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 […]
Lift the flaps in this fascinating book to discover how engineering works and the many things engineers do. Includes internet links to find out more. Published for the 2018 Year of Engineering. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur Adventures by Emily Hawkins ill. Lucy Letherland Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie ill. Sam Peet All […]
I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year – named after the first line of Judith Nicholls‘ poem ‘Windsong’ – is a lavishly illustrated collection of 366 nature poems; one for every day of the year, including leap years. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur Adventures […]
A mysterious gothic Christmas tale set in a frost-bound Victorian country mansion. When orphaned Seren Rees is given a mysterious package by a strange and frightened man on her way to her new home, she reluctantly takes it with her. But what is in the parcel? Who are the Family who must not be spoken […]
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 16 Sep 2018 Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling’s best-known characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. As Mowgli travels through the Indian jungle, this brilliantly visual tale, which […]
A full-colour gift book of ten darkly-comic and hilarious cautionary tales by Astrosaurs author Steve Cole, illustrated by Tim Archbold. In these delightfully humorous tales of a decidedly blackish hue, ten follysome toads can never change their beastly habits despite the efforts of goodly witch Madame Rana who reminds them ‘It’s never too late to […]
This entrancing contemporary fairy tale is brought gloriously to life by Hans Christian Andersen Award nominee Jane Ray. “Jane Ray’s jewel-bright illustrations shine like the flourishes of an illuminated manuscript in Saviour Pirotta’s The Unicorn Prince, featuring a crumbling castle, a dauntless heroine, industrious fairies and an enchanted prince. Gorgeous gowns, wild dreams, transformations and […]
The fifth title in this best-selling non-fiction series, with thirty destinations from around the world to visit. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur Adventures by Emily Hawkins ill. Lucy Letherland Stupendous Science by Rob Beattie ill. Sam Peet Llamaphones by Janik Coat Sinbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights tr. Laurence Housman […]
Take a tour of the United Kingdom as you’ve never seen it before in this fully illustrated set of county maps. The contemporary and the historical, the significant and the insignificant rub shoulders with one another in such a way that trivia-minded children (and adults) will find addictively fascinating. Waterstones Related posts: Atlas Of Dinosaur […]