2024
This Table by Alex Killian & Brooke Smart
This Table is the story of a lovingly crafted, handmade table and the role that it plays as a family celebrates the events, large and small, that make up their family life.
International Dance Day
Happy International Dance Day 2024!
Made For Us by Polly Owen & Daniel Duncan
Made For Us introduces us to various objects that have been designed to help people in their daily lives. It takes a fascinating look at familiar objects that we often use without thinking. But they’ve all been designed to make our lives easier.
Earth Day: Books About The Environment
Earth Day has been celebrated annually on April 22nd since 1970. Earth Day’s mission is ‘to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide.’ These books about the environment have given us insight and information into how we can protect our earth for ourselves and future generations.
The Hoys by Kes Gray & Mark Chambers
OOOH ARRR! The Hoys is the perfect picture book for pirate fans who, like main character, Pirate Jake, may also have wondered what exactly ‘Ahoy’ is!
Searching For Home by Chantal Bourgonje
Searching for Home is a beautifully illustrated, gentle story about friendship. We read lots of picture books but this is the first we’ve read with a house sprite as the main character 🙂
The Dress in the Window by Robert Tregoning & Pippa Curnick
The Dress in the Window is an uplifting picture book which celebrates self-expression and individuality. This fabulous story is full of love, acceptance and a magical sequin covered dress which is a character in itself, it steals the show in every illustration it appears in!
The Hare-Shaped Hole by John Dougherty & Thomas Docherty
The Hare-Shaped Hole sensitively deals with the subject of grief and loss. This beautifully illustrated, rhyming picture book is both heartbreaking and heartwarming and can support a child who is grieving the loss of a loved one.