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Pollard’s very personal journey through the genre throws up innumerable fascinating facts and fuzzy nostalgic memories. Yet Fierce Bad Rabbits is unafraid to probe the darker aspects of these superficially sweet stories and analyse the fascinating, flawed individuals who created such iconic works.
A great gift for any adult with an interest in children’s books.
The author is an executive producer with the BBC Natural History Unit based in Bristol. He has published over 100 books on wildlife, science and travel.
This large-format, highly illustrated book guides readers through the key aspects of the human story, from the anatomical changes that allowed us to walk upright and increased brain size in our ancestors, to the social, cultural and economic developments of our more recent cousins and our own species. Along the way, focus spreads take a closer look at some of the key species in our history, from the ancient Australopithecus Afarensis, ‘Lucy’, to our recent cousins the Neanderthals and ourselves, Homo sapiens.
This is a quality non-fiction children’s title, excellent both for school and home libraries. It would also make a fine gift for any curious child aged 6 – 10.
Illustrator website: https://hannah-bailey.co.uk
Instagram; @hannahruthbailey88
This beautiful gift anthology marks twenty wonderful years of the Laureateship, with stories, poems and pictures by all ten former honourees.
Sunday Times Children’s Book Of The Week, 7 July 2019
More than 150 years since Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published by Macmillan, revisit Carroll’s amazing cast of characters – including the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat and Alice’s Sister in these brand-new stories, that will bring a new generation of readers to Wonderland.
Authors: Peter Bunzl, Pamela Butchart, Maz Evans, Swapna Haddow, Patrice Lawrence, Chris Smith, Robin Stevens, Lauren St John, Lisa Thompson, Piers Torday and Amy Wilson.
See inside a submarine, dive below the decks of a tall ship, take a tour inside a tank, explore a zeppelin and step on board a space station. Each spread features a different and exciting machine and gives you the inside story on these fantastic creations.
16 really breathtaking cross-sections of machines, buildings and vehicles.
Wide Eyes Editions produces top-rate non-fiction titles and this is one of their best.
Illustrator website: https://lourihn.com
From all over the world, picture book illustrators sent original images and personal messages, in postcard form, for Migrations, an exhibition at the Biennial of Illustration, Bratislava, in 2017, curated by the University of Worcester’s International Centre for the Picture Book in Society. Over fifty of the cards are reproduced in this very special book.
Recommended and highly collectible.
When a little girl called Nell makes friends with a tiny chick on her farm, it is the start of a journey that leads her into a dreamy circus realm. Was it something real or did it spring from her imagination? Nell will never be sure . . . but she leaves the tent uplifted by the wonderland that she found inside. Beautifully written by Nell Gifford, founder of Giffords Circus, and with stunning illustrations from Briony May Smith, this story brings the heart-stopping magic of the circus to the pages of a book. With a linen feel cover and foil, this sumptuous hardback makes a perfect gift choice.
A new small-format gift edition of this 1993 classic picture book retelling of the Easter story.
I don’t remember it being an issue in the original but there is one page in this version where, to my eyes, the text is insufficiently bold against the gold background.
But that’s a small quibble – this is a keenly priced, keepable and collectible title.