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Sweet books to read when it snows
By Fiona McKim on 11/01/2013 14:40:00
The best children's reads when there's a chill in the air
365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet (Abrams, £9.95)Would your child like to have a pet penguin? How about 365? Discover the perils of keeping penguins as pets along with simple maths problems and cool monochrome illustrations in this humerous tale.
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Quentin Blake's All-Time Favourite Children's Books
By Fiona McKim on 18/11/2011 15:55:24
The famous illustrator of the Roald Dahl books chooses his favourite picture books
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans (Scholastic, £7.99)"Wonderful dramatic pictures of Paris and though we never know very much about Madeline and her friends in detail, we seem to know a lot about their life".Buy Madeline
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Lauren Child's top five children's books
By Fiona McKim on 22/11/2012 17:31:54
The Clarice Bean, That’s Me and the Charlie And Lola author picks her favourite reads
Eloise by Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight (Simon & Schuster, £6.99)This book is just beautiful. Written in 1955, yet it feels thoroughly modern. I first found Eloise after I couldn’t get my first Clarice Bean book published. I was told that you
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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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The very best Christmas books for children
By Junior on 20/11/2012 13:42:00
Festive mice, a gruesome grinch and a very naughty santa make for fun festive reading
Rabbits In The Snow by Natalie Russell (Macmillan, £10.99) from 12 monthsWhen six fluffy rabbits play in the snow, they discover a world of opposites. Rose Rabbit skates fast, while Grey Rabbit is slow, Honey Rabbit has a full basket, while Rust
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Storybook Heroes No 7: Madeline
By Catherine O'Dolan on 26/11/2012 10:41:00
Meet the brilliant fictional characters who have become timeless classics in the world of children's books
of mice, she loved winter, snow and ice, to the tiger in the zoo, Madeline justs said Pooh pooh."* She's the perfect foil to her prim and proper mentor, Miss Clavel (the Miss Jean Brodie-esque guardian with her heart set on making her gals "the creme de la
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Meet Old Bear author Jane Hissey
By Alex Lloyd on 27/02/2013 12:18:39
The illustrator and mother-of-three talks new beginnings, fancy dress and the colour pink
. And the topic of dressing up is an illustrator’s dream! It was something I’d always wanted to do. Also, I was aware when I visited schools on World Book Day that most children were dressed in off-the-peg costumes. There were hundreds of Snow Whites! As a child
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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
Can you give a ten-word summary of the plot? A new-baby tale of sibling love in outer space!How did you come up with the idea?Well, like most of the stories I write, it started somewhere in my own experience and kind of snow-ball-ised through
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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.
Percy book, has Butterworth’s trademark soft illustrative appeal. Percy the Park Keeper always feeds the animals, but when there’s heavy snow, he realises he’ll have to keep them safe and warm in his hut and it quickly becomes a bit of a squeeze
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