Bob is back again! Bob Goes Pop is the follow-up to award-winning author Marion Deuchar’s charming series Bob the Artist and Bob’s Blue Period. Bob has seen plenty of tribulations during his time on our pages. First, teased for his scrawny legs, then, his best friend, Bat, leaves him. Bob bocht! This time, it’s no different; there’s a new artist in town and he’s shaking things up. Bob has competition! Will it end in crisis or will Bob learn from his rival?
Finally, a book that provides children with the proper instructions to become a lion! Your reader will be in good paws – I mean hands – as the teacher of this sevenstep diploma is a professional lion with certification from Harvard School of Claw.
Since Boot came to live in the abandoned Dr Twitchy’s Emporium of Amusements, he’s had a lot of adventures, made fantastic new friends and learned what real happiness is about; though he still doesn’t really understand humans. And now, a new adventure is afoot! While searching for a new nose for Gerry, Boot and the gang discover a rusty, broken old robot in the back of the testing lab. Soon to be tossed down the chute to ‘Robot Heaven’, Rusty won’t last much longer.
Written by award-winning children’s poet Rachel Rooney and illustrated by Zehra Hicks, The Problem with Problems is a brightly coloured, funny, one-of-a-kind picturebook that introduces children to what problems are.
Calling all parents with Dogman fatigue. Fear not, for Lincoln Peirce’s Max & the Midknights is here to save the day. This zany story of a 10-year-old aspiring knight is a fantastical romp through the Middle Ages.
The Free Range Detective Agency: Murder Most Fowl is the first in a new series of hilarious books by début author Jed Lynch, from County Cork. Seamus the Turkey is a fast-talking, sharp-witted private detective who is down on his luck and living on Shredded Worms when a beautiful ‘glamour-puss’ of a cat called Ms Ermine slinks into his office with a job offer that seems too good to be true.
Adults often have a limited stock of questions to put to children, and things can be a little predictable at times. Among the most popular conversation starters, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ must be near the top of the chart. Children can either love or dread this question, depending on how certain they are of their calling or how receptive they think the adult might be to their ideas.
Thanks to this quirky, well-researched, brilliantly written book, children might just be able to confound their questioners with amazing and outlandish answers.
One very hungry day, Beast caught a tastylooking dinner, but Dinner is a young child who definitely does not want to be eaten. Having sent invitations to his friends to come and join in this delicious feast, Beast decides to fatten up Dinner, but Dinner won’t stop talking and comes up with plans for an alternative feast where they are not on the menu!
A new baby sister and being forced to move mean things couldn’t get much worse for Edwin. But he accidentally makes a new pen-friend by sending a letter up the chimney smoke and things take a turn towards the more unusual. Lanthorne Hughes appears in Edwin’s wardrobe one evening, offering him an escape from annoying baby Mandoline. Lanthorne leads Edwin into his own world, a world of strange creatures, the worst food imaginable and thrilling, if smelly, adventures.
The President makes a welcome return in the third book by award-winning author and illustrator Peter Donnelly. After forgetting his glasses in the first book, the President went on to forget his cat in the second. What could the President forget next, especially on a special day like his birthday? As everyone in the Áras is preparing a birthday surprise, the President is sent out to walk the dogs. But as the birthday party is about to start, the President is nowhere to be found. Could he have forgotten his own birthday?
