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Michael Morpurgo's Favourite Children's Books
By Fiona McKim on 18/11/2011 17:07:45
The award-winning author of War Horse and The Butterfly Lion selects his top five children's reads
The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr (HarperCollins, £5.99)"Judith Kerr's classic story about a tiger who comes calling, sits down to tea and eats absolutely everything in the house and drinks all the water too, is both charming and thought-provoking".Buy The Tiger Who Came T...
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Most Promising New Talent 2011
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 01/06/2011 10:09:32
*Winner*Foxly's Feast by Owen Davey (Templar, £10.99), 2+Read our Q&A with Owen Davey
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Picture Book Of The Year 2011
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 20/05/2011 17:22:18
*Winner*The Gift by Carol Ann Duffy and Rob Ryan (Barefoot Books, £10.99), 3+
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Six new books for babies and toddlers
By Junior on 10/04/2012 14:25:23
Eye-catching picture books to excite little bookworms
Colours by Pantone Abrams Appleseed, £6.99, from birth This new imprint from Abrams is designed to try to bring a more artistic approach to books
for children up to five (and parents with an eye for design). Boardbook pages reveal bright, boldly
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Shortlisted Picture Book Of The Year 2012: Who Ate Aunt Iris?
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/05/2012 13:36:25
How safe is a cuddly chinchilla when her neighbours all have sharp teeth and a mischievous look in their eyes?
their yoga.Turns out that Iris has actually been getting aquainted with her brand new neighbours, a burly family of lions – though she's not sure she should accept their invitation: “We'd very much like to ask you around, and have you all for a meal
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Batty: Hang out with a topsy-turvy chappy
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 17/06/2011 15:29:26
insecure fella who’s desperate for a little attention. In the zoo where he lives, it’s always the big “wow” attractions like the lions and the penguins who pull the crowds. All Batty can do is hang upside down... So, adopting an if
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Zoo Girl
By Lucy Phillips on 14/06/2011 16:19:48
Zoo Girl is highly commended in our Picture Book Of The Year category!
Picture Book Of The Year *Highly Commended*Zoo Girl by Rebecca Elliott Lion Hudson £5.99, 2+The story of a lonely little girl, without family or friends, who one day gets left behind on a trip to the zoo. There she finds the closeness she craves
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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
wearing bikinis and he is sulking. So, that's why he’s bigger… and so grumpy.Junior: Which is your favourite image from the book?AS: It’s a hard choice but I’d have to choose the naked wombat picture. He is so carefree while the Donkey, Lion and other
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Rebecca Elliott on creating Zoo Girl
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 19:18:08
Highly Commended in our Junior Design Awards category Picture Book Of The Year, author and illustrator Rebecca Elliott gives us the back story to her latest book, Zoo Girl
to like anything that moves around a lot being cheeky (think monkeys, lemurs, meerkats). Whereas I tend to favour the sleepy larger animals (lions, bears, sloths) who just sit around eating. Very telling, I know.The book has quite a collage-like feel. Why
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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.
1 The Very Hungry Caterpillarby Eric Carle (Puffin, £5.99)Not many children’s books achieve worldwide sales that would humble a U2 album, but Eric Carle’s classic picture book about a caterpillar munching his way to becoming a
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