Shakira Browne

Grab your binoculars and hop on board this jungle river cruise; Kate and Rupert are back with another case to solve, and they need your help! Ever heard of a bird called the Silver Wibbler? Well, after reading this book, you’ll know all about it…or will you? Join Kate and her trustee sidekick Rupert the mouse for their second adventure, trekking through the jungle, being led by the call of this mysterious bird. Will they be able to track it down in time?

Myths, Monsters and Mayhem in Ancient Greece delivers just that! Some of the oldest stories ever told, those of the ancient Greeks, are given new life in the comic format of this book – comic in both senses of the word. Woven with the same thread as Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories series, Davies’s retellings are engaging and fun with a large dollop of educational merit thrown in for good measure. Full-colour illustrations do their bit to encourage reluctant readers to give the book a go, and they are duly rewarded.

Hide and Seek City is the sophomore book from this French duo and carries along in a similar vein to their last endeavour, The Great Journey. It is everything we have come to expect from a Tate publication: that is to say, it is unexpected. The familiar lift-the-flap format is put into a tailspin by a reoccurring optical illusion that creates a similar hide and reveal effect.

A Hat For Mr Mountain is a whimsical little story about a mountain who longs for a hat to keep his head safe from the snow. Why? Because he is deathly afraid of it! It is the début picturebook from the South Korean winner of the Silent Book Prize at the 2019 Bologna Book Fair.

The much loved daddy-daughter duo that is John and Fatti Burke are back with a new book and they’re just as wonderful as you remember. This time in their Little Library series, the double act take on Mary Robinson: Ireland’s very first female president. The book casts a shining light on equality, as was the unifying thread in Robinson’s trademark egalitarian presidency.

This book explores the painting palette of nature: it takes the reader on an adventure through every colour of the rainbow and details how that colour applies to the animal kingdom. Take pink, for example – did you know that hippos make their own pink sunscreen to protect them from the sun? Or that, when excited, the Amazon river dolphin blushes pink? Of course you didn’t – you haven’t read this book yet!

Did you know that the man behind the computer you use every day also saved millions of lives and helped to shorten World War II by at least two years? That’s what Winston Churchill said anyway. Open this book and discover – bit by bit – the biography of the founding father of modern computer science. Inspiring and educational, this book is a great resource for use in the classroom, as it touches on many aspects of the curriculum: threads of STEM, history and LGBTQ+ education are all seamlessly woven into the narrative.