Get ready to meet a whole host of cool new doggy friends in this playful lift-the-flap book of opposites for little ones! Bursting with graphic flair and clever paper craft, it’s a book that delivers just as much on style and creativity as it does on learning.
From the author of Can we Save the Tiger?, Exploring Space, and the Kate Greenaway award-winning adaptation of Gulliver’s Travels, this book tells the story of the universe: how it began, how the Milky Way was formed and how Earth and the other planets that make up our galaxy came into being.
This beautifully produced picturebook is instantly attractive thanks to the high production values, design, and particularly the illustrations by Richard Jones. These are both painterly and graphic, with patches of colour layered one on another. To me, both images and use of colour are reminiscent of Brian Wildsmith’s wonderful picturebooks of the1960’s, yet remain bold and modern and fresh.
Author-illustrator George Butler’s debut was formed from a series of interviews with migrants and refugees, detailing their experiences of migration. These personal accounts were shared with the author during a number of travels to areas with high levels of migration between 2011 and 2018. The people that he met did not have the option to remain at home safely for a variety of reasons, with migration becoming a means of survival for many. These accounts discuss the events leading up to departure, the struggles of the journey and what must be left behind in the process of finding a new home.
‘You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that if my dad cries, it’s first and foremost because of the wine.’ Louis Undercover is the story of a boy coming to terms with his father’s addiction and his parents’ separation. In a family brimming with things unsaid, Louis’s capacity for understanding, healing and growth is explored with sensitivity and grace.
Carmin Lemniscates is an award-winning author, illustrator and designer of children’s books based in Barcelona. Her mixed-media illustrations combine monotype, collage, woodcut and digital. In 2016, she won the prestigious Crítica Serra d’Or Award for Arbres. Trees was then published in English by Walker Studio in 2017.
This is a miscellany of the very best kind. Readers will be hooked by facts as varied as differing kinds of knots, different kinds of print, the periodic table of the elements, neap and spring tides, the organs of the body and a whole host of other information. At no point does the trivia seem trivial, nor the information arbitrary.
