when you’re 49.Junior: What inspired the book? JW: What with all the bad news and all the worthy tomes, I just felt like saying Bottoms to it all. Toddlers are forever being told what to do
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The Top 100 Children's Books
By Junior's discerning readers on 20/04/2010 14:20:18
So here they are! The best books for children of all time, voted by you.
this story, but the power of Briggs’ heart-warming book lies in the fact the story is told using only images. A boy’s snowman comes to life and takes the child on an incredible journey to meet Father Christmas. However, the Snowman can’t last forever
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