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Waterstones Amazon Bookshop (unlisted) A beautiful, empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true story from the childhood of the author’s aunt, Kamala Harris, and mother, lawyer and policy expert Maya Harris. One day, Kamala and Maya had an idea. A big idea: They would […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Maisy’s friend Tiger is coming home especially for Chinese New Year! Once the house is tidy and the decorations are up, Maisy changes into her lovely red dress and throws a big party for all her friends. They have a delicious feast, tell stories, see the fireworks together and, on new year’s […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 20 Jan 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A wordless, singing infusion of love and energy into a home.” KIRKUS In this bustling wordless picture book, JonArno Lawson’s touching story and Qin Leng’s gentle illustrations capture all angles of the building’s transformation, as well as the evolving perspectives of the girl and […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A feel-good picture book about friendship and change, from the bestselling author of The Suitcase (2019), translated into over 20 languages. Beetle and Caterpillar are best friends. Every day, they sit together on a big rock, sharing a picnic and looking out over the forest. But one day, Caterpillar goes missing and, […]
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, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The Worrying Worries is a great picture book for kids. Written in rhyme, the story is fun and upbeat. It’s full of entertaining and relatable shenanigans that engage and trigger giggles. Zehra Hicks’ vibrant illustrations sparkle with colour and the funky characters are joyful (even the Worry, which really is very cute). All […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 7 Jan 2020 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop What a sense of character illustrator Rachael Saunders has given Fidget! This is a book that combines humour and heart with a faultless read-aloud rhythm. One that will be requested and read over and over. An epic tale of love, loss, reunion and adventure […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A poignant and heart-warming picture book exploring the importance of making space and time for our own griefs, small or large, sensitively visualized with David Litchfield’s stunning illustration. A small boy creates a shelter for his sadness, a safe space where Sadness is welcome, where it can curl up small, or be […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A witty take on a much-loved fairy tale, The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book celebrates the magic of reading and storytelling, and being kind to others. A follow-up to Little Red Riding Hood by the same author-illustrator team: When Ben’s mum gets distracted halfway through his bedtime story, he […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Jan 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Endnotes clarify terms and figures, and a resource list includes child-friendly books, websites, museums, and poems. A substantive and affirming addition to any collection.” KIRKUS Brimming with passion, beauty, flow, and style, here is an ABC book like no other – a celebration of Black […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 4 Jan 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop It’s tough fitting in when you’re born to stick out! From the moment Stick Boy and his family move to Little Town, there is way more to worry about than being the new kid. There’s a mysterious plot involving Baron Ben’s new Mega Mall, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 25 Dec 2020 Waterstones Bookshop Amazon The first in a series of non-fiction books from Britta Teckentrup, published by Templar and Big Picture Books. There are fish everywhere! Some of them live in freshwater, some of them live under ice, and some even live in the desert. This is non-fiction […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 24 Dec 2020 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Amit’s soft-edged illustrations, done in a palette of muted blues, reds, and grays, depict unclothed animals who walk on all fours and play boisterously but inhabit human homes and write using pen and paper… An understated delight from Israel.” KIRKUS Snoozie is a cat, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Tue 22 Dec 2020 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A richly illustrated affirmation for Black children — especially boys. Stunning. Powerful. Timely. Illustrated inspiration at its best.” Horn Book “The journey from beginning to end of the book sends a message that is nurturing, nourishing, loving, and reassuring, expanding and deepening the […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Dec 2020 “The technical aspect of the work is mind-boggling, especially the masterly crosshatching. Staring at the images, I couldn’t stop imagining Van den Ende, pen in hand, drawing each line, one after the other, creating work that seems to defy the passage of time, and all known resources […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Dec 2020 Created by one of the world’s leading paper engineers and art directors, Gérard Lo Monaco, A Train Journey is a beautifully layered, pop-up celebration of trains. It begins in 1829 with Robert Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’ locomotive, the most advanced of its day, which operated on the Liverpool and […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 9 Dec 2020 Indie Bookshops Book of the Month Nov 2020 ‘A longer length picture book for older children, it has a feel of a contemporary fairytale and a real sprinkle of Christmas magic, enhanced by Terrazzini’s gorgeously detailed art and lavish production values.’ – The Bookseller Best known for […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Dec 2020 This is a really charming graphic-novel picture book, presented in the form of a young girl’s nature diary. It is set in Goldfields in Dja Dja Warrung county and features the Bibrons Toadlet living at Happy Valley, Ballantinia plants growing at Leanganook, Golden Whistler, a smoking ceremony with […]
“A reader who skips the subtitle may not ever notice that the patient mother who encourages her child’s imaginative play and curiosity here is scientist and author Rachel Carson (1907–1964). But while readers may not come away with a greater biographical knowledge of Carson per se, Wiles’s story itself embodies a Carson quote that opens […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 3 Dec 2020 “The true pleasure of this retrospective is that it highlights key moments from the books, in chronological order, and compares the various illustrators’ ways of depicting them. We see the same sequence drawn in different eras (with different fashions and hairstyles); we see varying unscripted reactions on […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 2 Dec 2020 “Easily one of the best books to be published in 2020. The kind of book bound to save lives.” John Freeman, LitHub “This introspective memoir confirms by its very existence that, though the boarding schools tried to erase Indian culture, Native peoples “are still / here, / still […]