Picture books: This week's best buys including Oi Cat!, There's A Monster and more
AWARD-WINNING duo Kes Gray and Jim Field are on top form in the hilarious OI CAT! (Hodder Children’s Books, £12.99).
Award-winning duo Kes Gray and Jim Field are on top form in the hilarious Oi Cat! (Hodder Children’s Books, £12.99).
The exuberant sequel to Oi Frog! and Oi Dog! charts the escapades of cats who sit on gnats, dogs who sit on logs and a pony who sits on macaroni.
It’s 60 years since Dr Seuss introduced the world to the Grinch, one of his most iconic characters.
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To celebrate the anniversary, a collector’s edition of How The Grinch Stole Christmas (HarperCollins, £14.99) has been published, complete with a gold embossed case and an introduction tracing the book’s origins.
This classic story is just as appealing today, telling the story of how the Grinch tries to put a stop to the festive season and learns a lesson about what Christmas really means.
Award-winning artist and author Oliver Jeffers excels at producing beautiful books that make children smile but also make them think.
In Tom Fletcher’s There's A Monster In Your Book (Puffin, £10.99), younger readers will enjoy trying to get rid of it by shaking and tilting the book or even tickling the monster’s feet. But maybe having a monster in your book isn’t such a bad thing after all.
Here we are (HarperCollins, £14.99) sets out to make sense of planet Earth for his young son, explaining that people come “in many shapes, sizes and colours” and describing the difference between daytime, when “we do stuff”, and the night when we sleep.
A picture book classic. What do you do when there’s a cheeky little monster running riot in your book?
You Choose In Space by Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart (Puffin, £10.99) is a colourful, detailed and imaginative picture book that whisks children off on a voyage of discovery as they choose a job aboard the spaceship, pick their space outfit and hairstyle, which aliens to meet and what food to eat.