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The Boy from Mars by Simon James
With engaging, nicely-written text and easy flowing illustrations, this is a warm and helpful book.
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It’s a Book by Lane Smith
Fed up with electronic devices glued to your child – or to you? Here’s a nice way of addressing the habit that’s funny and clever, so it becomes a great bridge on which parent and child can meet and watch the river flowing and share viewpoints and find peace. Smart and stylish illustrations from Lane…
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No Such Thing by Ella Bailey
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…
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A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
‘Just on the other side of the wall’. Ah, how often did the young Frances Hodgson Burnett wonder what lay there, when by the sudden death of her father she was plunged from middle-class comfort into years of precariousness like her heroine Sara, the princess of this story (and surely so like the young and indeed…
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Rosie’s Magic Horse by Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake
What a combination – Russell Hoban and Quentin Blake! Playsmiths together. A tale full of subtlety. Parents worried about bills, Rosie picking up lolly sticks to keep in her old cigar box. Things are tight. But imagination is not; it’s very free. Words and pictures riot across the pages. Lollysticks turn into Stickerino the magnificent…
