English 4-11 Picture Book Awards

Ever wondered how fruit starts to grow? This fun, lift-the-flap book guides you through the parts of a flower, how different pollinators support the plant life-cycle and how other parts of plants are used in our food. There is a great mix of scientific detail and engaging story-telling and this book is a great accompaniment to primary science topics about lifecycles and growing plants.

The information is presented attractively in bite-size chunks, making it accessible for children across the primary age-range, and the illustrations are colourful and eye-catching.

This would be a great text to use as a model when writing explanations about plant life-cycles, and there are step-by-step instructions at the end of the book for conducting your own pollination investigation.

This is a hilarious graphic novel about a girl who falls down a hole into the underworld and has to battle the ruler, while navigating terrifying challenges such as the “bog of intense emotions”.

A funny, weird, mysterious and absurd page-turner!

This book is a humorous mix between short comic strip stories and instructions for introductory physics experiments which could be completed at home. The innovation of the book is in the framing of the experiments as a way to think about solutions to the sometimes outlandish problem scenarios set out in the comic strip stories.

There are accompanying discussions which enable the book to work both for children new to experimental science and those with a deeper special interest. The book would particularly suit fans who like the balance of humour and information in Mike Barfield and Jess Bradley’s Day in the Life books.