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Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky ill. Ruth Chan
Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast: And Other Tasty Poems by Jack Prelutsky ill. Ruth Chan
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 […]
Beautiful Day!: Petite Poems for All Seasons by Rodoula Pappa ill. Seng Soun Ratanavanh
Beautiful Day!: Petite Poems for All Seasons by Rodoula Pappa ill. Seng Soun Ratanavanh
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 […]
Nature Trail by Benjamin Zephaniah ill. Nila Aye
Nature Trail by Benjamin Zephaniah ill. Nila Aye
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, […]
The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems chosen by Brian Moses
The Best Ever Book of Funny Poems chosen by Brian Moses
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‘ […]
Stars With Flaming Tails by Valerie Bloom ill. Ken Wilson-Max
Stars With Flaming Tails by Valerie Bloom ill. Ken Wilson-Max
ACHUKA Book of the Day 16 Feb 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Valerie Bloom is one of ACHUKA’s favourite poets and this is her first new solo collection for several years. Bold black illustrations from Ken Wilson-Max throughout. Organised into poems about Family And Friends, Fun With Forms, Our World, and Unbelievable. Bloom is a poet […]
Winter Tales by Dawn Casey ill. Zanna Goldhawk
Winter Tales by Dawn Casey ill. Zanna Goldhawk
ACHUKA Book of the Day 12 Feb 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A treasury of stories celebrating the wonders of winter, and the qualities within that warm our hearts through the long cold. Particularly relevant in the week of its selection as Book of the Day, with the UK gripped in an icy blast. The book, […]
The King With Dirty Feet by Sally Pomme Clayton ill. Rhiannon Sanderson
The King With Dirty Feet by Sally Pomme Clayton ill. Rhiannon Sanderson
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Inspired by an Indian and Bangladeshi folktale, The King And The Cobbler. There once was a king who hated bath time so much that he never washed. He was a very smelly king! The king is finally persuaded to bathe in the river but no matter how clean the rest of him […]
Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert ill. Nick Hayes
Tales From the Hinterland by Melissa Albert ill. Nick Hayes
ACHUKA Book of the Day 1 Feb 2021 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Dark, demanding and delicious.” KIRKUS from the author of The Hazel Wood… A highly anticipated collection of twelve deeply creepy pitch-dark stories each with a gorgeously illustrated lino print title page by Nick Hayes. The story ‘The Clockwork Bride’ is worth the cover price […]
Comic Classics: Treasure Island – Comic Classics by Jack Noel
Comic Classics: Treasure Island – Comic Classics by Jack Noel
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, […]
Weird, Wild & Wonderful: The Poetry World of James Carter by James Carter ill. Neal Layton
Weird, Wild & Wonderful: The Poetry World of James Carter by James Carter ill. Neal Layton
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Packed with James Carter’s most popular and requested poems, plus 8 brand new poems, this is an important collection from one of the top children’s poets writing today. Expect to hear the moon speak, explore a magic wood and play air guitar. You’ll meet wolves, elephants and a dung beetle; you’ll get […]
Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye ill. Rafael Lopez
Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye ill. Rafael Lopez
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Jan 2020 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Emotionally resonant and stirring, this is a must-have title.” KIRKUS “Lucky the reader who would have this collection lying around for visiting and revisiting.” HORN BOOK Everything Comes Next is a treasure chest of Naomi Shihab Nye’s poems from the past 40 years, including […]
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book by Lucy Rowland ill. Ben Mantle
The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Book by Lucy Rowland ill. Ben Mantle
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 […]
The Magic Of Mums by Justin Coe ill. Steve Wells
The Magic Of Mums by Justin Coe ill. Steve Wells
Be entranced by Circus Mum, find out what it’s like to have a Celebrity Mum, play the beautiful game with Football Mum, admire Hard-working Mum, School-Run-Mum and Stunt Mum, and discover what it’s like to have Two Mums. A funny, heart-warming and thoughtful sequel to The Dictionary of Dads, by a brilliant poet, who performs […]
