Animals
International Friendship Day – fabulous fictional friendships
To celebrate International Friendship Day we’ve chosen picture books that show fabulous fictional friendships. Friendship is a central theme in many children’s books and lately we have read so many wonderful stories about characters who support each other through thick and thin. There are many more that we could have added to this list (we…
Big Brown Bear’s Cave by Yuval Zommer
Big Brown Bear thinks that filling his new cave with ‘stuff’ will help him to make him feel at home. But will having lots of material possessions really help? We love this new picture book from Yuval Zommer which shows that having lots of possessions doesn’t necessarily lead to happiness.
Picture Book Gifts for Fathers Day
June 18th is Fathers Day in the UK and in previous years we have given Daddy a picture book as a gift. We’ve already written a blogpost about some of our favourite picture book fathers but there are so many more that we’ve written another which includes some more recently published picture book dads.
Shifty McGifty And Slippery Sam Up, Up and Away! by Tracey Corderoy & Steven Lenton
We love the Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam picture books, especially the first story in which Shifty and Sam give up their life of crime to become bakers. Now Tracy Corderoy and Steven Lenton have treated us to more exciting Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam adventures in Up, Up and Away!, a chapter book containing three highly illustrated stories which are perfect for more…
The Three Little Pugs and the Big Bad Cat by Becky Davies & Caroline Attia
The Three Little Pugs and the Big Bad Cat is an amusing retelling of the story of the Three Little Pigs. My daughter and I giggled our way through the first reading of this story and there is a particular incident which makes us laugh every time we think about it. It really takes an original look at…
Author Janet Bingham talks about Daddy’s Little Star illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw
Last week Daddy’s Little Star, originally published as My Little Star, was reissued to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its publication. We’re delighted to welcome the author of Daddy’s Little Star, Janet Bingham, to Story Snug to tell us more about the inspirations behind the story and her work as a picture book author.
Bug Bear by Patricia Hegarty and Carmen Saldaña
Bug Bear takes an amusing look at Bug’s quest to find a home but Bear isn’t at all enthralled by Bug’s choice of lodgings. Will Bear manage to solve the problem of a bothersome bug?!
Under the Same Sky by Britta Teckentrup
In Under the Same Sky, Britta Teckentrup celebrates the fact that whoever we are or wherever we are, many of our experiences, emotions and hopes are the same.
Mostly Mary / All Mary (Mary Plain) by Gwynedd Rae & Clara Vulliamy
Mary Plain played a huge part in my childhood reading and I have memories of borrowing the books from the library more than once! I was so excited to hear that the Mary Plain stories were being reprinted with illustrations by one of our favourite illustrators, Clara Vulliamy, and it’s been fabulous to share the stories with my…
Sunk! by Rob Biddulph
We love Rob Biddulph’s first picture book, Blown Away, in which we were introduced to Penguin Blue and his friends. Now they’re back in another story, Sunk!, a fun, rhyming adventure about pirates and friendship.
