Another excellent novel from Linda Newbery 📚🌳🐝✏️Ⓥ WritersReview Lindsey Fraser picturesandconversations.co.uk/2025/04/29/the…

Over the next few days I'm posting links to reviews of some books published during the Second World War or about it. Here's one of favourites: Tamar by the late #MalPeet Walker Books picturesandconversations.co.uk/2020/05/02/my-…

Continuing my Second World War reviews. This is one of three books by #DoritaFairlieBruce written, published and ser during the war. The others are Toby at Tibbs Cross and Dimsie Carries On Oxford Children's Books picturesandconversations.co.uk/2020/04/17/my-…

This is my third choice for VE Day Bloomsbury Kids & YA UK #ElizabethWein picturesandconversations.co.uk/2020/07/28/eli…

picturesandconversations.co.uk/2021/05/19/arc… Continuing my reposts of reviews of books set during the Second World War Tom Palmer Barrington Stoke

picturesandconversations.co.uk/2022/12/19/res… Another book from the wonderful Tom Palmer Barrington Stoke

picturesandconversations.co.uk/2024/11/11/ang… A third book from Tom Palmer Barrington Stoke

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third is not the most brilliant student at the Training School for Vikings and Dragons but somehow he gets embroiled in tremendous adventures along with his friends Cressida Cowell Hachette Children's Group Hachette UK

A book set in western Norway during the Second World War featuring the Shetland Bus by Eliza Graham from Storm Publishing Scalloway Museum picturesandconversations.co.uk/2025/07/28/the…

This is not as much of a Christmas book as it looks. There's no problem reading it as soon as it's published! Boldwood Books picturesandconversations.co.uk/2025/07/28/the…

Frank is happy being a caterpillar. He likes munching on leaves, looking at the view and being with his friends who all long to be gorgeous butterflies. Time moves on, chrysalises are formed and finally butterflies emerge. Who will be the happiest? Alex Latimer Oxford Children's Books

Harry is a wriggly, curious otter. One day he's distracted by a heron standing all by himself and dances off to meet him. Ray the heron is very happy and the two have fun together until the other otters interfere... Prof. Wendy O’Shea-Meddour [email protected] Oxford Children's Books

This is a fun little series about dressing up with specific accessories. Anwar and Seren find lots of different jobs they can do with them. On Monday Anwar is a postman while on Thursday Seren is a ski instructor. Full of brightly-coloured fun #FernandoMartin Oxford Children's Books

Is perfection really ... well, perfect? Pedro thinks so. Everything in his life is perfect but he doesn't have a perfect friend until he meets Poppy. But as they practise for the talent show things become...not perfect. #SimonPhilip #EllaOkstad Oxford Children's Books

Albert is a VERY grumpy bear. There aren't many things he likes (not picnics or fishing and DEFINITELY not ukeleles) but he does love a bubble bath. But so does everyone else in the forest. How is going to keep it to himself? #MarkMcKinley Oxford Children's Books

Junie and Ruby bicker all the time, poking and chasing and shouting. Their Mummy is always showing them how to behave but they just carry on squabbling. The one day the Mummy Monster appears and is even worse than the sisters. How can they tame her? Rochelle Falconer Oxford Children's Books

This book won me over because it has a cat on the cover! It will win over little children with its sounds and flaps and the mirror at the end. Parents will be be delighted to know that the noises can be turned off! Another bright, engaging, solid book from Nosy Crow #PuiLee

I've always loved Ekaterina Trukhan's illustrations and this little picture book makes me happy. It's an ode to autumn and is filled with seasonal blocks of colour and dynamic characters as a small girl revels in the joys of autumn Ekaterina Trukhan Nosy Crow National Trust

Lots and lots of cats from Nosy Crow in this counting book. They get everywhere so young readers will need to be sure to peek behind all the flaps. Lovely! #JonathanEmmett #RobHodgson

What a fun series this is! The Weather Tots don't just learn about the weather at school. Guided by Professor Cloud, they also learn how to work well together. Nia Gould's cute illustrations complement Caroline Crowe's engaging stories beautifully Oxford Children's Books