Shortlisted for 2022 CLiPPA Award Waterstones Amazon Bake a weird cake, pay a visit to the Deep, and get some inspiration for your very own word hoard! Anything is possible in the world of Cloud Soup, Kate Wakeling’s breathlessly imaginative collection of poems for children. Quieter poems sit alongside riotously funny ones in this sequel […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 2 May 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A brand new collection for children from poet, writer and broadcaster, Roger McGough Just when you are ready to write your first poem, along come the words and cause mayhem! ‘Poems can be like that sometimes,’ says Roger McGough. Here Roger’s witty poems take […]
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Enhanced by poetry in rhyme, this spectacular ocean ballet fairly sings when read aloud… LaTulippe weaves plenty of French and English ballet terms (pas de chat, arabesque, fifth position, etc.) into the text and defines them in a skillfully child-friendly closing glossary. Metzger’s delicate watercolor illustrations use a palette dominated by the […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 6 Apr 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop This rich resource collects together folk tales from home and legends and myths from distant lands to commemorate the animals, plants and the changing seasons that make planet Earth so beautiful. The anthology contains: – The Peruvian tale of Cuniraya and the Magic Fruit […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Mon 14 Mar 2020 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop With one last hug, Windrush chid waves goodbye to his Caribbean home and sets sail across the ocean to Britain. In this powerful picture book, full of hope and promise, poet John Agard and illustrator Sophie Bass movingly evoke the journey made by […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 4 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop It is with deepest sorrow that we announce that Shirley died peacefully in her sleep at home on Friday 25th February. Ed, Tom and Clara Shirley’s children Photo credit Lizzie Mayson pic.twitter.com/INWppaf9vB — Shirley Hughes (@ShirleyHughes_) March 2, 2022 In honour of Shirley Hughes, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Mar 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A powerful picture book about communicating emotions and relating to fellow creatures, from an award-winning duo. Creature-of-No-Words lives a happy life on his own, but one day he gets a feeling like ‘the chill touch of ice’ and nothing can lift his sadness. Just […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 11 Feb 2022 Waterstones Amazon From the Publisher The country’s best — and shockingly undervalued — nonsense poet has compiled a collection of his most popular poems and added new illustrations to help out a children’s literature charity (see below). The result is just under a hundred pages of unrivalled […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Jan 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Meet helpful dwarfs, mischievous gnomes and powerful fairy folk in this sumptuously illustrated storybook anthology of classic European folk tales. Much-loved stories such as ‘Kate Crackernuts’, ‘Tom Tit Tot’ and ‘The Griffin’ take readers on a journey through Europe as they climb snowy mountains, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Jan 2o22 Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 30 Jan 2022 Costa Book Awards Category Winner Shortlisted for 2022 CLiPPA Award Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Powerful, compassionate and ultimately hopeful.” Guardian A novel about two teenagers from opposite worlds, The Crossing is a profound story of hope, grief, and the […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 3 Jan 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop It’s good to kick off a new year of Book of the Day selections with this 100+ page collected poems by Roger Stevens from Otter-Barry Books. The book collects poems from Stevens’ four solo collections previously published by Macmillan and some others included in […]
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 Spectator Best Children’s Books 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 […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 5 Nov 2021 Times Children’s Book of the Week 13 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 […]
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 […]