ACHUKA Book of the Day 12 May 2022 Times Children’s Book of the Week 23 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Grey’s jokes and wild imagination elevate this far above the many non-fiction science titles for children flooding the market. It’s in the running for the greatest children’s picture book about Earth.” The Times Mini Grey’s […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop The reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II has been long and eventful. Over the past 70 years, Great Britain has seen incredible changes in the ways we live, think and feel, shaped by the inspiring people who were born in Britain or arrived on its shores. As we approach the Platinum Jubilee […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “[Dunlap] anchors the book solidly in primary-source material, following Thoreau’s copious recorded observations of nature, including his classic work Walden, crafting an insightful and vivid portrait for readers.” Horn Book “[A] richly detailed field guide to Thoreau that offers older readers ample inspiration for outdoor exploration. Back matter includes further resources, notes on […]
Times Children’s Book of the Week 9 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Blackwells Inspired by the true story of his father’s cousin, Michael Rosen presents an astonishing wartime story of perseverance and hope in the face of horrors and hardship. Beginning in 1939, young Solly in London exchanges letters with his teenaged cousin, Bernie, in […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 20 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Published by What on Earth Books, a UK-based children’s non-fiction publishing house founded in 2010 by world history author Christopher Lloyd and illustrator Andy Forshaw. Antarctica – vast, cold and mysterious. This frozen continent is full of incredible stories. Discover incredible wildlife, awe-inspiring landscapes […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 13 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Where on Earth are you, right now? It’s late where I am and almost everyone’s asleep, but I’m awake, looking out into the night. Wondering… As the clock strikes midnight, a little girl and her sister visit animals of every shape and size, all […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 11 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The nature elements that appear as motifs throughout the artwork, coupled with detailed close-ups of the processes of whittling, sewing, and bookbinding, reveal just how much Morris’ art was connected to his appreciation of the beauty of the natural world. A harmonious picture book whose […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 31 Mar 2022 Amazon Bookshop “Vibrant and fun.” Simon Smith “Vivid, fine-lined watercolors by Chau offer sweeping, energetic cartoon-style scenes. Chinese calligraphy appears throughout, while plentiful onomatopoeia and staccato sentences successfully evoke the action in this dynamic profile of a living legend.” Publishers Weekly An action-packed picture book biography about […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 22 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop An inspiring picture book about the meteorologist whose discoveries helped us understand how weather works. When Joanne Simpson (1923-2010) was a girl, she sailed her boat beneath the puffy white clouds of Cape Cod. As a pilot, she flew her plane so high, its […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop From the author of Under The Stars, Astrophysics For Everyone. Did life on Earth arrive on a meteorite from outer space? Are there living beings on planets beyond our solar system? If they are out there, what might these aliens look like? Would they be smart, curious, scared? Would they even want […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 17 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A gorgeous, moving look at motherhood from different cultures and eras. Each of Greban’s breath-taking pencil and watercolor illustrations of a mother and child is paired with a free form poem by Delforge imagining the experience and thoughts of that mother. A wonderfully diverse […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Great for dipping into. Perfect for primary classroom libraries. Some of the numbers can seem a little arbitrary and many will quite quickly become out of date. The page designs don’t quite meet DK’s usual high standards. DK’s cool compendium takes children on a number crunching journey around the wonders of our […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 15 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop From Aud the Deep-Minded, an early voyager to Iceland, and Sacagawea who guided the Lewis and Clark expedition across the USA, to Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space and Arunima Sinha, the first woman amputee to climb Mount Everest, this book shows […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop An impressive gift and coffee table book compiled by someone with years of experience as a childminder. Nearly all the photos in this richly illustrated and well-designed title are by the author herself. Do you remember those unexpected, gloriously lazy days of childhood, where time seemed to stretch out forever? Zoe Lake […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “It feels rescued from a fairy tale sea or an enchanted castle flooded by a spell. Its contents include never-before-seen paintings that look as if they too had dodged if not ruin then being forgotten — as well as family photos, sketchbooks, memorabilia, speeches and personal appreciations that document the life and […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Water is life! Freshwater bubbles, flows and floods with the most wonderful life on Earth – and all of us rely on it to stay alive. BUT today, because of pollution and climate change, it is becoming more and more difficult for people and animals to find the clean freshwater they need […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 3 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop What exists in the space between the words and the pictures? How do the stories unfold? What happens between the first sketch and finished picturebook? Twelve of the world’s finest contemporary picturebook makers generously share their experiences, challenges, doubts, sketches, illustrations, and invaluable insights […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 24 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A beautiful and informative book encapsulating the excitement and wonder of adventure and travel – all seen through the world’s most spectacular train journeys. Travel across six continents, thirty-four countries and numerous cities via twelve of the world’s most amazing train journeys. Adventures on […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Colin is no ordinary flower. Colin smells appealing – just like the other flowers around him. The only trouble is, he crackles and crunches and flutters in the wind. He can’t seem to find where he belongs, but he smells so delicious that all the animals want to eat him… But Colin […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop From ‘What’s wrong with the idea of ‘race”? and ‘Why is life harder for people with darker skin?’ to ‘Don’t ALL lives matter?’ and ‘What’s racism got to do with me?’, this book tackles powerful, pertinent questions in a direct, accessible and thought-provoking way. Discover why racism is everyone’s problem to solve, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Nicholas Jubber’s The Fairy Tellers is billed as “A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales”. It focuses on half a dozen identifiable individuals who gave us most of the well-known stories. There’s the Neapolitan Gianbattista Basile, who wrote the first western European […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 17 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop First published nearly 10 years ago, and now revised an updated in a new edition, this is an illustrated non-fiction book every bit as good as we have come to expect from Flying Eye Books. Follow the illustrator, Ben Newman, on Instagram and read […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 27 Jan 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The warmly colored illustrations are splendid, providing realistic depictions of the animals and the landscapes surrounding them. Wombat is presented as a cuddly, endearing animal; throughout, the artwork focuses readers’ close attention on how Wombat shelters inside its underground lair.” KIRKUS Nearly 3 billion […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 13 Jan 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A new addition to the Questioneers series, a full-color nonfiction early reader series based on the new Ada Twist, Scientist Netflix series! Why do airplanes look the way they do? Why can’t birds fly when they’re first born? And why do some paper planes […]