From the first UFO abduction to the disappearance of plane MH370, there have been matters to perplex mankind for decades. Here the author uses expert testimony, scientific knowledge and historical fact to help explain the unexplainable. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur Adventures by Emily Hawkins ill. Lucy Letherland How To Think Like An […]
This powerful and enduring story has been brought to new life by a master illustrator. The book presents the complete, unabridged text with 20 full-colour artworks and 30 ball-and-white (pencil-sketch-style) illustrations. Listed in our Illustrated, Classics and Gift sections the book will make a perfect present for any child’s home library. Waterstones Related posts: […]
If we were a physical bookshop we would have this front of house for sure. A gorgeous Christmas picture book that’s destined to become a festive classic. A little fir tree is too small and too imperfect to be chosen at Christmas time. But being left alone in the forest brings more rewards than the […]
Empowering fairy tales have brought together (by various retailers) to inspire a new generation of readers. Discover heroines who outwit giants, fight evil, awaken sleeping princes and, of course, live happily ever after. With a foreword by Kate Pankhurst, author of Fantastically Great Women who Changed the World. Illustrated throughout by Isabella Grott – follow […]
An illustrated encyclopedia of Greek mythology like no other, Mythologica features startlingly beautiful and exquisitely otherworldly portraits of mythological characters in eye-popping colour from artist Victoria Topping and authoritative text from Classics scholar and Greek mythology expert Dr Stephen Kershaw. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur Adventures by Emily Hawkins ill. Lucy Letherland Stupendous Science […]
Celebrate the dawning of a new decade with the fully revised Guinness World Records 2020. A new decade means it’s time for a fresh approach, so starting with the front cover, there is a re-booted all-new design. There’s a new look inside as well – a team of digital artists has created mind-blowing poster pages […]
Illustrated with lush, detailed drawings and accompanied by droll, lightly absurd imitations of marketing copy, each of Beisner’s toys will have children and adults inspired to imagine eccentric creations of their own. In September 2014, the American poet and writer Matthea Harvey, born in Germany in 1973 but raised in England, named Beisner’s Fantastic Toys as […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day, Fri 18 Oct 2019 The opposite of a textbook, this beautifully illustrated, descriptive encyclopedia introduces children to 100 of nature’s most remarkable animals, plants, minerals, and microscopic organisms. From orchids to opals and tapirs to toadstools, this book is filled with incredible facts and fascinating stories. Each entry is accompanied […]
ACHUKA #BookOfThe Day Tue 8 Oct 2019 Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer and she has compiled the most wonderful collection of strange and beguiling words. I love this book! It has words in it for all ages. I’m a cat lover but I didn’t realise that makes me an ‘ailurophile’. There are words for our […]
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 […]
This beautiful gift anthology marks twenty wonderful years of the Laureateship, with stories, poems and pictures by all ten former honourees. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur Adventures by Emily Hawkins ill. Lucy Letherland Llamaphones by Janik Coat Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights tr. Laurence Housman ill. Edmund Dulac Into […]
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 […]
Katherine Rundell – Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children – explores how children’s books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children’s fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for […]
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. […]
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. […]
Where in the world would you most like to go? You could join a stampede of wildebeest in the Serengeti, dive to the deepest parts of the ocean, climb soaring mountain peaks in the Himalayas or take a gondola ride along the canals of Venice. This spectacular picture book has it all – taking readers […]
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 […]
As funny and memorable as Morag Hood’s previous books, Colin and Lee, Carrot and Pea, I Am Bat and The Steves. With its sweet and natural portrayal of love accidentally blooming between two aardvarks, it will make a brilliant gift for Valentine’s Day. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur Adventures by Emily Hawkins ill. Lucy […]
This perfect gift features famous poems, old and new, and a few surprises. Classic verses from William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, W. B. Yeats and Christina Rossetti sit alongside poems from Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Carol Ann Duffy, Neil Gaiman and Roger McGough to create the ultimate collection. n Poems to Live Your Life By, Chris Riddell, Waterstones Children’s Laureate 2015-2017 and political cartoonist for the Observer, has selected his very favourite […]
My First Snow Children is a lively abridgment of the traditional classic The Story of the Snow Children. Presented for the first time as a beautiful board book for very young children, it includes all of Sybille von Olfer’s original art-nouveau illustrations, sympathetically adapted to fit the new format. Waterstones Related posts: Mog and Me […]
Anne Spudvilas is one of Australia’s most talented visual artists. As well as an illustrator of children’s books she is an established portrait painter and printmaker. She lives in Wentworth, where the Murray and Darling rivers meet, surrounded by birds and river red gums. A book equally at home in a child’s bedroom or in […]
A fascinating and funny guide to animals and their poo, and all the other tracks and traces they leave behind. You will be amazed (and perhaps a little revolted!) by the things that can be learned about wildlife from their deposits. Become a detective, find clues and learn all about animals from what they leave […]