Family
Hugless Douglas / Don’t Worry Hugless Douglas by David Melling
Hugless Douglas is a big, adorable, brown bear who is the main character in several picture books. As we couldn’t decide which was our favourite story we are recommending two!
Big Red Bath by Julia Jarman and Adrian Reynolds
The Story: Ben and Bella are joined in their big red bath by a succession of animals. When Hippo tries to get in the bath it leaves the bathroom and ends up flying around the world. Flamingoes come to the rescue so that Ben and Bella can get home and tell Mum and Dad about…
The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
My daughter has informed me that we have to put tiger food on our next shopping list (just in case a tiger comes to tea!).
We completely must Go to London by Lauren Child
Our last book of the year has to be about our favourite brother and sister combination, Charlie and Lola. ‘We completely must Go to London’ is a great way to introduce young readers to some of London’s famous buildings and landmarks. Already my daughter likes to pick out the places that we have visited and…
Stick Man by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
Our favourite Christmas Eve story is definitely Stick Man. It’s not immediately obvious that Santa is a part of this story but he comes to Stick Man’s rescue after a series of mishaps and adventures take him far away from his family.
Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure by Tove Jansson
Moomin and the Moonlight Adventure has been retold in a picture book! I loved the Moomin books as a child and it is great to be able to share picture book versions of the stories with my daughter. The Moomins are very loveable characters and I find Little My’s expression hilarious (my daughter isn’t sure…
The Best Jumper by Lynne Garner & Sarah Gill
The Story: Grandma knits Spindle a jumper for his birthday. Spindle loves his new jumper and wears it everywhere but as he grows it gets tighter and tighter so Grandma knits him a new one. However, the old one is his favourite so he still takes it with him everywhere he goes. Finally Grandma uses…
Little Miss Christmas by Roger Hargreaves
The Story: All year Little Miss Christmas has worked hard wrapping Christmas presents so she decides to take a holiday. Her brother, Mr Christmas, flies up to the North Pole to help Father Christmas wrap the last presents before Christmas Eve but they get distracted by other activities. When Little Miss Christmas gets back and finds…
The Monster Machine by Nicola L Robinson
The Story: Dad is an inventor and he has just finished making a monster machine. He puts some very disgusting ingredients (slugs, bogies, earwax) into the machine and a variety of monsters are created. The monsters are quite happy until they realise that they want to go home and then they build their own monster…
Let’s Go Home Little Bear by Martin Waddell & Barbara Firth
Let’s Go Home Little Bear is one of my favourite picture books!