5–7

When things change, it can feel as though everything is different. Especially when we move home and all around is unfamiliar.

Lilly and her assistance dog Myles are off to the stadium to see their favourite team play in a big match. This is a warm, reassuring and sensitively crafted picturebook that explores both the joy of football and the challenges a young Autistic child may face when navigating an overwhelming environment.

This bright and uplifting picturebook celebrates the simple magic of movement in all its forms. Drawing young readers into a joyful invitation to explore what their bodies can do, it offers a warm reminder that moving is not just healthy, but imaginative and empowering.

Reader be warned, this book contains a riot of a story, full of laughs, kicks and … farts!

Mei Mei is a little bunny with a big dream: to share her music with the world. At home, she plays her violin while her parents and her pet bee, Beethoven, hum, whistle and buzz along.

After a storm, the animals hear a strange sound coming from a big, dark, scary hole in the ground. What is going on? Badger, Owl and Red Deer do their best, but it is the smallest creature of all – Pigmy Shrew – who bravely faces the dark.

A little boy and his mummies set off on a grand adventure together to build a treehouse and with imagination and hard work, they combine their skills as a family to make his dream come true. This is a gentle and warm story rooted in realism, with practicality at its core. The fact that the little boy has two mums is incidental and complementary to the story, rather than being the main focus.

The Fabric of Us is a gentle story where grief and heartache are delicately explored through the eyes of a little girl who has lost her parent. We move through the mourning alongside her, sitting with the feelings and catching a glimpse of hope along the way.

Amelia Eggheart is a chicken with an ambition to boldly go where no chicken has gone before and to fly for longer than thirteen seconds. Can she achieve her dream? Or will she chicken out?

This special picturebook deals with the very difficult topic of death in childhood. The story features an angel called Barnabel who longs to become a guiding angel, but the older angels tell him he is too young and that he doesn’t yet understand the Dark Things. The image of a bridge is used to explain what happens after a child dies. A guiding angel meets them at the bridge, helps them across and relieves them of their Dark Things, which are feelings like pain and fear.