When I’m feeling this and that, I pretend to be a cat! So say two imaginative children who decide they would like to learn how to be a cat. Join them as they spend the day drinking water from a bowl, licking their paws and purring, pouncing and bouncing, before stretching out in a patch of warm sun light for a well-deserved cat nap.
Like her namesake, Amelia Cheeseheart is an intrepid adventurer who loves to fly. Unlike the real Amelia Earheart, she is a mouse who lives inside the gift shop of a museum with her best friend; a timid banana loving spider called Webster.
A bear, a moose, and a beaver have always wanted to go camping together, but the time was never right. Finally, one day, the weather cooperates, and they have free time for their adventure. Armed with a camping guidebook, the trio set up camp and, after settling in to enjoy themselves, are faced with some amusing consequences.
The fourth book in the series First Cat, our heroes, First Cat, LOZ 4000, and Moon Queen return for a sailing to adventure across the seas and skies of the Moon. In this newest instalment we follow the plight of Captain Babybeard (a baby pirate with a beard) when his first mate, the Martian pirate James Plantain (a literal banana pirate) in an act of betrayal, leaves Captain Babybeard alone on a desert Island.
An excitable Cosmo gets to test out a prototype of a new rocket jet pack. However, when the jet pack malfunctions and communication breaks down with his team back at base, Cosmo has to find his own way home. But of course, the journey is not that straightforward; Cosmo is helped along the way by an entertaining and certainly interesting cast of characters. Think magicians, sewer mutants, aliens, each wackier than the next whilst travelling from cities to spaceships to jungles on this epic, immersive and humorous adventure.
A little yellow sponge’s job is to keep the kitchen clean. She is hard working ‘lean, mean, and ready to clean!’ wiping up milk, vegetable scraps and crumbs but when the blender loses her cap messing up the entire kitchen, the little sponge loses her cool. She is now a dirty yellow sponge – and deeply upset! The Rubber Glove Twins come to her aid and help her to become clean again. After their care, she resumes her work, but she has learned the important task of relaxing between cleaning jobs.
This delightful picturebook tells the story of a visit to the park and how through dance, people and nature connect to one another, creating a mood of great happiness.
This Seachtain na Gaeilge, discover a new reading guide highlighting the excellent books on offer in the Irish language for children and young people.
From the tips of her antennae to her brightly coloured boots, Mimi is the cheerful face of non-threatening minibeasts! She may be small, she may be quiet, but she’s a bee who can bust a move, a talent that comes in handy when her Queen needs to find the perfect location for a new hive.
With an introduction from Patricia Forde, Laureate na nÓg 2023–2026 and Frank Cotrell-Boyce, Children’s Laureate, the Northern Lights recommended reading guide aims to shine a light on talented authors and illustrators from the North of Ireland who create books for young readers.
