Harris Finds His Feet
Harris is a ‘small hare with very big feet’ and a loving grandad to introduce him to the world and encourage him to set out confidently on his own.
The Island
First published in Germany in 2002, this large format picture book is a powerful fable for our times.
Emily Brown and the Thing
Emily Brown and her old grey rabbit Stanley first featured in That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown.
The Snow Goose
Gallico’s The Snow Goose was first published in 1941 and culminates in the death of its hero, the ‘hunchback’ artist Philip Rhayader, at the evacuation of Dunkirk after many suc
Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
This square, small format picture book exudes energy and confidence and is full of pictorial jokes. At the same time, it is an understanding depiction, a self help manual almost, for small children who are scared to venture out into the world and make friends because they fear, like Scaredy Squirrel, that it is a frightening place where they could encounter someone dangerous – a piranha perhaps or Godzilla – who will bite them.
King Pom and the Fox
A storyteller, a shadow puppeteer, and an expert in folk tales from around the world with many picture book versions of the same to her credit, Jessica Souhami’s latest title offers a Chinese variant of the tale we know as Puss-in-Boots. In this version, it is a wily fox rather than a cat who employs cunning stratagems to present the handsome but penniless young man (Li Ming) to the Emperor as a rich aristocrat, thus gaining him the hand of the Emperor’s beautiful daughter.
The Tinderbox
Why this Andersen tale has to be ‘retold’ when a good translation would suffice is a mystery.
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat
Told in a seamless combination of words and line drawings, this story introduces Ottoline and her small hairy companion Mr Munroe whom Ottoline’s explorer parents found in a bog in Norway.
Beware of the Storybook Wolves
Too often, publishers impose the bells and whistles of paper engineering on stories because they can, rather than with any discernable purpose. Lauren Child’s Beware of the Storybook Wolves worked very well as a picture book when first published in 2006 so what is the justification for its transformation, via flaps, gatefolds, levers and pop-ups, into a novelty format?
The Incredible Book Eating Boy
From a single word, to a sentence, to a page, to a whole book, Henry the book eating boy’s appetite for books becomes insatiable and his brain smarter and smarter as the ingested information rushes to it. Until the day he begins to feel ill and can no longer digest the books he has eaten. But how else can he absorb them?