“All evening the North wind roared.” These evocative words set the atmosphere for the story about the night Harry and his family hole up inside while a storm roars around them.
Harry’s Stormy Night
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Picture Book
Here We Are – Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Acclaimed illustrator and author Oliver Jeffers has a new book to share with little children everywhere: an introduction to the world. Written on the birth of his son, this reads as an intimate guide to Earth and its inhabitants – both human and animal.
Hack and Whack
Bedtime reads just got more boisterous. Hack and Whack are two red-haired terrors who run away from their mother’s bedtime call. “We’re Hack and Whack on the attack!” they yell and promptly run away causing mayhem and damage throughout the viking village.
Richard Scarry’s Best Treasury Ever
This Richard Scarry classic is a happy primary-coloured trip filled with illustrations and much-loved characters to keep little ones entertained for hours. The detail-filled illustrations and story lines – filled with characters such as Huckle, Lowly, Bananas Gorilla, Sergeant Murphy, Sam and Dudley are still as entertaining and humorous as ever.
The Elders At The Door
The Elders at The Door is a warm retelling of a favourite African fable. When three elders named Blessing, Wisdom and Love are invited to enter a house, they reply that the family must choose which of them to invite inside. What will the family choose?
Mr Hare Meets Mr Mandela
When Mr Hare discovers a R200 note in his doorway and sees Mr Mandela’s face on it, he decides it must belong to him. He calls all the animals to announce that he will brave the city of Johannesburg to find him. The animals all warn him that he can’t read so he needs to be careful he doesn’t get lost in the ‘city of readers’.
Plenty Of Love To Go Round
When Binky the cat moves in next door, Plum the dog can’t understand why everyone thinks Binky is so great. Plum is used to feeling like the no 1 favourite and suddenly she feels left out!
There Was an Old Dragon Who Swallowed a Knight
This hilarious picture book is an updated version of the classic nursery rhyme, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly. Here we have a very hungry dragon who is not going to stop until he’s gulped down almost the entire kingdom, knight’s armour and all.
A Tribe of Kids
Follow a young boy as he discovers the collective nouns for animals, plants and the world and comes to find his own collective family at the end: ‘there is a tribe of kids’ he can belong to.
What Do You Do With A Problem?
What do you do with a problem? Do you ignore it, do you shoo it away or hide from it? A beautifully simple book about facing problems and finding their gifts. When a little boy is filled with anxiety about an unnamed problem following him around, he struggles to think what he can do.
The Dinosaur that Pooped the Past
The Dinosaur that Pooped the Past is – of course – about a dinosaur that poops. In this story Danny has a Dinosaur friend who has some tummy troubles. Together they go on a time-traveling adventure, save some Dino friends and get back to the present time.
Chocolate Me!
Chocolate Me! is a picture book about differences and how they can be celebrated if seen in the right light. Chocolate Me is a little boy who wonders about all the ways he is different from his white friends, Timmy, Johnny and Mark who, with their ‘normal’ names, straight hair, and fair complexions make Chocolate Me feel like he is all kinds of wrong. A perfect springboard for diversity discussions.
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