From an award-winning creative duo comes a book about the wonder of ever-present love.
A stunning celebration of the joy and comfort that is always with us, wherever we roam in the big, wild world.
From an award-winning creative duo comes a book about the wonder of ever-present love.
A stunning celebration of the joy and comfort that is always with us, wherever we roam in the big, wild world.
Something smells good at 10 Pomegranate Street! Delicious, actually!
In each apartment, someone is preparing a special dish to share with their neighbours. Mr Singh is making coconut dahl with his daughter while Maria mashes some avocados for her guacamole. Will everything be ready on time?
Written and magnificently illustrated by Felicita Sala, this glorious celebration of community is filled with recipes from all over the world and simple instructions perfect for young chefs. Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street is a visual feast to share and delight in.
A BIG ISSUE BOOK OF THE YEAR
A beautifully illustrated story, written with a light and humorous touch, that celebrates nontraditional families and captures exactly what lies at the heart of family life — love.
‘Elvi, which one is your mum?’
‘They’re both my mum.’
‘But which one’s your real mum?’
When Nicholas wants to know which of Elvi’s two mums is her real mum, she gives him lots of clues. Her real mum is a circus performer, and a pirate, and she even teaches spiders the art of web.
But Nicholas still can’t work it out! Luckily, Elvi knows just how to explain it to her friend.
Sunday is market day. We are looking for pumpkin, apples, eggs, and bread. What else will we find? Where did it come from? And what will we make with it?
Learn all about produce in this delightful child’s tour of a food market, full of fun facts, delicious new discoveries, and charming characters.
A loving ode to the people who bring food to our table and connection to our community, from acclaimed artist Alice Oehr.
I have the right is the perfect companion text to any KS1 lesson around the ‘Rights of the Child’. It simply states an affirmation on each two page spread and illustrates this with a bright, bold and powerful image which is ideal to share and discuss with a class.
Although the images appear to be quite simple in style and contain as many adults in parts as children, Reza Dalvand’s illustrations captivate and draw your attention directly towards the child or children in each image; challenging you to see things from their perspective. A perfect example of this is ‘I have the right to be protected from violence’. There are adults fighting and shouting in three corners of the page but in the bottom right hand corner is a father with a child and both are looking attentively at one another as if the dad is shielding the baby from what is happening around them. You can almost feel the love and protection flowing between them.
The book does not shy away from some of the more challenging parts of the UN Convention; for example, there are two pages which are predominantly orange and have black smoke rising from (what we can assume to be) recently bombed buildings with a line of children raising white flags to illustrate ‘I have the right not to be forced to fight wars’. It is also equally filled with such joy and care, ending with the most important of all the affirmations; I have the right to be loved.
This book is suitable to have as a part of a KS1 or KS2 PSHE library and could certainly be used as a stimulus for discussion in EYFS as well.
Meet Fergus. He has two eyes, a swishy little tale and an adorable little mouth . . . or has he? During our brief tour of the ocean’s depths, Fergus is determined to stay out of the light. He stays out of sight as we meet the fearsome-looking angler fish, the bizarre-looking spookfish and a scary pair of vampire squid. These amazing creatures disappear from view as quickly as they appear. But where do they go? And could the mysterious Fergus have something to do with their hasty disappearances?
This is a beautifully illustrated picture book, set in the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean with bright, colourful illustrations on an inky black background. It is a great early introduction to some of the fantastic and unusual creatures which lurk in the deepest oceans and contains a fabulous, unexpected twist at the end. At the back, there is a double-page spread of facts about the creatures which live deep under the surface and information about deep-sea exploration and bioluminescence. This is a brilliant read-aloud picture book with broad appeal to both young children in general and those with a more specific interest in sea life and the science of light.
This picture book was originally written in Korean and has been translated by Deborah Smith.
Author-illustrator Kim Hyo-eun introduces readers to a typical ride on a subway train around the South Korean capital of Seoul. As we join the author for a ride, we encounter the various individuals making the journey, and we are simply invited to sit back and observe shared humanity during an everyday activity.
The poetic text draws out the rhythmic sounds of the train, and the watercolour pictures introduce a host of characters. Some are highlighted by the author’s comments – the man whose lovely daughter makes him late for work but quick to return home to see her smile, the granny who is bringing fresh fish and octopus for her family in the city, the mother hiding her baby, and exhausted girl on the school journey.
This is the kind of book that captures shared humanity at a given moment in time, while reminding readers that everybody has a story – with individual hopes, dreams, worries and fears. The story invites empathy with the individuals who make up the subway crowds on the rhythmical metropolitan commutes that run like clockwork. It’s easy to forget to care about human individuals when we are faced with crowds of unknown faces, and this book is the antidote to that – an important message for today’s generation where real-life human connection can feel in decline.
Pupils might like to innovate by creating backstories for some of the characters mentioned, or perhaps pick another transport method or crowded place and create their own illustrated offerings.
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