It is Christmas Eve and all is going well in Santa's North Pole workshop. All is going well, that is, until some mischievous little bunnies fill the Elves with candy canes that make their tummies so full that they cannot move. This is exactly what th ...
How Does Santa Go Down The Chimney? by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen
How does Santa get down the chimney? Just how does he do it? Maybe he tightens his belt or gets kicked down by his reindeer. And what if there is no chimney at all? This book speculates over the biggest mystery of the Christmas season with hilari ...
Percy The Post-Penguin by Genevieve Aspinall
Percy the penguin has a problem. He runs a post office in the South Pole, but nobody knows it is there. Percy never has any post to deliver. He sets out to change this, and, with determination and tenacity, he proves that any problem can ...
The Princess And The (Greedy) Pea by Leigh Hodgkinson
This is the story of a greedy pea who swallowed a sprout. And Slurped up some soup. And gobbled a cake ... and so the text begins, in the style of There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, with the pea getting bigger and greedier following every par ...
Blog Tour: Cara Matheson, creator of Finding Floss, on how her Cockapoo inspired her writing.
The best writing buddy? My dog! I was never a dog person…or a cat person, or any type of pet person at all. I never wavered when my children begged and pleaded for a dog. The answer was always a firm ‘no’. So, I blame my husband for what happe ...
Blue by Sarah Christou
Blue is a secret. He's the monster that the child in the story feels and sees. Blue makes the child worry about everything and hold back from joining in with friends. Then, one day, the child tells a friend about Blue. Suddenly it becomes easier ...
The Magic of the Ballet by Vivian French and Lauren O’Hara
Join in the movement and magic of the ballet with this collection of seven classical stories. This was clearly written with children in mind and it includes family favourites such as The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. The pairing ...
Review: We Disagree About This Tree by Ross Collins
'Now just relax and you will see how Christmassy a tree can be with decoration left to me.' Polar Bear and Mouse have got a tree. They are the best of friends - and what could possibly go wrong when two great friends decorate a tree t ...
Blog Tour: Faber Book of Bedtime Stories – spotlight on Fairygodmothers Don’t Exist by Ayesha Braganza
Q&A with Ayesha Braganza Tell us about your storyMy story is called Fairy Godmothers Don’t Exist. It is a riotous tale with wands, wishes and footballs. It is all about Naz and his hopeless Fairy Godmother who turns up at school and t ...
The Baddies by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
The Baddies are mean and the baddies are scary and the baddies just love to be bad. When a little girl moves into a cottage, the Baddies - a troll, a witch and a ghost - decide to give her a fright. However, she turns out to be rather braver ...