If gruesome and scary is what you like to laugh at, then this is the book for you. Cossanteli spares no-one’s sensibilities with her terrifying escapades and grisly exploits, hilariously described in this hair-raising adventure. Flora and fauna take on macabre characteristics as her story takes turn after ghastly turn, each chapter bringing some new unexpected, uproarious horror.
The frog returns! Kes and Claire Grey’s irreverent frog is back in another delightful episode. As in their previous books, the focus of the story is on where each animal should sit based on rules made by the dog and the cat: ‘Dogs sit on frogs’, ‘Mules sit on stools’. But this time the frog takes matters into his own hands, changing the ‘rules’ with hilarious rhyming results. Now ‘Dogs sit on logs,’ ‘Cats sit on gnats’ and ‘Crabs will sit on kebabs’. But where will the frog sit? His solution is a surprise to everyone, including the bossy cat and dog.
Another adventure from Rover and the Gigglers, this fast-paced story is guaranteed to provide the reader with numerous chuckles. The Big Fat Baby has gone missing, so Rover and his side-kick Messi, have to find her. In the meantime, Rover’s business, providing the Gigglers with poo, has a big order on and that has to be dealt with too.
Guy Bass, an award-winning author known for his series Stitch Head and Atomic!, is back with another hilarious and peculiar story where a very unpopular teacher’s pet takes on more than he can chew with the arrival of a new teacher.
Well how timely is a story about a presidential race between an established female candidate and a populist single issue male? The third instalment of The Tapper Twins series is certainly topical but its strength lies in its humour and originality, not in satire. The warring twins divide their New York Middle School as they compete for President of the Sixth Grade.
Kate Beaton’s latest picturebook is a humourous treatment of the constant attention newborn babies need from their caretakers, told from the point of view of the exalted King Baby himself. King Baby has many demands, offering his adult subjects ‘smiles and laughs and kisses’ as a reward for carrying out his orders (‘FEED ME! BURP ME! CHANGE ME! BOUNCE ME! CARRY ME!’).
Jelly Boots Smelly Boots is a new poetry collection from the vivid imagination of bestselling author and former children’s laureate Michael Rosen. The collection is packed full of poems of varying length, some only a few lines, others several pages long, and covers wildly differing themes, from school trips to dreams to food and family. There is even an ongoing poem that pops up at random intervals throughout the book introducing us to the many different dogs that seem to lurk ‘Down behind the Dustbin’.
The world of crime doesn’t feature much in picturebooks, but in Who What Where? young readers have the chance to channel their inner super-sleuths and solve a mystery. On each spread a scene is set, a question is asked and a line-up is presented. Who jumped too high? Who got stuck in a tree trunk? Who stepped in paint? The kooky suspects are children or animals, all with particular features that will encourage readers to examine, discuss and root out the culprit.
The talented team at Minibombo have done it again! The creators of the wonderful Black Cat, White Cat, The White Book and Near, Far bring us another gorgeous interactive picturebook for very young readers. Open Up, Please! leaves the reader in charge of six coloured keys which can open the cages of six different animals and set them free. Will you lift the flaps and release the caged creatures? The book also comes with a warning not to touch the big brown box. A word to the wise – the consequences of doing so are not for the faint-hearted!
Squirrel has moved into her tree, and Rabbit has just settled in his burrow. They are both new to the woodland, and would like to make a new friend. But for some reason they just keep missing each other! Luckily there are two very helpful bugs who want to point Squirrel and Rabbit in the right direction – if only they would listen.
