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Brookie and Her Lamb by M.B. Goffstein
Brookie and Her Lamb by M.B. Goffstein
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Mar 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop M. (Marilyn) B. Goffstein, who died in 2017, was an American writer and illustrator known for her precise line drawings and an ability to tell a story in the fewest possible words, using a pleasingly subtle sense of humour. The marvellous New York Review […]
Fish For Supper by M. B. Goffstein
Fish For Supper by M. B. Goffstein
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop M. (Marilyn) B. Goffstein, who died in 2017, was an American writer and illustrator known for her precise line drawings and an ability to tell a story in the fewest possible words, using a pleasingly subtle sense of humour. The marvellous New York Review Children’s Collection now brings two of the small-form […]
The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau by Jon Agee
The Incredible Painting of Felix Clousseau by Jon Agee
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Feb 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A new printing of this now-classic picture book. “Outrageous!” the judges cried. “Ridiculous!” Who would dare enter a portrait of a duck in the Grand Contest of Art? But when Felix Clousseau’s painting quacks, he is hailed as a genius. Suddenly everyone wants a […]
Comic Classics: Treasure Island – Comic Classics by Jack Noel
Comic Classics: Treasure Island – Comic Classics by Jack Noel
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Previously: Comic Classics – Great Expectations OLD books get NEW doodles – it’s the classics as you’ve never seen them before! A hilarious new series that brings the classics to life with illustrations by Jack Noel.  Jim Hawkins spends his life helping out at his mum’s boring old inn by the sea, […]
Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari ill. Valerio Vidali tr. Antony Shugaar
Telephone Tales by Gianni Rodari ill. Valerio Vidali tr. Antony Shugaar
Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who often has to travel for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story. But since it’s still the 20th-century world of payphones, each story has to be told in the time that a single coin will buy. Reminiscent of Scheherazade […]
Aesop’s Fables ill. Agnes Miller Parker tr. V.S. Vernon Jones and others
Aesop’s Fables ill. Agnes Miller Parker tr. V.S. Vernon Jones and others
This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables, including the Boy who Cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with thirty-seven woodcuts […]
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ill. Chris Riddell
Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ill. Chris Riddell
ACHUKA Book of the Day 20 Oct 2020 A new illustrated Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from Chris Riddell? You bet it’s an ACHUKA Book of the Day! Who better to introduce you to the book than Chris Riddel himself: Waterstones Amazon  
Hansel and Gretel: A Fairy Tale Revolution by Jeanette Winterson ill. Laura Barrett
Hansel and Gretel: A Fairy Tale Revolution by Jeanette Winterson ill. Laura Barrett
A fairy tale remix… Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest – a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn’t appreciate Hansel and Greta’s plans to replant trees and save the forest. In fact, she thinks they’re horrible little vegetarians. GreedyGuts doesn’t give two hoots about nature. […]
Blueblood: A Fairy Tale Revolution by Malorie Blackman ill. Laura Barrett
Blueblood: A Fairy Tale Revolution by Malorie Blackman ill. Laura Barrett
ACHUKA Book of the Day 7 Oct 2020 A feminist retelling of Bluebeard. Nia has met the man she wants to marry. Marcus is kind, clever and handsome, with a beard so dark it is nearly blue-black. Nia demands a single promise from him – that Marcus will never enter her study in the basement, […]
Witch Child by Celia Rees
Witch Child by Celia Rees
20th Anniversary updated edition of this outstanding, historical YA novel… When Mary sees her grandmother accused of witchcraft and hanged for the crime, she is silently hurried to safety by an unknown woman. The woman gives her tools to keep the record of her days – paper and ink. Mary is taken to a boat […]
Emil And The Sneaky Rat by Astrid Lindgren ill. Mini Grey
Emil And The Sneaky Rat by Astrid Lindgren ill. Mini Grey
ACHUKA Book Of The Day 11 Aug 2020 A reissue with new illustrations by Mini Grey. f.p. Sweden 1966; first UK edition 1973, as Emil’s Pranks. There’s a rat running amok in Emil’s house, and he’s determined to capture it. But hiding the rat trap just under his father’s bed probably isn’t ideal . . […]
Goldilocks And The Three Bears by Gerda Muller
Goldilocks And The Three Bears by Gerda Muller
ACHUKA Book of the Day 16 July 2020 A new edition of this take on the classic tale about curiosity by renowned author and illustrator Gerda Muller, creator of USBBY-honoured A Year in Our New Garden. Gerda Muller was born in 1926 in Naarden, the Netherlands. She studied at the Fine Arts School of Amsterdam […]
