via IFTTT Buy Jolly Roger's Pirate Ship at Amazon. This is a very busy book - there is a narrative about the pirate mice finding a cat, which is mainly in rhyme but not completely. It's slightly drowned out by the amount of things in the picture, with lots of extra words and bits of picture to look at. Better to use this as a discussion book than a story book, along the … [Read more...] about Pirate ship ahoy! Charles E Reasoner
Picture book
The Moon Flower Fairies by Oakley Graham and Patricia Yuste
Moon Flower Fairies is a rhyming picture book about little fairies born in flowers when the moon is high, who look after plants, and are helped by furry friends to look their best before they go to the moon palace where they weave dreams. The pictures are pretty. The rhymes aren't terribly strained. I don't understand why moon flower fairies are only girls - something that my … [Read more...] about The Moon Flower Fairies by Oakley Graham and Patricia Yuste
The Best book in the World by Rilla
Buy at Amazon This is kind of a meta book - a book about books. The very first time I read it I didn't like it much as I couldn't get the pacing right, but it absolutely fascinates the small children, particularly the very first page which has a line to trace with your finger. I have to trace it every time we read it, and so do they, so it takes quite a while. Some of the … [Read more...] about The Best book in the World by Rilla
Monty’s Magnificent Mane
Buy at AmazonBuy at Hive This is a gloriously colourful book about the dangers of vanity and the value of friendship. Or it's about a lion, a crocodile and a bunch of meerkats, whichever you prefer. The illustrations are marvellous - I particularly enjoy the one where the meerkats have braided bright feathers into the lion's mane. This is not one to read from an over … [Read more...] about Monty’s Magnificent Mane
All I said was – Michael Morpurgo
buy at Hive (affiliate link) buy at Amazon (affiliate link)All I said was... is a story about imagination. And how things might not always be the way you think they are. And maybe about the grass not necessarily being greener on the other side of the street. It might not be a good story to read a 4 year old with an overactive imagination at bedtime. Because like the majority … [Read more...] about All I said was – Michael Morpurgo