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Slightly Invisible
By Lucy Phillips on 14/06/2011 16:26:54
Read our review on the highly commended Picture Book Of The Year - Slightly Invisible
Picture Book Of The Year *Highly Commended*Slightly Invisible by Lauren Child Orchard Books, £10.99, 3+The inspiration for Lauren Child’s latest visit to Charlie and Lola land occurred at a book signing. “A little boy said to me, almost under his
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Giraffes Can't Dance
By Lucy Phillips on 14/06/2011 15:13:12
Giraffes Can't Dance, or can they? Read why this book was highly commended in our Best Classic Book category
Best Classic Book *Highly Commended*Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae and Guy Parker-Rees Orchard, £5.99, 2+You might not instantly think of giraffes as the philosophical sort, but then Gerald is used to flouting convention. Who says giraffes
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Best Classic Book 2011
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 20/05/2011 17:55:56
*Winner*Miffy At The Gallery by Dick Bruna (Egmont, £3.50), 2+Read our interview with Dick Bruna.
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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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Winner of the Picture Book Of The Year 2012: Press Here by Hervé Tullet
By Catherine O'Dolan on 20/05/2012 13:49:30
How a simple dot can turn into an amazing adventure with French artist, Hervé Tullet
on the narrator’s instructions, it’s him who seems to be making magical things happen to the spots as he turns the pages. Alongside this playfulness, the book also encourages hand-eye coordination, memory skills, counting, colour recognition and learning left
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Rob Ryan: Scissorhands
By Kelly Beswick on 19/07/2011 14:28:07
The winner of our Junior Design Award for Picture Book Of The Year, The Gift is a mesmerising tale told with beautiful paper-cut illustrations by the brilliant Rob Ryan
the story of a girl’s life, and the passions that shape it. Written in a sparse but highly evocative style, with a resonance that lingers long after reading, the book’s sombre but life-enhancing mood is perfectly captured by Ryan’s illustrations. "It was a
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The Jolly Postman
By Lucy Phillips on 14/06/2011 14:37:04
See why The Jolly Postman was Highly commended in our Best Classic Book category
children’s book can be a small masterpiece,” says Allan. And we wholeheartedly agree. Read about our other Highly Commended Best Classic Book, Giraffes Can't Dance
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Birdsong - tweet all about it!
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 20:22:17
Feathers fly in riotously raucous picture book Birdsong by Ellie Sandall
, but it was not a conscious decision. I think a lot of books and rhymes follow this kind of rhythm, and it is one that children are familiar with and enjoy.What do you think would appeal to a child about the repetition of all the different sounds?I think it
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What should you do if you think your baby sister is an alien?
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 30/05/2011 21:02:53
Send her off into space, of course! At least, that's according to young Alfie, the hero of Rachel Bright's My Sister Is An Alien
wonderful) thing a new life coming into a family is and2) How much new babies look like aliens! (to any friends reading this, of course it wasn’t your baby that made me think this…). From there, all the pieces of this book fell into place.I wanted to tell
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We quiz Claude In The City creator Alex T Smith
By Helen McKay-Ferguson on 31/05/2011 20:28:38
Alex T Smith spills on the beans on his own mischievous hounds, his signature style and his clumsy tendencies...
? Lots of people. My family - my mother used to draw for me all the time when I was little and my father read me stories. Later on, when I was at university, he became a highly skilled ( and very useful) dummy book maker as I hated doing it. I’m incapable
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