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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Betsy Buglove Saves the Bees by Catherine Jacob and Lucy Fleming
Betsy Buglove adores going outside and getting muddy. Her favourite thing in the garden is to look for insects and loves looking at snails and earthworms and grasshoppers and beetles. When Betsy receives a magical magnifying glass in ...
The Itty-Bitty Kitty Corn by Shannon Hale and Leuyen Pham
Kitty thinks she might be a unicorn: in fact she is quite certain. A pointy horn sits on her head, she has a swishy tail, and she uses a legs to skip and dance. The trouble is, Kitty seems unable to convince anybody else and she is told over and over ...
Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Halls and David Litchfield
In the midst of the rain, rainbows can be hard to see. A girl sets out on a journey with a fox. The world is dark and rainy, and there are mountains to climb and dark nights to navigate. Thunderous storms shake their boat as they cross th ...
They All Saw A Cat by Brendan Wenzel (review)
A cat walks through the world. Along the way it greets a child and a mouse and fox and all kinds of other creatures. They all see the cat. It is as simple - and as complex - as that. Brendan Wenzel's work is always mind-blowing. A Stone Sat S ...
Billy and the Balloons by Elizabeth Dale and Patrick Corrington (Review)
One Christmas Eve, while helping his Dad sell balloons, Billy is swept up, up into the sky. His Dad grabs hold, but the balloons soar higher and carry him along. Soon they are joined by a cow, a farmer, and a pair of monkeys, but the balloons pul ...