There’s a Crocodile in the House by Paul Cookson ill.Liz Million
There’s a Crocodile in the House by Paul Cookson ill.Liz Million
Cookson’s  assured sense of rhythm and rhyme make this a wonderful collection for reading aloud. The poems are so accessible they will appeal to the full primary school age range. Perfect for every teacher to have in their kitbag for those precious spare moments in the teaching day. And it goes without saying there should […]
Apple: Skin To The Core by Eric Gansworth
Apple: Skin To The Core by Eric Gansworth
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 […]
The Queen, the Princes and the Mermaid: Hans Christian Andersen’s Most Enchanting Tales ill. Lucie Arnoux (illustrator) tr. Misha Hoekstra
The Queen, the Princes and the Mermaid: Hans Christian Andersen’s Most Enchanting Tales ill. Lucie Arnoux (illustrator) tr. Misha Hoekstra
ACHUKA Book of the Day 26 Nov 2020 A girl journeys across unknown lands to rescue her friend from the clutches of The Snow Queen, who has imprisoned his heart in ice. A sister struggles to break the spell that has turned her ten princely brothers into swans. A mermaid decides to leave her underwater […]
A Poem for Every Winter Day – A Poem for Every Day and Night of the Year ed. Allie Esiri
A Poem for Every Winter Day – A Poem for Every Day and Night of the Year ed. Allie Esiri
The poems are selected from Allie Esiri’s bestselling poetry anthologies A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year. Perfect for reading aloud and sharing with all the family, this book dazzles with an array of familiar favourites and remarkable new discoveries. These seasonal poems – together […]
A World Of Poems ed. Sylvia Vardell ill. Sonny Ross
A World Of Poems ed. Sylvia Vardell ill. Sonny Ross
ACHUKA Book of the Day 16 Nov 2020 The American anthologist (and poetry blogger) of this new collection from DK writes: “It was such a privilege to have this project come my way at the beginning of the year and once the pandemic hit in March, it became such a therapeutic outlet. I read and […]
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett
ACHUKA Book of the Day, Wednesday 4 Nov 2020 People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales – to help their children imagine a world where they are the heroes. Karrie and Jon were reading their child these […]
Reynard The Fox by Anne Louise Avery
Reynard The Fox by Anne Louise Avery
ACHUKA Book of the Day 30 Oct 2020 We cannot recommend this book highly enough… A book made for shuttered winter reading. Buy three copies – one for yourself, one to give to an adult friend, and one to an older child or teen hungry to have their vocabulary broadened. Those who follow our Twitter […]
The Stone Giant by Anna Hoglund tr.Julia Marshall
The Stone Giant by Anna Hoglund tr.Julia Marshall
ACHUKA Book of the Day 29 Oct 2020 “The Stone Giant is both beautiful and taut. It is fairy-tale telling reminiscent of Grimms’, but not too scary for little ones. Anna Höglund, inspired by the Swedish author Elsa Beskow’s Tripp, Trapp, Trull, brings us a tale of bravery, audacity and cleverness.” VOLUME “My dear child, […]
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature ed. & tr. Miriam Udel ill. Paula Cohen
Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children’s Literature ed. & tr. Miriam Udel ill. Paula Cohen
ACHUKA Book of the Day 23 Oct 2020 An extensive collection of Yiddish literary texts for children translated into English, this anthology contains works from familiar as well as not so widely known Yiddish language writers… [A] comprehensive and valuable set of stories and poetry. KIRKUS  Arranged thematically-from school days to the holidays-the book takes […]
Aesop’s Fables ill. Agnes Miller Parker tr. V.S. Vernon Jones and others
Aesop’s Fables ill. Agnes Miller Parker tr. V.S. Vernon Jones and others
This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables, including the Boy who Cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with thirty-seven woodcuts […]
Cherry Moon: Little Poems Big Ideas Mindful of Nature by Zaro Weil ill. Junli Song
Cherry Moon: Little Poems Big Ideas Mindful of Nature by Zaro Weil ill. Junli Song
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Oct 2020 Winner of the 2020 CLIPPA Poetry Award A poetry collection that captures eye-popping moments, tender observations and a thousand whimsical reflections on the sheer joy of the natural world. Cherry Moon bubbles with excitement and creativity. Discover parades of beast-doodles, preposterous penguins, talking blossoms, razz- dazzle birds, humble […]
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