When a cheerful group of friends set out on a journey, a fiery argument threatens everything around them - but their determination to make peace welcomes back luminous joy in this beautiful, moving picture book.
The nefarious Rotten Robin has hatched a plan to steal Christmas, along with Fowl Owl and Unpleasant Pheasant. It's up to the other robins to save the day in this picture-book yuletide caper full of bouncy rhymes and intricate, hilarious illustrations.
An entrancing Advent calendar in book form, with seasonal pictures hidden under flaps and atmospheric poems. With its colourful fold-out frieze and range of poets including Russell Hoban, John Agard and Coral Rumble, it'll please children from preschool to primary.
Illustrated by a range of talent from Oliver Jeffers to Chris Riddell, with flashes of orange suggesting both cosiness and danger, this powerful 5+ picture book is published in support of UNHCR. Gaiman's poetic text weaves together shared memories of warmth - iron radiators, thick gloves, family's smiles - and culminates in the welcoming statement: You have the right to be here.
A lost baby is nurtured by a panda; nine years later, the boy saves the panda's baby in turn, helped by the fierce, indomitable spirit of the forest. This handsome, oversized fable for 5+ readers (and listeners) is full of Fisher's leafy, lush, involving landscapes, and Morris's characteristic sense of the vital connection between human and animal worlds.
Alex T Smith's latest festive offering is a joyously silly retelling of The Nutcracker, in which the Mouse K
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