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Recommended reads for October 2020

Younger readers Esio Trot, Roald Dahl My youngest daughter came home from school one day and told me a secret. She had worked out that...

Recommended Reads for September 2020

Evie and the Animals, Matt Haig Matt Haig writes with such empathy. This is reflected beautifully in his stories for children. In this...

Recommended Reads for August 2020

Mister Cleghorn's Seal, Judith Kerr A charming, beautifully illustrated slim chapter book by the author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea. ...

Small but mighty

Just finished reading this little book of lively heart-warming short stories by Atinuke, which will now be passed on to my six year old....

Summertime reading, The Great Godden

I spent a glorious hot Summer week in Suffolk and managed to read The Great Godden, the latest young adult novel by Meg Rosoff. This is a...

Holy Batman, this is good

Set in the 1970s, Lenny's Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee is the story of a young girl, Lenny, and her brother, Davey, who is...

Recommended reads for July 2020

People, Blexbolex Created by the French silk-screen artist Blexbolex. A collection of images of different people with different roles. ...

Spectacular science

Unlike novels, non-fiction books don't always need to be read from cover to cover or in any particular order for them to make sense. In...

A return to nature

An ode to the natural world and the lost words of nature. This is a bold,beautiful oversized book that you will want to refer to again...

Lampie - glorious reading

This book made me very happy. It is the debut novel of Annet Schaap, a well loved Dutch illustrator. Published by Pushkin books and...

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