ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Dec 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Following Hendrix through his difficult childhood, military service, and stints in Nashville, New York, and London, blocks of text emphasize the figure’s complicated parental relationships, disinterest in conformity, and dedication to his craft. Digitally enhanced oil-based woodblock ink art centers images of Hendrix’s face […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 23 Nov 2021 Times Children’s Book of the Week 20 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Crossley-Holland writes like a dream and has the knack of making these stories, which could have felt stuffy in less elegant hands, feel fresh and relevant, while Riddell’s stunning, colourful illustrations — showing handsome warriors, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 9 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Back in print some half a century after it first appeared, thanks to the New York Review Children’s Collection. Alice and Martin Provensen were one of the most talented husband-and-wife author-illustrator teams of the twentieth century. A long-out-of-print cult classic, The Provensen Book of […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Nov 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A powerful and personal story from one of Britain’s best-loved authors about his recovery from coronavirus. After being admitted to hospital in 2020 with coronavirus, Michael Rosen had to learn to walk again. With the support of doctors and nurses and a walking stick […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop This gift-book contains over a hundred poems, chosen by creator of the bestselling The Poetry Pharmacy, William Sieghart, and illustrated by Emily Sutton. Divided into four thoughtfully-curated sections, including Poems to Make You Smile, Poems to Move You, Poems to Give You Hope and Poems to Calm and Connect You, the poems […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Drawing from centuries of artistic and literary traditions from around the world, this bedtime book pairs works of art with poems and short fiction. Divided into eight thematic sections it features dozens of double-paged spreads that families will turn to again and again as part of their bedtime routine. The carefully chosen, […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Collaborating once more with iconic artist, Michael Foreman, Morpurgo’s poems are inspired by The Carnival of the Animals – a humorous musical by the French composer Camille Saint-Saens. Building on this classic framework, Michael has added many more animals – they speak in their own voices, full of humour and brio, to […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 29 Oct 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Creepy and progressive.” KIRKUS “Gleefully retold…” Publishers Weekly “These are not saccharine, happy, good triumphs over evil, happily ever after, warm fuzzy bedtime stories. No, these fairy tales hark back to the original folklore tales that sought to teach children life lessons, sometimes harsh, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 13 Oct 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Published in association with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, When Poems fall from the Sky celebrates the marriage of science and poetry. The poems, story-poems, raps, rhymes, haiku and little plays inside this fantastical anthology about nature are a riot of imagination, humour and joy. […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 7 Oct 2021 (National Poetry Day) Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “I have always believed poetry should serve everyone, and as the Irish Children’s Literature Laureate from 2018 to 2020 I spearheaded a project called We Are The Poets, which sought to deliver poems to those who thought it couldn’t be theirs. […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 9 Sep 2021 Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 12 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “A simply stunning book crafted with love and skill.” BfK 5-star review This magnificent and generous picture book (it has 90+ pages) sets out to be the “beginning of an exciting musical journey”—you can tell […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Enjoy a rich collection of folktales, myths and legends from all over Africa and the Caribbean, re-told for young readers. From the trickster tales of Anansi the spider, to the story of how the leopard got his spots; from the tale of the king who wanted to touch the moon, to Aunt […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 2 Sep 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “This is a special collection, skillfully written and imbued with insight, warmth, encouragement and reassurance which should be in the hands of teenage girls everywhere.” BfK 5-star review A new collection of some 50 poems (only 7 of which have previously appeared) by one […]
ACHUKA Book o the Day 27 Aug 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A simply delightful collection of new poems for the very young. A must-have for anyone involved in early years education. Single-poet collections of this kind usually have four or five stand-out poems with the remainder a bit so-so. That’s not the case here. There’s […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Just Imagine review In a seamless narrative, poet Coral Rumble creates a world with utterly believable characters and sensitively highlights the dilemmas and challenges some young people face growing up. For 9+ An inventive and evocative story, told in poems. Ava is hiding… from the small, cramped room where she lives with her […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 30 Jun 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The language in these poems is simple but not simplistic: “I hope you are / somewhere / safe / Treefrog // holding on tight / with those grippy toes / riding your / snug saddle of leaves.” Each entry crafts a single episode; together […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A beautiful gift anthology containing forty incredible shape poems in the shape of world shapers! Learn about about Amelia Earhart in a poem shaped like a plane, Maya Angelou in a poem shaped like a bird or Francis Drake in a poem shaped like a ship. Each poem is paired with a […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Jun 2021 Times Children’s Book of the Week 29 May 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “This anthology for kids is funny, clever and very readable, whether you’re a parent reciting it out loud or an emerging or accomplished reader.” The Times Brian Bilston’s first collection for children. 50 Ways to […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “The illustrations by Victoria Wheeler are a perfect adjunct to the words – spiky, simple, pen and ink images that capture a mood or situation, allowing the imagination free rein.” BfK 5-star review A ground-breaking anthology of 45 poems by three leading poets offers understanding, support and encouragement. Read about the Land […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 20 Apr 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Nonsense confidently delivered in lines that scan satisfyingly (“My dragon is mad at my ogre, / My ogre is mad at my gnome, / My gnome will not talk to my goblin. / It’s truly upsetting my home”), surrounded by Chan’s exuberantly cartooned black-and-white […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Apr 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A picture book of haiku-inspired poems celebrating the four seasons. In simple, poetic verse, a child observes their world from spring to summer, and autumn through winter, in this gentle ode to the seasons, accompanied by exquisite illustrations [see examples] Rodoula Pappa is a […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A joyful celebration of nature and the wonder of the world around us by legendary poet and performer Benjamin Zephaniah. At the bottom of my garden, there’s a hedgehog and a frog, And a lot of creepy-crawlies living underneath a log… All around us, from parks to gardens and flowerpots to pavements, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 18 Mar 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A new anthology of humorous children’s poems from Macmillan, curated by Brian Moses, who has been a Macmillan children’s poet for many years. Check out Lost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses, a collection which includes performance stalwarts such as ‘Walking with My Iguana‘ […]