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 ...
Blog Tour: Evolution by Sarah Darwin and Eva-Maria Sadowski. Illustrated by Olga Baumert
Evolution is a fascinating illustrated non-fiction book for KS2 that looks at evolution. What works so well about this title is that it doesn't only focus on Darwin's work - although that certainly isn't downplayed. It looks at the principles studied at ...
Earth’s Incredible Places: Amazon River by Sangma Francis and Rômolo D’Hipólito
The Earth's Incredible Places series continues with an introduction to the Amazon River. Like the other books in the series, this title gives in-depth knowledge on a specific geographical region and it makes as much use of illustration as of text ...
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: My Family And Other Romans by Marie Basting
Article by author Marie Basting LARPe Diem! The idea for My Family and Other Romans came to me in a dream. Red caped legionaries, glowing amber as they boarded a gleaming silver bullet train. It was too good a story seed not ...
2023 Nature Month-by-Month – A Children’s Almanac by Anna Wilson and Elly Jahnz
The Nosy Crow in Association with The National Trust almanacs are now three years old and still running strong. This may owe something to the fact that almanacs are as old as time - or at least 3000 years old, according to the introduction of thi ...
The Arctic Railway Assassin by M. G. Leonard and Sam Sedgman. Illustrated by Elisa Paganelli.
Hal and Uncle Nat are hitting the rails again. This time, their train is Arctic-bound. They are off to see the Northern Lights. On the way to catch their train they visit Uncle Nat's friend Morti, who has won the Nobel Prize for her work in targe ...
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 ...
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 ...
Spark by M.G. Leonard
The Twitchers are back with a new crime against nature to solve. When Jack rescues an injured cat, he learns that it has been shot and therefore that humans are responsible. He promises the cat's elderly owner that he will sol ...