Age 8
Children’s Mental Health Week – Know Yourself, Grow Yourself
February 3rd to 9th is children’s mental health week. This year’s theme is ‘Know Yourself, Grow Yourself’ and children’s mental health charity Place2be and Pixar’s Inside Out characters are joining forces ‘to explore the importance of self-awareness and expressing emotions.’ We’re huge fans of using picture books to help children deal with feelings, problems and situations in which…
Mouse & Mole What Might Have Been by Joyce Dunbar & James Mayhew
Mouse & Mole What Might Have Been includes three, beautifully illustrated short stories that are perfect for bridging the gap between picture books and longer chapter books. We love the way that Mouse and Mole deal with the everyday experiences of a rainy day and being ill as well as Mole’s kite flying contemplations.
Monster Post by Emma Yarlett
Monster Post is an amusing, interactive adventure that starts when Beast catches Dinner. But preparing to eat Dinner is not as straightforward as Beast imagined!
You Choose Christmas by Pippa Goodhart & Nick Sharratt
You Choose Christmas is a really fun, festive book that promotes speaking and listening skills while introducing children to various aspects of the Christmas season.
Grief Awareness Week: Picture books to help support readers through grief & loss
December 2nd to 8th is Grief Awareness Week. Grief and loss are difficult concepts for young children to understand but stories can help them explore the feelings and emotions that accompany the loss of a loved one or a well loved pet.
The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson & Victoria Sandoy
The Christmas Pine, a beautifully illustrated, rhyming picture book, tells the true story of the Christmas tree that stands in Trafalgar Square.
Halloween Book Quiz
What will you be reading for Halloween? We have quite a collection of witches, pumpkins and monsters on our book shelf and thought it would be fun to create a quick Halloween book quiz. Most of these books were published several years ago. How many of the characters and their stories do you remember? How…
Celebrating 12 Years of Story Snug!
I can’t believe that we’re celebrating 12 years of Story Snug! It’s been an amazing twelve years, we’ve read so many books and genres that we may not have read. A huge THANK YOU to all the publishers and PR representatives who have sent us fantastic books to read and recommend. We are truly grateful to…
The Final Year by Matt Goodfellow & Joe Todd-Stanton
The Final Year, a highly emotive, sensitive story told in verse, takes us through Nathan (Nate) Wilder’s last year in primary school and his struggle to deal with friendships, school pressures, stressful family situations and ‘The Beast’. Set in the north of England it’s a sensitive and powerful portrayal of challenges faced by a ten…
It Starts With a Raindrop by Aimee Gallagher & Sally Garland
It Starts With a Raindrop celebrates the role that a raindrop plays in the water cycle and the contribution that it makes to sustain a healthy, thriving planet. This beautifully illustrated, non fiction picture book simply and effectively describes a scientific concept in a way that young children can understand.