Comic Classics: Great Expectations by Jack Noel
Comic Classics: Great Expectations by Jack Noel
ACHUKA Book of the Day Mon 1 Jun 2o20 OLD books get NEW doodles… The classics as you’ve never seen them before! A hilarious new series that brings the classics to life with illustrations by Jack Noel. “A funny, thought-provoking treat, it’s the ideal way into an author whose verbosity is off-putting to most children, […]
Meet Monster – The First Big Monster Book by Ellen Blance and Ann Cook ill. Quentin Blake
Meet Monster – The First Big Monster Book by Ellen Blance and Ann Cook ill. Quentin Blake
ACHUKA Book of the Day Thu 7 May 2012 This book, published in The New York Review Children’s Collection, pulls together half a dozen stories that were originally created for beginning readers. They were developed (in the early 1970s) from conversations the authors had with children, paying attention to both vocabulary and cadence. The stories […]
The World of Astrid Lindgren
The World of Astrid Lindgren
OUP Children’s Books will be publishing a number of special titles this year to celebrate 75 Years of Pippi Longstocking… Coming in May, some titles illustrated by Mini Grey. Meanwhile these are available now… Waterstones Waterstones
Noughts And Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Noughts And Crosses by Malorie Blackman
ACHUKA Book of the Day Fri 6 Mar 2020 The TV series tie-in edition of this classic YA novel, first published nearly 20 years ago (2001). The first episode was broadcast on BBC1 on Thursday 5th March (World Book Day) and the whole series is available on iPlayer. Sephy is a Cross: she lives a […]
Topsy And Tim: On The Farm (Anniversary Edition) by Jean & Gareth Adamson
Topsy And Tim: On The Farm (Anniversary Edition) by Jean & Gareth Adamson
ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 26 Feb 2020 Topsy and Tim are the twins who have entertained, guided and delighted children for 60 years. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of publishing, Topsy and Tim: On the Farm is a gorgeous new edition of one of the very first stories about these loveable twins, complete […]
Jane Eyre: A retelling by Tanya Landman
Jane Eyre: A retelling by Tanya Landman
Orphaned as a child, tormented by her guardian and cast out to a harsh boarding school, Jane Eyre has been raised in the shadow of cruelty and isolation. But when she takes a job as governess in Thornfield Hall, where secrets lurk in the attic and strange laughter echoes through the night, Jane meets the […]
Deep Secret by Belrie Doherty
Deep Secret by Belrie Doherty
Welcome new edition of Doherty’s 2004 novel… Grace put out her hand, almost touching the mirror. Her image did the same. ‘There’s another world in there.’ ‘We could float in and out of it.’ Deep in a Derbyshire valley live two girls, twins, so alike that even their family can’t tell them apart. But tragedy […]
The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follet
The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follet
Originally written by Barbara Newhall Follett in 1927, when she was only twelve years old, The House Without Windows is an enchanting fable about the rhapsodic beauty of the natural world, and one of our very favourite books of the year. A magical story of self-discovery and the lure of the great outdoors, Follett’s masterpiece […]
Osbert by Noel Streatfeild ill. Susanne Suba
Osbert by Noel Streatfeild ill. Susanne Suba
Available again after nearly 70 years out of print… Aunt Cathy’s wedding is tomorrow, but Father insists on keeping Osbert the family dog away from the festivities. Father says he’s too unsightly! Can the heartbroken children work a miracle in time?  Suba, a Hungarian-born American illustrator, died in 2012 (b. 1913). “A charming historical curiosity.” […]
Flambards by K. M. Peyton
Flambards by K. M. Peyton
A welcome new edition of this much-loved children’s classic. Christina is sent to live with her uncle in his country house, Flambards, and knows from the moment she arrives that she’ll never fit in. Her uncle is fierce and domineering and her cousin, Mark, is selfish-but despite all this, Christina discovers a passion for horse-riding […]
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes ill. Chris Mould
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes ill. Chris Mould
Shortlisted for FOYLES Children’s Book of the year 2019 The Ted Hughes classic, illustrated by Chris Mould. Waterstones
Awesomely Austen: Jane Austen’s Persuasion Illustrated and Retold by Narinder Dhami ill. Eglantine Ceulemans
Awesomely Austen: Jane Austen’s Persuasion Illustrated and Retold by Narinder Dhami ill. Eglantine Ceulemans
One of several Jane Austen books that have been given a makeover for a young audience, using various authors (Narinder Dhami in this instance) and a single illustrator to provide a uniform look. I really like the way Ceulemans has provided character illustrations at the start of the novel and occasional scene illustrations that have […]
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