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Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
Rez Dogs by Joseph Bruchac
2022 Boston Globe–Horn Book Fiction and Poetry Award Honor Book Waterstones Amazon Bookshop “Hidden throughout this moving novel in verse, old stories are discovered like buried treasures.” KIRKUS “Bruchac , who is Abenaki, pens a spare novel-in-verse that richly addresses an array of subjects, including Wabanaki legends and beliefs, residential schools, the Covid-19 pandemic, and […]
Ready for Spaghetti: Funny Poems for Funny Kids by Michael Rosen ill. Polly Dunbar
Ready for Spaghetti: Funny Poems for Funny Kids by Michael Rosen ill. Polly Dunbar
ACHUKA Book of the Day 8 Jun 2022 Waterstones Amazon Bookshop A really delightful collection of poems for reading aloud to very young children, and for slightly older children to begin to read for themselves, especially after they have become familiar with listening to them time and time again. Fizzing with rhythm, energy and laughter, […]
Cloud Soup: Poems for Children by Kate Wakeling ill. Elina Braslina
Cloud Soup: Poems for Children by Kate Wakeling ill. Elina Braslina
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 […]
Over to You! by Roger McGough
Over to You! by Roger McGough
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 […]
The Crab Ballet by Renee LaTulippe ill. Cecile Metzger
The Crab Ballet by Renee LaTulippe ill. Cecile Metzger
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 […]
A World Full of Nature Stories: 50 Folktales and Legends by Angela McAllister ill. Hannah Bess Ross
A World Full of Nature Stories: 50 Folktales and Legends by Angela McAllister ill. Hannah Bess Ross
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 […]
John Agard’s Windrush Child by John Agard ill. Sophie Bass
John Agard’s Windrush Child by John Agard ill. Sophie Bass
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 […]
Round and Round the Garden: A First Book of Nursery Rhymes by Shirley Hughes
Round and Round the Garden: A First Book of Nursery Rhymes by Shirley Hughes
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, […]
When Creature Met Creature by John Agard ill. Satoshi Kitamura
When Creature Met Creature by John Agard ill. Satoshi Kitamura
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 […]
Nutty Nonsense by Colin West
Nutty Nonsense by Colin West
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 […]
Illustrated Tales of Dwarfs, Gnomes and Fairy Folk ill. Daniela Drescher ed. Ineke Verschuren
Illustrated Tales of Dwarfs, Gnomes and Fairy Folk ill. Daniela Drescher ed. Ineke Verschuren
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, […]
The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
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 […]
Razzmatazz! The Poetry World of Roger Stevens ill. Mike Smith
Razzmatazz! The Poetry World of Roger Stevens ill. Mike Smith
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 […]
Song for Jimi: The Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Smith ill. Edel Rodriguez
Song for Jimi: The Story of Guitar Legend Jimi Hendrix by Charles R. Smith ill. Edel Rodriguez
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 […]
Arthur: The Always King by Kevin Crossley-Holland ill. Chris Riddell
Arthur: The Always King by Kevin Crossley-Holland ill. Chris Riddell
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, […]
The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales by Alice & Martin Provensen
The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales by Alice & Martin Provensen
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 […]
Michael Rosen’s Sticky McStickstick: The Friend Who Helped Me Walk Again by Michael Rosen ill. Tony Ross
Michael Rosen’s Sticky McStickstick: The Friend Who Helped Me Walk Again by Michael Rosen ill. Tony Ross
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 […]
Everyone Sang: A Poem for Every Feeling ed.William Sieghart ill. Emily Sutton
Everyone Sang: A Poem for Every Feeling ed.William Sieghart ill. Emily Sutton
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 […]
At the Height of the Moon: A Book of Bedtime Poetry and Art ed. Annette Roeder, Alison Baverstock, Matt Cunningham
At the Height of the Moon: A Book of Bedtime Poetry and Art ed. Annette Roeder, Alison Baverstock, Matt Cunningham
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, […]
Carnival of the Animals by Michael Morpurgo
Carnival of the Animals by Michael Morpurgo
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 […]
The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales by Jen Campbell ill. Adam de Souza
The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales by Jen Campbell ill. Adam de Souza
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, […]
When Poems Fall From The Sky by Zaro Weil ill. Jun Li Song
When Poems Fall From The Sky by Zaro Weil ill. Jun Li Song
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. […]
The Beasts Beneath Our Feet by James Carter ill. Alisa Kosareva
The Beasts Beneath Our Feet by James Carter ill. Alisa Kosareva
Waterstones Amazon Bookshop Dig down through the layers of the Earth and travel back in time. Meet the trilobites that scuttled and crawled; the munching, crunching dinosaurs; and a herd of roaming woolly mammoths. This rhyming read will take you on a prehistoric adventure!
Tomorrow Is Beautiful ed. Sarah Crossan
Tomorrow Is Beautiful ed. Sarah Crossan
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. […]
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