The power of the imagination to create joy or find joy already present, beautifully imagined as visual metaphor and step by step story of Millie’s walk home from school. A simple, powerful idea stylishly and lovingly delivered, with quiet touches of humour all the way.
You may be little, you may have an empty purse, says the story, but you can make a difference.
What better book to start than Clown. The only word in the whole book is the title, but Quentin Blake masterfully creates a moving story of loss and separation transformed into reunion and new friends, all through Clown’s inventive and determined loyalty. Juggling potatoes to charm a crying baby, moments after being hurled in through…
Published in the USA in 1949 and then out of print for many years, some wise person at Enchanted Lions Books decide to reissue it in 2013. Son of Mr and Mrs Brown, Little Boy Brown is four and a half. He tells his own story of a day out, and how cleverly and with…
Today Croc is in a mood. Big-time sulks. But Melrose is not put off. She bombards Croc out his mood and down to the beach. Now Croc’s exuberance may take charge, till the wet sea – and an ice cream – bring all into balance. Gentle and fun, Emma Chichester Clark’s luminous pictures lift the…
I suppose we might say that the Iron Man is Ted Hughes himself, the strong man who fell off a cliff and broke into pieces, but then painstakingly found the pieces and bolted them back together. Eating tractors and cars and barbed wire, he sought to eat up the modern world and let something more…
“If we could see each other exactly as the other is,” Ezra Jack Keats wrote, “this would be a different world.” The son of Polish immigrants escaping anti-Jewish pogroms in Europe, the world he grew up in was Brooklyn, New York. Ezra’s family had always been poor but during the Great Depression of the 1930s, along…
Computer-drawn with a limited palette reminiscent of 50’s picture books or even Soviet ones of the 1930s, No Such Thing welcomes us into Georgia’s world, where things can go awry, but there is always a rational explanation. No such things as ghosts! But Ella Bailey has fun with décalage, the French term for words and…
