Following toddlerhood, pre-teen years are most formative in creating good reading habits and placing high quality books in children’s hands is an important role in assisting their development. Here you’ll find my recommendations on books which I believe would be great to have around and grow up with.
Animalia – the creation of Graeme Base’s genius – is infinitely more than just an ABC book. It was included in the 1987 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture […]
Understanding the universal language of music clearly helped David Ouimet (formerly, a noise rock band musician) craft the beautiful language of “I Go Quiet”, rich with evocative musical connotations. It
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Heinrich Hoffmann’s “Struwwelpeter” (1845) was to Germans what Carroll’s “Alice in wonderland” was to British or Lindgren’s “Pippi Longstocking” has become to Swedish a hundred years later – a national
“The Lost Thing” was first published in 2000. It ended up being a multi-award winning picture book, which in 2004 was reinvented as a highly acclaimed theatre production (by Jigsaw
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Shaun Tan is the Australian author and illustrator whose work I fell in love with at first sight. It was the sight of “The Red Tree”. The book has received