Happy National Pet Day!
Pre-order Thinker: My Poet Poet and Me By Meghan Sullivan Is there anything better than hanging out with your pet? Cuddling your cat close on your lap, or seeing your puppy bound towards you? Our pets really are our best friends. One of my favourite parts of the day is coming home and crunching up my […]
Chalk Eagle has real value in the classroom – Laura Davies
An article from Laura Davies, an educational consultant Buy Chalk Eagle Wordless picture books have a real value in the classroom, opening up opportunities for development in literacy and communication in a way that can be far more inclusive than written text. Wordless picture books hold infinite stories within them and are open to individual interpretation […]
Boredom becomes children playing under blue skies
Buy When I Coloured in the World When I Coloured in the World was featured in this lovely article Laura Taylor with Ten Fabulous Reads from Around the World. Read it below: A child sets about transforming the world with a simple box of crayons, an eraser . . . and a healthy dose of imagination and […]
Dancing and singing, launching The Drum!
Buy The Drum Last Saturday, a sunny day on the eve of Easter half-term, children and adults gathered together to make music and celebrate the launch of Ken Wilson-Max’s The Drum. The launch took place in the middle of the African and Caribbean Spring Mini Market at New Beacon Books. Before the event people were bustling around […]
The Lion Tattoo; a welcome fable from Rumi
Buy Cinderella of the Nile
Hive The Book Depository Amazon Buy Cinderella of the Nile, hardback, 40 pp, £12.99 (discounts may apply) Available 14 May 2018 Written by Beverley Naidoo Illustrated by Marjan Vafaeian This earliest known version of Cinderella is brought to life for the modern-day reader. Rhodopis is a Greek girl who is sold into slavery by bandits and taken […]
Babies change everything! – Mike Henson
Mike Henson offers us a glimpse into his parenting journey Buy The New Baby and Me Children’s picture book author and illustrator Mike Henson, inspired after reading The New Baby and Me, has written a few words, about his own experience of having children. Read his insights below: Babies change everything. Everything! Drop your expectations and your plans […]
Happy World Poetry Day!
I wanted the colours to communicate life – Catell Ronca
An interview with illustrator Catell Ronca Buy The Drum Catell Ronca is the illustrator of The Drum, which is the first book in our new Children.Music.Life. series. She lives and works in Switzerland and we interviewed her about The Drum and music in general. Read it below: What three words would you use to describe […]
