Madonna’s books about The English Roses have done well. With cute names, Grace, Nicole, Binah, Amy and Charlotte, the ‘five funky fashionable friends’ are schoolgirls in London who go to school in Hampstead and spend their time doing things like shopping, hanging out, cooking, having sleep overs and boy watching – you get the picture. The illustrations are gorgeous and raise the book to a designer level.
How lovely to read a sweet little story about a day at the beach. The simple tale of how a mummy and her toddler daughter and another mummy and her baby son go to the beach and have a chance encounter is perfect for under 3’s.
This retro style introduction to famous cities like New York, Paris and London gets huge points for its artistic style. Follow a mother and her daughter as they take a tour of London, hopping on a red bus, stopping over at the main sightseeing attractions and learning little bits of interesting info on them.
The illustrations grabbed my attention first. Then the title. I love anything to do with Otters. (Like rabbits they are the most endearing animals. Must be the whiskers.) The Otterlys are very happy in their cosy little home in a burrow where mum is cooking fish and the kids play with their sea toys.
It’s hard when no one believes you. Tim is always getting into trouble – except he tells his parents it wasn’t him who did all those naughty things… it was the ninja, or the astronaut, or the giant squid, or the pirate. Of course they don’t believe him and tell him to go water the vegetable patch and think about how bad he’s been. “If he told the truth, he was in trouble and if he lied he was also in trouble. What could he do?’
It was time for the big annual talent competition and everyone was practicing their talent. Except Penguin. “Penguin couldn’t think what his talent was.” He knew it wasn’t baking, map reading or knitting, so his friends tried to help him find out what he was good at.
This is one of the books that inspired me to create this site. I found it through word of mouth (my sister-in-law) and ordered it on the internet. (www.averyawesomeworld.com)
Toddlers love this original tale of a very civilized tiger who decides he wants to go wild. First he starts walking on all fours. Then he jumps in the fountain and roars and finally he takes all his clothes off! His animal friends are not impressed and tell him to go be wild in the wilderness.
Filled with the most beautiful illustrations this is a visual feast of a book. Follow Little Mouse as he lists the animals that make him run. Quite funny because it’s a mouse most people run away from! He starts with a lion and moves on to a shark, bear, wasp, crab, crocodile, rhino, owl, jellyfish and snake.
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